Daily Republican., 1883-03-27
NEWS SUM MARY.
PROSECUTION AGAINST b Il u !.
GEANT MASON AND
NlS FAMILY.

Jonathan Il. Big4!ow. counsel for
Sergeant. Mason in tn" cnurt-martial
trial of the latter for shooting at Gul-
teau, yesterday brought suit against
Mason, his wife, Betty" and Riggs
& Co., bankers, for So, SOD, alleged to he
due him for counsel fees. He claims
that in Riggs 4 Co. : bank there is ST.
900 to the credit of Mrs. Mason, proceeds
of the Mason Fund.-" which he was
instrumental in collecting, and he asks
to be paid for his services out Of that
fund.
c. p Markle & Sons, paper manutac-
turers of Pittsburg, made an assign
ment yesterday. Their liabilities are
estiDa ated at about $40O, 900; their assets
are nearly $l,OOO,OOO. 1t is said the
failure was fastened, If not caused by
Cassius G. Markle, one of the firm, who
left Pittsburg last Thursday for the
W est, with from sixty to one hundred
thousand dollars of the firms money,
thus leaving it without funds to meet
maturing obligations.
Rev. Lawrence Walsh will to-day
telegraph for the relief of the distress in
Ireland the SUN of ST, ,6l9, collected since
last Wednesday. $3.50 Of this sum was
contributed by members Of the Four
teenth L. S. Infantry, stationed III Colo
rado. Bishop Logue has written q let
ter from Donegal saying, 3" Were i. not
for the substantial aid sent from Ameri-
ca, the people would die of starvation
Dispatches from various points in the
interior of California report "quite
fall of rain, which improves the pros
poets of the crops. A later dispatch
from San Francisco says most OF the
rainfall thus fa1has been in the northern
counties. A heavy storm set i'll Mt San
Francisco yesterday, which, it was be-
lieved, would take a southwark COURSE
Lieutenant Colonel Franklin Har-
wood was found dead in his room in
Boston yesterday morning, and a ply.
sician certificate that his death was
caused by congestion Of the brain. He
was native Of Rhode Island, nearly 43
years of age, and served in the war for
the Union.
The higlwaymen who infest Chicago
have ceased to attack men by night, and
now rob women in daylight. Three as
saults and robberies ofwOmen have been
reported within three days. Two ladies'
lost their rocketbooks, and were rough
ly treated.
1t was wise one that said: Every
man is occasionally what he ought 10 be
perpetnally." That must be when he
is honest enough to acknowledge the
merits of DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup, the
only sure cure for coughs and colds.
Ex-Presdent Diaz and party arrived
in Washington yesterday morning.
They We're met at the depot by Mr..
Romero, and Assistant Secretary Of
State Davis, and taken to the Arlington
Hotel.
The Republic Ore Company, of Pitts
burg, has offered to sell ore for So per
ton, which is So less than last year and
80 centS less than last week. The blast
furnace men say further reduction
will I've necessary before they will buy.
Rev. Frederick A. Thazer, pastor of
the First Congregational Church at
Quincy, Illinois, died there Oh Sunday.
tie was for three years connected with
the New York Times.
Up to noon yesterday 26 bo'lie' were
taken from the Diamond Mine at Braid
w"oi, Illinois, sixteen OF which were
identified. The remains were inferred
as soon as possible.
The great society event in New York
last night was Mrs. w IL. Vanderbilt's
fancy ball, "unquestionably the most
brilliant and picturesque entertainment
ever given in New York"
Frank Gearing, II years Of age, COM
mittrd suicide yesterday morning by
hanging himself, in Canaan, New York.
No c;,llse is assigned for the deed.
There was G5 deaths from smallpox
in New Orleans last week.