The daily gazette., 1883-12-04
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CAptHine AtD8n n Loaku0t VI tuo SuA
Bdtnnaas was drowned By falling from hii
vesseiI on Sunday afternoon, about 40 miles
below Baltimore.
The schooner 9. W. Bunnell, from New
York for Norfolk, Virginia, with hay, went
ashore at Townsend's 1nlst, New Jersey, on
sunday night, and illod.
The Mexican National railroad was open
TO public travel and trafic yesterday. The
ltde at San Mieuel'extends 10 9 point 254
miles from the City Of Mexico.
Joseph Jefferson had 90 far recovered
from his recent attack as to bo able to ap-
pear at the Grand Opera House in Cincin-
natl, last night. The dispatch states that
he seems to have recovered his voice.
While the schooucr Annie, Of Baltimore,
was of Rock Creek, on Sunday, Edward
Brown fell overheard from the jib. The
yawl was lowered, and It capsiEed, throw
ing August Temple ihte the water. Both
men were drowned.
The FbeAmship Alaska, which arrived at
New York yesterday ff6m Liverpool, ran
down and sank an unkI own pilot boat ct q
quarter past u o'clock yesterday morning,
% miles east Of Fire Island. Itisnot known
how many were lost.
The Trustees Of Johns Hopkins Universlty
in Baltimore, yesterday accepted tho resig-
nation Of DR.. Charles 3. Hastings, Professor
Of Physics. DR.. Hastings has accepted the
Science, Yale College.
One OF the special counsel for The Govern
ment in tho Star Route easaa said yesterday
that subpDuas has bean issned for Ihe wit
nesses IN the case against William Pitt Kel-
logg, and that the 0overnmsAt expected TO
proceed wish It promptiy.
Captain JohA q. RldFidga, of The stsamer
West0ver, at HnlMmore, reparts having
passed . suBkea schooner OF Cove Point,
above the mouth Of the PAtuKent river, on
Sunday morning. The mAsthoads were
above water and al sails standing.
The schooner Charles II. Apvnguo, ftOsn
Milford, Connecticut, for 9avsanah, with
phosphstes, Wss disabled In the storm Of the
18th ult., near HAtteEss. MeT captain,
Samuel Pond, VISA killed By being crashed
under o boat, which wAs wAshcd On board.
In the Supreme OoaFt 81 Providence,
Rhode Island, yesterday, IN the case u Re-
ceiver Farnsworth.S petit30n for o writ OF
assistance 70 recover possession Of The Quid-
neck Mills. II was ordered thas William
Sprague surrender the mills at nooA 10 day.
While. the Government steamer Newacid
was towing new ship near Digby, Nova
Scotia, on sunday night, Ehe hswssr parted,
and the ship went aahoTe. Captain Brown,
Of the Newfeld, WAC wac on the ship, and
seVeA OF the latter's crew Of nine were
drowned.
A dispatch from Winnepeg, Manitoba,
says that q general reduction has been made
in the wages OF employees Of the Canada
Pacific railway. Yesterday the boiler
makers struck, sad refuse TO return under
the tariff. IL 10 Thought oonpromiSo will
be effected.
samon, the New Hampshire murderer,
made a confession yesterday to the Sheriff
at LacOnia. He said that he killed Mrs.
Ford In drunken squabble ON Saturday
morning, and Afterwards murdered the
Ruddy's, and exoneTats Ford from all COM
plcity in the crime.
Several months ago lGrgS floating buoy,
lighted with compressed gas, was anchored
on the Sandy Hook Shoals, - an expert
ment. II is said the trial has been success
ful thus far; the light is unusually strong,
longer without renewing.
"a prepossessing man OF middle age" AZ
rived In Savannah on the 48d a., and re-
gisted at hotel as HH. o. Winthrop, Of
Kansas City," Yesterday he committed
suicide BY shooting himself through the
head. A farewell note 'tso bis brothers and
sisters" was found upon him, signed "W.
P. Howard"
The American steamshlp Company Of
Philadelphia, It Is officially stated, ID con-
sidering means Of Plsoing the steamers Of
the line en- q paying baais. II is said the
wages paid 10 seamen arc 50 per cent. higher
than those paid by foroign companies. This
is said TO be due TO the faet that the vessels
are under the American law.
A meeting of the principal smslters of
Colorado was held yesterday in Denver to
organize "for the purpose Of protecting the
lead market, and by concerted action TO try
and relieve the present depression Ofprieea."
The meeting was an informal one, but It is
expected that within . day or two scme-
thing definite will be arrived ct.
A libel for ten thousand dollars salvage
against the steamship Indiana was filed In
the United States District Conrt, of Phil.
adolphia, yesterday, bykAo masters of the
steam tugs Lizzie Craford, Charles II. Toy
and E L. Cain. The libel claims that the
tugs rescued the steamship on the evening
OF the fire at the wharf OF the American
steamship Company.
A terrible hurricane from the east-nort
east prevailed at Cape Race, Newfoundland,
on Sunday night. "The sea rose higher than
was ever before known there, and swept
away inland bridges, drove the Cape Light
'SuN n dpOu TUG buTGW bHc WTGCkGu
hull Of the steamship HeFder ffty feet on
the coast, and drove q large quantity of
wreckage up on the beach.
The nailers at the nail works OF the Potte-
town Iron Company, at Pottstown, struck
Yesterday morning against the reduction of
IL per cent, of which notice was recently
given by the Company. The strikers say
the proposed Reductions will cut down their
wages to within 2 per cent. of the lowest
figure ever reached, which was iu 1888, and
this while there has been no decrease in the
market price Of nails.
One hundred and fifty witnesses arrived
at dreonsburg, Penna., yesterday morning,
from MurraysVllle, to testify In the habeas
corpus proceedings on behalf of the partici-
pantsin the recent riot over the possession
OF natural gas we'll. The charges are
murder, aggravated riot and felOnious
ASSAULT The cases were all taken up TO-
gether, and the testimony was in accord
ance with the facts already published.
E. 8. Martin, OF Boston, stripped himself
on New York Central railroad train near
Utica, at 5 o'clock yesterday morning, and
threw his clothes out of the window. On
his overcoat was q note with his name and
the direction written. "HAye post
made" He was taken to the police station
Utica. Martin was the former business
manager of the Boston Ideal Opera Corn
pany, who was defeated by Miss Ober In q
civil suit In Cleveland last week.
On Friday In at the Tnamhara af tha Inkar