The daily gazette., 1882-10-26
MORNING SUMMARY.


Joseph Pryta was killed by a fall OF coal
In the Koh-i-noor colllery, at Shenandoah,
Pa, yesterday.
Madame Christine Nilsson Rouzand, the
great singer, arrived in New York yester-
day BY the steamer Gallia.
Mrs. Jane Scnsency, n years of age, was
Killed yesterday by fIlling from third
story window in Baltimore.
DIR. William II. Harris committed suicide
at Greensboro, Ala, on Monday night, by
taking morphine. He had been drinking
heavily.
The smallpox was ravaging all the Allan
tic section of the United States of Colombia
at last accounts. On the 9th instant there
were 500 cases of the disease in the hospital
| at Bogota.
James Carter committed suicide by shoot
ing himself, in Chicago, yesterday. lie was
ian expert mender of broken china" but
chad two wives who were threatning To
give him trouble"
The condition Of A. Bronson Aleott, of
Concord, New Hampshire, who is stricken
with paralysis, causes great anxiety to his
friends. His entire right side is paralyzcd,
and his age discourages hope of recupera-
ton.
Adam Hope & Co., hardware merchants,
of Hamilton, Ontario, suspended yesterday,
Their liabilities are estimated at more than
$750,00O. This firm is the parent of the
hardwa firm which suspended In Montreal
a short time ago.
The steamer Mexico has arrived at San
Francisco from Guaymas, with the officers
and crew Of Che British bark Brookyille,
| from New South Wales which was aban-
doned at sea In hurricane, on September |.
| Her crew reached Santa Rosa island in boats,
and were picked up on the 14th inst.
In Frankfort, Kentucky ,on Tuesday night,
John O'Donnell put rat poison III a rabbit
prepared for supper, intending to kill his
mother, sister aud two brothers. Their lives
were saved by the timely calling in of
| physician. Yesterday John took poison
himself and died. He had been on drunken
spree.
j. j. Pratt, E. N. wclch, and A. J.
Denickle pleaded guilty at Geneseo,
Illinois, yesterday of the robbery of the Ke.
vance Bank. They were sentenced each to
| six years imprisonment in the penitcntiary
at hard labor. DIR. j. ii. Scott, an ac-
complice, was sentenced to four years at
| hard labor.
Thlrty-eieht new cases of yellow fever and
| two deaths were reported IN Pensacola YES
| tcrtlay. Total eases to date, 2,096 deaths,
| lI0. 1t is said that 40 cases of so-callcd
malaral fever have occurred at Millyiaw on
the Pcrlito river, which has maintained
most rigorous non-intercourse with Pcnsa-
cola, even. to breaking down bridges"
Several new cases of fever have occurred
among persons reccntly arrived in Browns
vile, all Mexieans except one.
A. B. Millet, at one time Supervising Ar
chitect of the Treasury, "hut whose conncc-
tion with the Department has not been rec
ognized since 1877" formally resigned a
few days ago as Superintendent OF Con-
struction for Public Buildings, in st. Louis,
Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and Gin
cinnati. His action is regarded in Was l.
ington as preliminary to the assertion of
claim for compensation from 1877 to tie
date of his formal resignation.
The Board of Bishops OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church met yesterday in Berwick,
Pa, for conference. There were present
Bishops Simpson, Bowman, Harris, Wiley,
Merrill, Andrews, Warren, Foss and Hurst
| Bishop Foster is In India and Bishop Peck
was prevented from attending by the serious
illness Of his wife. The conference will con-
tinue for several days, and during the de-
liberations, which will be secret, matters in
connection with church interests will be ar
ranged.