The daily gazette., 1882-09-11
THE MORNING SUMMARY.

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day along the South Atlantic coast.
Wilgus & Co. e toy factory, in Buffalo,
was burned on Saturday night. Loss
$4,000. -s Ia .r4- 51
Stephen W., Nash, mill employe, was
killed yesterday in Norwich Connecticut by
falling down stairs
Robert Chace, aged II years, pupil in the
Friends school at Providence, was drowned
yesterday while bathing.
The cost to the government of the Star
Route trial is estimated at the Treasury De-
partment at about 5000, 900.
William McGlynn died yesterday in Provi-
dence of injuries accidentally inflicted with
pick axe by fellow laborer.
Thoms Dunlan, young man, was killed
by falling between cars on the Port Royal
Railroad, in South Carolina, on Saturday
night. ..
| The steamer Algitha from New Orleans
for Antwerp, has been towed into Hampton
Roads by the steamer Seminole, with her
shaft broken.
The tug Mary Anna was wrecked while
| trying to make Tobermoray harbor, Ontario,
during storm ON Friday night, and her
captain and engineer were lost. ."s-.
John Smith, 65 years of age, committed
suicide in Harrisburg ON Saturday night by
hanging himself He had been greatly de-
pressed at times, and attempted suicide
before.
Two brothers named Powell were play
ing with pistols near Raleigh, North Caro-
lima, on Saturday morning, when one of
them fired at the other and blew out his
| brains.
| Mamie Lyons, four years of age, was sent
| for whisky by neighbor, In Syracuse, New
York, on Saturday. After getting the liquor
| the little one drank enough of it to cause
| her death.
| W. A. Glines, station agent at Medway,
| Mass. for the New York and New England
railroad, has disappeared, and is alleged to
be on his way to Canada with money be
longing to the railroad.
Two colored boys, aged respectively Is
aud 10 years, laid down on the railway
track, near Raleigh, North Carolina, on
| Friday evening, to wait for train. They
fell asleep, and were run over by the train
and killed.
Louis Jansen, charged with selling liquor
without license in Chicago, was granted a
continuance on Saturday to procure one.
He is a Dane, aud it is said that four OF
King of Denmark.
News has been received In San Francisco
of the loss, near Cape Guardafui, of the
steamers Fleuro Castle and Maskwa, tea
laden, and bound from Honkow to London
and Odessa respectively. 1t is supposed the
crews were saved.
A telegram from Lebanon, Pa, reports
that during thunder storm on Friday
night ga meteor, weighing one pound and
| IL ounces, fell in the centre of the principal
street, appearing like ball of fire as II
struck the ground.
Early on Saturday morning, passenger
on the Raleigh and Augusta Railroad II
Carolina, made murderous assault upoI
the conductor, firing two shots at him. Th'
assailapt was seized by some of the pas
sengers and pitched off the train.
+ The American schooner William L. Far
we'll, with lumber, from Cedar Keys fol
! New York, which ran ashore at Tortugas
during the cyclone, is on her way to key
West but 1t is reported that she has bilged
Her mate and three men left in boat to gc
! ashore and have not been heard of since.
, Two men attempted on Saturday nigh
to burn the Sprague dwelling house a
Cranston, Rhode Island. They were seen b,
the wife of DIR. Lawton, the occupant o
the house, and she gave the alarm to
watchman, who fired upon the retreatinl
ruiifans, but without effect.
5 John IL. Johnston, Mayor of Danville
| Virginia, ON Saturday evening shot AM
, perhaps mortally wounded John e. Hatche
/ ex-Chief of Police, in scuffie growing out
e of Johnstons refusal to retract a charg
that Hatcher had not accounted for fines b
: had collected. Johnston gave himself u
t and was held in $1,000 bail
!. A fire at Port-au-Prince, Hayti, on tn
: 11th ut., destroyed 81 buildings, includin
the French Consulate, causing loss c
: $500, 900, and making so families homeless
$ A fire at Arroyo, Porto Rico, on the est
: ult., destroyed 80 houses and stores. tn
0 broom factory of Samuel Cupples Il Co., !
!. St. Louis, was destroyed by fire on Frida
Is night. Loss, 100000.
Henry S. Scribner, an aged man, brotht
If of the New York publishers was assaulte
If by roughs in Des Moines last Friday nigh
IF They attempted to rob him, but failed, bt
ii his injuries are likely to prove fatal. d
m Shaifer Of Keokuk was recently knocke
jr down and robbed on the same spot. Higl
# way robberies are becoming SO frequent
of Des Moines that vigilance committee
talked of.