The daily gazette., 1882-08-03
THE MORNING SUMMARY.


Richard j. Cuttings, a prominent lawyer
OF Baltimore, died yesterday at Ocean City
of bilious dysentery. sslsas. !
DIR. Lewis e. Whiting, for over 80 years a
praccticing physician in Saratoga, died sud
denly yesterday morning, In fit.
lsakassmo Hlassakofo, Hungarian, en-
ployed by the Lehigh Valley railroad, WIS
killed by train while crossing the track at
Packerton, last evening. aas E8fsza
The recent great. fires in Michigan have
driven wild animals from the woods, On
Tuesday, three full grown bears and elk
cubs were seen near East Tawas
Bishop Emberton and Richard Speakman,
charged with felonious assault upon
woman, were shot dead by lynchers near
Glasgow, Kentucky, on Tuesday. "a
John Chalson was killed yesterday at the
Luke Fidler Colliery in Sehuylktll county,
by the breaking of a rope, which sent two
coal wagons headlong to the bottom Of the
slope.
Two faction of the Creek nation, In the
Indian Territory, are In active hostility.
Several men have been killed, and the
troble has almost assumed the dimensions
of civil strife.
Louis Frechette, father of the Canadian
poet laureate, died yesterday In Montreal
at the age of 10. Deceased took promi-
nent part In the construction of the harbor
of Montreal and the I4aehine Canal. a
Twenty-Five cases of yellow fever aud
seven deaths were reported Yesterday In
Matamoras. The disease has reappeared In
Brownsville and Laredo, Texas, and another
case, fatal one, was reported in New Or
leans on Tuesday. b3
While lot of cord wood was being swung
over the pit of slate quarry at Monsoon,
Maine, yesterday morning, the fastenings
gave way, and the wood fell one hundred
feet upon the men below, killing swo and
injuring three Others H0
Mrs. Affinger, wife of a respectable farmer
OF Umatilla county, California, has COM
mitted suicide by taking strychnine, because
some young men whom she prevented from
keeping company with her daughter had, in
revenge, accused her of petty theft
Four elephants belonging to Barnum's
circus got loose In Troy, New York, after a
performance last night and ran through the
southern part OF the city, injuring several
persons, one, man, perhaps fatally Three
OF the animals were secured before mid
night, but the most furious is still at large.
The latest estimate of the loss to the Lake
Shore Railroad by the collision of freight
trains, near South Bend, make it nearly
S2O0,OO The disaster Is attributed ttwhoIly
to the incompetence and gross earelessness
OF the employees OF the Company" The
bodies OF the six or seven tramps, who were
burned to death In the wreck, have not yet
been recovered.
The Twelfth Annual Convention of the
National Catholic Total Abstinence Union
began yesterday in st, Paul. Rev. Father
Cotter presided, and 59l subordinate Unions
were represented, embracing nearly 5000
Bishop Ireland made an address,
and letters Were read from number of
Bishops and Archbishops. Cardinal Nc
Closkey was represented by proxy.
A telegram from Bar Harbor, Maine, says
hat yesterday afternoon about one O'Clock,
IS John and Isaac W. Howe were descend
ng Green Mountain in buck board wagon,
With several ladies, they were stopped by an
Irmed highwayman and the Howes were
orced to give up their gold watches and
money, the total value being stated at
Il 300. party has gone In pursuit of the
obber, and a reward of 81 900 is offered for
lis capture, "dead or alive" m