Daily Republican., 1882-08-11
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NEWS SUMMARY.
YELLOW FEVER RAVAGEB--
DRVWNING GASES - ACCI.
DEN rs AND INCIDENTS,

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The Secretary Of the Navy yesterday
issued the following order: the flag Of
Vne PRESIDENT CT the United States shall
consist Of q blue ground with the arms
OF tne United States in the centre, and
snail be of the dimensions prescribed
FOR the AdmiraPs flag, No. l.. The flag
shall be hoi,ted at the main of vessels
OF war whlle The President IS on board.
and shall DO carried in tue bow of hia
ooaC."
The Tariff Commission yesterday heard
saddle, hard ware and morocco leather
manufacturers, in favor of the mainte-
nance or increase of the present duties.
Two New York importers were also
heard in favor OF reduction Of duties
and the re noval Of antiquities from
tbe law. The Commission will proba-
bly, visit the Trelton potteries to-
day.
1t is reported from Guaymas, Sonora,
that last week the Apaches killed ali
the inhabitants OF Rancho Cariso, In
the Saharipa district, women and chill
dren Included, and burned the houses.
Two days afterwards they killed eleven
out OF fourteen Of scouting party OF
rancheros whom they surprised in am
bush.
j c. Holm and his fourteen year old
son were drowned on Wednesday by
the upsetting OF skitf in the river at
Chicago, Holm is the man who buried
several Of his children as they died, one
after another, on the lake front at Chi
cago, and was charged with numbering
them, but acquitted.
There were 46 deaths from yellow
fever IN the Havana during the week
ending July 29th. Ten cases Of yellow
fever were reported in Matanzas during
the week ending August 4th. Seven
cases and two deaths were reported in
Cardenas during the week ending the
9Th inst.
General RoSser has begun a suit at
Winnipeg against the Canadian Pacific
Railway for 100000 damages. Last
winter Rosser was prosecuted on the
charge Of taking the plans OF the Com
pany after he had left its employment
but he was hOnorably acquitted. Hence
the suit.
Henry Vandemark and John Schoon.
maker were squirrel hunting in the
woods near Ithaca, New York, ON
Wednesday, when Schoonmaker, "mis-
taking Vandemark's gray beard for a
squirrel" shot him in the head. The
wounded man died yesterday morn.
ing.
The mutilated body OF Cain Clanton
was fouDdon the railroad track near
Weldon, North Carolina on Wednes-
day. His coat and vest were near by
and the ground looked as if q struggle
had taken place. 1t is feared he was
murdered.
Alexander Kier, the foreman who
placed the new switch at the south end
Of the New York and Long Branch
Railroad bridge at Parker's creek be-
fore the disaster several weeks ago, has
given bail in $4,000 to await trial for
manslaughter
A colored man, who had feloniously
assaulted white girl, was taken from
the jail at Newman, Georgia, on We'd
nesday night, and lynchad. He con-
fessed his crime and implicated another
man.
J. S. Hunter, a notary Of Montreal,
is reported to be a defaulter to the
amount Of 100000. His embezzle.
ments, Or the greater portion OF them,
were from an estate of which he WAS
manager. .......
Professor Odlum, SWIMMING teacher
at the Hygeia Hotel, Old Point Com
fort, Virginia, yesterday swan across
. ha do tn a.
tant, in two hours and half, for wa
ger Of 500.
Lizzie Brown employed in Crouse's
tobacco factory in Reading, Penna.,
was fatally injured yesterday by falling
through the elevator way from the
fourth story, a distance of fifty feet.
The small grain harvest in Dakota is
finished. Wheat yields Is to 30 bush
els per acre and is of extra quality.
The yield of oats per acTe is so to 80
bushels.
The President left Washington last
evening on the steamer Despatch for
New York. He will remain about ten
days in that city and then 90 to New
port.
Catharine Kiker, Of Philadelphia.
aged about 45 years, was yesterday
found drowned in ditch on Tinicum
Island. How she got there il unknown.
Four men were killed and several
others injured yesterday afternoon, by
the premature explosion of blast, at
Cornwall, New York
The house Of George Harding, in
Forest City, Minnesota, was burned on
afternoon, and his two
small children persisted in the flames.
Edward Pillsbury, ex.Mayor of New
Orleans, died yesterday in that city, of
paralysis, aged 6S years, He was born
n Maine.
William NJ. Wadley, President of
he Georgia Central Railroad, drop.
1ed dead of paralysis yesterday, in
Saratoga. He was 6S years of age.
The Grand Circle of the Brotherhood
If the Union. in session at Harrisburg,
selected Chester as the place
or its next meeting.
Certificates of incorporation of the
Oil Company of New York,
,Spital $4,000, 900 were filed yesterday
IL AIuhuys
A telegram from Ottawa says it is
that S. 800 900 of the &c.,
100, 900 Pacific Railway bonds have
'een taken up.
Another case OF yellow fever has
een developed in the house in New
,rleans where the previous case was
eported.
John Bradley and his sister were
rowned yesterday at Tverton, Rhode
sland.
William M. Levy, Associate Justice
the Supreme Court Of Louisiana, died
esterday in Saratoga. ...
The fever is abating at Brownsville.
ne death from the disease was report
there yesterday.
The army worms are reported to be
in the western and southern
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