Daily Republican., 1881-07-20
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
WHAT THE WIRES BROUGHT
LAST NIGHT.
Crimes and Accidents Movement
ofPrOminent Persons,
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Zoar Station with an accommodation
train on tue Fitchburg Railroad, yester-
day afternoon. Both engines and the
baggage car of each train were wrecked
Joseph Moore, engineer of the accom-
modation train and Chas. Prescott, fire.
man of the special, were killed. Aaron
i. Corllss, engineer Of the special, was
fatally injured, and died in short
time. He admitted, before dying. that
the collision was caused by his failure
TO stop at Hoar, as he had been tele-
graphed TO do. 4 conductor and bag
| gage master were injured hrt none of
| OF the passengers were hurt.
William o'Brien, of Searsburgn, Yer
mont, died yesterday morning from in
Jurics received in a drunken quarrel on
Monday evening in saloon at Hoosic.
New York. William H. keefe, q boss
carder in mill WAS arrested YESTERDAY
for the killing. D'Brien was a promi
nent man, and had represented Sears.
burgh IN the Vermont Legislature, but
ne mad lately become addicted to drink.
Thomas Barrlck, aged 30 years. was
killed ty being thrown down stairs by
Chicago Yesterday morning.
II. j. Moore. agent of the Hawaiian
Government at Fiji, has written letter
denying that the slaughter reported as
having occurred on one of the Tino
Islands was iIstigated by the mission
ary kapu. He says that, on the con-
trarry, the Papuans were the aggressors,
and kapu tried TO save life.
The six-stOry manufactory ard store
rooms of the Cincinnati Coffin Company,
in Cincinnati, were burned, last even
ing, with five small dwellings adjacent,
Seven other dwellings We're damaged.
The loss is estimated at upwards of
$225, 900.
Six of those who survived the disas-
ter at New Ulm, Minnesota, have be-
come insane from the shock. Additian-
al deaths are reported in other sections
by the tornado, and several of the in
Jured IN New Tim and its vicinity have
died
The Council of Administration Of the
New Jersey Grand Army of the Repub.
lie met yesterday in New Brunswick,
and decided not to hold the annual en-
campment, but TO participate in the
celebration at Yorktown next October.
Tbs National Educational Associa-
ton meet Yesterday in Atlanta. Two
hundred delegates were present. repre-
senting thirty States. An address of
welcome was delivered by Governor
Colquitt
ASSISTANT Secretary Upton of the
Treasury Department, will sail for
home on the 2l>t inst. and is expected
TO resume his duties at the Treasury
Department about the lst of August.
Robert Il. Pearson, aged -, broker
of New York. had his skull fractured
by fall in Chester, penna., on Mon
iay evening, and died in a few min
utes.
One Intellectual ballot for L. S Sena-
tors was taken in the New York Legis-
lature yesterday as follows: Lanh1r,
is; Potter, 45; Conkling, %; Woodford,
!. Necessary to q choice, -.
DR.. +. NJ. Thayer, of the Treasu ry
Cattle Commission, has been ordered to
Nova Scotia to investigate the reports
II a dangerous cattle disease ut Hall
AK.
William Scott. stock dealer, was
and robbed OF $1,000 BY un-
,nown persons, while asleep in his
Dom, at Hancock, Illinois, on Monday
light.
The stock of the Chicago and Iowa
held by the city of Aurora, H.
nois, is to b" sold at auction next Sat
rday. Its par value is 100000; "up- u
et' price, f13o,00o,
A telegram from Montreal SAYS the
anad an Pacific shareholders have au- Il
horized the issue of twenty-five mil
Ons of bonds. II
The first through train on the Chica-
o and Northwestern Railroad for ten Q
ays, passed Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on =
londay night, for the West. :,
Within the last six months there t
ave been 1913 deaths, a large proper.
on Of them from yellow fever, in Vera +
rnz.
Stephen c. Briggs, a hotel keeper, of :
'hTnis, Rhode Island, hanged himself '
n Monday cl