Daily Republican., 1882-11-17
NEWS SUMMARY.
RAILROAD HaNHAPs-TME LOST
BULLET FIRED AT GAR
FEELD-sSF n ER NEWR.

Wisconsin, yesterday mOrning, by one
of the cars leaving the ira X. A pas
senger train, closely follc wing the
freight train, dashed into the latter's
catoose, upsttSiug the stove and scat
tering the GOALS among the wreck. The
fire was notex inguished until 10 freight
cars and their contents, consisting of
valuable horses, pianos, organs and
other goods, had been des, royed +.
The loss is eStiua e. at $75, 900. By q
collision between wo freight trains at
St. Thomas, Ontario, yesterday, an en-
gine and twelve cars were wrecked and
two men severely injured.
The latest document received by the
Garfield Board of Audit is letter from
Christopher Flogeksties, a glazier, of
Washington. He says he possesses one
OF the bullets fred at the late President
in the Baltimore and Ohio depot,
(which lodged IN his (the writer's)
glass and putty box and shattered the
contents" He says che is far from
making any claim against tho estate, "
but expresses "a hope that the Board
will assist him in his endeavor to make
an honest living by securing his ap-
pointment as wAtcbman, or something
similar, in one Of the Government de-
pATtments."
At Lebanon, Penna., yesterday, Sher
if Croll was placed on trial, charged
with gross carelessness, thereby enab-
ling Book and Rauch, the safe robbers,
to escape from the county jil last
April, after having been brought from
Kansas on requisition, Last even
ing the jury reported themselves una
BILE to agree, but the Judge sent them
back, telling them they must agree
upon verdict
A number OF iron manufacturers In
Pittsburg were interviewed yesterday,
in regard to the outlook of the iron
trade. All were agreed that although
business Is uncommonly dull for the
season, and prices are very low and
It'll declining, there Is no cause for ap
prehension and they did not anticipate
that wages would be reduced or that a
general stoppage would result"
John B. Walters, a taTmer, while
working yesterday in his field, near
Havana, IlliAois, was approached by
had murdered his (Walters') } wife, and
then fled. Walters went to the house
and found his wife murdered, as stated e.
No cause for the deed is known.
The steamer Eleonora, from New
York for Portland, Maine, was run in
to by the steamer Nereus, of the Boston
line, while passing through He'll Gate
last evening, and was forced upon the
rocks at Wards Island. She lay high
and dry, but it was believed she would
be foated at high tide.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Hatton Indignantly denies" q report
that number Of clerks in his division
are to be discharged because they did
not pay political assessments, and says
"he does not know whether his subor-
dinates paid their assessments or not"
David Davis, President of the U. s.
Senate, has arrived at his home in Illi-
nois, and says he is not candidate for
re-electicn to the Senate, "but expects
to spend the remainder of his days in
Bloomington, after his term of office
shall expire next March"
A telegram from New Brunswick,
New Jersey, reports that a Danish
poet named Jansen was killed at Ran
dolph's Crossing by railroad train.
"Twenty five letters were found oH him
from president Arthur; also letters from
the Emperor of Russia"
The Governor of New York has com-
muted the sentence OF Gregory Fry, of
Buffalo, convicted of arson, and sen
fenced in 1868 to imprisonment for lite,
to "A years Imprisonment from the
date of his confinement, subject TO legal
deduction for good conduct.
A colored boy named Humboyd was
yesterday committed for arson in
Woodstock, Ontario, a coroner's jury
having found that he had set fire to
Hayes furniture factory on two oc-
casions The loss in one instance
amounted to $40, 600.
Jacob Finer, recently from New
York, was fatally shot in Chicago, yes,
t9rday morning, by George Villas. He
knocked at tbe door Of Villas house.
was ordered away and began breaking
in the door, when Villas fred at him
from the inside.
The wife of William Stark, a painter
of Phillipsburg, New Jersey, died early
yesterday morning from the effects of
dose of laudanum, taken with suicidal
intent. She was only % years of age
and had not been four weeks married
to Nj. Stark her second husband.
Philip Driesichaber and Richard
Gruft, employed by the Pottstown,
Penna., Iron Company, qaarrelled yes
terday, and the former vas struck a
terrible blow by the latter, which was
expected to result fatally.
1t issaid tAat Johu E. Matsey, the
defeated candidate for Congressmana at.
Large in Virginia, will con est Wise's
election, on the ground that votes were
cast for Wise on fraudulent CarltatiOn
tax receipts.
John PAttengill, Michael Martin and
Richard Davis were arrested in New
York, yesterday, while procuring $j07-
so from the cashier of The East River
Bank on forged check purporting to
be signed by Bond street firm.
Wiley G. Grissom and lis two sops,
Joseph and John, have been arrested in
Fredericktown, Missouri, for making
and passing counterfeit silver dollars
and half dollars.
The body of Thomas Flynn, home
less man, 80 years of age, was yesterday
found hanging from the ceiling of a
cellar in Mulberry street, New York.
j, B. Tinsley, stock broker of Chat
tanooga, yesterday presented forged
ncts to bank in Cleveland, Ten nessee,
and, the forgery being discovered, shot
hi pself dead on the spot.
The Congressional Committee investi-
CATION the Government work on the
river arrived at Memphis,
yesterday, and examined the works In
vicinity.
General Wright, Chief of Engineers,
is on'a tour of insnection of the G vern
meut works in progress on the Missis
sppi river. below S.. Louis.
The failure of j. Reinhardt clothifr,
of Dallas, Texas, was reported yester-