The daily gazette., 1882-09-09
THE MORNING SUMMARY.

Secretary Lincoln has given up his pro-
posed trip to Colorado, but will go to
Chicago next week.
William Hicough, boy, was drowned by
falling into the canal, at Marietta, Pa, on
Thursday afternoon.
The Governor of California has proclaimed
to-day, the anniversary of California's ad-
mission to the Union, legal holiday.
1t is reported that 80 soldiers have deserted
from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, escaping
in all directions, dressed in citizens clothing.
Nicholas Garrell was killed on Thursday
evening at the Locust Spring Colliery, at
Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, by fall of
rock.
Corrected returns from 1913 towns in the
Second Congressional District of Vermont
give Poland, Republican, majority of
1858.
The owners of the schooner Sorato, In
Toronto, have been informed other loss in a
hurricane, off Cuba. She wrs insured for
$4,000.
John johnson, farmer of Lower Naz-
areth, Northampton county, Pa, was fatally
injured yesterday, in Easton, by falling from
wagon.
Judge Benson Roberts of Griffin, Georgia,
dropped dead on his plantation yester-
day. Judge Algood of Rome also died
yesterday.
The Merchants Bank in Winnipeg was
robbed yesterday of $4,000 in bills, by two
strangers, during the temporary absence of
the cashier. -. -
Michael O'Brien was killed yesterday by
the explosion of blast in the Richardson
Colliery, Pottsville. His brother Edward
was badly injured.
II -
nent drug firm tf Alexandria, Virginia
committed suicide yesterday by taking
| strychnine. His health was bad.
Henry Clayton, formerly Captain of the
Seventh Infantry, has been appointed pay.
master in the army, with the rank of Major,
to succeed Major Wingard, deceased.
The Women's Christian Temperance Con-
vention of New York closed its sessions in
Oswego yesterday after choosing delegates to
the National Convention, to meet in Louis
vile next month.
The schooner George D. Russell, in tow,
was sunk by collision with a steamer at
Sault STEM on Thursday evening. Two,
perhaps three, persons were drowned. The
schooner had a cargo of iron ore.
A post-mortem examination of the body
of the boy who died In Newport on Thurs
| day, of Cholera, has shown that his death
was caused by sporadic cholera" but the
physicians say stthere is no cause for alarm;
1t is not likely to spread"
George F. Willis, Trial Justice of Putnam,
Connecticut, was arrested in Providence on
| Thursday night on a charge of conspiracy to
burn property in Putnam, last spring. 1t il
understood that an alleged confederate,
named Warren, has been arrested in Put
| man,
The Mexican National Railway yesterday
reached the 93d mile post from the City oi
| Mexico, emitting the company to subsidy
| for the go miles of the main line completed,
amounting to $3,000,000. The company
has built in all, of main line and branches
in Mexico, about 400 miles.
A coroner's jury at Ilion, New York, in
the case of A. P. Redway, killed ON Tues
day by the collision of Central Railroad
train with an omnibus, has found the rail
road company guilty of criminal careless
ness in not employing fiagmen and II
running through the town at full speed.
| A call has been issued for a meeting, al
Indianapolis, on October Is, of Representa-.
| tives of the American Public Health Asso
| citation, the National Board of Health and
the various State Boards of Health, to con
slider the question of holding a National
Medical and Sanitary Exhibition In 1888.
Professor Thurlow, Principal of the Higl
School at Pottsville, and three boys, were
struck by lightning yesterday afternoon
while crossing Lawton's Hill, but were no
fatally injured. The Professor had o foot
burned, and the boys were stunned, one o
them having several teeth loosened besides
The Navy Department was advised yester
day that the flagship Lancaster of th,
European Station, Rear Admiral Nicholson
commanding, arrived yesterday at Triesta
and that Lieutenant-Command G. f
Goodrich left that vessel at Messina to &c
to Alexandria to witness the British move
| ments in Egypt.
The Trustees of Union College, Schenec
tady, at meeting yesterday, dismissed thu
charges against President Porter, withou
reflection upon the faculty, and in order t.
consider his fitness for the presidency. Sub
sequently, by vote of Q to s, they respect
| fully requested his resignation, under con
viction of the necessities of the college.
A number of Chinese railroad laborer
discharged and shipped north in California
and said to have yellow fever, were inter
eepted in Contra Costa county by healtl
officers. They were found to be free from
yellow fever, but suffering from age, in
capacity and malaria. Four of them diet
on the way. The survivors have reached
San Francisco.
The Tariff Commissioners gave public
hearings in Chicago yesterday to representa-
tives of the American Paper Makers Asso
citation and the Fruit Growers interest
The fruit growers wished "absolute fret
trade between the United States and Canada
in horticultural products of domestic
growth" A custom house broker argued
in favor of t'the enlargement and simplif
cation of the statutes on the subject of i'm
mediate transportation" II. Hollenbach
argued in favor of the abolition of the
duty on raw flax and tow, and its retention
on linen goods, "on which, however, the
duty mgne DC os tsa ana smpe6
wanted the duty on watch movements and
cases increased to 40 per cent. ad yalorem