The daily gazette., 1882-06-07
MORNING SUMMARY.

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The weather in the Northwest continues
cool and clear and all grain is doing well
except corn.
Preparations are making in San Francisco
for the shipment of grain to Europe by way
| of New Orleans.
The twenty-third annual session of the
American Medical Association began yester-
day in st. Paul.
A Presbyterian minister named McLaren
hanged himself ut Greenyille Ontario
yesterday morning.
1t is believed that Craig, Democrat, has
| been elected Supreme Judge in the Fifth
District of Illinois.
The horseshoers employed by the surface
railroads in New York threaten to strike If
not paid S3 per day.
The -four mills of Henry Rhodes, in Og-
| densburg, New York, were burned on Mon
day night. Loss $4,000.
The business portion of the town of Poca-
hontas, Arkansas, has been DESTROYED by
| fire, the Court House alone being saved.
The opening argument for the defense in
the Star Route eases was begun yesterday
by Mr. Wilson and will be continued to-day.
There was nothing new in the situation at
Pittsburg, yesterday. The reported signing
of the scale by two firms is without founda-
ton.
Judge Pillsbury, recently shot by rioters
in the mobbing of Chicago and Alton rail-
road train, is reported by a Pontiac, Michi-
gan, dispatch as likely to recover
August Kresseyetter, aged Ga years, a
wealthy citizen of Hoboken, New Jersey,
committed suicide yesterday by swallowing
poison. No cause is assigned.
The President yesterday nominated George
P. Pomeroy to be Consul General at Cairo,
Egypt, and L. j. Brulatour of Louisiana to
be Secretary of Legation at Paris.
The house of John jackson, near Harris
Station, Missouri was burned on Sunday
morning, while he and his wife were at
church, and their four children persisted in
the flames. ..,
The Cabinet was unable yesterday to
reach a conclusion regarding the Tariff
Commission-two of the gentlemen selected
having declined to serve-and the subject
will be further considered.
Ex-Chief Engineer Drake of the Fire
Department of Coldwater, Michigan, was
held for trial on Monday, on the charge of
having burned some buildings last summer,
$50 as to prove the efficiency of the depart
ment."
The Republican State Convention of Ohio
will meet in Columbus to-day. 1t is said
that among the delegates who had arrived
almost lost sight of in discussing the plat
form.
The returns of the election in Oregon in
dictate that Melvin G.. George, Republican,
is reelected to Congress, the Republicans
claiming that his majority is 1000. His
election is conceded by the Democrats, but
they claim that the Legislature is in doubt.
1t is stated that r. L. IL G. W. Henry and
the South Branch Lumber Company have
withdrawn from the Lumbermen's Exchange
at Chicago, and will fix their own prices
hereafter. The result may be a reduction of
the prices of lumber and the breaking up of
the exchange.
The Prohibition County Convention at
West Chester, Pennsylvania, yesterday,
nominated for Congressman Elijah f. Penny
packer, and for members of the Legislature
Isaac b. Christman, John Lent, William l..
Borstler and Robert G. Smith. George r.
Hirst was nominated for Director of the
Poor.
In the International Typographical Union
at st Louis, yesterday, resolutions were In
troduced and referred approving the action
of the striking iron and steel workers, and
declaring it >>the duty of all typographical
unions and wage workers of all classes to
lend moral and material support in MAIN
tanning said strike until Its objects are at
tained."