Daily Republican., 1883-04-27
NEWS SUMMARY.
FATAL LACCHDENTs-IMP
FOR NUMBERING A COLORED
MAN-OTHER NEWS.

AT Fortress Monroe, yesterday, twelve
dummy tOrpedOes were sent a dis
tance Of ~ miles under water and re-
turned to the base of operations by
endless cable. They were hidden from
view under water, and their position
was known only to the operator, "who
placed them In any position desired tt'
obstruct or allow the passage of vessels. "
From these experiments Lieutenant
Graydon predicts "a revolution in
harbor defence methods"
A Photographic counterfeit of the
new five dollar national bank note was
received at the Treasury Department
yesterday for redemption. 1t is on the
First National Bank of Milwaukee, and
was sent by the Broadway National
Bank of New York The counterfeit is
considered very imperfect, and the
Treasury officials express surprise that
it .hould not have been detected by the
bank officers.
In Fall River, Massachusetts, last
night, an attempt was made to blow up
the ruins of massive granite tower left
standing amid the debris of the burned
Flint Mills. A charge of % pounds of
Atlas powder exploded laterally, leav-
ing the tower unmoved, but scattering
stones and timbers among the crowd,
killing one of them named James
Mcguire.
Two of those injured by the tornado
at Wesson, Mississippi, died yesterday,
and six Others are not expected to rcaov-
cr. In addition to the dead already re-
ported 81 persons were killed IN the
countrynorrh beast of Wesson,and Beaure
gard, and in the same district 40 were in
jured, several fatally.
W. j. Fontaine, con victed in the Cir
cuit Court Of buckingham county, Vir-
ginia, of the murder of a colorel man
NAMED Burton, has been sente-ced to
five years imprisonment in the peni-
tentiary. Fontaine, while drunk, shot
Burton without the least provocation.
Chancellor Runyon, at Trenton, New
Jersey, has dismissed the rule to show
cause why the trustees of the Methodist
Episcopal Church at Moorestown should
not he attached for contempt in lock-
ing ont the new pastor, Rev. Dr. White
car.
During fire in Heaton' $ saw mill, at
Trenton, Ontario, yesterday, Stewart
Heaton, son of the proprietor, entered
the mill. He became blinded by the
saw, had his head cut off.
Rev. Samuel Reiman, well-known
Jewish rabbi, was killed at Catharine
street ferry, in New York, last night.
He tried to jump on the bridge before
the boat was made fast, and was crush
ed between the bridge and the boat.
Anton Urbeck, while awaiting trial
for insanity in the County Court at
Chicago, yesterday morning, dashed
through an open widow in the second
story, and was picked up from the
sidewalk in a dying condition.
The Prohibition amendment before
the Michigan House of Representatives
failed to pass yesterday for want of d
two-thirds vote. The yeas were u, the
nays SO, with absentees.
Three handed people are becoming
quite numerous; they have a right
hand, a left hand, and are always he
hind hand in taking DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup when they catch cold.
Michael Reilly, hotel keeper, was
convicted at Wilksbarre yesterday of
murder in the second degree, for killing
Thomas May at Fairview in November
last.
Henry Debosnys, convicted Of the
murder of his wife near ESSEX, on the
lst Of August last, is to he hanged at
Elizabethtown, New York, to-day.
Warrants to the amount of s., $500
on account of pensions were issue yes
ler'lay by the Acting Secretary of the
Treasury.
One hundred vessels, with 100000
bushels Of grain, are lying at Chicago,
awaiting tire opening of the Straits of
Mackinaw.
a building of the new Haven Clock
Company at New Haven, Connecticut,
was burned yesterday. Loss 100000.
FARMINGToN, Ill.-Dr. NJ. 7 Gam
Die says: g! prescribe Browns Iron
Bitters in my practice and it gives