Daily Republican., 1881-04-28
NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.
WHAT Is GOING ON INTHE UNI.
TED STATES.
A Canadian Libel Suit-New York
Legislature After the Telegraph
COmpan1es-Other News.

COmpan1es-Otller News.
Mr., Gagnon, member of Parliament,
and managing editor of the Electeur
newspaper, was arrested yesterday in
Quebec, on charge of criminal libek
preferred by l.. A. SENEGAL, Manager of
the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and De-
cidental Railway The Elccturr had
spoken Of the administration of the
Provincial Railroad as "a cave of forty
thieves, of which Mr.. SENEGAL is boss. :"
1t is said SENEGAL has brought another
suit, claiming 500, 900 damages because
OF the Same article. GagnOn gave bail
for his appearance at Montreal on the
1tll Of May
The New York Assembly yesterday,
by a vote of 70 to Is, passed bill re-
quiring the trunk lines of telegraph be-
low Forty-Second street in New York
City, to be laid under ground. A bill
was also paSSed-63 to 34-fxing the
charges for receiving and delivering tel
egraph messages Of fifteen words or less
to any point in the State, at not to cX-
cced twenty cents; all dispatches to
newspapers to be at half this rate.
The POst-otlcc at CamargO. in Ian
caster county, Pcnna., was entered yes
terdav morning by burglars, who car
ried the safe ont of doors and blew it
open. The postmaster was aroused by
the report and fired at the robbers, who
fled without booty, except three dollars
worth Of stamps The burglars left
their tools.
Workmen engaged in eXcavating the
site for the new college at Cote de Neig-
rS, Montreal, found buried in hole
three feet deep the bodies of two men.
a hotel formerly stood upon the spot,
and it is remembered that two lumber
men, with well filed purses, stayed
there one night, and We're never heard
Of afterwards.
The Charred remains Of James Brock
crSon or Brackcmburg, the missing
workman, We're found yesterday in the
ruins Of the factory at Grcenpeint,
Long Island. He lost his life by going
back to close n safe containing valuable
papers. August FriSkey, John Rem
| hert and William Sweeney, injured
during the fire, are in Il critical coudi-
| ton.
The President has designated as the
Board of Visitors of West Point, Gen
erals AnsOn Stager, of Illinois; Milo $.
| IaScall, OF Indiana; Charles A Boutcllc
of Maine; George :. Greene, Of Rhode
Island; Henry b. Ledvard OF Michigan
5. $. Laws, Of Missouri; and ID. c. Duel
of Kentucky.
The President has appointed as
Government Directors of the Union
Pacific Railroad for the ensuing year ;
A. Komtzc, of New York City; s. Y.
Everett, Cleveland, Ohio; L. H. Baker,
Racine, Wisconsin: Chas. i. Peck, Port
HURON, Michigan, and Geo. w. Frost,
Omaha, Nebraska.
The flood at ST. Paul increased slowly
yesterday, and at noon nothing was
visible above the water ON the Submerg-
ed West St. Paul Flats except an elr-
waited railway and the tops of some
| houses and trees. The island in the
middle Of the river WAS also covered
James Thompson and James Clonncy,
the latter Philadelphian, about 80
years Of age, were seriously injured yes
terday by falling from a building in
course Of erection ut OtiSvilIe, New
York. Clonncy may recover, but
Thompson ) .jurieS are believed TO be
fatal
The State Prohibition Convention of
| North Carolina met yesterday in
| Raleigh, all the counties in the State
being represented. A popular vote on
the prohibition question will be taken
on the first Monday III August, and a
| lively canvass is expected.
| At the annual meeting of the Sihley
Manufacturing Company, III Augusta,
Georgia., yesterday, it was decided to
| Increase the capital stock from 5000, 600
to 1000, 900. The mill will have SO, 600
Spindles, instead Of %, 900, as at first in
| tended.
The Grand Jury at st. Louis, ycster'
day, returned seventeen indictments
against Robert l.. Lindsey, nine against
John Brady, and four against Hermann
SchuSter, tor participating in the big
Missouri Land Swindle," recently de-
tected.
The steamer Chesapeake, of the New
York and Portland line, u wooden YES
sci of 400 tons burd en-, ran ashore on
Fishers Island, off New London, dur,
ing n thick fog on Tuesday night, and
filled with water. She had full cargt
on board.
At Riverhead, Long Island, yeSter,,
day, Joseph Martin pleaded guilty o.
having thrown vitriol in the face OF a
girl named Hannigan, last month, and
he was sentenced to hard labor for i've
years in the penitentiary.
w. l.. PaySon, builder and contrac-
tor of Holliston, Massachusetts, has been
missing since Saturday, and is said tC
be u torger to the amount OF 10000,
besides being heavily in debt.
General Sheridan has received an off
cial despatch from Fort Keogh announ.
cling the surrender, previously reported
bv press telegrams, of thirty-two lodges
of uncpapa Sioux Indians.
The forrest fires around Milford, Penn
are still raging, miles woodland being
ablaze in Pike county, on the PennSyI
vania side, and also in Sussex county
New Jersey.
Senator Slater left Washington yeStcr
day for his home in Oregon Heis paireo
with Senator Platt for the remainder o.
the session.
u. =. Deadlock.