The daily gazette., 1882-08-10
THE MoRNING SUMMARY.

| The Milwaukee and st. Paul RahrOad
| Company has sold to an English syndicate
| 1861 600 acres of land in the Pipestone dis
triet, Mt $3.50 per acre.
Argument for the prosecution in the Stal
Route cases at Washington was begun yes
terday by Mr.. Ker. He had not finished
when the Court adjourned. .u
Secretary Teller contradicts report that
the Interior Department "offers a reward of
$l00 900 for the discovery OF mica and mica
mines" No such reward is offered,
The first bale of new cotton received in
MONTGOMERY, Alabama, was sold at auction
Yesterday In that city for 80 cents per
pound. Itfwas classed @scant middling."
William Hook, 2S years of age, was
struck by an engine while crossing a trestl e
near Birdsboro, Pa, yesterday, and thrown
TO the ground. He died soon after of his
injuries.
The Postmaster General says that he will
make no prohibition of the carriage of pub
litations through the mails unless such pub
ltations have been decided by the Courts to
bG obscene.
Another victim of the Gold Dust disaster
died yesterday at Hickman, Kentucky, and
four of five of the injured were in bad
condition. Fourteen of the dead are In
TERED at Hickman.
James Reilly, Frank Fitzgerald, James
Wheeler, Charles O'Connor, Andrew Lynch
ard William Kelly were arrested yesterday
in Scranton on the charge of having com
mltted recent robberies. .l.E 'f.
James Hogan of Philadelphia, a cooper
by trade, was killed last evening by a New
jersey Central railroad train, near Blooms
burg. His body was taken in charge by the
authorities of Phillipsburg.
. The Indian Agent at the Grow Agency in
Montana reports that the Piegans are max
ing 'sfre4 4uent raids from the South upon
the Crow ponies," which has "a bad effect
on the Indians at the Agency"
Owing to the number of deaths from lock-
Jaw, as consequence of toy pistol wounds,
a eoroner's jury in New York yesterday re-
commended the passage of an ordinance
forbidding the sale Of such deadly weapons
in that city.
The forest fires near Sandwich, Massa-
clusetts, continued yesterday. One of the
fires was asix miles wide" and threatened
tile destruction of "15 valuable houses
and outbuildings" which were In its
path. ...
While picking berries on an island in
Muskoka lake, near Gravenhurst, Ontario,
a few DAYS ago, child of Mrs. Jestin fell
into the water. The mother and girl
named Bailey jumped in to save the child
and all were drowned.
Five cases of malignant smallpox have
been discovered in family named Lund, in
the village of Stanfeld, Isanti county, Min
nesota. 1t is not believed any of the cases
can recover. Two children died of the dis
ease in the same family a few days ago.
The suit of the Pittsburg Bessemer Steel
Company against Charles s. Henchman, to
recover damages for an alleged breach of
contract in failing to supply the plaintiffs
with 10000 steel rails, Judgment has been
given against the defendant for 50, ,S59.
The recent storms in Northern Ohio are
reported to have done great damage to the
crops and other property. In some locali-
ties the hay and oats are total loss.
Al Wakeman and its vicinity 30 bridges
were swept away by storm on Tues
day. -. 4 "a 4
Daniel Blakeny, colored, aslynched near
Lancaster Court House, South Carolina, on
Tuesday. for attempting to feloniously as
sal ult white girl. A colored man was
lodged in the Lancaster jail for assaulting
cdlored girl, and lynching is threatened in
his case also
James Robert Adams, cashier of the West
End Hotel at Long Branch, fatally shot
himself in the head early yesterday morning
lie was about 80 years of age. The cause of
the deed is supposed to have been domestic
trouble He was divorced about three
months ago, and remarked.