Daily Republican., 1882-10-16
NEWS SUMMARY,
ROBBERIES - YELLOW RMVRM
GASES -BEECHER OPPOSEmES
PKOHIRITIOM.

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The reconciled factions OF the Repub-
licau party in San Francisco met i'm
lJoint convention on Saturday and re-
. nominated the city ticket, with M. @.
Blake for Mayor. A resolution was in
trod9ced asking the Democratic Con-
Ventlon to join with the Republicans i'm
nominating FreehoIders. As the Dem
ocrats nave already made arrangements
Tor the selection of Freeholders this
proposal ls not likely to be accepted.
There was a riot on Wards Island.
New York, on Saturday afternoon,
! growing out of revolt among the Rus
sian Jewish refugees against alleged
harsh treatment by Superintendent
Shsttuck. A squad Of half dozen DO
lice were sent over to the island, but
they we're routed by the rioters after
clubbing one of the latter senseless,
Later in the evening, one hundred Do
lice were sent to the scene, but the
trouble had quieted down
While Congressman Thomas, Repub-
licsn, was making political speech in
Oarbondale, Illinois, last Wednesday
night, a man named Branson attempted
to kill him with a large clasp krife.
Being prevented, Branson stabbed q
man named Caswell, and was proceeds
ing further when he was knockedde@B
and disarmed. "The trou uble0 iginstsRr
in political hostility to Mr.. ThoRasiL
his own party"
According to the census report there
were in the United States, in 1880, 26B6
wool establishments, employing 161, ,489
hands, and bringing out annually pro-
ducts to the valHe of $267 1894; 1908
cotton establishments, employing 1885,.
Az hands, and turning out products of
the value of $2lO, $50, 1888; 1905 iron and
steel establishments, employing 140, ,987
hands, and turning out products of the
value of $296, ,557 ,6S5.
Rev. Thomas Girard, pastor of the
Mount Vernon Place Methodist Episco-
pal Church, In Baltimore, died yester.
day morning from the effects of o sur
g1cal operation performed on Tuesday
last. DR.. Girard, who was native Of
Ireland, had been for five years pastor
of churches in San Francisco and Oak
land, California, He was noted for
eloquencO in the pulpit.
e. Maxwell, Of Louisiana, while
driving cattle, assisted by two negroes,
near Vicksburg, Mississippi, on Thurs
day, was knocked senselsss by omar
the negroes, and then robbed of q.
money, valuables and horse. HeE,
found on the roadside on FrilaybVeSr
ing, still insensible, and his condiie
dangerous.
Charles f. Childs, foreman of 1885,
terry, while driving along one of ktt
streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts,
half-past ten o'clock on Saturday morn
ing, was attacked by two highwaymen.
who shot him in the eye and robbed
him of 5000, after which they drove of.
His wound is not considered fatal.
Colonel Cockrill, editor of the St.
Louis Post Despatch, who killed Colo
mel Slayb back on Friday night, has sur
rendered himself to the authorities
The Coroner's jury has rendered a YER
dict simply stating that "the deceased
came to his death from q gun shot
wound at the handa nf .Tnhn F Cnnh
rlll."
The last quarterly report of Rev.
Lawrence Walsh, Treasurer of the
Irish National Land League, shows
that the receipts of the League from
July 10th and October 10th were $12,-
902, Of which New York gave $46i,
Massachusetts $2962, and Connecticut
S1967.
@. S. Wright, sporting man, placed
$500 in the safe of hotel in Cincin-
natl on Friday night. On Saturday
morning the money had disappeared.
and James Sexton, the night clerk, who
had the keys of the safe, was also miss
ing.
Rottot, the post-ofice clerk at Mon
treal charged with robbing the mails,
has pleaded guilty and has been SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for ten years.
$4,000 in cash was found In his house,
the result ofhis stealings.
Franklin Edison, a we'll known mer-
chant of New York, has been agreed
upon by the Democratic factions of
that city as their candidate for mayor.
he was born in Vermont, and Is 80
years of age.
The Department of Justice has been
advised from New York of the dismissal
0t the T1lden income tax suit; therefore,
no further proceedings in the case will
be had before the Supreme Court.
The officers of the Hebrew Immigrant
Aid Society in New York decided yes-
ierday to notify the London, Paris and
Berlin authorities not to send any more
refugees to this country.
1t is announced "authoritatively"
haJ Secretary T0iler is not candidate
or reelection to the u. S, Senate at the
leXt session of the Colorado Leg
stature.
Joseph W. Greeley, aged 10 years, land
lis sister Emma, aged ), were drowned
Il the Harlem river, New York, ,on Sat.
lrday evening, by the capsIzing of a
'Ow boat.
The bodies of 36 persons dro owned by
he fl )ods during the recent cyclone in
he Vuelta AbajO district of Cuba, have
,een recovered.
The latest returns from the Second
District of West Virginia
Indicate the election of Mason, Repub-
lean, by 25 to so majority.
The wooden mill of Mccoy & McCate,
n Independence, Missouri, was burn
d on Saturday. Loss S45, 900.
The extensive phosphate works Of
Vhann ~ Armstrong, vt Landen burg,
emma, was destroyed by fire on Satur-
ay night.
Rsturns from all but two counties in
'hio indicate a Democratic plurality
( 1858.