The Columbus journal., 1881-09-07
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
Condensed from the Dailies.

Yellow fever is reported at Mar
tinibue and Demorara.
The u. S. debt statement for Aug.
is expected to show a reduction of
about $14,000,0O0.
OF the $50 patients at the county
poor house at Chicago, seventy have
typhoid fever. Investigation into
the causes has begun.
The French loss in the affair with
the Arabs at Sowski, is stated to be
fifteen killed and no wounded.
Arabs lost 400 killed and wounded.
Alf Hargelt, train dispatcher Of
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
railroad, was Aug. Both found dead
in his room with pistol ball in bis
head, and a pistol in his hand.
The drouth continues unabated in
Kentucky, and prospects for stock
are growing worse every day. A
good fall crop of grass with mild
weather would do much to relieve
the pressure.
A special from Clintonville, Wis,
says the situation at Kistcha re-
NAMED the same as on the 2Sth ult.
The report that Indian Agent Ste
phens and daughter were prisoners
is false. They were surrounded by
faithful friendly Indians.
Sept. 1st, at Independence, o., the
north-bound express on the Balii-
more 81 Ohio ran into an excursion
train, which was standing on the
main track, badly wrecking both
trains, killing an unknown bootblack
and injuring several others.
The police arrested last week an
other crank at the White House
gate. 1t was a poor colored man,
manifestly insane. He was bent
upon the mission of killing every
man who was not a Garfield man,
and he had large tin can into which
he proposed to place their heads.
In Ontario tho drouth is causing
much loss. Pastures have suffered
and root crops are endangered. In
western counties particularly corn
is suffering severely. The earth is
baked, streams and wells are dry
and farmers are obliged to go seven
miles for water. Bush fires are
doing widespread damage.
Examination of HOwgate's affairs
continues. 1t has been shown that
the embeZzlement will exceed $780,
600. 1t is now $4,000 and the in
qniry is yet unfinished. HOwgate
left week ago Monday. Nothing
has been heard of him since, even
by his family which he left without
a dollar. 1t is supposed he jumped
the country with his mistress.
On the morning of the 3lst ult., at
Chicago, James b. Duncan shot and
killed cOmpositor on a morning
paper named Thomas III. Lowrey,
who boarded with Duncan and was
accused of improper relations with
Mrs. Duncan. The room where the
tragedy occurred bore marks of
bloody fight between the men. Dun
can has been arrested but refuses to
talk.
The low lands in Lancashire were
flooded by rains Aug. Both. Similar
reports come from Cheshire, where
almost the entire crop is still on the
ground. Rain that fell around Dar-
lington is estimated at $50 tons per
acre, in eighteen hours. In the East
Riding of Yorkshire, oats and bar
ley sheaves were standing in pools.
The same reports cone from nearly
all parts.
The residences of II. A. Griswald
and A. G. Hapson at White Hall, N.
Y, were entered by burglars Aug.
Doth and valuables amounting to
$1,000 taken. Two suspicious look
ing men boarded a train bound south
and an order was telegraphed for
their arrest at Mechanicsville. Two
officers, in attempting to do so, shot
one fatally. The silver, jewelry,
watches, etc, were found on the
train.
Dispatches state the steamer Teu-
ton was wrecked near Union Point,
and had LAT passengers and eighty
i'm the crew. The vessel struck a
rock but f1oated off and was putting
back to port when she sank. The
majority perished. All officers were
drowned. A Capetown correspon-
dent says three boats were lowered.
Another Capetown dispatch says
the Teuton's boats, which arrived at
Simonstown, lay on their oars until
daylight, but nothing could be seen,
and it is feared the third boat, with
fifteen women and children, is lost.
The captain struggled in the water
sometime but finally sank.