Daily Republican., 1882-01-11
NEWS SUMMARY.
Patching uPs Bank-Gisss bottle .
blowers In Session-Ccl
OF sn Iron ana steel Firm
"A Present for Gaiteaa-
The HALEY case again
-OGher Items.

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A fre at Toxic, Japan, on the l4tt
| ult., destroyed l40 houses. A fire in
Denver, Colorado, yesterday morning
destroyed a building owned by HallecS
Brothers and occupied by Jensen, Bliss
Il Co., and Osborne * Mccarthy, drug.
gists One man was killed by falling
wall. The Occidental aud Esperanzs
Restaurants and two stores in Los An
geles, California, were burned yester-
day morning. The United Sta tes Ho.
tel was much damaged. The loss is
estimated at Sl0O, 900. by the accidental
ignition of Christmas tree in the
house OF William Hurtz in New York,
last evening, twenty oil paintings val
ned at $4,000 were destroyed.
Simons, Anderson s. Co., iron and
steel manufacturers, of Pitsbnrg and
New York, have been financially en-
barrassei of late, and their troubles
reached q crisis yesterday. Executions
were levied upon them by the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Bank of
Pittsburg for $2l7, 900 and by Donnell,
Lawson Il Simpson, of New York, for
$l07 900. The assets Of the em mbarrass-
I'd firm are stated at 81, ,000, 900, and
their liabilities at "nominally" 81 $780, )
600.
At q meeting Of the stockholders of
the Pacific National Bank of Boston,
yesterday, the report Of Examiner
Needham was received, and 1t was
almost unanimously decided to submit
to an assessment of 100 per cent. The
Directors, at . meeting last evening,
decided to reopen the bank as soon as
the necessary arrangements can be per-
fected-probably in two or three weeks.
The semi-annual meeting of the Ma
tional Association of Glass Bottle Manu-
facturers of the United States was held
yesterday in Washington. James Whit
all, of Philadelphia, presided. Seven
new members were admitted to the as
sociation. The rates for fruit jars were
advanced about per cent, and it was
decided to hold the next Iaeeting at
Cape May on July 18th.
Among the mail matters received in
Washington, on Monday, was pack
age containing miniature coffin ad-
dressed to Guiteau, with the greeting,
"Happy New Year" on the outside
wrapper. Being insutticieutly stamp
ed, and Guiteau refusing to pay the
proper postage, it was sent to the Dead
Letter office.
The assignee of Knowles, Cloyes &
Co., Wholesale grocers of Chicago, who
sus pended recently, made a statement
to their creditors yesterday, placing
their liabilities at $364,0 and their
assets at S330,736. The attorney for
insolvents, however, made the def
cheney $4,000.
The Grand Jury at New Haven yes
terday heard witnesses in the cases of
James and Walter Malley and Blanche
Douglass, charged with the murder cf
Jennie Gramer on the 9TH of August
last. The Maleys were present, but
the woman preferred to remain in the
Jail.
Revolutionary plots continued in
Venezuela at last accounts. The house
of Guznlan BlancO, the President, was
surrounded by strong guard, and no
person was admitted without having
given an hours previous notice.
Julian A. Scott, a prominent citizen
OF Scott county, Tennessee, said to be
the original OF Mark Twain's Colonel
Sellers" was drowned on last Saturday
evening while attempting to ford a ri
yer.
The Republican caucus of the Iowa
! al l,u ~ q ~
James f. Wilson for U. S. Senator for
the long term, beginning in 1888, and
j. W. McDill, the incumbent, for the
short term.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
declared dividend of % per cent. for
the creditors of the Mechanics Nation
al Bank, of Newark, New Jersey.
The total amount is about $G5O.OO0.
General Edward Newton,a prominent
citizen of Newport, Rhode Island, fell
down a flight Of stairs on Monday eve
ing and is believed to be fatally in
jured.
Colonel n. Thomas, member OF
the Texan Congress when Texas was
separate. republic, died at Waxa-
hatchie, i'll that state, on Monday
night.
Buckalcw g. OGhoa, merchants of
Florence, Arizona, have made an as
signment. Their liabilities are $50, 900,
and their creditors chiefly in San Fran.
cisco.
Delano G. Goddard, editor in chief
of the Boston Daily Advertiser, died
at half.past one o'clock this morning OF
OF the lungs.
The number of lives lost by the
of the steamer Lion, at
Baccalione Island, Newfoundland, was
43-lS passengers and 25 crew.
Harris NJ. Baldwin, leadirg Bap.
tist of Newark, VINO had given much
for benevolent purposes, died on Mon.
day night.
William T.. Powell, Assistant City
Clerk, of Newark, N. j. was arrested
yesterday, for completely in the city
hall frauds there.
Advices from Santo Domingo, of the
9th ult., say that an American war
steamer Is quietly surveying Samana