Daily Republican., 1881-07-16
NEWS BUNMARY,

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Isaac Green and Jno. Hardin, both
colored, convicted of murder, were
hanged yesterday at Mariana, Arkan-
sas, in presence Of several thousand spec
tators. They confessed their crimes,
Willis Reeves, tor the murder of man
named Drake, in December last, was
hanged at Van Buren,, Arkansas.
Meyers and Brown, ''the Sikestown des-
peradoes," were hanged yesterday at
New Madrid, Missouri, for murder
committed in May last. Before being
captured, they also killed one Of the
posse which pursued them.
At the meeting of the Board of Al.
derman, in Newport, Rhode Island,
yesterday afternoon, Mayor Slocum
said the writer of an article in the
Daily News was "a villain" Lucius
d. Davis, editor of the News, said he
was the writer, whereupon the Mayor
repeated his original remarks, follow.
ing it up with profane language of the
most j" Sulting character The Board
out csspect fer itself and to protect
the Mayor from further disgrace, ad-
journs1. ,, -. -
Yesterdays Senatorial ballots in the
New York Legislature were as follows
Short term-Lapham, 20, Potter, 80;
Conkling, 80; scattering, 2. Necessary
to choice, 70. Long term-Miller, "a;
Herman, 53; Fish, II; Wheeler, Z; DAN
iels, 3; Adams, Chapman and Starin,
each 2, scattering, 3 Necessary to a
choice, 70. 1t will be seen that Miller
came within votes of being elected.
At the close of the second heat of the
ZIG race in the Pittsburg Driving Park
yesterday. Bonesetter, one of the COM
peting horses, dropped dead. He was
owned by M. V. Bemis, of Chicago, and
valued at $4,000 At the park to-day,
Maud s. will endeavor to beat her time
Of Wednesday last.
About 600 journeymen brewers in
Cincinnati, yesterday, demanded that
their hours of labor should be reduced
from Is to 13A daily. Some of the en-
ployers agreed to this, but others are
out. At noon, the strikers,
headed by band of music, marched
in procession to the different breweries.
The Williams or Maxwell brothers,
who murdered Sheriff Coleman, near
Durant, Wisconsin, last Sunday night,
have been surrounded in the woods near
the scene of the murder, by $50 armed
men. The murdercrs are said to be
wounded, and their pursuers are deter
mined to capture them dead or alive"
Several additional cases of sunstroke
were reported yesterday in Columbus
Ohio, none of which proved fatal. The
weather was somewhat cooler. About
100 cases ofsunstroke have been reported
in Columbus within week.
Iti now said that Colonel John s.
Mosby, our Consul General at Hong
Kong, does not iutend to return home
at an eacly date, as heretofore reported
but will remain at his post, at least for
the present.
Mrs. Alice Monehan, aged AZ years,
Kate Duane, aged II and Mrs. Annie
Henry, all died in Brooklyn yesterday,
from in uries received the day before by
coal OIL explosions at their respective
dwellings.
A train of fiat cars were thrown into
ditch near Dayton, Washington Ter
ritory, yesterday, by running into a
drove of cattle. One man was killed
and three others We're injured, one per-
haps fatally.
A building used as a finishing room,
the West Mill at Statewide,
Rhode Island, was burned early yester.
day morning. Loss, 100000. Several
hundred persons are thrown out of em--
Dloyment by this fire.
Dodge & Sons cork factory in Lam
'aster, Pa, was burned yesterday
The loss is about $4,000,
several men were injured from an out
'urst of flame following the falling of
wall.