Daily Republican., 1882-01-02
NEW YEARS SUMMARY.
A PkN DYNAMITE
EXPLOSION.
fatal CssuaIsies and Self. Oestrue
t'on-ssrikc for Higher Wages
Western Floods and snows.
Corrupt L~kislatOrs-The
Chinese Misfsters, sxs.


Chinese Misfsters, &s.
There was a terrible dynamite explo
| sion o. Saturday, at the extension ol
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
new line, on the north side OF the Bea
yer River, near Wampum, in the west.
EN- part Of Peunsylvania. King Smith,
dir' ctor Of a gangtf workmep, placed
two dynamite cartridges ir an old pow,
der kee to dry, at poon, while the men
| were taxing dinner, and the keg was
placed about eight feet from the ire.
The cartridges soon exploded, injnring
six D,en, one of them named Wilforc
Cunningham, fatally.
One man was killed and another f.
tally injured by the bursting of boiler
In a saw mill. near Winamac, Indiana,
on Friday last. Charles s. Saunders
WAS killed by the premature dischar rye
of q pistol, while engaged In target
practice. in Southampton co inty, Viz.
yinia, last Tuesday. William Stevens,
agtd 25 years, son Of Captain Dsvid
Stevens, Of tee New York Sanitary
Police, was killed by falling from a
freight train, uear Stratiord, Conn, on
Saturday morning.
John Robinson, aged 60 years, jani-
tor of Grand Army hall ia Washing.
ton, WAS found hanging by the neck in
the hall on Saturday morning. He had
apparently been dead for several days.
He was about 90 years of aye DIR.
Theodore Ulrich. aged 6i, committed
snlcide In New Orleans, on saturday,
by taking poison. He leaves wife
aud child -Gerard de Forest died in
New York on Saturday night from a
dose of Paris green, taken with suici-
dial intent.
All TIE employees at tae Lochiel Iron
Works, Harrisburg, are on a strike for
higher wages The puddlers at Bailey q
n all Works made demand two eeks
ago FOR so cents additional per ton, to
take effect last Saturday, but they
have extended the time for two weeks
iouger to allow the employees At the
other rolling mills in the middl, dis
trict to act upon the movement
The Upper Missouri river was closed
bv 'ce on FRIDAY night. Three hundred
feet of the st. Paul and Omaha Rail way
bridge at Sioux City, was carried away
by an ice gorge on Saturday The
weather became suddenly cold in tue
Canadian province of Outario on FRIDAY
night, and on Sunday morning snow
fell In the different districts to depth
Of from three to eight inches.
The spinners of Fall River, Massa-
Chusetta, at a meeting on Saturday
night, appointed a committee ito inves-
tisate the causes Of wages growing less
during the last few weeks, which Is
generally attributed to the use of "a low
grade of cotton. The committee is also
instructed to make strenuous efforts TO
secure weekly payments OF wages.
Judge 2. G. Dooley, and Casptr At
trnberg, a prominent Republican MEM
ber of the Arkansas Legislature, were
arrested by the U s. Marshal in Little
Rock on Saturday morning, on the
charge of having franduenrly collected
aud retained pensions. Dooley is coun.
ty attorney at Little Rock.
The total receipts of the Maryland
Penitenriary for the year end!n. No
venber 30, 1881, were S67, ll0 and the
expenditures, including salaries of Off
GERS, S35, l47. The average number of
prisOurrs was 81 and the expense per
capita Sll7 80
George s. Reed, a widower, killed
his mother.in- law, dangerously wound
ed his eight.year-old daughter, and then
com mitIed suicide, in San Francisco,
on Saturday, morning. IL is be ieved
he was Insane.
The poor sufferer that has been dosing
himself with so-called TroChes ari
hereby upset his It 'mach without
curing the Troublesome cough, shonld
take our advice and SO at once DR..
Bulls Cough Syrup and get well.
J. T. s. Lloyd, manufacturer of
"Lloyh's Maps" mas been arrested i'll
Norfolk, Virginia, on requisitiJn from
the Governor of Tennessee, charging
him with obtaining SIS 900 to $40, 900 on
false pretencss.
The steamship Moraviap, ashore near
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, is likely to
prove total loss. Part of her cargo
Udy ue SdNcu. Iloi pnSSSISoio Will uc
for rwarded to Halifax to-day.
1t is stated that the frs, Star Route
case to be laid before the Grand Jury
in Washington will be that against the
Dorsey party. Tho witnesses are sub
ooenaed to appear before the Grand
J ury to-day.
Seventeen persons-elsven of them
women died in New York during 1881,
whose ages it was alleged, ranged from
90 to l06 years. All but three of them
we're Of foreign birth.
Snow fell at Petersburg, Virginia, all
If yesterday. South and east Of that
ity it fell to depth OF ten inches, de-
aging railroad travel.
Samuel w. Piercy, the actor, who
vas reported sick of typhoid fever, in
ioston, is found to have the smallpox.
! is recovery is doubtful.
Three new cases Of small pox have
occurred among the medical students at
iowa. Two Of them have
lied Of the disease.
William Howard, aged l3 years. com
nitted su' eide by hanging, in Butf,lo,
n Saturday afternoon. No ca lse is
ssilned for the deed.
The Kedive Of Egypt has sent $4OO as
contribution to the Garfield Memorial
iospital fund.