Daily Republican., 1883-03-22
NEWS SUMMARY.
SENTENCING A GRAVE R0DBE1-
A TOBACCO DECISION - ACCI.
DENTIN A STEEL SHOP.


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In the U. s. District Court at Pitts
burg, yesterday, Judge Acheson filed
an opinion in the suit OF the Govern
ment against William Jenkinson, (Which
runs counter to all recent rulings OF tht
Internal Revenue Bureau. The defsn.
dant wasindicted for selling tobaccocon'
trary to Section 1868, Revised Statutes.
He had sold five pounds plug tobacco
from broken package to smaller
dealer. The Court says "the Govern
ment has no fright to inquire whether
Jenkinson sold the tobacco to be sold
again, and the defendent Is, cOnse-
quently discharged"
Through an accident to the hydraulic
apparatus in the Bessemer Steel Works
Of the Cleveland Rolling Mill Company
at Cleveland, yesterday morning, can
mister containing several tons of melt4l
metal was upset, and its contents spilled
into "a pit Of damp sand. An explosion
! followed, scattering the metal about.
Patrick Foley was fatally burned :
another man WIS $50 distigured that he
has not been identified" and several
others were badly scalded.
In the Supreme court at NewYork
City, yesterday, was decided the suit of
the people against the Metropolitan Tel
egraph and Telephone Company for
damages, and removal of large poles
which the Company had erected in
Twenty-frst street. The jury gave a
verdict of e cents for the people, "the
effect of which is that the Company
must remove the poles. An appeal will
be taken.
At Uniontown, Penn, last night,
Superintendent keighly of the Youngs-
ton Coke Company, shot and killed
John Kane, noted Molly Mcguire. The
miners in that district are on a strike,
and an outbreak is feared. Kane, who
had been discharged from the coke
works, was the aggressor. he assault
ell keighly, "pressing him into cor
ncr," and, it is said, was about to draw
a revolver when Keighly fired.
The trial of Vigo Jansen Ross, in
Washington, on an appeal to the Crimi-
nal Court from n sentence in the Police
Court to II months and % days i'm
prisonment for grave robbery, resulted
yesterday in his conviction. A motion
in arrest of Judgment was made on the
ground that the prosecution had proved
no offence known to the law OF the Dis
trict.
The falling in of an old breast in the
Stanton Colliery, at Mahanoy Plane,
yesterday afternoon, caused a sudden
rush of black damp which 0vercame
nine miners and two boys before they
could reach the foot of the slope. All
were taken out unconscious. but they
will probably recover.
Caspar Liebman turned on the gas
and shot himself in the head in his
room at hotel in Middletown, New
York, on Tuesday night. His injuries
are considered fatal. He was to have
been married yesterday, but was in pc
cuniary straits.
Edward Hanlan, the champion oars
man, is on his way to Washington to
train on the Potomac course tor his ap-
contest with Kennedy. The
latter is now in Washington, and will
also train on the Potomac course.
In the Supreme Court of Newport,
Rhode Island, yesterday morning,
Kate Judd was sentenced to 20 years
for arson, and George H.
Rounds to 3 years imprisonment for
burglary.
Governor Pattison has signed the
leath warrant of Silas Gray, of West
County, refused cOmmuta-
ion by the board of Pardons. The date
ior the execution is Thursday, May
,4th.
The Supreme Court of Mississippi
affirmed the sentence OF
James Woods and Benjamin Fletcher,
of murder, and they will be
hanged at Natchey on May Sd.
Herbert Spencer, the great phi
osopher, while in America said: "The
Yankees live too fast, work too much
md catch cold too often.' What n
hance for Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup
The house Of Mrs. Hannah Rudolph,
II Newport, Rhode Island. was de-
troyed by fire early yesterday morn
ng, and Marry Barry, a domestic. was
burned to death.
All the designs submitted for the new
wo cent postage stamp bear the head Of
Washington. The selection of the design
nav not be made for several weeks.
The Governor of Tennessee on Tues
ay signed the bill to pay the debt OF
hat State at SO cents on the dollar, with
per cent. interest.
w. M. Stewart, n clerk in The deal
etter department of the Cincinnati
'ost-oftice, was arrested last night on II
barge of stealing from letters.
The steamer Pavonia, which arrived
t New York yesterday afternoon, is re-
'orted to have brought $j0O,0W in
ouble eagles.