Daily Republican., 1882-08-07
NEWS SUMMARY.
MAXINE DIsABTERB-A CROOKr
ED MINISTER-KILLED BY
LIRnTNINa.

Cn"Ilos, Two grands0ns, Willie anC
MERTON, and Charles Corey, were load
ing nay at Worcester, Vermont, on Sat
nrday, lightning struck them, killinp
merton Young, prostratiug ali the 9th.
ers, kllllng one of the horses, and burn
t. ing the wagon and its load of hay, PHI
1t lander recovered consciousness in time
10 get Merton 8 body and the three 9th.
;, ers from the burning wagon. Charles
Young was severely inj ured, but may
/, recover.
The funeral of Rear Admiral Beam
mont tooK place at Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, on Saturday. Roman
= Catholic services had been held In Dur
ham, Rev. Father Ryan officiating.
The body was deposited in the receiv-
i ing vault at the South Cemetery in
Portsmouth. 1t will probably be re-
Z moved to Washington for final inter
menU.
A series of Bible Readings, to last
four days, have been opened at Ocean
Grove, New jersey, by Rev. e. Stubbs,
OF Philadelphia, and Mrs. Margaret
Battome,. wife OF Rev. DIR. Bottome, of
New York. The National Education
Assem- bly, is to meet at the same placs
on Tuesday, Bishop Coke presiding, and
General Eaton, of Washington, is to
make this opening address.
1t is announced that A. j, Hostetler.
ex' Democratic Congressman from the
second District of Indiana, has "come
ont" as an Independent candidate
against t. r. Cobb, the regular nomi-
nee. The Republicans and Green.
hackers, it Is said, will make no
nominations, but will support Hostel
Ter.
The Democratic Congressional Con-
vention OF the Twelfth District of Illi-
nois has adjourned to meet in Boards.
town on Tuesday. The last ballot for
Congressman-the 1304th--stood: Sing
Teton, 26: Wike, %; Withers, IA; Good.
rich, 7, (which was substantially tha
same as the first.
The State encampment at Lewis.
town, which began on Saturday, proves
on the whole, success, though the bro.
vision, for supplying the camp with
water is said to be inadeuuate. The
troops in camp are as follows: First
Brigade, 1878 officers and men; Second.
1884; Third, 2S11.
A telegram from Victoria, British
Columbia, says that large influx of
Chinese is feared there, in consequences
of the anti Chinese law going into force
In the United States. Several vessels
have sailed from Hong Kong for Amer
lean ports, but their destinations have
been changed to Victoria.
The captain of the brig Champion
at Halifax from Porto Rico, reporLs
that on the 9th ult. he boarded the
abandoned wreck of the schooner W.
g. Moseley, of Boston. She was laden
with lumber, aud was totally dismast-
ed and waterlogged.
Mrs. Ready, her two daughters and
three adopted girls, all very young, have
been arrested in Chicago for sh0p.lift.
ing. 1t appears the girls "stole exten.
sively in all parts of the city," and that
Mrs. Ready was "rapidly becoming
rich" from their stealings.
A number of spurious tickets of ad-
mission to Barnum's circus were sold
at Schenectady, New York, On Friday
night, and several Of them were taken
before the fraud was discovered. Ed.
ward ClouSton Bostonian, who sold
the tickets, was arrested.
At Greenfield, Indiana, last night
James Meek, being drunk, accused
Albert Daily o. theft. and, returning in
about twenty minutes, shot Daily in
the head, intiicting mortal wound.
Meek then shot himself in the head,
with fatal result.
A telegram from Chicago saws that
by the failure of Hilgert, the Piiladel.
phia sugar retiner, the losses, chiefly
in forged acceptances, will be $4,000 in
that city, $4,000 in Milwaukee and
E23, 1856 in Detroit.
The steamer Avon dale, from South
carolina for London, ran into Isaac's
Harbor,- Nova Scott a, on Saturday.
leaking badly. Going out again she
ran ashore near the lighthouse, and
was expected to remain aground.
Rev. j. B. Rockwell, formerly min.
ster in Detroit, has been arrested in
Lincoln, Nebraska, on the charge of
lsing the mails for swindling purposes.
de advertised books at cheap rates, un-
Ter the name of "Rev. j. Harvey"
Christian Hartupg, aged about 80
'ears was found dead on the railroad
en- miles east of Cumberland, Mary
and, at o'clock yesterday morning,
lis skuil was broken in, and it is
cared was murdered.
Genera G. X. Warren, Chief of the
}. 5. Engineers, is seriously i'll in New
ort, Rhode Island. 1t was announced
esteIday that che was able to lake
punishment" but his friends are very
nxious about him.
The political canvass in Ohio was
'pened on Saturday night for the Re-
ubhcans by Governor Foster, who
ddressed County Convention and a
arge gathering OF citizens at Elyria.
About so cases of yellow fever were
oported as existing at Brownsville,
exas, on Saturday, and the disease
'as spreading. One death had occur
The driver boys in the Red Ash Vein
the Empire District Colliery, at
1ilkesbarre, struck on Saturday for an
1vance Of ten per cent.
At meeting Of the employees of the
aTmony Mi s, at COhoes, on Saturday,
was resol ved not to resume work
hen the mills reopen to-uay.
John Lock and John Holinquist Der
he'd by the burning Of tiJur mill, in
hich they were sleeping, at SuArise
ty, Minnesota, on Saturday night.
The army worm is reported to be do
g great damage in New Bruins wick,
Mangerville and in its,viciuity.
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BmaInS of De LOnE and Com radios
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