Daily Republican., 1882-09-04
NEWS SUMMARY:
HANLAN WILL ATTEND no ROSa
IN IsS3-OTHER IMPOB'
TANT ITEMS.


in Toronto, that Ross assumption OF
the championship would not induce
him to row this year. He had his busi-
ness to attend to and would be fool
to accommodate opponents whenever
they chose to take a shy at him with or
without reason. 1t would be unjust to
his friends to row unless he was in the
best condition, and he could not get in
to condition q ter his illness in time to
row on Northern waters this year.
Ross knows this perfectly we'll, and it
was absurd to talk of his fearing to
meet Rosp, whom he will attend to In
1888
The Tariff Commission met on Satur-
day in indianapolis, and heard repre-
sentativss of the EnGaustic Tile Works
and the railroad rolling mill. The tile
people said that before they started
English ties were worth $1.40 per
square fOo; but their tiles-"as good
every way as the English tiles"-could
be put down for 40 cents, They claimed
also that since the com mpetition OF the
domestic article the price of the foreign
tile had been reduced more than 30
per cent. They wanted no reduction in
the tariff
The despatch from Bangor, Maine.
declaring the recent highway robbery
at Mount Desert ga practical joke"
aud that the stolen property had been
returned, is "denied authoritatively"
at Bar Marbor. A reward of $4,000 Is
still offered for the arrest and convic-
tion of the highwayman, and 1t is sta
ted that "no effort will be spared on the
part of the Messrs. How or the local
authorities to secure the arrest and con-
viction of The offender, whatever may
hava been his motive"
Should Sergeant Mason not be releas-
ed upon Judge Advocate General
Swain 8 opinion against the legality Of
his trial and sentence by the Court
martial, his counsel will apply for
writ of habeas corpus in the U. s. Dis
trict Court of Northern New York. Que
of the points in the petition for a writ
" i'll be that the Secretary of War has
no judicial authority to overrule the
opinion of the Judge Advocate General.
Mr. Edwin Smith, of the U. s. Coast
Survey, who is chief of the party SO.
lected for observation of the transit Of
Venus, left Washington ON Saturday
for New Zealand, where the observa-
tion is to take place. he will be Joined
at Omaha by Professor Pr bchett, his
principal assistant After the s,k in
New Zesland is completed, Mr.. S-"L.h
will go to Japan to make pendulum
observations.
G. O. B. Cowdrin, one Of the editors
of the Richmond Despatch, the leading
Democratic paper of Virginia, was ar
rested in Richmond, on Saturday MORN
ing, on the charge of arranging to fight
duel with W. G. Elan, editor OF the
Whig, the Coalition organ. A war.
rant was also issued for the arrest of
Elan. The trouble grew out of an ed
itorial in the Despatch.
The U. S. Steamer Despatch, with
President Arthur on board, grounded
on the ledge of rocks north of Rose Is.
land on Friday night, and did not get
eff until nearly eleven o'clock on Satur-
day morning. The President and Sec
retary Frelinghuysen lunched with Mr..
John N. A. Girls void in Newport on
Saturday, and then left on the Dispatch
for Nantucket.
About Ills A. M. on the morning Of
August 14th, a large water spout was
seen in the Great Sound, which lasted
twenty minutes. 1t was Immediately
followed by wbirlwind from south
westerly direction, which struck Bosses
Cove, sinking two sail boats, and then
swept across the land, tearing up trees,
bushes and even grass.
Acting Secretary French, of the
Treasury Department, has decided that
Chinese merchants residing in this
country who go to China are required,
under the law, to obtain a certificate
from their own Government to return
to the United States just the sape as
Chinese merchants coming here for the
First time"
About twenty additional cases of
small pox were reported yesterday in
Paterson, New Jersey. The sick are
being removed to the pest house. The
erection of another pest house was de-
cided upon by the Board of Health yes
terday morning, and the work of put
ting it up was at once begun.
A fire in the cupola of the Western
Union Telegraph Office in Baltimore,
yesterday morning, destroyed all the
wires therein, over 150 in number,
which are conducted into the off q. In
three hours wires were temporarily
placed in the battery room, and com
munication restored in all directions.
A coal train on the Pittsburg and
Southern Railroad ran into passenger
train near Pittsburg, on Saturday
mcrning. The coal train and a bag
gage car and passenger car of the other
train were wrecked. A number of pas
gengers were slightly injured.
A freight train plunged through an
open drawbridge at Burlington, Yer
mont, on Saturday, the engineer not
understa the signals. He jumped
off Just in time to save his life. The
rails were torn up and trains delayed
several hours.
George Dawson, the veteran editor Of
the Albany Evening Journal, on Satur-
urday severed his connection with that
paper, which had been temporarily re-
sumed in February, 1880. He is sue
ceeded by Harold Frederic, lately edi-
tor of the Utica Observer.
Those In New York who are interest
ed in the whereabouts of the I-ish Skir-
mishing Fund have appointed "a per-
manent committee Of investigation,
the committee heretofore appointed
''not having received any satisfactory
accounting from the Trustees. "
Two passenger trains on the Iron
Mountain Railroad collided near New
port, Arkansas, on Saturday night.
John Browning, engineer, and his fire.
man, whose name is rot given, were
killed. The passengers escaped injury.
Enoch Chapman, farmer, on his
way from Illinois to Connecticut, to
place his daughter in seminary, at
tempted suicide, by cutting his throat,
at Russell, Massach usetts, On Saturday
morning. He was taken to Springfield
in q critical condition.
The first new bail of cotton raised in
the districT around Memphis ar ived in
baf Satnrdau PrOnN