Daily Republican., 1881-04-02
SECOND EDITION.
NEWS SUMMARY.
a collection OF News Items From
Leading Morning Exchanges.

Leading Morning Exchanges.
Secretary Window, accompanied by
Attorney General MacVeagh, Comptrol-
Ter Knox and Assistant Secretary
Upton, had an informal conference
with the leading bankers in New York
Yesterday, in regard to taking up so
much of the maturing public debt as is
practicable with the means at the Secre-
tary'S command. No formal PROPOSE
lions, it is said, were presented, but the
views of the bankers will be presented
and discussed in the Cabinet
The question whether Frederick
Douglass, will be relieved as L. ).
Marshal for the district of Columbia
seems not to be settled yet. The ap-
pointment of Captain Henry, an Ohioan,
and a personal friend of the President,
10 be Marshal, depends, it is said, on
the finding of some position for which
Mr.. Douglass would be willing to ex-
change the Marshalship.
Taylor and Boggie's foundrics in
Cleveland, Ohio, employing 200 men,
Shut down" on Thursday, in anticipa-
rion of a strike. The same afternoon
the men held meeting and decided TO
hold out for an advance of ten per cent
\ general strike is anticipated, as the
prices against which the men struck
rule in the other foundries.
A gang of rowdies, headed by Isaac
stockton, whose brother was killed a
short time ago in a saloon quarrel is
eommitting roberies and murders in the
country around Rio Alberta, New Mex
leo. The local authorities and a vigil
ance committee being alike powerless
10 cope with the gang, Governor Wal
lace has ordered out the militia.
William S. Bates, U. S. Marshal
was fatally stabbed, in bar-room
right. near Somerset, Kentucky, on
Wednesday night. Another Marshal
named Cooper, was killed the same
night in Littleton, ten miles distant
from Somerset. Both men had been
active against the ''moOnshiners.
A locomotive attached to a Clear
held passenger train exploded at Tyrone
Pa, yesterday morning, damaging the
new depot and adjacent buildings \
number of persons were injured, four
Of them severely, but the engineer, who
was Ou the locomotive, escaped unhurt.
Mr.. Nichol, whose nomination for
Commissioner of Indian Affairs is pend
ing in the Senate, is recommended By
his physicians TO go South for the bene
Mt of his health. His nomination will,
therefore, be withdrawn and another
name sent in.
A passenger train on the St Paul,
Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad
ran into a delayed freight train, near
Rothsay, Minnesota, on Thursday, and
the caboose took fire. One man was
burned to death and six others were
seriously injured.
John Roberts, one Of gang Of ruff
fans who have long been the terror of
southern Colorado, was captured few
days ago and hanged by a band of Wig
ilantS His last crime was murder
committed two weeks ago
TIE State Department is informed
that 1000 emigrantS left Bremen "u
Wednesday for the United States, max
ing over 20, 900 from that port during
the first quarter Of this year.
William Hensley was killed and
another man severely injured, ycster-
day morning, by an explosion OF giant
powder in the Lehigh Valley Coal Com
pany's new shaft AT PittStOn.
The strike Of machine moulders and
stove moulders in PittSburg, which was
10 have taken place yesterday, was
averted by granting the advance in
wages asked by the men.
The Senate of Tennessee yesterday,
ayes Y, nays 13, rejected the House bill
for the settlement OF the debt at par and
; per cent. interest A motion to recon-
slider was entered.
j. S. Ballard was shot dead by his
brother.in-law, Lewis Doyle, in Lead
Vile, Colorado, on Wednesday evening
Ballard, it is said, intended tO desert his
wife: hence the murder.
It is reported that the Dominion Gov
~rnm'n n, on Thursday, handed over to
the Syndicate the Pemhina branch and
completed portions Of the Canadian Pa
"itic Raj road.
Richard H. Brewer was fatally shot
by his brother. J. :. Brewer. in a quar-
rel near Mount Olivet, Kentucky, on
Wednesday evening, and died in few
hours.
he Old banking hrin Ol James AuErr
\ Co., Of Charleston, South Carolina,
which suspended business in 1919, re-
>umrd business yesterday, having set
He'd with its creditors.
The Massachusetts, Hou>" OF Repre-
>rntativcS. on Thursday, struck from
the Prohibitory bill the section refer
ing it to the people, and then defeated
the bill
\ mild form Of typhoid fever has he
come epidemic in Havana, and the dis
infection of the sewers there has been
ordered by the municipality.
The wheat crop in Ohio promises well
though the season has been very back
ward, and the yield is likely to be large,
owing to the increasing acreage.