Daily Republican., 1882-03-20
NEWS SUN MARY.
SUICIDE OF PERSONS TIRED OF
LIFE.
Asking for Mss0n's Pardon Sc n !.
ate PsOceedfngs-L Lynch ed
for bssbbiDg n Woman
What isspsnt for tracts
Arrest OF BILLY the
kiA"-Other news
Items OF Int crest.

AtoDs Oh Interest.
A petition for the pardon of Sergeal
Mason Is receiving signatures in Eds
: ton, Pa.
Colonel II. W. bowman, a promi
nent real state agent of Washington
uled yesterday morning, in Georg,
town.
The gas meter of the German Hos
pltal III San Francisco exploded 0,
friday night, injuring three men, OIL,
perhaps fatally.
.. Ehle, young man confined in til,
Emigrant Lunatic Asylum, on Ward,
Island, n. committed suicide b,
hanging, on Saturday.
j. Quinn, aged 60, committed suicid,
wlthxpoison, near Newburg, N. Y, OF
Saturday evening. He had recently los
his wife.
VIM. Schroeder, aged 80, a baker, com
mltted suicide in Carrolton, Louisiana.
on Saturday night Whiskey was the
cause. He leaves wife and 8 child.
ren.
subscriptions for the benefit of Mas.
on's family have been started in all the
government departments in Washing
ton, and large sum will probably be
realized.
The trial of Alexander Barton for
embezzling upwards of 100000 from
the Bank Of Fishkill, New York, in
1873, is set tor to-day.
The eleventh anniversary of the Paris
Commune was celebrated in New York
yesterday by gathering of the German
and English Socialists.
By a snow slide at Genoa, Nevada.
a few days ago, Mr.. and Mrs. Nimrod
Bowen, Miss Berlin, and nun Der Of
Indians variousl y estimated at from 7
to Is were killed.
John Cunningham was accidentally
shot and mortally wounded by Mary
McDevitt, while the latter was hand
ling ritie In New York on Saturday
evening.
Frederick A. Palmer, ex-City Auditor
or Newark, New Jersey, convicted of
embezzling about S220,OOO, was sentpn-
ced, on Saturday, to twenty years i'm
prlsonment in the Penitentiary.
Mr.. Scoville has reiterated his deter.
mlnation to retire from the Guiteau
case immediately after the bill of eXCep-
uons is signed. He thinks it will be
several weeks before this can be done.
Seneca V. Holloway, the embezzling
teller of the bank of Poughkeepsie, will
not be able to appear for trial in New
York today. His mind is still affected,
and he remains in the Hudson River
State Hospital as an insane crimi.
nal.
About seventy mountain Apache
scouts on the way to their reservation,
i'll New Mexico, suddenly event on the
war'path" at Lordsburg, on Fri lay,
and killed a white man named Connell.
Troops have been sent to the scene.
At a meeting OF citizens of Reading,
held in the Academy of Music on Satur-
day night, Mayor Rowe presiding q
resolution was adopted respectfully re.
questing the President of the United
States to pardon Sergeant Mason at
once.
About ocock on Saturday morning,
Charles S. Wall, of the Dudley Observ. |
atory, at Albany, discovered a new
in the constellation Hercules;
right ascension, II hours, 81 minutes
north declination 32 32degrees, 80 minutes |
The coiaet has nucleus of about the |
eighth magnitude aud tail five min
utes in length.
A man arrested for attempting to rob
bank in Minneapolis proves to be Will
liam Burke, known as "Billy, the
Kid, who escaped from Jail in Albany
on January 6 h, and for whose capture
a reward of $4,000 was offered He is
under $500 in bonds, but the discovery
Of his identity will cause detention on
another charge
The U. s. Senate was not in session
)n Saturday.
The House was in session for debate
IN the Anti.Chinese bill Messrs. Speer
)f Georgia; Deuster, of Wisconsin;
1uenther, OF Wisconsin; Berry, of Cali
'ornia; Brumm, Of Pennsylvania, and
Flower, Of New York, advocated the
,iil. Messrs. Carpenter, of Iowa; Will
Jams, of Wisconsin: Moore, of Tenne-
zee, and Skinner, of New York, opposed
he measure.
Z. ID. Owens, a young nan who had
tabled a young woman nearly to death,
vas taken from the Jail at Tampa,
on Saturday, and lynched by a
mob. He was hanged from tree in the
'ardof the court house, where the United
'tates Count was in session at the time.
1ieut. Danes, of the Third U. s. Artill-
ry, ordered out the garrison to protect
)wens' but thev turned out too late.
The American Tract Sotiety held its ..
nnual meeting in Washington, in the .
Metropolitan Presbyterian Church of !
hat city last ever ing. Ex Justice
trong presided, and addresses were
lade by ex-Minister Foster and ex- Gov.
rnor Dingley, of Maine. The Secretary y
ported that the receipts during the :,
ear were 1868 aud the expendi- y
lr's S57J, l35. OF the receipts S104, ,939 =
'ere trou uoiiations aud legacies.
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