Daily Republican., 1882-07-06
NEWS So N MARY.
A BLOODY PAREGRAPH.DROw wN.
ING CASES-WORK OF THE
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Colonel A. r. Lamar, editor of the
Macon Telegraph, ard Colonel B. G
Lockett, were arrested on Tuesday night
on railroad train near the Georgia
State line, on the presumption that
they were about to cross the line to
fight duel with Colonel e. P. Howell.
edltor ofthe Atlanta Constitution. An
at mpt was made to arrest Howell and
his secoud, Captain Harry Jackson,
but it failed Lamar aud Lsckett were
yesterday held in $4,000 each to keep
the peace.
The Senate yesterday confirmed al
Commissioners of the Court of Alabama
Claims, Hezekiah G. Wells, of Michi-
gan Presiding Judge) James Har-
Ian, Of Iowa, and Asa French, of Mas
sachusetts to lie Secretary of the
Court of Alabama Claims, Daniel M.
Fesseuden, of Maine. The Senate also
ratified the com mercial and consular
treaties with Servia, the commercial
treaty with houmanls, and the trade
mark treaty with Spain.
The Washington correspondent of the
| New York Commercial Advertiser says
that Minister Lowell's resignation has
been in the hands of the President for
several weeks. The same correspon-
dent believes that j. G. Bancroft Davis
is likely to be appointed successor to
Mr.. Lowell.
The demands of the striking freight
handlers of the New York Central
Railroad in New York, were not granted
yesterday, as it was rumored they
would be. The wages of the brakemen
on the New York Central and Hudson
roads were, however, in creased to 81. 85.
PEI day.
IJ is reported from Winnipeg, Mani
t0ba, that number of Jews who had
gone to work at Whitemouth were re-
Gently ferociously beaten by mob of
men formerly employed at the work for
which the Jews were engaged.
The latest reports of the disaster on
the steamer SciOto, at Mingo Junctiot,
Ohio, show that IL bodies have been re-
covered. The list of missing includes
50 persons, some of whom may be Safe.
1t is alleged that the boat was over.
loaded.
The Senate Finance committee yes
terday held short session for consid-
GRAFTON of the Internal Revenue bill
but did not dispose of it, The Commit
tee will probably hold special session
to-day.
After the adjournment of political
convention in Jacksonville. Georgia,
on Tuesday, John M. Bedford shot and
killed Jefferson Wood and John John
sou in drunken quarrel, and then
fed.
Stephen Coburn, younger brother OF
ex. Governor COburn, OF Maine, drowned
himself, while insane, at Skowhegan, in
that State, on Tuesday evening, and
his son, Charles, perished in trying to
save him.
Lewis Burger, a young man, wall Ishot
dead by Ruth Ford, while he was walk
ing with two ladies in Algiers, Louisi-
ana, on Tuesday. Miss Ford alleges
that Burger betrayed her under pro-
mise of marriage.
The twenty eighth annual session of
the Pennsylvania Teachers Associa.
tion began yesterday in Pottsville.
Five hundred members were present.
Judge Pershing delivered an address of
welcome.
Fifty freight handlers on the Old
Colony Railroad, in Boston, struck
yeste riay for the same advance granted
on the other roads. Their demand was
acceded to, and they will resume to-
day.
The track walkers and their bosses,
100 in number, employed by the Erie
between Jersey City and Port
Jervis, struck yesterday for 81 so per
day, in advance Of 40 cents.
At Geneva, Nebraska, on the Fourth,
one man was killed and several others
were badly injured by the explosion of
a cannon, and two girls were seriously,
If not fatally, burned by fireworks.
AT Harwinton, Connecticut, on Tues.
day, Frank Degan killed his father in
a struggle for the possession Of horse
which the old man had refused to give
him.
The cotton prospects in Virginia AMI
Tennessee are reported very good, not
the lateness of the season.
The acreage of cotton III East TenDes-
see is the largest ever planted there.
Adam Simon, saloon koeI or, MUIR
1erously assaulted his wife and then
cut his throat i'll Buffalo yesterday
He is dead, but she is still
living.
The Veteran Soldiers reunion at
Vermont, closed yesterday.
were read from Generals
Grant aud Hancock.
Two more cases of lockjaw, resulting
from the use of toy pistols, both likely
% prove fatal, were reported in Buffalo
asst night.
The round house at Slerbrook, Que.
)ec, was burned yesterday morning,
md the loss was expected to reach
500, 900.
A fire in a five story block on Fed.
,ral street, Boston, occupied by several
firms, yesterday morning caused loss
Of about $40, 5,OO0
A fire in Hinkle 8 Moores tobacco
Ind pork warehouse, at Giro, Illinois,
morning, caused a loss Of
S25, 900.
James Duffy, rough, was killed by
stephen Gibbs in a saloon quarrel at
Jeffersopvllle, Indiana, on Tuesday.
Hugh Kelter fatally shot TWO bro
hers named PritChard in a drunken
ow near Pittsburg on Tuesday night.
helaire Terrein, aged 81, was drowned
While drunk at New Bedford, Massa-
husetts, on Tuesday night.
Henry Chaplin and Milton Patten
we're drowned near Manson, Maine, on
tuesday, by the upsetting Of boat.