Daily Republican., 1882-10-10
NEWS SUMMARY.
TINE GREELEY EXPEDITION-FA-
tai OASUALIrIEB-INDIANS
AT WADHINGTON.

dition, at Lady Franklin Bay, reported
In person to the Chief Signal Officer in
Washington, yesterday. He submitted
q Voluminous report of the events ofhis
trip. Lieutenant Beebe says that should
Lieutenant Greeley reach Littleton Is
land next year, he will no doubt find
the stoves left for him there. The ves-
Sol carrying the relief expedition was
several times in peril of destruction by
ice. Inspector Smith, of the Signal
Service, died on the 28th of May.
A delegation of the Sac and Fox In
dams, from Iowa, called on Commits
sioner Price, in Washington, yesterday,
in reference to the signing of receipts
for annuities. The delegation, seven in
number, represent twenty FIVE members
OF the tribe who are opposed to signing,
as they entertain q superstition that
"it they sign for the money they will
die" The Commissioner informed
them that the money due their tribe
would be withheld until every one
belonging to it had signed the roll Of
the Department.
Salter and Ward, charged wit b con
spring ito unlawfully obtain posses
sion Of distinctive paper used in print
ing revenue stamps and currency in the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
through bribery of employees" had a
hearing before U. q. Com missioner
Bundy in Washington yesterday, and
were committed in default of $4,000 bail
each.
The workers in the rolling mill and
spike shops of the Tre1egar Company at
Richmond, Virginia, have struck be-
cause of the discharge Of one cfthe roll =
ers "for reasons which the workmen
considered insufficient" All the iron
departments of the TrGdgar Works arc
at stand still, and about 400 men are
out of employment.
Thirty pei lsons in LoRdcn, Ontario,
have been poisonet by eating head
cheese made by local butchers, and
some of them are very low, but it is be-
lievFd they will recover. Physicians
attribute the trouble TO "bristles which
have been chopped up with the skin of
the pork, causing irritation OF the sto-
mach's inner coating"
Bishop Walsh who has lust re-
turned TO London, Ontario, from a Wis.,
it to Ireland, referred to the Irish quss-
ton in his sermon At tho cathedral on
Sunday. He severely denounced agra
rian crime, but quoted statistics to show
that there vas Less crime in Ireland pro.
portionally than in England, Scotland
and Wales.
Captain Scott, of the Royal Navy
who conducted the investigation into
the Asia disaster on Lake Huron, has
expressed aStOnishment at the lament
able state of affairs disclosed by the in
vestigatiOn." He ad vocates the build
ing of stauncher crafts and an examina-
tion Of the officers of Lake vessels.
John Murdoch, an active Dem ocrat
politician, of Elmira, New York, died
suddenly yesterday morning, at the
age of about 30 years. 1t is believed
his death was hasteaed by too ardent
participation in local politics and ex-
hausting work at convention last
Saturday.
Agnes Watkins was stabbed to death
by Philip Walker, colOred, her lover,
in Chesterfield county, Virginia, last
Saturday night They quarrelled bo-
cause she spent % cents belonging to
him without asking permission. Tho
murderer escaped.
Secretaries Lincoln, Chandler and
Teller left Washington last night for
New York, where a Cabinet meeting
will be held to day. SIT is understood
that the object of the meeting is to take
action upon Secretary Folger's resigna-
tion."
The Committee OF Grain of the New
York produce Exchange yesterday re
stored the grade Of No. Goats to what
it was on October 5Jh, and established
the grades of winter wheat the same
as they were Last season.
Theodore Haske, aged 90 years, and
William Husky, aged 26, were suffoca-
ted to death in hotel in Brooklyn, ON
Sunday night, by illuminating gas.
On going to led they blew out the gas
instead of turning it eff.
President Arthur has informed the
Mayor of Boston that he will be unable
to visit the White Mountains during
his visit to New England, as he must
be back in New York on Friday next,
to meet previous engagements.
A schooner, supposed to be the Glide,
Of Winterport, ran into the Handker-
chief Sboal Light Ship at two o'clock
on the morning of the S5h inst, and
soon afterwards sank. 1t is believed
her crew were saved.
At Mount Holly, n. j., yesterday,
George Gravett was sentenced to five
years mprlsonment, at hard labor, in
the penlten5iary, for attempting to
wreck Train on the Burlington and
Mount Holly X. Il. in April last.
Fifty thousand loaded breech load
ing caps blew up III The Union Metallic
Cartridge Shop, at Bridgeport, Conn.
yesterday afternoon. The building
was utterly demolished, but no person
was injured.
Rev. j. L. Benton, State SuperindenJ
of Education in Arkansas, committed
suicide yesterday by jumping from the
balcony of Jucge Gregg's house, in
Fayetteville. IL is said he was mem
tally unbalanced,
A boiler in the saw mill of Young 81
Smith, near Shellbyville, Indiana, burst
yesterday morning, killing George
Smith, add fatally injuring his partner.
Henry Smith.
1t is said that Guiteau's skull hal
been stolen from the Army Medical
Museum in Washington, and thai
detectives have no hope of finding
H."
Seventy seven new cases of yellow
fever and two deaths we're reported 81
Pensacola on Sunday, and forty eight
new cases and five deaths yesterday
Totai cases to date, 1900; deaths, 112.
P. H. Sullivan, captain of the police
force Of Rochester, New York, and al
officer in the Union army during the
war, dieG yesterday, at the age Of 45
years.
By the spontaneous combustion of o
quantity OF lime at Stag Creek, Ontario
yesterday, two men named Field were
burned 10 death.