Daily Republican., 1882-12-12
NEWS SUMMARY.
COVEBED UP IN WELL-PUB~
LIC DEFAULTERS-MARK.
ED HURGLARE.

Edward Eng!lsn and his son, James
were buried by the caving in of we'll
which they were digging on their
premises in Danbury, Connecticut, on
Friday afternoon. The sou was got
out on Saturday morning severely, but
not fatally injured. The father was
buried deeper, and the soil continued
cavlng in upon him. Digging was kept
up by he neighbors Until on Sunday
night they heard his voice urging them
on. Soou after another cave in occur
red and he was silent. Several hours
after wards his dead body was dug ont.
The boiler in the saw mill of j. Vim
cent & Son, at shawneeto wn, Illinois,
exploded yesterday, Vrecking the
building and killing nine men. There
names are William Montgomery,
Charles Bloss, Henry Hughes, Charles
Baker, George Price, W. P. Grove,
Jamee Mclaughlin, Sam uel Kennedy
and Wade Kee. Two Others we're Injured
one perhaps fatally.
John S. Steers, bookkseper for Martin
Brothers, at the stock yards in Chicago
was arrested yesterday, on the charge
of embezzling $4,000. He repaid $4,000,
and prosecution was withheld" Sub
seqaently investigation showed "an
additional shortage" and, as he failed
10 return any more money, he was re-
arrested.
By contracting . severe cough and
cold, ] was compelled to give up my
daily work and keep to the house. A
neiGhbor recommended me to try bot
tie Of DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup; 1t was
procured and used; to my astoniShment
relief was instantaneous. Edw. W.
clayton, Waverly, Md.
Josiah A. Noonan, for many years q
prominent politician and journalist of
Wisconsin, died yesterday morning In
an insane asylum st Waukesha, in
that State. Unfortunate business ven
lures and "vindictive law suita''
brought on his insanity several years
ago.
Joseph CarlIn, being drunk, got on n
locomotive at East Syracuse, New
York, on Saturday night, and started it
along the road until it collided with
another engine and caboose. Both
engines were badly damaged, but NO
person was injured. Carlin was ar
rested.
William G. Frazer, school teacher
OF Cumberland. Ohio, attempted yes
terday to diciplIHe his pupils and gos
into a general fight, in which he stab
bed to death Join Hayes, aged 20 years,
and severely cut Chas. Luce. Frazer
gave himself up and was lodged in
jail.
The Senate yesterday confirmed q
number of military nominations, among
them those of Brigadier General John
Pope to be Major General, Colonel
Ronald s. Mackenzie to be Brigadier
General, and Major William A. Rucker
to be Deputy Paymaster General.
Senator Logan being asked yesterday
concerning the FitE John Porter bill,
is reported to have said:
~ shall oppose it rs iorg as I live."
Senator Sewell said he felt confident of
being able to have the bill taken up in
the Senate this week.
"An enforced residence of two year
in California" writes Commander J'
B, Coghlan, U. s. N, from Mare
Island, Cal. "made me the suhject of
N ost painful attacks OF rheumatism.
DR.. Hoyle recommended St. Jacobs
! Oil, which completely cured me.
Robert S. Champion, an old resident
of Little Rock, Arkansas, and for tho
| last five years Cashier and Paymaster
of the Little Rock and Fort Smith
Railroad, is reported to be defaulter
for O,000. He has disappeared.
Part of the trestle work on which the
New York, Susquehanna and Western
Railroad crosses the Erie Railway at
Jersey City gave way yesterday, pre-
cipitating ten cars loaded with coal in
to a swamp. No person was inj ured.
Governor Stephens,o Georgia, yester-
day pardoned Captain Edward Cox,
sentenced to life imprisonment for the
murder of Colonel Robert A. Alston, in
Atlanta, in 1879,
1t was reported at the Custom House
In New York yesterday that Collector
Robertson was about to resign. The
Collector refused to say anything upon
the subject.
The steamship Salier, from Bremen,
while coming up New York bay yes
terday morning grounded on the Spit.
Part Of her cargo will have to be re
moved before she can be got off.
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel A. o, Vim,
cent, on the retiied list Of the army,
died in St. Louis on Saturday. He
was a native of Ohio, and served in the
war for the Union.
The British steamer Nessmore has
been ashore in the PatapscO river, neal
Fort Carroll, below Baltimore, since
Sunday.
Mrs. Dora Wendell shot and fatally
wounded herself IN Chicago yesterday
her Goth birthday. She had recently
lost her husband and child by death.
The six men reported 10 have been
droWned u VI duOsehead Lake were driv
gu ashore AMI escaped unhurt.