Daily Republican., 1882-09-11
NE VS. SUMMARY.
''OLD DEFENDERs'' MEETING
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM
AOClDENTs.

AOC1DENT8.
The Associations of Old Defenders Of
baltimore yesterday morning attends
church service In that city, accord 'ngts
their custom on the Tun1ay preceding
the anniversary Of the battle Of North
Point. Only seven we're able to attend
namely, William Bachelor, aged 90;
Colonel Elijah Stansbury, aged 81:
William Sites, aged 80; G. orRe Boss,
aged 88; Nathanial Watts, aged 81:
Samuel Jennings, aged 30, and Henry
Ltghtner, aged So They were escort 4
to the William Street Methodist Epis-
copal Church by Wilson POst,G. A. T.,
and listened to sermon by the Pastor.
Acircular has been issued in Boston
by committee composed of represen
tatives of various civil service reform
leagues in that vicinity, which Is sign.
ed by over one thousand prom inent
business and professional men, which
declares that the signers "have re )lv-
ed to vote for no one at tie next elec-
ton of members of Congress whose
character and record do not satisfy US
that he will be found in Office q CO nsis-
tent, earnest and aggressive supporter o.
civil service reform" The circulac
advises all their fellow citizens to adopt
the same course and to organize in
their respective districts for the pur.
pose.
1t is reported from Plttsburg, that
the men are rapidly :...breaking away
from the Amalgamated Association,
and chat within the next forty-eight
hours, number of mills will be Ia op-
Grafton in the district with Union men
who have agreed to return to work
without signing the scale, at last years
rates. Among the mills which will re-.
sumo are those of Graf, Bennett & c.,
Gverson, Macrum & Co., Henry Lloyd
& Son, and Brown & Co., Pittsburg;
Refs Brothers & Co., of New Castle,
Pa, and Brown, Bonnell & Co., OF
Youngstown. OF these, Graf, Bennett
Il Co. and Refs Brothers q Co., will
resume tomorrow, and the rest on
Two men attempted on Saturday
night, to burn the Sprague dwelling
house at Cranston, Rhode Island. They
were seen by the wife of DR.. Lawton,
tbe occupant of the house, aRd she gave
the alarm to a watchman, who fred
upon the retreating ruffians but with
out effect. The family had packed up
part of their goods to move, dreading
four barns and a grist
mill and planning mill on the estates
having been burned.
Louis Jansen, charged with selling
liquor without license, in Chicago,
was granted continuance on Saturday
to procure one. He is Dane, and it
is said that flour or five years ago, he
was chief counsel to the King of Den
mark. he was deposed for some
reason unknown, and subsequently,
came to America in very poor circum-
stances, and has since earned scanty
living for himself and family by keep
ing a saloon on Chicago avenue"
Henry S. ScriDner, an aged man,
brother of the New York publishers,
was assaulted by roughs in Des Moinol
last Friday night. They attempted to
rob him, but failed, but his injuries are
likely to prove fatal DIR. Shaffer, of
was recently knocked down
and robbed on the same spot. High
way robteries are becoming 80 frequent
in Des Moines that vigilance commit.
tee is talked of.
The hearing in the case of Trial JUS
tice Willis and his alleged accomplicG,
Charles Warren, on the charge of in-
csndiarism in Putnam, Connecticut,
has been adjourned until October 9th.
They were both committed to Jail on
Saturday in default of bail. Warren is
the son of High Sheriff Warren, who
harbored Dorr after the failure of the
latter's rebellion in Rhode Island.
Theodore E. Tomlinson, Chairman Of
the Executive Committee of the Nation.
al Anti-Monopoly League, states that
the coming Convention of the New
York Anti-Monopolists at Saratoga
cannot make nominations until (as
provided in the Constitution of the
League) after the assembling OF the
Democratic and Republican Conven-
tions."
The Greenback State Convention of
Colorado met in Denver on Saturday.
George W. Way was nominated fof
f. o. Saunders for Lieuten-
ant Governor, and l.. j. HerzinSer for
Secretary of State. After heated de-
bate, a resolution was adopted favoring
The tedious extradition case of Hall,
the Newark (New Jersey forger, was
again before the court in Toronto, on
Saturday, on writ of habeas corpus.
After hearing argument, the Judges re-
served their decision.
A telegram from New Orleans says
the final consolidation of the New Or
leans Pacific and Texas Pacific Rail
roads will be effected today, and through
business from the Pacific coast will be
at once begun,
w. A. Glines, station agent at Medway
Massachusetts, for the New York and
New England Railroad, has disappeared,
and it is alleged 10 be on his way to
Canada with money belonging to the
railroad.
The Democratic Convention OF the
Fifth Assembly District OF Erie Coun-
ty, New York, on Saturday Instructed
it's delegates TO the State Convention to
support Grover Cleveland, of Buffalo,
for Governor.
John Smith, 90 years OF age, COM
mitted suicide in Harrisburg, on SaCur.
day night, by hanging himself. He
had been greatly depressed at times,
and attempted suicide before
The Secretary of the Navy has decided
to place a receiving ship at Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, and the Constitution
or Constellation will be towed to that
station for that purpose.
Walter A. Wood, Congressman from
the Seventeenth District of New York,
denies that he will refuse to be q caDdi-
date for the Republican nomination for
Governor of that State.
Democratic Congressional nominations
were made onSaturday as follows: Tenth
Kentucky District, j. S. Hurt; Ninth
Tennessee, Rice A. Pearce; Seventh
Texas, George p. Finlay.
The Twelfth Regiment of Infantry
will leave Albuquerque, New Mexico,
on the 18th instant, for Sackett's Har.
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