The daily gazette., 1882-05-22
MORNING SUMMARY.


Three boys were swept over the Lehigh
dam at Allentown, in a row boat yesterday
morning, and one of them, Elmer Erdman,
aged 10, was drowned.
NJ. b. Cowden, city surveyor of Harris
burg, Penna., was accidentally shot and
fatally wounded on Saturday evening, while
engaged in glass ball shooting.
The wrecked steamer Pliny, ashore on
Deal Beach, is fast breaking up, and the
beach is strewn with her debris. 1t is doubt
full if even her engine can be saved.
The loss by the fire at Leadville, Colorado,
last Friday morning, is now estimated at
$500, 900. The body found in the river is be-
lieved to be that of Arthur Ballow, and the
number of missing is reduced to three.
The Cleveland Bridge and Car Works of
Cleveland, Ohio, of which H. NJ. Clafiin is
president, made an assignment on Saturday
for its creditors. The wages of the work.
men are three months overdue.
A tornado in Pike county, Arkansas, on
the 10th instant, destroyed 10 dwellings and
devastated a number of farms. William
Shields, planter, and his two children,
were killed his wife was fatally injured.
The strike among the miners in the Indi-
ana coal region is against reduction OF the
price of mining from 81 to 80 cents per ton,
and reduction of per cent. on the days
work. The miners now make Sl.45 per
| day.
Senator Hill of Georgia, who is still at
| Eureka Springs, Ark, is all the time con-
fined to his room, and most of the time to his
| bed. There seems no improvement In his
condition, and his friends have little hope of
his recovery
By an explosion of sulphur in the Buck
Ridge colliery, near Shamokin, Pa, on
Saturday, James Lawrence and Frank
| Osman were killed and David Green and
Frederick Hoffman fatally injured. Green
has since died.
John Kelly lectured to a large audience in
Chickering Hall, New York, last evening,
| ON ''The Early History of Catholic Missions
in North and South America" The pro-
| ceeds of the lecture are to be given to the
nun of Kenmare."
| Since the 25th of April Al cases of small
pox have been officially reported in Trenton,
| New Jersey. OF this number % are under
treatment in their homes, IL are In the
hospital and have died. All but two of
| the sick are said to be recovering.
A telegram from Pottsville says that Z 900
acres of coal lands on the Broad Mountain,
estimated to contain 100, ,000, 900 tons of coal
have been leased for 25 years to prominent
capitalists of New York and Mauch Chunk.
| Six large colleries will be built and mining
| operations begun at once.
In the police Court in Washington, on
Saturday, William Gould, Charles Kerr and
| Charles Elms, convicted of selling Louisiana
Lottery tickets, were sentenced each to 10
days imprisonment. Kerr and Elms, con-
yicted also of selling Havana Lottery tickets,
were sentenced, the former to six months
and the latter to sixty days additional. All
noted appeals and gave bonds in connection
| Herewith.
The celebration of the one hundred and
seventh anniversary of the Muhlenburg
Declaration of Independence was concluded
in Charlotte, N. G., on Saturday. There
were military parade and review, display
of the fire department, speech of welcome
by Senator Vance, reading of the Declara-
tion by Senator Ransom and Grafton by
Senator Bayard. A large assemblagc was
present, including many prominent gentle
| men.
At meeting of workingmen in Brooklyn
yesterday, the new penal code of New York
was severely denounced, particularly the
clauses making it a misdemeanor for work
men to resort TO ''boyeotting - providing
for the dispersal of meetings upon a repre-
sentation that breach of the peace is
feared; making it justifable homicide
should an officer kill any one In dispensing
such meeting, and making it justifable
homicide should master kill servant
while correcting him."