Daily Republican., 1882-09-23
PRICE ONE CENT
NEWS SUMMARY.
THE TARlFE COMMISSION GOING
SSUTH-FIgEIN A TAXOFFIOR
BEEF FROM TEXAS

Hayof OI InaJ CITY, laVoren protect
I've tariff Mr.. Crane, President of the
Chamber OF Commerce, favored free
!. trade or revenue Ia if Mr.. Norcross.
the Oldest resident Of Atlanta, favored
protection and Mr.. Adair, real estate
, operator, advocated "mild form Of
l tar IT, that would not tax the people un-
i, duly, aud that would give incidental
pTo.ec 'ou TO some American indus.
tries
A fire was discovered yesterday under
the safe OF he District Attorney in the
! Tax Commissioner Office, in New
! York, and eXt.Bguished befDre much
! damage was done. In the safe were
stored important papers in the case of
the ra'Hfd lottery dealers. IL is a sin
guIar coincidence that short time auo
fire was discovered late at night, in
close prOXl nity he safe in another
portion OF the room, in which were also
s.ored important papers in similar
cases.
The Texas Continental Tran porta-
tion Company" to cary dressed beef
in refrigerating cars from the South
west, was organized on Thursday in
Chicago. 1t ls backed by cattle raisers
and shippers in the Southwest, and it
is stated that ''its operations will b9
cor fined to the Huntington system of
railways, with the Chesapeake and Ohio
as an .ste"R outlet, and the South
ern Pacific as Western outlet"
A despatch from Washington say
that, when the repairs to the doubled
turreted monitor Miantonomah, at
League Island, are completed, "a sutfi-
Cient amount of weights will be placed
upon Eer to cqua the estimated weight
of her armor, guns, carriages AMI other
ItQulpmsnts, and number Of tests will
be made as 10 her sea-going capacity
and other qualities.
Two trains on the New York Central
Railroad Gollided in the tunnel, t
| Fourth aver ue and eighty sixth street.
New York. Oae person was killed
two were mort lily injured, one of whom
died in the after loOn, and several 9TH
ers sustained slight injuries. The dis
ster is ascribed to gross mismanage.
ment."
An insane daughter of Jomes Cleve-
| and poisoned the whole family of six.
except her mother, last Wednesday
night by putting strychnine in their
CO Tee. AShe then wandered off and,sis
supposed to have committed suicide.
Her father has died, and one of her 81
ters is in critical condition.
The wife OF James Benson, in Butfa'o
New York, being dclirious with fever,
got out of bed Oh Thursday night and,
taking her two-year old boy, jumped
: 20 a CisteIn. Their bodies were fL und
early vest ,rday morn ug. Mrs. BeLs
son leaves overall other children,
Agent Wilcox, at Fort Reno informs
the Commissioner of Indian Affairs
that ninety -four Creek Indians nave
come to the agency for pro1eciioh
against party # rebellious Ind ans.
The women and children are desti ute.
Twelve cowboys, six on each SIDE,
recently fought a duel on horseback
near Trinidad, Colorado, to SETTLE a
IQuarrel arising out of the mixture of
cattle in their herds. At the frs fire
four men were killed. An "eq Ii.able
Exchange" of cattle was then III Ide
In the Unitarian General Conference
at Saratoga, yesterday, E. Rocky ,Od
HOar was elected Presiden f. vas
resolved to raise $4,000 anuu sly
INuL IuE buO hOAb lCu JStkN III llO
American Unitarian Association. The
Conference adjourned sine die.
Charles f. Fitch, editor of the War
ren Democrat, OF Philipsburg, New
Jersey, has Seen indicted for libel, the
prosecutor being Henry S. Harris,
Democratic candidate for Congressman
in the Fourth New Jertey District
1t was rumored in Washington last
night that Brewster Cameron, men
toned in connection with the alleged
attempt to bribe Star Route jurors, had
been in Washington fJr two days, under
an assumed name.
The italian bark Antonio Mimbelli,
from Trieste for the Delaware Break.
water, in ballast, went ashore near
Cape May early yesterday morning,
and will probably be q total wreck.
Her crew are safe.
The jean mill of j. Ledward & Sou
in Chester, Pa, was destroyed by fire
! last evening". Loss, $4,000, on which
there is aninsuranCeOf $50, 000 Thetire is
at tributed to spontaneous combustion.
More than 800 persons are thrown cut
of employment.
The pOst-othce at Martinsburg, Wes5
| Virginia, was robbed on Thursday
nj ght. The contents of the safe we're
removed and the mails we're rtied.
Cotton picking is progressing rapidly
in the river districts above New Or
leans, and the crop promises to be the
'a"gest gathered for many years.
A sail boat coutaing four persons
| from Exeter, New Hampshire, is re-
ported ~ be missing. Search Is being
made for it in Che vicinity Of Ports
mouth.
President Arthur received many
callers in New York yesterday, among
them del gates returning from the
Saratoga Convention.
Ex-Lieutenant George L. Rousseau
committed suicide at Laredo, Texas,
yesterday, by shooting himself i'll the
head.
Secretary Folger will leave Wa ming
ton to-day. During bis absence Mr..
John G. New will be acting So d Ary
of the Treasury.
Adjutaut General McKeever ha gone
to New York for few days III n,
absence General Ruggles will act AZ
Adjutant General.
!! There was slight frost at 4exin
ton, Kentucky, on THURSDAY night,
and another was threatened last night.
Some fears are felt for the tobacco crop.
Bertha Querin, aged "a years, va3
fatally shot by Paul Hamenbuag, IN
New York, last evening, while he was
showing her pistol"
John Chapman, colored, convicted OF
murder, was hanged yesterda7 at
Bellevue, Louisiana. He confessed his
guilt.
The sloop Wayward, ashore on Ger
rishs Island, New Hampshire, went to
pieces yesterday morning.
A frs in Belleville, Ohio, on Thurs
day night, destroyed seventeen'buildings