The daily gazette., 1882-10-17
MORNING SUMMARY.

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The trial of Robert Estell of Freehold,
charged with defrauding a pensioner, was
set for November A.
A. l.. Cooper, money order clerk at Fargo,
Dakota, has been arrested on the charge of
embezzling money order funds.
prairie fire is reported near Watertown,
Dakota, which is said to be 'the worst ever
seen" in that region. A little girl was
caught by the fire and burned to death.
The trial of Colonel Houghton, Collector
at Perth Amboy, was continued Yesterday
before the United States Court at Trenton
The Government will close its case to-day.
John Black, well known merchant of
Pekin, Illinois, has disappeared, and is said
to be deiaulter for $4,000, "hs relatives
and widows and orphans" being among the
victims.
Richard Gray was mortally wounded in a
fight with George Lar1in, in Chicago, on
Saturday night. The cause of the affray
was their attachment to "an attractive
widow"
Adam Knapp, City Marshal OF New AL
band, Indiana, was shot and mortally
wounded by Samuel Rankin, Of Louisville,
whom he had arrested for drunken conduct
on the streets.
The British ship Bremen, from Liverpool,
ran ashore on the Farallon Islands, near
San Francisco, yesterday morning, during a
thick fog, and will probably be total loss.
The crew were saved.
The printers in the office of the Coastitu-
ton, at Atlanta, Ga, 90 in number, struck
yesterday because of the discharge of two
of their number. The paper, it is thought,
would appear as usual.
Edward Clark president of the Singer
n H.. A, ,~A.. ~,.,a- III
town, New York, on Saturday, in the 71st
year of his age. He leaves only one child,
son, and an estate estimated at $25, ,000, 900.
The United States steamer Vandalia and
the Monitor Montauk left Hampton Roads
on Sunday for Philadelphia, but returned
yesterday morning, on account of heavy
sea, through which the Montauk was unable
to make any headway.
Colonel Thomas Reynolds, for several
years State Pension Agent of Wisconsin,
has been arrested on the charge of forging
pension claims and defrauding the Govern
ment of 5000. Reynolds asserts that he is
innocent and victim of political persecu-
ton.
Last Saturday night number of un-
known villains attempted to wreck two
freight trains at Zani station, on the Nor
folk and Western railroad in Virginia.
1uty plactu numDef OF SlllS across the
rails, but the distractions were discovered
in time.
1t was reported in Brownsville on Sunday
that the Asiatic cholera had appeared in
Matamoras, Mexico. A physician of Browns
Vile, DIR. McManus, who is alleged to be
"an excellent authority" says that ''none
of the Asiastic type is nearer than Chiapas
and Tobasco." 1t will be remembered that
the Mexican authorities recently denied that
the disease in those places was the Asiatic
pestilence.
The child of the janitor of the Eighth Dis
trict Public School, in Cincinnati, died of
scarlet fever, and was buried from the base
ment of the school building on Sunday.
Thirteen hundred children were exposed to
the infection during last week, but the first
knowledge the public had of the disease was
when health officers went to the school YES
terday to disinfect it.
Secretary Folger resumed his duties in the
Treasury Department yesterday. He denies
a report that he intends to make a political
speech in Albany on Thursday, saying that,
while it is possible he may go to New York
on Wednesday to attend the sale of the old
post office property, it is not at all certain
he will do so. Postmaster General Howe
has returned to Washington. Commissioner
Mcfarland of the General Land Office will
leave today for Kansas Secretaries Lin
coin and Chandler are back In Washington.