Daily Republican., 1881-06-03
TELEGRAPHIC TALES,
GENERAL NEWS DRIFT CAUGHT
FROM THE WIRES.

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Murderers Sentenced - M.Grew'
Assistant-Ihe Reading Re-
Argument, Se.
, John Lyman Randall was arrested by
three officers, in Boston, on Wednesday
afternoon, on the Charge of forging an
assignment OF a patent for an asphalt
pavement. Yesterday afternoon the
three officers were arrested at the in
stance of Randall's counsel, on the
charge of illegal arrest and detention,
and were required to give bail in
SlOOO0. Randall is still in custody,
put habeas corpus has been applied
for.
George Green, convicted of the mur.
der of his wife, at Greenwood, Arkan-
SaS, was sentenced yesterday to be
hanged on the 22d Of July. Frank and
Amos Adams, convicted at Dedham,
Massachusetts, on Wednesday, of man
; slaughter, in killing George II. Par
fridge, last August, were sentenced
yesterday to five years Imprisonment
each in the penitentiary.
Bruce & Archer's Vulcan Iron Works
in Richmond, Virginia, were burned
yesterday morning. Loss, $25, 900 Burg
lars blew open safe in store at Aul-
vile, Missouri, early on Wednesday
morning, and in doing so set fire to the
building, which was destroyed, with
eight or nine other small stores.
An unknown vessel is reported sunk
'Seutheast-by- from Chatham Mas
sachusetts, and northeast from the Pol
lock Rip lightship, with the mastheads
about three feet under water, pointing
north at an angle of about sixty de-
! grees. She is in the direct track of
vessels passing between Chatham and
Pollock Rip.
A train on the Missouri Pacific rail
road broke through a bridge across the
Trinity river, near Fort Worth, Texas,
yesterday afternoon. The engine and
nine freight cars went down. A brake
man, named Roberts, was killed and
two other train hands were severely in
jured
The Grand jury, at WilkeSbarre yes-
terday, indicted b. j. Gethings, of Pitts
ton, wealthy retired merchant, for
teIoniously assaulting two little girls.
GethingS was arrested in New York
two weeks ago, as he was about to sail
for Europe, and he then confessed his
guilt.
Governor Bell, Of New Hampshire,
was inaugurated yesterday. In his in
augural message, he said the State debt
was 81, $3,372,770,-Sl39, ,696 less than
last year-and the deposits in the saving
banks aggregated So, ,O97, 73l, nearly Si,-
600, 600 more than in 1880.
The grand parade OF knights Templar
at Scranton yesterday morning, includ-
ed "a Communicates and 1000 Knights.
The streets along the route We're gaily
decorated. In the afternoon the oili-
GERS were installed. The next Con-
clave will be in Allegheny City.
Twenty-seven barrels of gasoline,
standing on the platform of q freight
depot at Springfield, Massachusetts,
caught fire, on Wednesday afternoon
and two explosions occurred, by which a
number Of persons were injured, none,
it is believed, fatally.
The stockholders OF the Etna Fire In
Surance Company, Of Hartford, Connec-
tiCut, yesterday voted to increase the
capital by cash subscriptions from S.
100000 to S5,0OO,O 81, ,OO0, 900 to be !
called in July, the other 81, 200, 900 at Il !
date not fixed.
Sir Edward Thornton yesterday, gave
Secretary Blaine draft on London for
So 200, the sum agreed upon as com
pens1tion to Fortune Bay fishermen. -
The money will be promptly distrihu-
ted among the claimants.
The monument erected by the Ladies'
Monumental Association to mark the
graves at Frederick, Maryland, of tie
Confederate soldiers who fell at Antie-
tam, MonOcacy, and elsewhere in the
was unveiled yesterday.
Bishop Elder, of Cincinnati, has is
sued circular to the churches i'll the
Archdiocese Of Cincinnati, asking pray
FRS for Archbishop Purcell, who is
sinking rapidly.
Only two Of the badges reported to be
stolen from General Grants baggage,
while he was going to Mexico, were of
my value, and the worth of the whole
$ estimated at not more than $500.
A young man registered az VIM.
Davenport, of Bradford, Penna., com
nitted suicide in Chicago, yesterday, ,
~ jumping from the fourth story of u
lotel. 5
Z of tbn TlirapflrS nf thp
Ianada Central Railway, in Brockville, g
'ntario, yesterday, u resolution was
dopted approving amalgamation with
he Canada Pacific Railway.
Wallace Ross writes to friend in ST.
ohm, New Brunswick, that, after row. -
lg with Morris, he intends "to have a
ry" with Hanlan, and that he has Or n
cred new boats.
The Supreme Court Of the State, at Il
harrisburg yesterday, refused the ap-
lication of p. Gowen and others for Il Fl
argument of the Reading Railroad
Use. .
The National Board of Health, which
et in Washington on Wednesday adj "
urned yesterday sine die. The pres a,
1t officers were reelected for the ensu-
x year. a,
1t is believed that d. S. Alexander,
Indiana, will be appointed Fifth in
uditor Of the Treasury, to succeed Mr..
Ia, who Will he appointed Sixth Au- al
tor to succeed McGrew, resigned. Mt
President Garfield will make trip to 81,
,rtress Monroe to-day ON the u. S. In
,amer Despatch, and return to Wash
gton tomorrow evening. re
Governor Churchill, of Arkansas, has Ei
cited considerable feeling at Little
,ck, by ordering into service COM yU
my of colored men. "4
P. A. Tillinghast. at present Senator Pr
IN Pawtuckev, was yester day elected M
,sistant Justice of the Supreme Court