Daily Republican., 1882-07-07
NEWS SUMMARY.
UNHAPPY PEOPLE TIRED OF
LIFE-JAPAN'S POPULA CION-
KILLED By & TORNADO.

Yokohama adviCeS of. June 18th re-
port the population of Japan, according
to the census just finished, at 36, 1858, ,994,
an increase Of 5000, 900 since 1873 The
increase is attributed partly to the
greater accuracy in collecting returns.
The population Of Toxic is 979, ,O84; Kio-
10, $50, ,S27, and Osaka, 587 1893
The Republican State Convention of
! kansas met yesterday in Little Rock,
40 delegates being present. Ex-senator
| Clayton was chosen permanent Presi-
dent. Col. ". d. Slack was nomiRa--
5e for Governor by aCclamation, after
which the Convention adjourned until
Today.
The Tariff Commission met Yesterday
in Washington, all the members being
present, John l.. Hayes, President of
the Commission, made IA address, de-
clarirg that ga revision, nor desJruc-
tiou, OF existing tariff ll"s," should be
the object Of their laOors.
Savarro, an Indian policeman, killed
n Western Indian &C the Southern Ute
Agency, il Colo ado, on Wednesday.
Asst is fe1red 5hat the friends Of the
dead man will retaliate on the white
settlers, the commander at Fort Louis
has been modified to warn the latter.
Grow Dog, convicted of the murder
of Spotted Tail, will not be hanged to.
day, as sentenced, his case having been
carried by writ Of error to the Su-
preme Court Of the U nited States,
where argument will be heard in No
vembsr next.
la the U. S. Court at Trenton, N. j,
yesterday Charles H. Houghton, collec.
Tor, and James Smith, deputy collector,
al Perth Amboy, were arraigned on the
charge of conspiracy to defraud the
Government by false entries. They
pleaded not guilty.
The body of j. H. Plant, the St.
Louis merchant who lately disappear
ed, in consequence of numerous attach
ments against him, was found, yester-
day morning, in the Slough at East St.
Louis. 1t is believed he committed
suicide.
Leonard Kruppenberger, private OF
the Second ARTILLERY, stationed at Fort
MoHerry, Baltimore, committed sui
eide yesterday morning willie on guard
duty. He had been drinking heavily
of late.
The Secretary Of the Board of Agri-
culture, of Kansas, reports the harvest
ing of the largest wheat crop ever gath
cred in that State. The area planted
was /, ,462, 1876 acres, and the product is
30, 1858, III bushels.
Lake treights at Chicago are reported
at the lowest point of the season, the
last charters of corn to Buffalo being at
a cent per bushel. There being dead
loss at this figure, grain was taken as
ballast
The Republican ommittee of the
Second Congressional District of Vir-
ginia decided yesterday to unite with
the Coalition Convention, which viii
meet in Hampton on the 10th of nex5
month.
Two cases of yellow fever were found
on the steamer Mark Lane, which ar
rived at Boston on Wednesday from
Matanzas. The patients were renewed
to the quarantine hospital and the ship
was fumigated.
The hail storm and water spout at
Manitou Springs, Colorado, last Satur.
day, is said to have caused loss of
ClUU,UUU Ill udu4dSO W DulluLhBo hlOuCs
Many horses and cattle were lost.
Our exports of petroleum during the
eleven months ending May 31st last,
amounted in value to SAG, 563, ,142,
against $34, 762, ,341 during the cores
ponding period of 1881.
wv. Smith was arrested in Hop
kinton, Massachusetts,, on Wednesday,
on suspicion of having started the FIRE
which destroyed the business portion of
that town in April last.
Justice Coke, at Utica, yesterday,
granted an order reducing the bail in
the case of r. Porter Lee, defaulting
President OF the Buffalo Bank, from
500 900 to $4,000.
The employees of three of the largest
boot and shoe factories in Montreal
struck yesterday for higher wages. One
of the firms granted the advance.
George M. Forney, aged 50 years, for
merly a prosperous merchant of Balti-
more, committed suicide Yesterday, in
that city, by taking morphia.
Watson g Co.'s mill at Pomeroy,
Ohio, is reported to have resumed yes
terday at $6.25 per ton, which is %
cents above the Pittsburg scale.
John A. Kasson was yesterday re-
nominated for Congressman by accla-
nation of the Republican Convention of
the Seventh Iowa District.
A. S. Mcclure was renominated yes
terday for Congressman by the Repub-
lican Convention Of the Twentieth Dis
trict of Ohio.
The report that Minister Lowell has
resigned "is officially denied at the
White House and also at the State De-
partment.
The first benefit Of the Amalgamated
Association in Pittshurg WAS paid yes
terday, at the rate of four dollars per
week
The L4clece mill, at ST. Louis, is
about to resume on the Cincinnati
scale.
Two men were killed and several
persons injured by a tornado at Col UNI
bus, Kansas, on Wednesday evening.
Charles Miller, Philadelphian, was
run over and killed by train at Birds
boro, yesterday.