The daily gazette., 1882-09-07
THE MORNING SUMMARY.

Mrs. Mary Holland, colored, died in Leb-
anon, on Monday, at the alleged age of lob
years. .5a
Five miners were seriously burned yes
terday by gas explosion In the Conyngham
shaft at Wilkesbarre.
Thomas Durfee, Chief Justice of Rhode
Island, was yesterday reelected Chancellor
of Brown University.
The General Conference Of the Methodist
Church of Canada began its sessions yester
day in Hamilton, Ontario. t
Five vessels are reported to have been
driven ashore at Aransas Pass, Texas, during
a cyclone on Tuesday night.
Seven cases of typhoid fever are re-
ported in the County Almshouse at Allen
town, Pa, and it is said number of
cases also exist in families living near the
Almshouse.
The contract for the granite curb and
granolithic pavement for the approaches to
the new Government building in Philadel-
phia has been awarded to L. 8. Filbert at
his bid of 50, $780,
A telegram from Chicago says 1t has been
discovered there that many cattle and hogs
slaughtered for shipment to New York are
covered with fostering sores. The matter is
to be investigated.
At Dubois, Georgia, on Tuesday night,
Adolphus Pitts was fatally stabbed in a
quarrel with Alexander Finney, and the
latter, while running away, was shot dead
by some unknown person.
The Marquis of Lorne and the Princess
Louise arrived in Chicago yesterday and
were driven to the hotel where rooms had
been reserved for them. They leave for
San Francisco this morning.
Francis D. Moulton has filed a bill in
fx in fhn NJ
against Zachariah Chaffee, trustee, and Will
liam Sprague, for the possession OF Canon
chet The writ is returnable on October I'd.
Mrs. Sarah J. Young, 46 years of age,
was feloniously assaulted near Union City,
Tennessee, last Saturday night, by a negro
named Wade. On Tuesday night Wade was
taken from the court house by mob of 100
men, and hanged from tree.
DIR. Wiltrout, physician at the County
Hospital in Pottsville, yesterday, read
paper before the Schuylkill County Medical
Society on scurvy among the Poles and
Hungarians in that county. OF 1900 per-
sons of these nationalities, at least 500 have
| suffered from this disease.
Commodore Upshur, commandant of the
| New York Navy Yard, has directed his aid,
| Lieutenant w. II. jacques, to hold himself
ready to board the steamer in which Engi-
neer Melville and Lieutenant Berry return
to this county, for the purpose of extend
| ing to them such assistance as they may re-
quire.
| The depositors of the Bank of Prince
| Edwards Island, at Charlottetown, have
| appointed a committee to investigate the
| affairs of the concern. 1t is asserted that
| since the suspension in November last, the
Directors have paid $42, ,624 to the Bank of
| Montreal, without the knowledge or consent
| Of the shareholders n prpditorah
4 Forty-six new cases of yellow fever and
two deaths were reported in Brownsville.
| Three new cases of fever were reported at
| Fort Brown. Two deaths from the fever
were reported yesterday in Matamoras
About one hundred cases of the disease are
now under treatment there. There was one
death from the fever in Pensacola yesterday.
General Sherman has requested that Major
General John M. Schofield be ordered to
San Francisco to relieve Major General Nc
| Dowell, and that the latter be ordered to his
home in New York, preparatory to his re-
tirement from active service next month
| No action will be taken In the matter until
the return to Washington of the Secretary
of War.
The Treasury Department furnishes for
publication the following statement "No
such distinction exists as First and Second
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. The
| TWO assistants are created by one clause IN
the law, which makes no distinction what
ever in their rank of duties. The President
is authorized to appoint one of these assist
ants to perform the duties of secretary
during his sickness or absence. This is
done by standing commission signed by
the President authorizing such assistant to
act as secretary during any such absence or
sickness"
The Grand Lodge of the United States of
the Independent Order of Red Men, In
session at Boston yesterday elected the fol
lowing officers Grand Chief Powhattan,
William Jacket of Philadelphia Vice
Grand Chief, August FRANKIE of Boston
Junior Vice Grand Chief, August Schneider
Newark, New Jersey; High Priest, Lothier
Naumann, of Chicago; Grand Secretary,
s. W. Goodman Philadelphia Grand
Treasurer, Martin Wetzel of Baltimore.
The next convention will be held in Phila-
delphia on the second Tuesday of Septem-
ber, 1888.