The daily gazette., 1882-12-21
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there were two slight earthquakes at
Panama on Tuesday.
Over 90 counterfeit plates, captured by
socret Service agents, have just been de
ssroSed In the Treasury Department.
Randall. Bell a. Co., commission dealers
~ Chiravo. failed yesterday morning, being
9sbortn for considerable amount In corn
and oats.
The william G. Moore Banking House at
victor. New York, suspended yesterday, In
oonseouenco Of the City Bank failure at
Rochester
The farm buildings OF r. G. Hawkes., at
chorlemont, Mass, were burned yesterday
with 1850 sheep, so calves and quantity of
hay and grain.
Daniel and Thomas League were arrested
Yesterday In Mobile, while passing counter
ieit quarter dollars, and implements were
found In their possession.
The Copeland Hotel, and a block adjoln-
,,g in Pembroke, Canada, were burned
vesterdav morning. Loss, $40, 600 Three
lives were lost In the hotel.
The schedulc ia the assignment OF Ora
ham q Aitken, dry goods merchants of New
york, shows liabilities amounting to $780,
80, and actual assets amounting to SIPS ,9l4.
The hospital OF the Sisters Of Charity at
Zig RAPIDS, Michigan, was burned yester.
Jep, and valuable library, belonging to
tbe estate Of the late Father do Conick, was
destroyed.
An incendiary fire at Morristown n. j.,
Yesterday morning, destroyed large barn
and outbuilding belonging to Senator RAN
dolph, also new steam ditcher, lately
patented by him and built at an expense of
over $4,000.
The trouble at Opelika, Alabama, con-
tipues. The house Of B. II. Heiser, editor
Of the Times, was fired into on Tuesday
nisht Ten buckshot crashed through his
bedroom window and buried themselves in
the opposite wall
General N. M. Curtis, convicted In New
York of violation of the Anti-political
Assessment law and sentenced to pay a fine
Of 81 900, yesterday, handed over a check
for the amount, in open court, and was dis
charged from custody.
A telegram from Concord, N. H., says
that zone OF the largest and most brilliant
meteors ever observed" there was seen yes
terday afternoon between and O'Clock,
Ii passed from west to east, and "was as
plainly visible as meteors usually are after
dark"
The frame shop of Frazer Il Jones, con-
tractors, in the yard of the County Prison |
at Syracuse, New York, was burned yester- |
day morning, and Henry w. Austin, |
watchman, was burned to death. The |
loss on property is estimated at about
$4,000.
Charles A. Dunning, well-known citizen |
Of Denton, Md, was found dead In his car
rage near his house yesterday morning,
with his head badly cut and bruised, hang |
ing between the front wheel and the shafts. |
coroner's jury found that his death re-
suited from an attack of vertigo.
An attempt was made ON Tuesday night |
to burn the town of Henderson, North Car |
ollna. Three stores were fired, one of them |
IN four places, coal oil being used freely. A |
vigilance committee of fifty has been
formed to patrol the town at night. A few |
years ago the town was almost entirely de
Stroyed by incendiary fires.
The Jury In the case of Solomon Jones, on |
trial at Chesterfield, Va, for the murder of |
his son, rendered a verdict on Tuesday |
night of not guilty, { ud the prisoner was
discharged. After his arrest JoHes denied |
the murder, saying that his son had been |
killed hy train on the Richmond and Pc |
tersburg Railroad. The father will now sue
The road for damages.
The Second National Bank of jefferson,
Ohio, has suspended, In consequence of en-
bezzlqments by s. J. Fuller and II. L. st.
John, the cashier and assistant cashier. |
Fuller has used from $4,000 TO $4,000 of |
the banks money and has fed. st. John /
was stricken with paralysis on hearing of
the discovery of the crime. II is said the |
deposltors will lose nothing, as the stock
holders are liable for 5000, 900, which is far |
more than the average of deposits.
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