The news., 1882-06-01

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jured, John Swerson received severe
but not fatal injuries, and John Olsen
was badly bruised.
On Thursday afternoon at Chicago,
Fred Brown was assaulted and killed
by crowd Of roughs, while visiting
q beer garden. The murderers have
been arrested.
Margaret Kennedy, aged 26 years,
died on Wednesday in the house of
Mrs. Boyer, professional midwife at
New York. The Coroner on Thurs
day found that death had occurred
during childbirth, and ordered post
mortem examination of the bsdY.-
Mrs. Boyer states that the girl had no
friends in the city, except young
man in the shop where she worked,
who had been paying her board in
Mrs. Beyer's house.
The new comet is now visible with
out glass. It was observed on We'd
nesday night at 9 o'clock almost ex-
actly under the polar star and almost
exactly half way between that star and
the horizon, its latitude at that mo-
ment being 20 degrees. 1t reached
its nearest point to the earth on Mon
day, about $4,000, 900 miles. Its ap-
parent diurnal motion is, for the day,
around the pole, at the distance Of %
degrees. Its appearance is that Of a
nebulous star, nothing as yet striking
about it, as we are not in position to
see its tail. It is estimated to be
about twenty-five times brighter than
at the time of discovery. The great
est show if the comet does not disap-
point the prophecies, of which there
seems to be chance, will be after its
passage Of perihelion, which will take
place June 10.
Martin L. Gravenger was probably
fatally shot on Wednesday at Troy,
N. Y, by Samuel Katz. The latter
states that the shooting was done in
joke, and Gravenger does not deny
this. The ball entered his stomach,
and he laid in shed fourteen hours
without medical attendance. Katz
was arrested, released and arrested
again.
A fully attended meeting of the
creditors of the Providence Tool Co,
was held on Thursday at Providence,
r. l., when the creditors committee
presented its report giving an inven-
tory Of the property, amounting to
So, 123, 622.12, and showing az in
debtedness of 81, III, 945.06. 1t re-
commended an extension of three
years, under trusteeship.
John Walker, living near House
Mountain, Tenn, sixteen miles from
Knoxville, was on Wednesday stab
bed and killed by Andrew Evans, a
neighbor, for having made disparag-
ing remarks about the latter's sister.
Evans in Jail at Knoxville, and his
father is serving on jury in murder
trial in the same city.
At an Informal meeting of the lot
holders of Glenwood cemetery held
last week the subject of Offering lot
or circle in the cemetery to the United
States as the last resting place Of
Thomas Jefferson and those of his
family was discussed, but final action
was postponed to an adjourned meet
ing. 1t was stated that the Montioel-
10 estate, where the remains are at
present inferred, has passed from the
family of Jefferson, and some of his
descendants desire that the remains
should be moved here. The senti-
ment Of the lot-holders present was
emphatically in favor of the trustees
making the offer and have the Gov
eminent erect the proposed Jefferson
at Glenwood.
The failures in business for the
past week throughout the United
States, as reported to New York,
number 126, against 124 last week.
The Eastern States had 10; Western,
38; Southern, 33; Middle, 81; Pacific
coast and Territories, 8; New York
City, 6.
Mr.. Frye, from the Committee on
Claims, on Friday reported favorably
to the Senate the bill introduced by
Senator Cameron appropriating $685.
969 for the relief Of the heirs of the late
Richard W. Meade, Of Philadelphia.
By the explosion of barrel of coal
oil late on Friday afternoon in a gro
Gerry store at Falls Of Schuylkill near
ly twenty persons were badly burned,
some, it is feared, fatally.
A fight according to the rules o
the London prize ring, catch weight,
for $1,000, has been arranged between
Bryan Campbell and Tom Walling,
in West Virginia, within 100 miles Of
Pittsburg. The fight is to take place
within fifty hours from noon, June 26
next, and either party falling to ap-
pear shall forfeit the stakes.
The win of Ralph Waldo Emerson
contains no public requests.