Daily Republican., 1882-06-29
NEWS SUM MARY.
GSsvU'. IN
IOWA MORE FREIGHT
HANDLERS sTRIKES.

1
Four of the Erie delegates to tho
} Democratic Convention at Harrisburg
: were robbed at one of the hotels on
Tuesday night. Orange Noble lost a
gold watch and Sl2 or SIS in cash, a
roll OF notes in an inside vest pocket
being overlooked. The others lost
their watches and sums of money rang
ing from $50 to $50
The ship caulkers in Boston demand
81 per day, for eight hours work. At
meeting of the shipwrights and ship
o wners, yesterday morning, it was vot--
ed TO take no network and hire no new
men, except at the old price; S3 50, un
oil after next Monday. Another meet
ing OF tire employers will be held on
that day.
1t is reported that heavy rain in
MeIefee county X Kentucky, last Mon
day, cauSed the streets of Frenchburg
to be Il }oiei to depth of eight feet.
Six dwellings were sweet away, and
Mrs. John Fox, Mrs. Bvrne and two
daugh aud two young women named
Watkins were drowned
"An experienced miner" aud some
associates have taken up quartz
claim within the limits of San Fran
cisco. The lode is said to be 600 feet
wide, tracable for two miles, and as
saying as high as Sl2 per ton gold and
silver.
The election in Iowa on the p doption
of prohibitory amendment to the
State Constitution, was held on Tues.
day, Returns from 732 townships, in
Il p1l = tnr natt,n ,L
majority tor the amendment of 2S,OO4 :.
The American residents of Los Vegas
New Mexico, on Tuesday, celebrated
their victory over the Mexicans in u
contes. over Incorporating the CITY,"
ard they did it by hanging Guiteau in
etfigy.
Henry Cole, an attorney at law, and
formerly U. s. Deputy Marshal, yes
terday shot and killed his wife and his
daughter Nettie and then committed
suicide. Insanity is suspected.
All the freight handlers of the Boston
Lowell and Concord Railroad, in Bos-
ton. struck yesterday for an increase
of % cents per day. The strikers num-
ber 45O men.
At meeting Of the mi ners at Houtz-
dale, Penna., yesterd ay, it was almost
unanimously resolved togo on strike.
The 10 en- will take their tools from the
mines to-day.
The Democratic State Convention Of
Vermont will meet to-day. 1t is be.
lieved that George Eaton, of Danville.
will be complimented by the nomina-
tion for Governor.
A skiff containing a par ty of Swedish
laborers was upset by the swell of a
steamboat at Bismarck, Dakota, last
night. and i've of the men were drown
ed.
There was no change yesterday in
the Conyncham Shaft, at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, which threatened to cave in. a
the Diamond Mine the flooding process
is still going on.
General Edward T. Bsale writes tha
he will accept the Republican nomina
tion for Representative in Congress
from the Fifth Maryland District.
Elizabeth Van Koughnet, convicted
of the murder of John Richardson, was
hanged yesterday morning, in King
ston, Ontario.
The brig Emma, from Havana. with
yellow tever on board, arrived in the
Delaware yesterday and proceeded
up the river in tow.
After lynching the murderer and
gambler Mentzel, in Ration, New
Mexico, the mob lynched his partner,
G. d. II. Bradley.
The floods in British Columbia, are
subsiding, and the loss to the farmers
in the Frazer River District is esti-
mated at $500, 900.
Captain Nathaniel EIma ker, lex mem
Der Of the Legislature, died at his home
near the Gap, Lancas ter county, on
Tuesday, aged 81 years
Major W. S. Lanier, ex-President OF
the Alabama Central Railroad, died
yesterday az Talladega Springs.