Daily Republican., 1883-09-10
NEWS SU MMARY.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL or
CIVIL RIGHTS ACTS-TRAIN
COLLISIONS-OTH Err NEWS.

The constitutionality of the Civil
Rights Act is to be argued before Judge
Field, in San Francisco. The case il
that of colored man who, with two
friends, entered restaurant last month
and were refused service. The colored
man brought an action under the Civil
Rights law, and the restaurant keeper
| filed demurrer on the ground that
Congress had no power under the Four
teenth Amendment to pass the Act. 1t
is said that whatever the decision the
case will be appealed to the U. s. Su-
preme Court.
A renewal of the flood in the Rio
Grande, Texas, has caused additional
damage to the International and Rio
Grande and I'ecos Railroads. Trains
on the former read were entirely stopped
on Saturday, and it will take two weeks
to repair the damages on the latter. At
MarQueturas, on the Texas Mexican
road 100 sheep were drowned. The
powder house ofthe Mexican National
Construction Company in Laredo was
struck by lightning on Saturday ni.ht
and large quantity of powder explo-
ded.
A cold wave appeared in the North
west on Friday and rapidly extended
South and East, reaching st. Louis on
Saturday morning. The lowest point
reached was at Fort Garry, Manitoba,
where the thermometer marked 25 de-
grees, or below freezing. At Bis
marck, Dakota, the temperature was 81
degrees. Ice formed in Iowa and Min
nesota. Much damage to the corn crop
is reported.
A special despatch from Baltimore
says that Bishop Becker, Of Whining
ton, Delaware, sailed from that city on
Saturday for Rome, and adds: cit is
said that when he reaches Rome he will
be made an Archbishop and will take
part in the deliberations of the confer
ence called by the Pope"
In attempting to quell disturbance
in a saloon at Mansfield, Pennsylva-
MIA, on Saturday night, Constable B.
NJ. Clark had his skull fractured and
was so seriously injured internally that
it is said he cannot recover.
One death and five new cases of yel-
low fever were reported at the PensacO-
10 Navy Yard on Saturday. The mails
from the navy yard are to be fumiga-
ted, by order of the local Board Of
''e''.n
"A delegatlon o! nine prominent Col,
ored cl'lZehs OF missouri was appoiheeu
On OF. slItruay 70 represent tnat o1a,e IN IN
held in Louisville at the end of this
month.
Mathers Jewelry store, IN Merldeh'
! y, n'uo ,norn;,, of ~ o0o unr,h af w,tchas
md ring. The safe of IT Rroolsa &,
70 stafioners in the same bu;Idinp-
was robbed of $500,
The steamer City of New York, which
arrived at San Francisco on Friday,
from Australia, brought SS5O,000 in
English gold, consigned to San Fran
cisco from the colohl"s'
The New Jersey Grand Army En-
at Princeton Junction,
closed on Saturday. 1t is said to have
De oeen IN ana 1a''"re '''ahc'Ais 10 'ne ainoun'
u S''''''
Joe Bagley was shot ana mortany
"ounoeu run "h ".ioueh no"' ,,:,l,,
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,incn MonIav last
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,loodv murrain has appeared among
he cattle in lister County. New York.
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kentucky, laii Oh d cna,Se VI
Wife murder, hanged Alhsei' On Hi'H'-