The daily gazette., 1882-08-29
Tue MORNING SUMMARY,

teofge Lane, being insane, hanged him
sell yesterday, at Gordon, in Schuylkill
county, Pa,
DANES Tolbert shot himself dead st
Acworth, Georgia, on Sunday. No cause ia
assigned for the act.
Frank and Edward SteyeF, brothers, were
drowned yesterday by the upsetting of a
boat at KipgsbUry, Maine.
Governor Long of Massachusetts,, has con-
seilted TO- be candidate for the Republican
nomination for Congressman in the Second
/ district of that State.
The schooner Tempest, from Philadelpbia
Tor Norwich Connecticut, with cargo Of
coal, is ashore on the point of North
Brother, full of water.
The Governor of Louisiana has appointed
L. U, Manning, ex- Chief Justice, to be Asso-
clate Justice Of the Supreme Court of that
State, In place of Levy, deceased.
A fire in Wells, Minnesota, on Sunday
morning, destroyed the vinegar factory.
corn cribs and stock yards Of G. w. Thomp.
son, causing loss estimated at $35, 900,
William j. Grant, of Dallas, Texas, is
charged with embezzling funds of ''lodges
OF anti-Catholic negro societies." and is
fund.
Billy" committed suicide on Sunday by
Jumping into the Erie canal near Crescent.
New York. He was incorporate in his
habits.
Martha and Flora Crosley, aged respect-
lively IA and IL years, and Minnie Peddick,
aged IL, were drowned yesterday in the
Junlata river at Huntingdon, Pa, by the
upsetting of boat.
A cattle train on the Grand Trunk Rail
road was thrown from the track and precip-
itated down a go foot emhankment near
Toronto, yesterday, Nine ears were wrecked
and 100 cattle killed
The taRneFy of D. j. Decker, at East
Wayerly, near Elmira, New York, was de-
stroyed by fire early on Sunday morning,
with two adjoining houses and large
quantity OF bark. Loss, $4,000.
The wife of Charles Harvey in ThetTord.
Michigan, on Sunday tied herself and her
hve-year-old child together and plunged her
head and the ehild's into washtub full of |
water. Both were drowned. 1t is supposed
the woman was insane.
The Secretary Of the Navy yesterday tele-
graphed from Woods Hole, Massachusetts,.
to continue the civil establishments at the
various navy yards until September 18th.
lie some time ago ordered their continuance
until September 1st.
Colonel John E, Tourtelotte, of the Seventh
Cavalry, has been detailed to accompany
5he Marquis OF Lorne and Princess Louise |
1n their journey across the United States. |
lhey Will arrive in Chiacgo, by way of De-
.roit. about the 9th proximo, aud go to
British Columbia by way Of San Francisco.
Forty-two of the forty-seven applicants
appointed by Congressman for admission to
he Military Academy have arrived at West
'oint, and all of them passed the medical
yesterday. Among them is
4emuel w. Livingston, (colored,) applicant
rom Florida, who is described as nearly six
eet in height and jet black.
The Twelfth Regiment of InfaDtry Colonel
}. b. Wilcox commanding has been ordered
rom the Department of Arizona to Madison
5arFacks, New York, to report to General
hancock, The regiment has served in the
Department. of Arizona for 13 years, and it
S transferred to New York to replace COM
'anies ofipfantry sent thence to the frontier
o be mounted.
Forty six new cases Of yellow fever and
hree deaths were reported in Brownsville
n Sunday, SO pew cases and eight deaths |
Mayor Carson and Rev. Mr..
Iall are among the sick DR.. Murray. of {
he United States Board of Health. has |
rriyed at Brownsville aud reports the
rival of nurses and supplies at that place,
} is believed the epidemic has reached its q
imax there. {
1t is announced that General William T. ! !
herman will ask to be placed on the retired y
st in November, 1888. He would be retired =
nder the law ON February =, 1884, when =
2 will be Ga years of age. The General :
'ys he has made up his mind to retire in !,
le fall of next year, SO as to give his sue =
'ssor in command of the army, Lieutenant a
eneral Sheridan, an opportuRity of ex- q
'essing to the next Congress such views as y
. may have looking 10 the best interests of T
le service. a
At the Convent of Notre Dame, near n
altimoTe, yesterday, the following young q
dies made their final VOWS, and were in
sstcd with the black veil Obdulla Nc
ntee, Eusebia RUpertus, Leopolda Zoepfr,
Philadelphia; Hermana Ker, Kingsville,
g.; NJ, Raphael Pieters, Simeona Fichlen-
ier, Anna Kupferschmid, of Rhochester, y
Z. Y; Liberia Hartman, Gertrudis Wallen- u
Drst, Buffalo, N. Y; Rita Hillenbrand, n
Scheein, New York Gottfrieda n
oellhafer, Newark, N. j.; Saranda Ham u
erschmid, Fort Madison M. A. Mathews, =
arlin, Ind; Bonita Bieg, North Schleswig D
ictorie Hotter, Tyrol; Renilda Speer u
suska, West Prussia; Casimira Werr,
aden Rosalia Cecilia, BAYERN; Liona
ynch, Cross Molin, and several belonging R
Baltimore. a