The daily gazette., 1883-11-09
moRNrNa SUMMARY.

Day was generally observed throughout
Canada IS holiday.
A locomotive was wrecked yesterday near
MechanicsVile, New York, by the giving
way OF an axle, aud two train hands were
injured, one dangerously.
The boiler OF a threshing machine burst
yesterday on farm In Tuscarauwas county,
Ohio. Mrs. Geottje and two men were In
jured, the woman perhaps fatally.
Charles A. Meigs, for 10 years United |
States Bank Examiner In New York, died |
at sea, on the steamer Santiago, on the Sd |
inst. He was in the 9th year OF his age.
Dr. Robert d. Joyce, for many years a |
resident Of Boston, and known to the liter |
AIRY world BY his poems Of Bland" and |
"Deirdre," died in Dublin, Ireland, on the |
23d ult. |
Senator VOORHEES,, of Indiana, yesterday |
delivered the annual address at the opening
Of the Fair Of the Roanoke aud Tar River |
Agricultural socisty, at Weldon, North |
Carolina.
Four more persons have died nom in.
iurIea received by the recent tornado at
Springfield, Missouri. This makes IL deaths
In all. Two other persons are not expected
10 recover.
Butler Malone. son Of Senator btahone,
was yesterday fined $15 by the Mayer OF
Petersburg, Virginia, for carrying con-
| cealed pistol and drawing the weapon during
disturbance on election day.
A drunken man named Parker shot and
killed sheriff McGee, who was trying to ar
rest him at Tishmingo, in the Indian TERRI
tory, few days ago. After killing Mc0ee,
i Parker knelt beside the dead body and blew
| out HE own brains.
II Is reported from Chicago that num-
ber of the saw mills on the east shore OF
Lake Michigan will be closed within week,
in consequence Of the low price Of lumber
and ''the fact that tho saving season has
already been as long % usual"
The conference appointed between the
glass blowers and manufacturers of Pitts-
burg to be held yesterday did not take place,
owing to the absence of three members OF
the manulacturers' committee. The man
utacturcrs say that no concessions will be
made.
Near Kahsas City yesterday the children
OF II. Clay Magee, returning from school,
found the lifelesS bodies OF their father,
mother and older sister lying upon the floor,
1t is thought Magee shot and killed his vile
and daughter aud then committed suicide
by swallowing morphine.
Two giants are to be welded In q museum
at Pittsburg on the 20th instant, namely,
Patrick O'Brien, aged ~ years, seeven feet
IL inches IN height, and 800 pounds In
weight, and Miss Annie DRUG, "of almoss
equal proportions" They have been court
ing about two months.
In the Superior Court at Cincinnati, in q
suit for damages against the owners of the
building where several employees OF Dire
mans rag warehouse persisted, Judge Har-
mon has decided that the proprietor Of the
warehouse, aud not the owner OF the build
ing, is liable for damages.
NJ. Degheest, OF the Mexican National
Bank, and NJ. Olivier, French merchant,
fought q duel with swords at Chapultepec,
Mexico, yesterday morning. Olivier was
killed and Degheest badly wounded. The
encounter was the result Of dispute about
! seats at the races on sunday MOI ming.
J The president and six members Of the
Miners Association left Pittsburg yesterday
for a tour among the third and fourth pool
mines to induce the miners, who have ac-
ceptcd the reduction In wages, to strike
S pending the acceptance by the operators OF
s | the proposition to settle the question OF
d wages by arbitration.
a Superintendent Maxwell, OF the Cincin.
n natl Chamber Of Commerce, reports that
during the year past the manufacture ot
: malt liquors In Cincinnati, Covington and
r Newport aggregated S75 900 barrels. Thi
y is AZ 900 barrels more than in the previou
It year, and 1t Is equivalent to $50 glasses PEI
y annum Tor every man, woman and child IL
the three cities.
In Boston, yesterday, Judge Holme,
: granted an order dissolvlng the Palestine
n Railroad Company. The company was
D formed to build a railroad from Cairo
+. Egypt, to Jerusalem, and Its chief objeci
:, was less to make money than to furnish
u quick and easy means of access to the HOLY
/ Land. Rev. j. w. nth, the principal sup
: porter OF the scheme, died recently, hence
e its failure.
d Tne Women's Missionary Society of tn,
# Virginia Conference of the Methodist Epis
: copal Church South, in session at Peters
= burg, adjourned yesterday, after electing thu
L following officers: President, Mrs E. 8
y Charison, of University, Va; Recording
:. Secretary, Mrs. d. B. Bigger of Peters burg
= Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. G. Fl. Hall
:. of Petersburg; Treasurer, Mrs. L. L. Bailey
Of Lynchburg.
= Stanford, the alleged American conhdene
= operator, who forged checks IN the name O
d Hugh Andrew Allan, In Great BriteIn, ha
d been claimed by the British Secretary O
IT State from the Canadian authorities, apt
!. arrangements are being made to send hin
across the Atlantic. When the British Gov
70 ernment has finished with him he will b.
l. claimed by jewelry firm in New York
De whom he Is said to have defrauded out a
,. diamonds worth 2,500 on forged checks.
y A Baltimore do ateh confirms a repor
thai Moses, the husband of the "Fat Wo
man, who died su denly two weeks ago
n has sold her body to n physician. The dis
lr patch says that "Moses called several time
le on the day of his Hlfes death, offering tn
e body for sale, and 1t was finally bought h
DR.. Hill, on the importantly of Moses, VIII
gave as an excuse for his mereenary pro
ts posal that he was In great poverty an,
IN needed money" The body will not be ex
4. humed until December. The price said /
have been paid to Moees is S25.
/, The National Fat Stock Show VIII b
opened In Chicago on the 14th Inst. Entire
q have been received from all parts of tn
Of United States and Great Britain. In cor
q nection with the show, on the 18th and lot
is INST, National Convention of Cattl
). Breeders nd Raisers will be held TIL
=, Convention is called by Professor Lorina
Ia President OF the U. s. Treasury Cattle Con
i' mission, 10 consult in regard to the prever
tion OF the spread of contagious disease
among cattle. Commissioners will be preser
H. from England, Germany aud France.
tie Hadinger's store, in Lincoln, Lancaste
10 county, Pa, was robbed on We'd es a
night. Early yesterday morning a Iarg
party OF men started In pursuit of Ii
thieves and found them In the Welch Mour
tain. running fight ensued between til
n Two parties, more than Ii shots be ng hre
- =. on both sides. John Clifford, one of th
I9 II thieves was captured, and "Abe" Buzzarf