The daily gazette., 1882-10-12
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MORNING SUMMARY.


Henry Kemne, carpenter, was killed |
yesterday by falling from church spire In
Cincinnati.
Thurlow Weed had another chill on Tues
day night, but was reported better yesterday
afternoon.
Secretary Teller has returned to Washing
ton and resumed his duties at the Interior
Department.
The schooner Marie Louise, from Cara |
quet for Quebcc, has been wrecked near
Martin river. No lives were lost.
Charles A. Parsons, habitual drunk ard, |
committed suicide yesterday by taking ar
senic, at Seneca Falls, New York.
The bark Ellie D., for New York, with
cargo of mahogany and cedar, was lost in
hurricane near Santa Anna, Mexico, on the
10th inst.
The Western Nail Association met yester-
day in Pittsburg and reaffirmed the card
rate of $40. The prospects for trade were
reported good.
J. 7. Updegraff, just elected to Congress
from the Seventeenth district oil Ohio, is re-
ported to be dead He had been very sick
of Brights disease.
Robert Dryden, assistant superintendent
of the Barnum Shaft at Pittston, Pa, was
struck on the head by lever yesterday, and
| died in few hours.
George Watson, son of g. W. Watson of
the Department of Public Instruction at
| Albany, was killed by falling from a corridor
in that city yesterday morning.
Adam Doller, a saloon-keeper in Gin
cinnau, was shot by Anthony Bacccoco,
a drunken policeman, whom he tried to
eject from his saloon, on Tuesday night.
The brig Emily T. Sheldon, from New
York for Galveston, arrived at Key West
yesterday, having lost all her spars and
sails in the hurricane OF the Sth inst.
At the regular monthly meeting of the
directors of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
yesterday cash dividends of five per cent
were declared on the stock of the main stem
and Washington branch.
Hon. John Hamilton died at Kingston,
Ontario, on Tuesday night. BY his death
and the appointment of Mr.. Akin as Lieu
tenant Governor of Manitoba, two Dominion
Senatorships are made vacant.
} Frank Miner, colored, murdered his wife
Elizabeth i'll Washington, yesterday, by
, cutting her throat. Eighteen wounds were
Inflicted, any one of which was mortal,
Jealousy was the cause.
fire at Suneoek, N. H., on Tuesday
night, destroyed the Methodist Church. the
Snncook House, four dwellings, barn and
livery stable, causing a loss of S35, 600
Mrs. Joseph Dumars was killed by falling
chimney.
There were fifty-six new cases of yellow
fever and seven deaths in Pensacola yester-
day. Many of the new cases are malignant
in type. The total number of cases to date
has been ,406 deaths, l22. The weather is
warm and settled, giving no promise of early
frost.
A bill was introduced Yesterday In each
House of the Vermont Legislature for the
commutation of the death sentence OF
Almon l.. Meeker, the murderer, to i'm
psisonment for life. He was convicted
of the murder of Alice Meeker two years
ago
Franklin l.. Chase, chairman of the Cook
county Illinois Democratic Committee. is
reported to be defaulter for an amount es
tima'ed at $4,000 to $40 900. He is a law
+ yer, and used money entrusted to him by
nus ms clients, one OF whom, widow, loses
$40 900. "Drink, harlotry and speculation
caused his DOWNFALL"
} Several families have arrived in Column
t bus, TIA, from Lee county, Ala, and report
that there is "wild excitement in thai
county in anticipation of an expected up-
rising OF the negroes, who, according to a
report made by one of them, sintend To
burn the houses and massacre the whites on
Friday or Saturday next" No actual dis
turbanee has occurred, and it is possible the
, panic may be unfounded.
In Norfolk, Va, on Tuesday afternoon
two workmen, engaged in tearing down a
house on Main street, formerly occupied az
boarding-house, discovered above the
ceiling of the attic the body of male infant,
dried up like mummy, and the skeleton
OF another. The former had a piece of blue
dotted calico tied tightly around the neck,
and had evidently been strangled soon after
birth.