Daily Republican., 1882-08-03
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A telegram from Bar Harbor,
Maine, says that yesterday afternoon,
about one o'clock, as John and Isaac
w. Howe were descending Green Noun
IN onck bo ard wagon, with several
iaaies, they were stopped by an armed
hlghwayman and the Hrwes we're forc-
81 to give up their GOO watches and
money, the total value being stated at
Sl3OO' A Tarty has gone in pursuit
OF the robber, and reward of $1,000 is
offered for his capture, ''dead or aliye.''
The twelfth Annual Convention of
the National Catholic Total Abstinence
Union began yesterday in St. Paul.
Rev. Father COtter presided, and 59l
subordinate Unions were represented,
embracing nearly y 81, 1000 members,
Bishop Ireland made an address, and
letters were read from number of
Bishops and Archbishops. Cardinal
McCloskey was represented by proxy.
The latest estimates of the loss to the
Lake Shore Railroad by the collision
of freight trains, near South Bend,
make ii nearly 5000, The disaster
is attributed "wholly to the incompe-
tence and gross carelessness of the
employees of the Company. The bodies
of the six or seven tramps, who were
burned to death in the wreck, have not
yet been recovered.
-Four elephants belonging to Bar
NUNS ciscus got loose in Troy, New
YORK, after performance last nj ght
and ran through the southern part of
the city, injuring several persons, one
maa, perhaps fatally. Three of the
animals were secured before midnight,
but the most furious ore was still at
large.
A report that Secretary Folger will
be transferred to the Roman mission
to make room for ex. Senator Conkling
as Secretary of the Treasury" is said
at the White House to be ridiculous
in the extreme" A Minister at Rome,
will be nominated in day or two.
Twenty-Five cases of yellow fever
and seven deaths were reported yester-
day in Matamoras. The disease has re-
appeared in Brownsville and Laredo,
Texas, and another case, fatal one,
was reported in New Orleans on Tues
day.
While lot of cord wood was bei-g
swung over the pit of slate quarry at
Monsou, Maine, yesterday morning,
the fastenings gave way, and the wood
fell one hundred feet upon the men be.
low, Killing TWO and iDjurirg three
others
Mrs. Atfinger, wife of respectable
farmer OF Umatilla county, California,
committed suicide by taking strych-
nine, because some young men whom
she prevented from keeping company
with her daughter had, in revenge, ac.
cused her of petty theft.
The National Civil Service Reform
Association was in session at Newport
Yesterday An address was delivered
by George W. Curtis, aud Mr.. Curtis
was subsequently reelected President
Of the Association by a unanimous
vote.
Louis FreChette, father of the Cana.
dian poet laureate, died yesterday in
Montreal, vt the age of 20. Decel lsed
took a prominent part in the construc.
tion of the harbor Of Montreal and the
Lachine Canal.
Sidney NJ. Robinson, of New York,
was yesterday appointed Superinten-
dent of the Folding Room of the Uni.
ted States House of Representatives,
in place of Colonel POpham, resigned
Senator Hill, Of Georgia, was reported
much worse yesterday. He had lost
the power of speech, was deli rious, and
his death was hourly expected from
hemorThage.
The factions Of the Creek nation in
the Indian Territory, are in active hos
tility. Several men have been killed, and
the trouble has almost assumed the d.
mensiOns of civil strife.
The Grand Council of American LIE
gion of Homer meets today in Wilkes
barre. The Philadelphia delegates, a
bout 100 in number, arrived in Wilkes
barre last night.
Isakassmo Hlassakofo, a Hungarian,
by the Lehigh Valley Rail-
road, was killed by train while cross
ing the track at Packerton, last even
ng.
The man killed bya train at Linwood
Station, near Chester, on Tuesday,
Vas Charles Dudley, 81 years of age a
'ailor from New Orleans.
BishopEmberton and Richard Speak
nan, charged with felonious assault up
)n a woman, were hot dead by lynch
9rs near Glasgow, KY, on Tues day.
Major George S, Leland, one of the
,rOprietors of the Sturtevant House in
Tew York, died yesterday morning of
gouJ, at the age of "A years.
Eugene Kimball, "a well-known billiard
,layer, died yesterday in Rochester,
New York, aged 81 years
DR.. LOWS L. Whiting, for over thirty
ears practicing physician in Sarato-
"a, died suddenly yesterday morning
II fit
Richard j. Cuttings, a prominent
awyer Of Baltimore, died yesterday at
Ocean City, Of bilious dys ntery.
The Kotth paper mill at Turner's
Falls, Mass, was damaged by fire to
he extent Of about $4,000.
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