Daily Republican., 1882-08-05
PRICE ONE CENT
NEWS SUM MARY.
SERIOUS RAILTOAD AOUlDE@T-
q DUELISr IN SOUTH CARO.
LIN A.AE A LAW MAKER.

A train of seventeen coal cars on the
Cranberry road, near Pittsburg, became
unmanagable yesterday while descen.
ding steep grade and were wrecked.
The wreck was strewn along the track
for distance of two miles, at the end
Of which the engine plunged into some
standing cars, creating further havoc,
Albert Valley, Robert Mckinley, Geo,
Mensing, David Morgan (conductor),
Charles mckinley and John Costello
were killed. Thirteen others were ir.
ljured, several perhaps fatally.
The notorious Colonel e. B. G. Cash,
who last year killed Colouel Shannon
In duel which he forced upon his vic.
tim, but who was acquitted of murder
by sympathizinR jury, announces
himself an Independent candidate for
Representative in Congress in the Fifth
South Carolina District. Ex.Judge T.
j. Mackey, who was Republican be-
fore 1876, and then q Democrat, has
severed his connection with the Demo-.
cracy and is also an Independent can,
didate for Congressman in the same
district.
An unprecedented" rainfall ou
Thursday night caused a sudden and
disastrous flood in the narrow valley
between Rendville and Corning, Ohio.
Houses, barns and live stock, the rail-
road track and railroad cars were
swept off by the flood, and loss of lie is
feared. The loss on property is estima-
ted at 500, 900.
A man was found lying in the road,
near Blissville, Long Island, yesterday
morning, wit b a fatal bullet wound in
his abdomen. He said his name was
Anton Bogar; that he resided in New
York city, and had shot himself ''be-
cause there was something the matter
with his head" He died soon after.
An express train on the Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad ran
into washout near Canton, Ohio, on
Thursday night. The engine and postal
car were overturned, and two baggage
cars fell into the excavation. No pas
seDge RS were injured, but the track was
blockaded until late yesterday.
Convicted murderers were hanged
yesterday as follows: Walter Hamilton
Yeatts, at Chatham, Virginia; Merriek
Jackson, colored, at Fernandina, Flori-
da; Armand Coleman, colored, at West
Point, Mississippi; and Harrison Car
ter, colored, at Baldwin. Florida.
A whole freish train on Lake Shore
Rhiroad broke through bridge which
Lad been undermined by heavy rains,
near Fremont, Ohio, yesterday morning,
and all the cars went iuto the stream,
No person was injured,
franklin Hawkins and Lewis Minks
attempted to drive across the railroad
at Bay View Junction, near Baltimore,
last evening, and were struck by an
engine. Their wagon was demolished
and they were seriously, if not fatally,
injured.
An order has been issued forbidding
professional guides to accompany visit
ors through the Treasury building in
Washington. If desired an employe Of
the department will accompany visitors
through the building without charge.
A man named Neff and his wife were
murdered and horribly mutilated by
robbers in Valusia county, Florida,
last Tuesday night. The house was
fired to conceal the crime, but the
neighbors extinguished the flames.
The ship Abbie G. Hart, at San Fran
cisco on THURSDAY from Liverpool, re-
ports that on JuIe 9th she passed two
vessels bottom upward-one ofthem
apparently l4JO tons burthea.
The uJuse of Alfred Sa wtelie, near
Melon, Manitoba, was destroyed by a
storm on Thursday, and Sawtelle was
killed. His wife was dangerously in
j lred.
James Goold, aged %, and james
Barnett, aged IL, were drowned while
bathing near Springfield, Massach usetts,
Barnett perished in trying
TO save his companion.
Hugh Buchanan, present Congress-
man from the Fourth District of Geor.
gia, was renomlnated yesterday by the
Democratic Convention of that district
on the 15Sth ballot.
The Democratic Congressional Con
Y ntion of the Twelfth Illinois district
had taken 1853 ballots at noon yester-
day without effecting choice.
Artemus Hale, the Oldest ex-COn-
died at his home in Bridge
water, Massachusetts,, on Thursday
night aged 9S years and months.
Mrs. Ford, Martin Johnson, William
Borsum and John Fehiman were
yesterday by the upsetting of
! boat at South Park, Chicago.
The weather throughout Canada yes
erday was very warm. At Ottawa
he thermometer marked SO degrees in
he shade.
Chinese agents are buying pu bic
ands in British Columbia with view
o settling Chinese families as farmers
lpon them.
M. j. Kane, farmer, of Silver
AXE, Penna., commitsed suicide by
hootinR, yesterday morning, at a hotel
II Binghamton, New York.
The wife of Frederick Douglass died