Daily Republican., 1883-07-18
NEWS SUMMARY.
RAILROAD ACClDENTS-A MAN
WHO WANTED SATISFACTION
AND GOTIT-I.OSSEB BY FIRE.

setts, under the new Chinese law was
made yesterday by United States
Marshal. On the 10Th of June the
British bark Erne brought from Manil-
la, az ships carpenter, a Chinaman,
named All Chung, who was discharged
and allowed to 20 ashore. The cap
and the Chinaman was held as wit.
ness.
At Clarkeville, Virginia, last Satur-
day, man named Russell event after"
q man named Averett to get satisfac-
tom for some derogatory remarks. The
result wasa fight with pistols, in which
Averett was mOrtally wounded and
Russell so badly damaged that his con.
dition is critical.
day in Waterbury, Connecticut, on
suspicion Of having caused the
death Of his sister Caroline, who expir-
ed on Sunday night from the effects Of
malpractice. Bronson is described as
"a peddier, with a turn for medical
reading
Two crowded passenger trains on the
Central Vermont Railroad collided at
West Hartford, on Monday night, and
both engines were partially telescoped.
The engineers and firemen jumped off
and escaped injury, and the passengers
suffered nothing worse than lively
shaking up.
A freight train on the Reading Rail
road was thrown from the track by n
COW, near Shamokin, yesterday after.
noon. William Thomas, travelling
salesman, who was taking a ride on the
train, was killed, and James Hoffman,
a brakeman, was severely injured.
Roland o. Swayne, ex-Deputy Clerk
of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, was
arrested in Nashville, on monday
morning, OF the charge of having stolen
Polk's balanced ledger from the State
room in the State Capitol building.
The eighty thousand dollars worth Of
securities taken to Boston, by Canon
Bernard, who absconded from Brussels,
were yesterday turned over to NJ.
Bourg. ois, Minister of Police at Brus-
sells.
A fire in Monroe, Louisiana, on Mon
day, destroyed Enswinger's restaurant,
the old post.ofiice building, and NUM-
Der of dwellings, causing a loss estima-t
ed at 100000.
About 80 'longshoremen, employed
by Cushman & Co, in Brooklyn, struck
yesterday for an increase of five cents
per hour. The firm employed green
hands in their places.
A strict enforcement of quarantine
has been ordered at San
infected with cholera, smallpox or yel-
low fever.
John Carpenter, Jr., State Senator
from Hunterdon County, New Jersey,
yesterday began civil suit for damages
against the Trenton Times publishing
Company.
Two engines were wrecked yesterday
by a railroad collision near Marshall,
Texas, and an engineer was fatally in
jured.
The .Sprague mansion ani estates, in
Providence, Rhode Island, were sold ut
auction yesterday. The prices obtained
were low.
In the Senate of Massachusetts, yes
terday, the bill to increase the compen-
sation of members of the Legislature to
500 was defeated by vote of % to 4.
Secretary Lincoln left Washington
yesterday morning for Atlantic City,
where he will remain several days.
Four dwellings and stores on Upper
Main street, in Shenandoah, Penna.,
We're burned yesterday morning. Loss
S25, 900.
Bernard II. Smiths piano castings
factory in New York was damaged by
fire yesterday to the extent of $50, 900.
A fire at Oxford, Alabama, yesterday
caused loss of 0,O00.
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