The daily gazette., 1883-07-14
MOKNING SUMMARY.

SlO0,OOO.
A shingle mill pear Custar, Mich, was
demolished by boiler explosion on Thurs
day. John Macintosh was killed and sew
eral Others were badly injured.
Four cases Of yellow fever wers removed |
from tn Norwegian bark To the hospital on |
Ship Island ON tho 9th inst One of the |
crew had previously died Of the fever.
John Cash, Andrew Hanson, John Kohl |
man and Thomas Ward were crushed to |
death by the fall Of derrick in a stone |
quarry near Lemont, Illinois, on Thursday |
afternoon.
The first permanent iror bridge on the !
Rio Grande, uniting the United States aud |
Mexico, was finished by the National Mexi- |
can Railway Company, at Eagle Pass, ON |
Thursday.
The President is expected to leave Wash
lngton on Monday, on the steamer Des-
patch, for short cruise along the coast He
viii probably visit Cape May, Newport and
Long Branch.
special mail and express train on the
New York Central Railroad ran into de-
rallied car at Schenectady, early yesterday
morning The engine was wrecked and
Edward Wemple, the engineer, fatally in
jured.
1t was learned at Wilcox, Arizona. YES
were ut San Bernardno waiting to surreu-
der and be escorted to the reservation. Cap
tain RAFFERTY,, with troop of cavalry, has
left Bowie to bring them in
Six suits have been entered In Common
Pleas Courts to recover damages from the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Com
pany. The plaintiffs claim that when re-
turning from an excursion to Neshaminy
Falls they were illegally elected from the
cars.
The Lighthouse Board, having been ad-
yised that yellow fever vessels are ouaran-
tined at Ship island has instructed the men
employed on the lighthouse on that Isl, nd
mot to leave the station, nor do ANYTHING
calculated to introduce the contagion on
the mainland"
Ninety of the present employees in the
Census Office will be dismissed within a few
days. There are l73 persons employed in
the oth' e, and the force will probably be re-
duced to 100. At one time nearly 800
persons were carried ON the pay rolls of the
Census Bureau.
The Commissioner of Alabama Claims
yesterday took testimony in support of the
claims OF the Wilmington Navigation Com
pany for the value OF the schooner Lammott
dupont and her cargo, which were captured
by the rebel cruiser Tallahassee in Aupust.
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interest.
The assassin of the woman who owned the
Terry over the Withlacoochee river, Florida.
has been discovered to be her son-ip-Iaw
named Morrison, who is suffering from
cancer III the mouth and can live but a short
tlhe. Ills motive was to get possession of
her small stock Of cattle. He escaped by
taking refuge in the swamp.
The new department of the Indiana Uni
Verslty,at Bloomington, Indiana, was burned
ON Thursday night. The laDratory, library
ana musuem were destroyed. The museum
contained the famous Owen collection and
DR.. Jordan's collection OF fishes The fire
was caused by lightning hiking a telephone
wire. Loss, $500, 900; insurance, $50 900.
The steamship Niagara, OF the New York
and Cuba Mail Steamship Company. which
sailed from New York for Havana on the
IN INST, was destroyed by lire on the 18th
OIL the coast OF Florida. Her passengers and
crew were saved. The Niagara was an iron
vessel OF 2,235 tons, built by John Roach, in
1877, at cost OF S350,0O0. She carried a
general cargo, mostly provisions.
The managers of the Southern Exposition
al Louisville say that in view OF the ex
pecled presence of President Arthur m tho
9nenlng Of the Exposition on August l. IL is
desired That exhibitors shall make sVsrS
ell rt to have their displays in position hy
that day. Nearly all the space in the main
building has been taken, and it was decided
yesterday to build another annex.
1t is und' rstood that the operators of the
western Union Telegraph Company In New
lolk have not been cOncilated by the new
scheuuie adopted by the company. meet
ing OF the operators to consider the situation
Was held on Thursday evening, and another
was to have been held last night It. is ne
lleved ~ hours notice will be given to the
company before strike is resorted to.
The steamer City of Para, at New York
yesterday IRON Aspinwall, reports that on
the morning OF the 9th inst. she passed "a
small schooner rugged steamer ashore ON
the reel three-quarters Of mile distant from
Bird Rock Light Tower. Her smoke.stack
was black, with a white band, and * NJ
marked thereon. yellow streak was
painted around the outside. She was an
parently of about 400 tons"
Assistant Surgeon Armstrong of tho
Marine Hospital Service, who is stationed at
Memphis, has teen ordered to lend certain
hospital appliances, including boat and a
steam launch, to the hea tn authorities or
Memphis, who propose To maintain, at their
own expense, an inspection station at Presi-
dents Island, below Memphis. Three more
vessels having yellow fever on board arrived
at lhe snip Island quarantine yesterday.
At Fall River, Mass, yesterday afternoon
while workmen were moving a tWot can
stone on til" third story of the new Flint
building, Ihey rolled the stone on a temnor
airy moor across an elevator shaft. The
moor gave way and five men anG the stone
leIl to the basement, 40 feet Ielow. break
ing through three floors on the wav
Dennis sullivan was killed and the Others
were badly injured, one OF them perhaps
fatally.
The Secretary of State of MICHIGAN has
issued his crop report for that State for
July lie estimates the probable Weld n,
wheat this year at "A, L ~ 600 bushels Otber
crops, compared with 1882, show percent.
ages, as follows: Corn, acreage 90. condi-
Ton ~. Oats, condition "a. Barley ron
dtion ~, Wheat was slightly injured bv
insects, Twenty-six percent of the corn
planted failed TO grow. Apples promise a.,
average OF 81, peaches 50.
Judge Arnold yesterday heard aroument
upon an application by Savage u StoyeO for
an injunction to restrain the city from al
| Vertihg tue waters of Franklo ford creek from
Ia 'front.' Of tLeir property on Orthodox
street. The plaintiffs are manufacturing
| chemists, and use the creek Tor the trans9
| portation Of chemicals. The creek makes a
horsc-shoe curve at that point, which tbn
! city proposes Strengthening by cutting a
canal south. The matter was held up1ar
advisement.
Catarrh of the bladder,
Singing irritation, Inflammation. all Kid