The daily gazette., 1883-11-30
MORNINa SUMMARY.

william T. Macmillan, an old man, was
killed in Cincinnati yesterday BY being run
over by q street car.
The freight handlers' strike at New Or
,oans is causing q blockade at all the depots.
The railroads are refusing freight.
prs. Mary A. Green, wealthy and
o., ,ntric old lady, who lived alone In
louisville, was burned to death last night.
frederick Armitage, of Orange, MassA-
c,,tsetts, was accidentally shot dead yester-
dsy by c. A. Bullard. They were hunting
together.
Rev. Warren II. Cudworth, pastor of the
Unitarian Church of Our Saviour in Boston,
dropped dead yesterday while offering
prayer.
new Morse Compress, costing $50, 900,
commenced operating at Shreveport,
Louisiana, yesterday. 1t is aaid that IL
works perfectly.
The Hotel Clifton, in Boston, was burned
carly Yesterday morning, and the inmates
escaped only In their night clothes. The loas
"a about $4,000.
The saxonville Woollen Mills, ct Saxon
willie, Massachusetts, wers burned yesterday
morning. Loss sl60,0O0. The mill en-
pIoyed 800 hands.
Charles Stickney's shoe mandatory In
Groveland, Massachusetts, waa burned on
Wednesday night. 1t employed 100 hands.
The loss is 5000
william Frazer, who was ehot by John
Walker at q christening in Fraser's house,
I'm Paterson, N. j., lael Sunday evening, died
Yesterday OF his wounds.
A special dispatch from Warner, Ark. says
that Frank Williams yesterday killed his
wife by firing the contents OF both barrels of
a shot run into her head,
During quarrel in Toronto, Ont, yester-
day, a IL year old boy, named John Irwin,
stabbed his mother In the forehead with Q
fork, The woman will probably die.
No call has yet been issued for Repub-
lcan caucus. Several Republican members
say that their caucus will be informal, and
that all the old officers will be Fenominsted.
Colonel G. o. Sandford, one Of the Oldest
civil engineers in tho South, died IN Peters
burg, Virginia, yesterday, aged rs years.
Several railroads were built uRder his direc-
ton
William Smith, sentenced to bs hanged at
Sparta, Ga, to-day, for . series Of foionles,
has succeeded In getting an appeal 70 the
Supreme Court, which will indenniteiy delay
his execution.
The jail In Shreveport, La in which Rich
moud Stewart, colored, sentenced TO be
surrounded by colored people singing and
praying with him.
Six vessels Of the Gloucester, Massachu-
sctts, fishing feet are now overdue. As they
were exposed TO the gales Of the 18th and
18th iHsts., 1t is feared they have gone down
with about rs men.
Near Pittsburg on Wednesday morning,
while Harry Costello and his aged mother
were driving home 10 spend the Thanks
giving, their wagon fell down an embAnk-
mcnt and both were killed.
A secret conference Of Virginia Read
justcrs was held in Washington INst night.
All that is known of ts proceedings Is that
speeches were made by Senator Malone and
Collector Brady, of Petersburg.
General Rosecrans yesterday issued q call
10 lhe Democratic members of the United
States House of Representatives to meet in
caucus on Saturday evening for the purpose
Of dominating speaker and other offlcsrs.
Tie engineers Of the Texas and st. Louis
Narrow Guage railroad have refused 10 move
any more trains until they are paid their
arrears OF wages. As q consequence no
trains left Pine Bluff, Arkanses, on that road
yesterday.
fast mall train from Macon to Savan-
nah, Georgia, yesterday ran over Ann VIII
lams aud Edward May, both coIored, on a
bridge near Davisboro, Georgia. The bodies
were terribly mutllated and thrown from
the treatle into the creek.
Lieutenant Darlington was thrown from
vicious horse in Washington on Wednes
day night sustaining two severe suta In tho
head and fracture of the kBes cap. The
horse ran against tree, breaking the sad
die girth and one stirrup strap.
The greater portion of the town OF Ocala,
In FiDFi1a iuRlndfuny n hrl, k1ka -
olIIce OF the BdRner and many stores and
several dwellings, was burned yesterday
morning. Tho loss is estimated at 1900 900.
NE lire was started by the upsetting of
lamp In store.
The Canadian Customs Department has
Issued new regulations for the governing of
goods in transit in the United States from
ohr Canadian port TO another. Formerly
such goods were under United etates reRu-
iauons; hereafter they will bo shipped In
bonded and sealed cars.
skid containing nine railroad hands
VINO had been employed on the Little Rock
railroad, while crossing the river ct Mem
PMS, tennessee, yesterday in fog, struck
coal fleet and caPsised. All ware drawn
under the coal barges, bat all we're rescued
except Henry Myers, who was drowned.
ohe oi the rescued men died subsequently,.
Last evening, while section gang Of i've
men were returning home on Q hnpdcsr on
We Southern Ohio divisioa OF the Indiana,
Bloomington and Western railroad near
Bethesda, they were oVertAken by Q con-
slruction engine. William Clay and
Michael Mccormick were killed ana VII
nam Mortimer severely sAd the others
slightly injured.
;, DR.. George W. Bagby died In Richmond,
virginia, last evening, aged s. years. he
was for rome time before the var Washing
Ion correspondent for seVerGl Leading news
papers in the South. Ee was Q neled
humorst and satirist. Several yeArs AGO he
wrote a series OF letters for the Raltimore
Sun under the head of "NeH England as
Seen from the Back door,"
1t is reported that considerable confu-
SION has been caused among the retail
merchants in the city Of Mexico by the
large amount Of nickel cola ia ciFealation
there. Congress is dscus siug bill TO rSgu-
late the nickel coinage and dsteFmine the
extent to which II shall Ne legal tender.
The bill authorizes the coiRaga Of only
100000 nickels among ten nilllons Of
people.
Professor Brooks, of the Red House OBJ
soryatory at Phelps, New York, willis search
ing for comets near the sun, on Wednesday
evening, discovered wonderful shower of
telcseopic meteors, some moving south card
and others uorthMArd, Ha hAiieVsa the