Daily Republican., 1883-08-24
NEWS SUM IN AIRY.
THEIR "PIG TAILS"-sYKEs
WANTED IN CHICAGO.

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Sam Kee, Moy Wing, Mob Tom, Mo.
Dock and Sam Wah, recently i'm prison
ed in the Penitentiary at Trenton, New
Jersey. for an assault upon one Of thei
fellow-countrynen at Paterson, threat,.l
+, to sue the State Prison Keeper and the
Board of Inspectors for heavy damages
| for depriving them of their queues.
They claim " that the Constitution ds
clares that no person shall be deprived
of the pri 'ilege of worshipping God ac.
cOrding to the dictates Of his conscience,
and that the queue isan element Of Chi.
nese religion"
Professor Lewis Swift, Director Of the
Warner Observatory, at Rochester, dis
covered what appeared to be comet,
on Tuesday evening He discov cred
the celestial object thro Igh small
glass, but before he had time to adjust
the great telescope clouds obscured his
view Later observations were prevent
ed by the moon. The apparant com t
Is situated =" in the ankle of Androlne-
da."
Lirleton Hatchett and Oliver Hatch
EFT, father and son, charged with the
murder Of Moses Young, in Brunswick
county, Virginia, have been discharged
from custody. They had been tried,
convicted, and sentenced to be hanged,
but were granted new trial, which re-
suited in their acquittal. For some un-
known reason they were re-arresteu and
ramanded to Jail.
telegram was received in Norfolk
Virginia, yesterday, from Philadelphia,
asking the authorities to hold A. M.
Sykes, who shot his father on Tuesday
evening. 1t is said Sykes is wanted in
Chicago to answer a charge of burgla-
ry. He had considerable amount of
money and jewelry when arrested.
AT meeting of the window glass man.
ufacturers and workmen's conference
committees in Pittsburg yesterday, the
manufacturers proposed general re-
duction in wages Of about 10 per cent.
The workmen asked time for consider
alton, and the conference adjourned un.
til some day next week.
hurricane passed over the Ottawa
district of Ontario on Wednesday night,
doing great damage to fences, barns
and the crops. In Nepeau two barns
were fired by lightning and man
named Henshaw was killed.
A telegram from Cincinnati says the
liabilities of Captain Vincent Shinkle,
vhicn, at the time of his failure were
at $50, 600 are now stated by
he assignees at $780, his assets
'eing $4,000.
While the brig Florence j. Hudson,
rom Norfolk for Demarara, was being
owed ont from Norfolk, Virginia, yes
er'lay, the second mate, named Boyd,
nd "a seaman jumped overheard. The
nate was drowl.ed, the seaman saved.
A. Il. Dennis WAS arraigned yesterday
n New York on a charge OF frau,lu-
entl y obtaining $llS worth of drugs
rom Philadelphia firm. He was
eld for the arrival Of detective.
An incendiary fire in the Sunnyside
oal mine, in Ohio, on Wednesday,
aused a loss of $4,000 Mrs. Jarber.
0 years of age, seeing the fire, died OF
right.
The tannery of Reed & Pearsall, at
ionnt Sterling, New York, was burned
II We dnesday night. 1t had been idle
"o months and is supposed to have
cen set on fire.
The lumber camp of Foster, Black
ian ~ Co., near Big Rapids, Michigan
as burned on Tuesday night. Loss,
SC, 900.
The Georgia House Of Representatives
ssterd ay passed the Redistricting bill,
aking one amendment, which will
md it back to the Senate for concur
nee.
Two bales of cotton, the first of this
ears crop in Tennessee, were yester
W received in Memphis. They were
asSed middling and sold at auction for
cents per pound.
AT Provo, Utah, on Wednesday night,
LAS Alfred, watchman, shot at Il
amp, but missed him, and killed
iss Ellen Lewis, "a bride of three
eeks.'
The New York Democratic State
met yesterday in Saratoga,
I'd resolved to hold the State Conven-
III in Buffalo on September 9th.
Rev. Joseph Cook spoke at Chautau-
Ia yesterday morning on "Womans
'ork for Woman in Pagan Lands
w.