Daily Republican., 1882-03-03
NEWS SUMMARY.
CONk LING AND HARGEaT BOTH
CONFIRNED
Railroad Aseldonts-Marine DIS.
ssteF-A Csugressfenai Cemsait-
Crimes and Outrax on
Operatives Poisoned.

RI Too VlsttAD8 UnhpyofOe -
Crimes and Oudrax on
Operatives Poiyoned.
The Senate In executive session yes
terday, confirmed the nominations O
Roscoe Conkling to be Associate Su
prerne Court Judge, and A. A. Sargen
to be Minister to Germany. The vote OF
Mr.. Conklings nomination is under
stood to have been 80 to 1.-THE nays
idcluding eight Democrats and foul
Republicans. The latter were Messrs
Hoar, Dawes, Morrill, and Hawley. MI
Sargent's nomination was confirmed
without a division.
Members of the House Commi ctees
on Naval Affairs, Appropriations and
Commerce, accompanied by several U.
S. Senators and naval officers, will
leave Washington this morning for a
visit to the League Island Navy Yard.
They will stop on the way to examine
the ship yalds at Wilmington and
Chester. The visit to League Islanu
will be made tomorrow, and the party
will return to Washington to-morrow "
night.
The British bark W. J. Stairs, with
. cargo Of salt, fron Liverpool to New
York, went ashore at Long Branch on
Wednesday and broke up soon after
dayligh yes rday morning. One Gte
was lost that Of Joseph Dickson, six
teen years of age who was swept off the
wreck; the rest of the crew, fourteen in
number, were rescued by the Life-sav-
ing men. The vessel was three years
old, AMI valued at about $4,000, her
cargo being worth about $1,000.
At Marlboro, New Hampshire, on
Tuesday all the operatives in the card
room of the MonadnOck Blanket Mills
were suddenly taken with vomiting. A
new set Of workers put in were taken
sick in the same wav, and the sickness
spread through the mills until, on
Wednesday noon, so many of the oper-
atives were sick that the mills had to
shut down. The rags are suspected of
infection.
The court-martial in the case of Ser
geant Mason, who attempted to kill
Guiteau, closed its proceedings yester-
day and adjourned sine die. The pro-
ceedings and verdict of the court will
be su omitted to Judgel Advocate Gard
ner and by him laid before General
Hancock, who will approve or set aside
the verdict.
A passen ger train on the b fillmore
and Ohio Railroad was thrown from
the track by stoua at a toll gate near
Parkersburg, West Virginia, on
Wednesday night. The engine ran in.
to the store Of George w. James, aud
the store and all the train except the
sleeper were burned. Two train hands
were killed.
Orville B. Roe, drunken carpenter,
shot and perhaps fatally wounded his
wife, and then committed suicide in La
Sale, Illinois, on Wednesday. Five
children wers found clinging to the poor
woman as they lay upon the floor. Tne
cause of the tragedy was her refusal any
longer to support he: idle husband.
A western paper says: Nothing will
cure some sick men more quickly, than
an office, properly apDlieu.-TLis cure
may be very successful in many cases,
but we would say If a man suffers
from q cough Or cold, give him DR..
Bulls Cough Syrup,
Sarah Taylor, aged G2 years, was COL.
victed Of grand larceny in Lebanon, o.,
on Wednesday. She lived alone for
many years and had stolen all sorts of
property, for which sue could have no
possible use, concealing the goods in
her house.
An engine and baggage car on the
Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain |
Railroad iu New York ran into a
washout on Wednesday night and two
men were killed. Two otGers were
Injured bat not fatally.
Easterly winds continue on the New
foundland coasts, which remain closely
packet with ice; 26 gigantic icebergs
were seen on Wednesday from Cape
Rtce. Great anxiety is felt regarding
the egress Of the ice-bound sealing fleet.
A fight occurred last evening between
strikers and workers at the Bessemer
Steel Works, near Pittsburg, Pa, in
which three men were wounded, one, a
policeman named Moran, perhaps ia.
tally. Further trouble Is feared.
Governor Perkins, Of California, has
decided to proclaim the 4th inst. a leg
II holiday, as on that day anti Chinese
mass meetings are to be held in San
Francisco and other cities aud towns
throughout the state.
Attorney General Eussel, of New ,
York, has rendered an opinion that a
woman possessing the other qualifca-
ions prescribed by law can perform
he duties OF School Commissioner in ,
Colchester.
The question OF shutting down the :
nils at Fall River, Mass, on account
# the depression in the print market, is ,
'eing agitattd, ana will probably be a.
reed to by the manufacturers. &
II. G. Cabot, ex city clerk of Carthage,
dissouri, has been arrested for setting
re to the city hall there, which was
urned with many ct the records, about t
en days ago. u
Peter Pickle and Philip ballet com.
litted suicide in New York, and Con- i
al Treber committed suicide in New
rk, yesterday. y
Leslie Montrey, in Jail at Stratford,
'ntario, for shooring man several y
ays ago, hanged himself yesterday :
forming in his cell.
a tornado passed over part or JEFF 4
srson county, Arkansas, on Tuesday Il
light, leyeling number of houses, One