Daily Republican., 1882-05-22
NEWS SUMMARY.
FATAL EFFECTS OF a SULPHUR
ExPLOSION-NEW YORK,S
PENAL CODE.

ooh hiuRe Colllery, near ShamOkin
ra'' on Saturday, James Lawrence anG
FRANK Osman we're killed and David
oreeh and Frederick Hoffman fatally
injured. Green has since died. 1t an
pears that Hoffman entered a breast
with naked lamp, while the other,
remained behind a battery. An upex
pected body of sulphur was exploded
by the lamp, and the men were hurled
against the gaIgway timbers, while
200 tons OF top coal fell upon Lawrence
and Osman.
The schooner President, from Ant
werp, arrived at Quebec on SATURDAY.
night with six OF the crew of the shir
Western Belle, lost in the Ice on Nav
lst. The Western Belle ran into an ice
berg during the night, had her bows
rushed in, and sank in twenty min.
utes. The captain and thirteen of the
crew perlshed by the swamping of one
OF the boats as the ship went down
the mate and six others in the remain
Ing boat, and were picked up next day
nearly frozen to death.
The Grand Jury of the Criminal
Court OF the District of Columbia on
Saturday returned new indictments in
the Star Route fraud cases against
General Thomas S. Brady, John w
Dorsey, Stephen w. Dorsey, Monitor
Y. Rerdell, Henry M. Turner, j, r.
Miner, ). M. Peck and Harvey NJ.
Volie. The new indictments are in
tended to avoid the technical objections
made to the old ones. The warrants in
the cases were made returnable on
Tuesday.
AT a meeting of working men in
Brooklyn, yesterday, the new penal
code OF New York was severely de.
nounced, particularly the clauses max
ing 1t misdemeanor for workmen to
resort to "boycott;ng;" providing fo-
the dispersal of meetings upon repre-
sentatlon chat breach of the peace is
feared; making it justifiable homicide
should an officer kill any one in dis
persing such a meeting, and "making
It justitiable homicide should a master
Kill servant while correcting him."
In the Police Court in Washington,
On Saturday, VIM. Gould, G. Kerr and
EIms, convicted of selling Louisiana
Lottery tickets, were sentenced each to
sixty days imprisonment. Kerr and
hlms, convicted also of selling Havan-
ma Lottery tickets, were sentenced, the
former to six mo nJhs and the latter to
slxtydays adiition. II AL Oted appeals
and gave bonds in connection there
with.
The Episcopal Council of Virginia
has appointed com mittee of three
clergymen and three laymen toexamine
the whole question of the division of
the dioces and report at the Council
whether the claim of Bishop Whittle
to the exclusive right. of initiating a
looking thereto is author
lzed by the constitution or canons of
The Church. The Bishop consented to
be chairman of the committee.
The celebration of the 1O7th anniver-
sary of tue Muh.euburg Declaration of
independence was concluded in Char
otte, North Carolina, on Saturday.
There were military parade and review,
display of the fire department, speech
of welcome by Senator Vance, reading
If the Declaration by Senator Bayard.
A large assem- blage was present, includ-
ng many prominent gentlemen.
The Independent County Convention,
It West Chester, on Saturday, nomina-
ed the following delegates to the State
Convention to meet in Philadelphia, on
he 9th inst. : Senatorial, John j.
'inkerton; Representative, David +.
1oore, of PhUnixville; DIR. John p.
.ige, of Dowington; Townsend Wal
ar, of West Chester, and David M.
aylOr, of Oxford.
A telegram from Pottsville says that
)O0 acres of coal lands on the Broad
fountain, estimated to contain 100, ,000,-
~ tons or coal, have been leased for
years to prominent capitalists of
ew York and Maunch Chunk. Six
rge collieries will be built and min
g operation begun at once.
Sentence on the couaterfeiter D1yle,
hich was to have been passed by
ldge Dyer, in Chicago, on Saturday
orning,w was postponed by instrustions
ON Washington, and the prisoner
as remanded for 80 days. A demand
7 the defence that Doyle be released
bail was refused by the Judge.
Since the 29th of April AZ cases of
lall-pox have been otticia ally reported
Trenton, New Jersey. OF this mum
r 2S are under treatment in their
mes, l2are in the hospital, and seven
we died. All but two of the sick are
Id to be recovering.
The strike among the miners in the
diana coal region is against reduc-
n of thep price Of minin & from 81 to
cents per ton, and reduction of )
cent on the days work. The miners
W make Sl.4J per day.
senator Hill, of Georgia, who is still
Eureka Springs, Arkansas, is all the
le confined to his room, and most of
3 time to his bed. There seems no
provement in his condition, and his
ends have little hope of his recovery.
\ tornado in Pike county, Arkansas,
the 10th inst, destroyed sixteen
ellings and devastated q number of
ms William Shields planter, and
two children were killed his wife
ally injured.
,wo children of Joseph Proctor, aged
pectively Sand years, were poison
in South Gardiner, Maine, last
lrsday evening, by eating some
d" wedding cake. Both died on
day night.
saiah s. Conway, aged 30 years,
ing man of wealth, good social po-
on, and unmarried, committed sui
early yesterday morning. 1t is
posed he was insane.
is stated that the unanimous de-
on of the Supreme Court of the Dis
t of Columbia, ,overruling the excep.
IS in the case of Giteau, will be an
need to-day.
[. B. Cowden, City Surveyor of Har-
'urg, Penna., was accidentally shot
fatally wounded on Saturday sve-
G, while engaged in glass ball shoot
hree boys were swept over the Le-
b dam at Allentown in a rowboat
terday morning, and one of them,
ner Erdmau, aged 10 years, was
wnea.