The daily gazette., 1882-05-03
THEMORNING SUMMARY
THE WORK OF LAST NIGHTS
NEWS oATHERERs.
VARIOUS EVENTS BRIEFLY TOLD.
Matters Political, General, Criminal and
Otherwise - Regimental ReunIon-Yes-
terday's Cabinet Neutrality-suspicious. Cas-
ualtles, &c.


Andrew Weis, for many years brewer
and hotel keeper, died yesterday in Reading.
st. Paul, Minnesota, yesterday elected a
Democrat for City Treasurer by about 1900
| majority.
Captain William Tobey, a prominent shin
master of Thomastown, Maine, died yester-
day, aged 65 years.
The Philadelphia 81 Reading Coal and
Iron Company paid out 500 900 in wages at
Shenandoah in the month of April.
The steamer Norman, from PHILADELPHIA.
having broken her shaft, has been towed
| from Vineyard Haven to Boston by tug.
The New York State Conventions of
Rangers and Foresters and the State Grand
Lodge OF Orangemen are in session at Troy.
The bakers of Montreal, in vi, w OF the in
creased wages paid their journt YIN IN, have
increased the price of bread two c, Is on the
six pound loaf.
The Republican Convention of Franklin
county, Pa, met yesterday in Chambers
burg, and elected Stalwart delegates to the
State Convention.
Mrs. Guy Hollister of Westvale, New
York, shot herself in the breast yesterday,
and is In critical condition. She had
signs Of insanity
The schooner Lamartine, which left Balti-
more for Newport, Rhode Island, on the
l7th ult., with coal, has not been heard of
since, ,and 1t is feared she is lost.
At Charleston, s. c., on Monday night
Huston Whiting eolored, shot and instantly
killed 7. s. Greaves because the latter re-
fused to drink with him.
Liquor taxes TO the amount of S28 900 were
paid into the county treasury at Detroit by
saloon keepers of that city on Monday, un-
der new law increasing the amount of
license.
The Democratic City Convention of Nor
folk, Virginia, called to nominate a ticket in
opposition to that of the Republican Read
iusters, met yesterday and chose a straight
Democratic ticket, with E. e. Guy, leading
mechanic, for mayor.
Phillip Wachtel residing at Jamaica, l..
l., was driving on Monday in wagon from
East New York to his home, when the horse
took fright and ran away, and Wachtel was
| thrown out out and killed.
The hearing in the suit of J. R. Langdon
and others against the Vermont Central and
Vermont and Canada Railroad Companies
was begun yesterday at Barre, Vermont,
before full bench Of the Supreme Court
Captain Howgate, who recently escaped
| from his prison guard, writes to a friend
without disclosing his whereabouts, for
financial aid. He promises to appear when
his case is ready for trial and make some in
teresting disclosures.
Patrick Nichols, once convicted of murder
in the first degree for killing Thomas O'Con-
nell at Nyack, N. Y, on July 8, 1879, and
atterward granted a new trial, yesterday
pleaded guilty of murder in the second
degree and will be sent to the State Prison
for life.
The cornerstone of the National Mining
and Industrial Exposition building in Dem
yer was laid yesterday by Governor Pitkin,
/ in presence of several thousand persons T.
W.. Patterson delivered an Grafton and
Judge Decker an address. The exhibition
is to open in August next.
Charles Wilder, 20 years of age, fell vio-
lently in love at first sight with girl whom
he met at picnic, near New York City, on
Monday, and proposed marriage. Being
| rejected he went to Central Park and shot
himself in the head. He was found yester-
day morning and removed to a hospital,
where he lies in precarious state.
Miss Minnie Clapp, aged 90 years, daugh-
ter of wealthy New York broker, yester-
day attempted suicide by drowning herself
In the Hudson river, but was rescued and
| taken to her home, on Fourteenth street.
She has a stepmother, and 1t is supposed
domestic trouble was the the cause, though
no information could be obtained from the
family.
The case of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company in Maryland. against the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company has been
commenced in the Garrett county (Md.)
Court. The former company seeks damages
of Sl50, 900 for not being allowed to connect
with the Baltimore and Ohio tracks after
putting in crossings,
Captain j. Cone, ofthe steamer Columbia,
and number of wealthy gentlemen of
| Philadelphia, have purchased 450 acres of
/ land beginning at Madison avenue, Cape
May, and running to Cool Spring Inlet.
They propose to build a beach drive nine
miles long, and to extend the present rail-
| road and improve that section of the country
| for use during the summer The amount of
capital required will be in the neighborhood
of S450, 900.
1t was decided in Yesterdays Cabinet
meeting that the President should issue a
proclamation warning the lawless COWBOYS
in Arizona to disperse, and if the order is
disobeyed, enforce it by the military.
| Prompt and vigorous action was also deter
mined upon for the suppression of the In
dian hostilities in Arizona. The Cabinet
| disagreed with the decision of the Senate
Judiciary Committee that no further legis-
lation was needed for the suppression of the
cowboy trouble. The case of Fitz John Por
ter was one of the subjects under considera-
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