Daily Republican., 1882-11-27
NEWS SUMMARY.
DYNAMITE RxPLOsI0N-KANBA6
ELEOTGON OONTEST-NEw POBx-
MAST ER FOR WASHINGTON.


MAST ER FOR WASHINGTON.
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A coal miner, named Forsythe, living
at Bellevue, near Elizabeth, New Jer-
sey, took sevoral sticks of dynamite
home on Friday, and, not knowing the
danger, placed them in the kitchen
stove, to " thaw out" He then went
back to work at his mine, short dis
tance from the house, while his wife and
three children sat down to dinner. In
about quarter Of an hour Forsythe
heard loud explosion, and hurried
back to ascertain the cause. He found
the house wre ,ked, and his wife and
children lying on the ground. The
youngest child, years of age, was
killed and the wife fatally injured. The
other children will probably y recover.
Forsythe, nearly crazed by the calam-
ity, attempted suicide, but was pre-
vented by his friends.
s. N. Woods, who was Greenback
Democratic candidate for Congress is
one Of the Kansas District, has given
notice that he will to-day apply for an
injunction to restrain the issue of GER
tifcate to Judge Peters, his opponent,
as member of the next Congress. Pc
ters had q majority of over 10000, and
Mr.. Woods does not attempt to get
over that, but he holds that " as Peters
was Judge Of the State court, and the
State Constitution forDids Judge to
hold any other Office during the term
for which he was elected, therefore the
votes cast for him are void"
DR.. G. G. Cox, who had been success
sively Lieutenant-G Governor of Mary
land, Commissioner of Pensions, Presi--
dent of the Board of Health OF the Dis
trict of Columbia and Commissioner to
the Australian Exposition, died in
Washington on Saturday night. HS
was a graduate of Yale College, and his
literary attain menrs were considerable,
some of his published poems having
secured wide circulation. He leaves .
widow, one son and a married daugh-
ter.
Thomas L. Tulloch has been appoint
ed Postmaster for Washington, in
place Of d. B. Anger, removed on Sat-
urday. Mr.. Tulloch Is from New
Hampshire, where he was at one time
Secretary Of State. During the Presi-
Dental canvas of 1879 he was Secretary
Of the Republican Congressional Com
mittee. For the last four or five years
he has been disburSing officer in the
General Post-office in Washington.
A few new cases Of yellow fever have
occurred in Pensacola within few
days, but only two of the existing caseA
are regarded AS serious. The Health
Board has only two nurses now ON
duty. Absentees are returning to tho
city in full force, business has been re-
sumed, and the Advance-G Gazette news
paper is again published, after q suS-
pension of two months.
The remains of the late ThurloW
Weed arrived in Albany ON Saturday
morning and were taken to st. Peters
Church, where the coffin was opened,
and the body viewed by great throngs
which filed past the catafalque during
the morning. In the afternoon the
Episcopal funeral service was read.
The body was placed in the receiving
vault of Rural Cemetery.
H. H. Wilkins, deputy commissioner
of revenue, and Charles W, GoOdins
notary public, were arrested on Satur-
day in Richmond, Virginia, for viola
| tiop of the Federal election laws, and
held each in $1,000 bail for hearing ON
Wednesday. Wilkins il charged with
"forgery in procuring an illegal VOTE"
and Goddin with certifying the same,
knowing it to be forgery"
The Garfield Monument Fair was
Eopened in the Capitol at Washingtons
on Saturday, in presence of President
Arthur, members of his Cabinet, the
Justices of the Supreme Court of the
United States, memb bers Of the Diplo-
matte Corps, General Sherman, Admi-
raj Porter, number of Senators and
Representatives, and other prominent
gentlemen.
There is something soft and tender In
the fall OF single snow. fake, but it
always reminds us to look after our
bottle of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup,-our
old standby in the days of coughs and
colds,-for We have always found it re-
liable.
News has been received In MiLwau-
kee of the total wreCk:Of the schooner
C0lling wood in Lake Michigan, Is
miles from that port. She became wa
terlogged, and four of her crew were
drowned, the other four escaping on q
raft.
| j. A. Hawley has been arrested in
jamestown, New York, for forging the
name of Lieutenant j. P. Story, OF the
Signal Office at Washington, to a tele-
graph money order on Sergeant Flynn,
of Buffalo, for $50.
The Katahdin Iron Company, of
Bangor, Maine, suspended on Saturday,
itB paper going to protest in a Portland
| bang. Its unsecured debts amount to
over $50, 900.
Four schooners we're wrecked near
Big Point Sable, Michigan, on Thurs
day. The mate Of one Of them was
| lOsy.
Hawley is alleged to have swindled
many people in jamestown by collect
ing money os5ensitly for the benefit of
the village poor.
J. W. Moore, coal operator of NC
Keesport, Peuna., failed on Saturday.
Liabilities S9S, OOO assets Vol, ,OOO
The depot for German Preparations
of all kinds is at Resag's Drug Store,
Front and West streets.-German
spoken.
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Death TF0m StramguIatlOn.
On Saturday Coroner Smith was called
upon to Investigate the cause of death
of three mouth old child, son Of Solo
mon Lewie residing at No. 1874 Tatnall
street. The babe had been suffering
! with the whoOping cough, and had fire.
uuently chOked badly, On Friday
| evaniOp H. did not geem VOrsA than
usual, and nursed several times during