Daily Republican., 1882-10-24
NEWS SUMMARY.
FATAL ACCIDENTS - MARRAA@MR
IMSURAROE NOTICES TO MHML
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ExULODEO FROM TINE MAI1IA
A. g. Sharp, Post-oface Inspector ar
Chattanooga, has recommended to th0-
Post-o office Department "that marriage
and birthday insurance associations b&
prohibited from using the mails, on tbs
ground that the organizations ara
frauds" He writes that he "has coma,
to this conclusion after thoroughly in
vestlgattng the workings Of the institu~
tions. %
In the Presbyterian Synod at Harria~ !
burg yesterday resolution was almost
unanimously adopted refusing to sup
port any Legislative candidates not I'm.
sympathy with the prohibitOry move
ment. 1t was decided to hold the neztS
meeting in Pittsburg on the thirdSe
Thuraday of October, 1888. The Synod
closed its sessions yesterday aft ernoon.
Acting Secretary French, of thu
Treasury Department. decided yesten-r !
day that"a Chinaman having q throueh&
ticket from New York to any place In
the United States, having passed tbrouglA
Canada on the Grand Trunk Railway.
is entitled to admission into the Unitedk
States without further evidence Of hin
right than such ticket"
The express Office at Girard, LouisE--.
ana, was robbed Of $1,000 last Friday
night, but the robbery was not discover
ed until Sunday evening. Yesterday
James Saunders, aged IS years, was Ar
rested for the robbery. He confessed
the crime and 1914 of the money wa0a
recovered. 1t is believed others ara
implicated.
A telegram from Buffalo says tho
will OF Caroline Fillmore, widow of ex--
President Fillmore, is to be contested
by her Brooklyn cousins, Charles A.
Bryan, Martin Bryan, Francis Bryan
Louisa butcher, Anne M. butcher.
Julia Ripley, Mrs. Catharine Budd and
8. butcher. The property is estimated
at about S12sOOO.
The circular lately issued by the
Mechanics Lodge Of the AmalgamatedA
Association If the PittsburR District,
requesting President Jarret to resign.
was read in eighteen lodges, last Sat
urdsy night, aud in every case its effs:G
was to elicit expressions OF condolences
in Mr.. Jarret.
Miss Richardson, who has arrived n.
Ottowa in behalf of the East London
Ladies' Emigration Society, went out
as a steerage passenger In the steamer
Circassian, in order to test by expeFi--G
ence the accom- oaation given to emf
grants by the Allen Line. Sheis now
writing report on the subject.
The employees of Steinway B Sons.
piano makers, in New York, held q
meeting yesterday and resolved that
they should not return to work until
Superintendent Summers and all tho
men taken Ia the places of the strikers
were discharged.
A rowing match between George GAIA
sci, of New York, and William ElliOtt.
ex-champion of England, took place
yesterday, on the Passaic river COURSE
three miles with turn. Gaisal won.
easily by several lengths.
A Chinese coin, 5000 years old, ham
been found by gold miners digging d
claim, at Cassiar, British Columbia.
1t is supposed to have been left there
by Chinese sailors wrecked ON the
coast long before the Christian era.
The town of Witchia, Kansas, wan
shaken by an earthquake ~ 4.19 P. NJ.
on Sunday. There were three oscilla-
tions, the first one being strong enough
to rattle windows, sway the walls Of
buildings and mcve furniture.
Thomas Nugent, painter, was killed
yesterday in Baltimore by the breaking
of scafold on a church spire. Joseph
Tnckner also fell from the scatfold and
was dangerously injured.
It is now thought that the vessel r0--
ported wrecked on the southwest corner
of Vancouver's Island, is not the steam
or Wanda, but an iron sailing shipb
from Victoria for London.
Thurlow Weeds condition was NOT co.
comfortable yesterday behaving passed
a restless night. He was, however, able.
to take some noufishInent.
Clarence Ii. Brown, 20 years of age
carelessly drew q guh towards himself
bv the muzzle, In Arctic, Rhode Island,
on Sunday, and was shot dead.
John Wolfe brakeman on the Penn
sylVania Railroad, was fatally injured
yes erday while coupling cars at Lam
caster, PennaS
John Dewey, editor of the Irish Ma
ton, arrested on charge Of libelling7
August Belmont, was released yester-
day in $4,000 bail.
Thirty-seven new cases of yellow fe--
yer and one death were reported yes
terday in Pensacola. Total to date
2007 cases and 1853 deaths
An earthquake at Paris, Texas, the
same afternoon, at 8 o'clock, shook
clocks and other articles from the walls.
Three new cases of smallpox were
reported yesterday in Paterson, Nj.