Daily Republican., 1882-06-12
THIRD EDITION.
NEWS SU N @ARY.
DROWNING CASES -JUlE R6kl-
CULTURAL REP PORTS - NEW
TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
Ii is announced in Chicago that a new
telegraph company has been organlzed,
with capital of 81 600 900, aud that
work has actually begun upon it's lines,
which will connect the principal cities
of the East aud West. The principal
stockholders are George d. Roberts
and s. b. White, of New York; John
B. Alley and ex-Collector Beard, Of
Boston; and Governor Foster, of Ohio,
the enterprise, to be known as the
Postal Telegraph Company, promises
material reductions i'll telegraph
tolls"
While a farmer named Laberge was
crossing the bridge at Montmorency
falls with his married daughter, in a
wagon, on Saturday night, the horse
became unmanageable, and threw the
wagon against the side of the bridge.
The rail broke, throwing Laberge out
upon the bridge and pitching his daug b.
ter with the horse and wagon into the
torrent 800 feet below. The untortu-
nate woman leaves seven children. Her
body, which was $ ept over the Falls,
has not bet recovered
While young man named Lowery
was sitting with some friends in a
country inn near Carbo dale, Penna.,
last Friday, he was approached by a
man named Stebbins, who challenged
any man to knock him down at one
blow" Lowery struck the intruder a
powerful blow in the chest, and Steb-
bins fell dead, from the rupture Of a
blood vessel. Lowery was not arrest
ed, and proceeded on journey to Gan.
ada.
The June report of the Department
of Agriculture shows a decrease of 2.
per cent, in the area of cotton, and of
II per cent, in the area of spring wheat,
compared with last year. IL oats there
is an increased area of ! per cent, and
in barley of one per cent. The con-
dition of nearly all the grains except
corn is good; the average yield Of winter
ard spring wheat throughout the
United States is estimated at 13 bushels
per acre.
VIM. A. Wheeler, of New York, has
written to the President declining to
serve upon the Tariff Commission. Mr..
Wheeler, in his letter, refers, to the
magnitude of the work to come before
the Commission, and the limited time
at its disposal, and says that Sin the
present condition of his health he feels
that he could not give the subject the
time and consideration its Importance
demand"
A large meeting Of Jewish citizens
was held yesterday in Baltimore, to
adopt a plan for aiding the Russian
Jewish refugees now in that city, and
those expected to arrive. The sum of
three thousand dollars was subscribed,
and c ommittee was appointed to act
in conjunction with the Hebrew Be
nevolent Society in providing pecuni-
ary assistance and procuring employ
ment for the refugees.
The Governor of Wyoming received
a telegram from Fort Mckinney on
Saturday, stating that the Crow lndi,
ans supposed to be peaceably settled
on their reservation, "are scattered all
over the country, killing cattle and
stealing horses, and should be ordered
back to their reservation, or trouble
will result.
The bodies of two men, one apparent
iy 25 or 80 years Of age. the other about
45. were found yesterday in the East
River, Oft College Point, L. l. The
young man was cheaply dressed, the
older we'll dressed, with a gold watch
and $50 in English money in his pock-
cts.
A west-bound express train on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ran off
the track near Martinsburg, West
Virginia, yesterday morning. The en-.
gine, baggage Car, two express cars
and passenger coach were wrecked,
and four or five persons injured, none
seriously.
Louis A. Gutermuth died yesterday
morning in New York, frcm the effects
ofa beating given him by two stran-
gers on Fifth Avenue on the 30th ult.
The assault was not reported to the
police at the time, and no arrests were
made.
Frank Il. Glading, bookkeeper Of
the National Bank of North America,
at Providence, disappeared last Thurs.
day under circumstances which indica.
ted that he may have committed sui
eide. His habits are believed to have
been Exemplary"
The crop reports from Southern Min
nesota and Dakota continue to be en-
couraging as regards the smaller grain
and are more favorable as regards
corn, the weather having grown
warmer.
Furnace B, Of the Edgar Thompson
ploded yesterday morning, seriously, i
not fatally iniuring Assistant Superin
tendent Adair. Three others wer'
slightly injured.
A large barn in the cattle yards a
Painesville, Ohio, was burned on Sat
urday night, and two tramps perishet
in it. 1t is supposed they set it Oh fir
while smoking.
The bodies Of two men, badly decom
posed, with nothing to identify them
were found in the river at Hartford
Conn, yesterday morning.
A man named Priest and his wifi
while boating at Neenan, Wiscontir
yesterday, were carried over dam an
drowned.
1t is reported that small insects
known as white midgets, are doin
much damage to the wheat and oats i
virginia
A schooner of 100 tons burthen, bot
tom upwards, has been seen floatin
near Cape Flatlery, on the Pacif
coast.
Samuel II. Adams, we'll know
contractor, of Baltimore, Md, died las
evening.
Congregational work.
OF the fourteen regular annual al
preparation bills before the present. s.
aim of Ennuraaa nnl lu four a no hanorn