The daily gazette., 1882-05-06
TELEGRAPHIo SUMMARY.

The cotton factory ut Kinderhook, New
York, was burned yesterday. Loss, SAC, 900.
1t employed 100 hands.
The Buddenburg Furniture Company of
St Louis made an assignment yesterday.
The liabilities are stated at 100000.
By the fall of staging, at a new railroad
bridge, in Greenfield, Massachusetts, last
night, eight men were injured, one, it is be-
lieved, fatally.
Isaac Ward, father of the well-known
Ward brothers, the oarsmen, died yesterday
in Newburgh, New Yoak, at the age of "a.
He leaves IA children.
w. X. Snowhook, who was Collector of
Customs and Sub-Treasurer at Chicago,
| under Presidents Polk and Pierce, died yes
terday in that city, aged so years.
The contestants of the will of the late
| Sarah Burr, of New York, who bequeathed
more than S3,000,00 TO various charities,
are all second cousins of deceased.
Colonel D. B. Henderson of Dubuque,
was last night elected secretary of the Re
publican Congressional Campaign Com
mittee by nearly unanimous vote.
The Massachusetts, Legislature yesterday
by large majority, referee to the next
Legislature the bill restricting the issue of
liquor licenses to one for every l 800 persons.
Rear Admiral John Rodgers died last
evening at his residence, near Washington,
at the age of 10 years. He had been for
many years superintendent of the Naval
Observatory.
Daniel Collier, employed at the Iron
works, in Troy, New York, was killed yes
terday by rod of iron turned out of the
rolls piercing through his body while he lay
asleep on plank.
The strike of the railroad laborers at Corn
wall-on-the- Hudson, ended yesterday, all
the men returning to work except few of
the leaders, who would not be taken back
by the contractor.
The jury in the suit of O'Gorman vs.
Arnoux, In New York, in which the former
contests the latter's right to the Supreme
Judgeship, was discharged yesterday for
inability to agree.
Governor Plaisted of Maine has written
letter stating, as his reason for not calling
an extra session of the Legislature of that
State, that it has no power to redistrict until
new enumeration has been made.
By collision between two trains at Chi
cago yesterday morning James Carrigan
was killed and two other men-One OF them
j. j. Joy, assistant solicitor for the Grand
Trunk railway-was crippled for life.
In the United States Court, at Charleston,
yesterday, the jury in the case of the
Charleston election managers were dis
charged for inability to agree. 1t is under
stood the jurors were eight for conviction
and four for acquittal.
1t appears that the discharge papers of the
Ohio soldiers in the late war, entrusted to
the State Agent at Washington for the col
lection Of bounty claims, were boxed up by
him and afterwards sent to New York with
out authority, and are now lost.
The Legislature ofMissouri adjourned yes
terday after the Apportionment bill had
been signed by the Governor. The bill gives
one of the IA Congressional districts TO the
Republicans, but the latter claim that they
have excellent prospects" in three If not
five of the districts.
Under the operation of the Pond Liquor
law in Ohio more than thirty saloons In
Columbus have been closed since the LIST in
stant, and it is believed that, If the law is
declared constitutional, half the saloons in
the city will be closed by the LIST of June.
OF thirty-two saloons in Corning eleven
have been closed.
At a meeting yesterday of the Committee
on Police and Superintendent of the Park
Commission, Philadelphia, the Fairmount
Steamboat Company agreed not to allow
overcrowding of their boats, and that they
will bear the responsibility in case of acci-
dent. Robert Tagg was given the lease of
Belmont Mansion for one year at rental of
81 800.
Ephraim Sherman Durfee, an old Mason
and a soldier of the war of 1912, died yester
day in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, at the are of o.,
He was Master OF the Rochester Lodge of
Masons in 1928, and conferred the degrees
on Morgan, who afterwards exposed the
Masonic initiation and disappeared. Owing
to the anti-Masonic excitement following
those events Durfee was Obliged to leave the
country for time.