Daily Republican., 1881-02-21

A CSlleetisn Of news Incidents
From ihe various Exchanges Of
90 0Ay


From ihe various Exchanges Of
90 day.
Pork declined 50 to 60 cents per bar
rel in Chicago on Saturday, owing pro-
badly to q cable dispatch stating that
the French Government had embar-
COED the importation Of sslted meat
from the United States. "This," says
a Chicago despatch, Is believed to be
the result Of shipping meat which is
not more than half cured and 80 is un-
At to Withstand an ocean voyage, and
through heat and fermentation arrives
in an unaound or tainted state"
The connecting rod OF the engine of a
passenger train on the Wabash Rail
road broke about four miles east Of
Lafsy cite, Indiana, on Saturday after,
noon, and the revolving rod knocked
the cab to pieces, injuring the engineer
20 badly that he died the same even,
ing. He stood at his post TO pnt on
the air brakes and shut off the steam,
for the purpose Of saving the passen,
gers, until he was knocked out OF the
cab.
A fire at Monroe, Louisiana, before
day light on Saturday morning, de-
str0yed the steamer Fsirplsy, with
800 bales of cotton, the wharf boat
Katie, with 500 bales of cotton, and a
large lot of merchandise, The loss is
estimated at $50, 900. The captain
and clerk of the Fairplay had their
faces and hands badly burned. and II
printer named Edward Hancock perish
I'd in the flames.
The large field OF tftesn-iuoh leo,
which has all winter covered the
"horssshoe" between Sandy Hook and
the Highlands OF Navssink, broke yes
terday from either shore and drilted
out, carrying everything in its path.
About fifty feet OF the New Jersey
Southern Railway freight lock was
broken down BY the moving mass.
A Hungarian, named Lafschuski,
broke bottle of alcohol in his poeket,
at NantioOke, Pa, on Saturday even
ing, and his Clotntng became saturated
With the fluid. Soon afterwards he lit
a match, and, his clothes catching tire,
he was so terribly burned that he is
not expected to recover.
While walking in Protestant San
day school procession at Hull, Ontsrio,
yesterday afternoon, girl named Gar.
rett, was seized BY her brOther-in.law
Senchss, aided by number OF FrsHch
Canadians, and carried off. Her VIII ere
shouts are unknown. The girls fam.
lily are all Catholics.
A colorsd man named Reilly vas
skot and mortally wounded by Thomas
Laaky, over a game OF cards, al Eagle
Pass. Texas, on Saturday evening. On
the same evening, A. R. Strothers, a
wealthy cattle dealer, was shot dead
by unknown murderers, at the Texas
Pacific depot in Dallas, Texas.
The Boston Lancers and Charlestown
Cadets arrived in Chisago on Saturday
afternoon, on their way 70 New Orleans
20 attend the Mardi Gras festivities.
They were escorted to hotel by the
Chicago companies, aud, after bsing
entertained, left in the evening Tor the
South,
Sarah Bsrnhardt last week gave one
performance each at New Orleans,
Atlanta and Nashville and three at
Memphis, the receipts Of the six per.
formarces being SIS 600. She was i'll
two days. Thus far she has given "a
American performances, aggregstirg
1919, 922 gross receipts.
The wife of William Foulkes, col
ored, was convicted at Lunen berg, Vir-
ginis, on Saturday, Of the murder Of
her husband, in January last, and WAS
sentenced to be hanged. She killed
her husband with an axe as he lay
asleep, and threw the body into a well.
H. II. Hadley, formerly an agent Of
the Democratic National Committee,
has written latter denying that he
had any connection with the Morey
let 'er, and proposing that reward OF
rom S'ooo 10 $z0, ,VVo Do offered l0f lhe
discovery OF the wrl!er'
Mrs. lrane .Crsndell and her child
we're found dead on the road near their
home in Grant county, Minnesota, a
few days ago. 1t is thought that her
husband, who habitually abused her,
murdered oo'n' MS ID az large
A freight train on the Valley Rail
road OF Virginia was wrecked yester'
day by landslide near narrlSonDurg'
john Waller a station mas1er' was Sc
fiously, II n'' iataily ID pJufed'
W. A. Middleman, a wealthy stock
man OF Colorado, was found frozen to
death near River Bend, in that State,
last Friday. Two horses of team Of
four which he had been driving were
"'N"
l! ID reported tna' 'onn hloS' " eo'
OF60 man, from UfD20H, O0lO, mas DceD