The daily gazette., 1882-06-12
MORNING SUMMARY.

Joseph Cragen was drowned yesterday
while bathing at Fishkill New York.
A man named Priest and his wife, while
boating at Necnah, Wisconsin, yesterday,
were carried over a dam and drowned. lA2
1t is reported that small insects, known as
white midgets," are doing much damage
to the whea! and oats in Southern Virginia
The bodies of two men, badly decomposed
with nothing to identify them, we're found
in the river at Hartford, Connecticut, yes
terday morning.
large barn in the cattle yards at Paines-
vile, Ohio, was burned on Saturday night,
and two tramps perished in it, 1t is sup
posed they set it on fire while smoking.
The crop reports from Southern Mime
sofa and Dakota continue to be encouraging
as regards the smaller grains, and are more
favorable as regards corn, the weather hay
ing grown warmer.
A schooner of 100 tons burthen, bottom
upwards, has been seen floating near Cape
Flattery, on the Pacific coast. Her name
was under water, but the words "San Fran
cisco" could be made out.
Furnace Of the Edgar Thomson Steel
Works at Braddoek, Penna., exploded yes
tertlay morning, seriously, If not fatally, in
juring Assistant Superintendent Adair.
Three others were slightly injured. III
In the United States House of Representa-
tives on Saturday the Legislative Appropria-
ton bill was resumed, and after so of the
100 pages of the bill had been disposed of In
Committee of the Whole, the House adj
iourned.
Louis A. Gutermuth died yesterday morn
ing in New York, from the effects of beat
ing given him by two strangers on Fifth +
avenue on the 30th ult The assault was
fa1 m ba n al
were made.
Frank r. Gladding, bookkeeper of the
National Bank of North America, at Proyi-
dencc, disappeared last Thursday under cir
cumstances which indicated that he may
have committed suicide. His habits are
believed to have been exemplary.
A West bound express train on the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad ran off the track
near Martinsburg, West Virginia, yesterday
morning. The engine, baggage car, two ex-
press cars and a passenger coach were
injured, none, it is said, seriously.
Peter Vineyard, George Robinson and
Isaac King, colored murderels, were taken
from the Jail at Lawrence. Kansas, on Sat
urday morning, and lynched by a mob. The
sheriff made all the resistance to the vigi-
lants in his power, but was overcome.
The bodies of two men, one apparently %
found Yesterday in the East River, off Col
lege Point, Long Island. The younger man
was cheaply dressed, the older we'll dresse /,
and with gold watch and 500 in English.
money in his pockets Is
The Governor of Wyoming received tele-
gram from Fort Mckinney on Saturday,
| stating that the Crow Indians, supposed to
be peaceably settled ON their reservation,
stare scattered all over the country, killing
cattle and stealing horses, and should be
ordered back to their reservation, or trouble
will result"
While farmer named Laberge was CROSS
ing the bridge at Montmorency Falls with
his married daughter, in wagon, ON Satur-
day night, the horse became unmanageable,
and threw the wagon against the side of the
bridge. The rail broke, throwing Laberge
out upon the bridge and pitching thedaugh-
ter with the horse and wagon into the tor
rent 300 feet below. The unfortunate wo-
man leaves seven children.
The June report of the Department of
Agriculture shows a decrease of ~ per
cent in the area of cotton, and of II per
cent in the are of spring wheat, compared
with last year In oats there is an increased
area of per cent. and In barley of one per
cent. The condition of nearly all the grains
except corn is good the average yield of
winter and spring wheat throughout the
United States is estimated at IL bushels per
| acre.