Daily Republican., 1882-07-24
NEWS SUMMARY.


providence road, while going at speed
OF forty five miles per hour, was thrown
on a side tack, last Saturday, by q
misplaced switch, and before the brakes
could oe used the cars were partially
1lted over just at the critical mo.
lnent Che drawing room car struck n
haggage car on the side track, and this
prevented the train from capsizin0.
The passengers were ''thrown in q
mean, but no one was seriously in
jured.
j. l.. Denton, the Democratic caudi-
date for State Superintendent of Public
Instruction in Arkansas, declined the
nomination on Saturday, and th State
Committee chose Wood f. Thomson, of
Drew county, in his stead. Mr.. Den
toms deClination was owing TO "dissat-
isfaction in some quarters at his man
agemenC Of the Peabody fund in Arkan-
Sas.
An attempt was III sde on Friday
night to burn the town of Seattle,
Washington Territory. A brother o
Payne, who was lynched by citizens of
Seattle last spring, being suspected of
the crime, was arrested, and twenty
prominent roughs" were compelled
by vigilance committee to leave the
place before daylight.
The total wheat crop of Minnesota
this year is estimated at about 4O, ,O0O,-
700 bushels, an increase of more than
I, 100000 bushels on the yield for 1881.
The corn crop is estimated at about
10000, 600 bushels, the same as last
year; barley, 6,000, 900 bushels, an in
crease Of 1000, 900; and oats, 26, 900, 600
an increase Of 6, ,OOO, 900.
Attorney General Brewster has given
to the Secretary of ths Treasury an
opinion that "the request of the trans
portation companies to be allowed to
lake about 10000 Chinese laborers
through this country, from Cuba to
china, cannot be granted under the
aw as it now stands"
Over 1000, 900 pounds of leaf tobac-
20 have been sold in Lynchburg, Vir-
,lnia, since October l, 1881, an increase
# 700, 600 pounds on the sales of the
previous tobacco year. The tobacco
rop Is reported in splendid condition
n southern and southwestern Virginia.
A telegram from Saratoga reports the
lUpelesS breakdown of Runnymede,
he well.known race horse. 1t was
ound on Saturday morning, after his
eturn TO the stable from q mile and q
lalf race, that tendon in one of his
egs had given way.
The Attorney General has rendered
N opinion, in which he holds that "a
member OF Congress is not an officer of
ne United States, so that Gift to him
Or campaign purposes does not fall
Vlthin the statute regulating political
Frederick @. Andrews, first mate of
le ship Alfred Snow, from New York,
as been arrested in San Francisco on
1e charge of shooting q sailor, named
lcDougal, during the voyage. An
rews says the shooting was done in
slf defence.
The annual Encampment Of the Penn
Ylvania Department of the Grand
-Hmy of the Republic opened at Gettys-
urg on Friday evening. James M.
'anderslice, Department Commander,
in command, and about 1900 men are
lIoduy III camp.
The strike at the Cleveland Rolling
ills, in Cleveland, Ohio, may be con-
dered at an end, the strikers having
gnilied their willingness to work on
le compAny's terms. Thestrike was
egun on the 9th of May last.
BY the collision of two freight trains
4 the Chicago and Alton Railroad,
ear Bloomington, yesterday morning,
locomotive WAS wrecked, two loaded
Irs were burned and brakeman was
lied.
A special meeting of the House Com
ittee on Foreign Affairs has been call
for this morning, when, it is under
ood, Chairman Williams will submit
10 draft Of his report on the Chill Peru
Ivestigation.
Henry Baker, 40 years of age, was
lied on Saturday, Oy fall OF coal in
70 Knickerbocker Colliery, at Potts
lie. He leaves wife and eight chill.
'en.
Chin Tson Yu, the Chinese Minister
Washington, arrived in New Y ork
'sterday morning by the steamer Ger
anic. He will not 20 to Washington
r a few days.
John Acker, a young man, of Beth
hem, Pa, had both legs crushed by
mping from a coal train 1T East Penn
motion, on Saturday, and was not
,pected to recover.
President jarrett, of the Amalgama-.
d Association, says he will instruct
'e trlKing employees of the company
20 to work.
JChn H. b. Latrohe, Jr., SC years of
g, brother of ex-MayOr Latrobe, of
Iltjmore, was drowned while bath
z III the PatapsCo river on Saturday
ternoon.
William Andrews, an employe Of tn
.nnsy sylvania Steel works, was
owned while bathing near Harris
rg on Saturday night.
Joseph Eckert, while asleep, tell
I'M q third story window, in Balti-
ore, yesterday morning, and was kill
Stephen Ennis, colored, aged 81
ars, was drowned while bathing in
vynn's Falls, at Baltimore, yester-
y.
J. B. Teautett was killed and three
lers were severely injured by light
u in Denver, on Saturday, after
on.
A four year old child named Faroer,
IS scalded to death on Saturday, by
ling into = boiler OF hot water, in
anton, Pa.
PRESIDENT Arthur, accompanied by
private secretary. paid ian official
it" to President Barrios, of Guat-
ala on Saturday afternoon.
he body of Ernest Spencer, who
steriously disappeared in Milwaukee
Sunday last, was found yesterday
ruing in the Lake near his house.
he Monitor Montauk, at Washing
-, and Nantucket at Annapolis, have
IN ordered to get ready for sea, to
their seaworthiness.
he Roman Catholic Church Of St.
1mas, at Cornwall, New York, was
Heated yesterday morning by Arch
hop Carrigan.