The daily gazette., 1883-07-25
MoKNINa SUMMARY.

burned on Monday. Loss, 500, 5,OUO.
Commodore JeffePs, United States Navy,
died in Washington ON Monday night
William r. Carleton, the well-known
electrician, died in Broektona Massachu-
setts, on Monday night. 4
Madame Ia Prize Was Killed by lightning
In the cellar of her house A. st. jean Chry-
sostom, Quebec, last Saturday.
Captain Webb, the English swimmer, !
perished yesterday in attempting to swim |
the whirlpool rapids at Niagara.
The Jury In the Polk case were not |
charged yesterday, as expected, The charge |
will probably be delivered TO day
Spencer's planning mill and the dwelling
at Parrsbure, Nova Scotia, were destroyed
yesterday morning Ivy an ineendiary hre.
The buildings ON the McGill estate and |
two other dwelling at ChaTlottetown, Prince |
Edwards Island, were burned on Monday. |
Loss, 100000.
The Ohio Liquor Dealers Association will
meet In Toledo on the 9th proximo, TO or
ganize for ''an aggressive political cam.
paign'l in the fall.
A spOo. factory and its storehouses, and
two dwellings, in Petitcodiac, New Bruns-
wick, weis burned on Monday night by
sparks from an engine.
| HARDY, the Polk City murderer, was
| thh6u lEOtu lNC JdH ut hhttdHg ApNd3 UAFty
yesterday morning by masked mob OF
about 50 men and lynched.
Thomas Mcguire, awaitini trial fer muir
der in Chicago, cut his throat yesterday
morning, with pocket knife, in his cell
He is not expected to survive.
No attempt has been made To resume@ork
at the rolling mills in south Chicago, and
the 1000 men who made demand last week
tor Increased pay still remain idle
Thomas Custard, brakeman, was killed
by falling from freight car at Window,
Ohio, yestt rday. He had been q circus
acrobat, and IL was his first trip as brake
man.
A fire at Men phis, early yesterday morn
ing, destroyed the store Of Stewart, GWyDne
g. Co., H. B. Sharks Il Co, F. W. Brede h
Co., and John Reid, causing loss estimated
at $500 900.
The Patent Office sterday issued 37l
patents, "a designs, 10 trade marks, 10 labels
and one reissue OF patent. Thirty-fve
| patents and designs and two trade marks
and labels were issued TO foreigners.
A. p Dorsey, young conductor on one
of the street railways of Baltimore, com
mitJed suicide yesterday afternoon by throw
ing himself into the Mount Royal reserv, ir,
at that city. No cause for the deed is as
signed.
A tornado demolished the house of Eu-
gene II nry, near Eaton Rapids, Michigan,
on Monday. Mr.. Henry was seriously in
ured, and will probably die. Three of his
hildren were killed, and his wife sustained
severe injuries, but may recover.
The locked-out cigar makers in New York
yes erday replied to communication from
the manufacturers that they twill not
return to work until the members of the
International Union employed by Often
berg Bros. are discharged and not re EN-,
ployed."
The Master Masons' and Builders Asso
tatiOE OF Chicago which made such pro-
Ionged fight against the Bricklayers'
Union early this summer, decided to con-
cede certain later demands OF the Union re-
specting the employment OF ron Union
workmen.
The notorious Captain PAYNE applied to
Judge McCrary at Keokuk, Iowa, on Mon
day, for an injunction ''to restrain General
Pope from interfering with the settlement
, Ot the Indian Territory" 1t was argued
that printed br.eis should be submitted by
the 10th proximo.
Judge Blodgett, of the United States Dis
, | trct Court at Chicago, IN a bank case on
= Monday, decided that the stockholders OF
] the bank are liable for the debts Of the bank
i to the amount of their stock, ard that in
' dividua suits to recover on this liability can
be commenced without the intervention Of
a Receiver"
I Thomas Swami, ex- Governor of Maryland,
a died last yaninR at his home near Leesburg,
Virginia, aged rs years. He was a Repre-.
sentative from Baltimore in the Forty
| second, Forty third, Forty-fourth and Forty
fifth Congresses, being during his last term
5 chairman of the COMMITTEES on Foreign
4 Affairs. He was at one time President OF
the Baltimore and Ohio Railrod Company.
A State Convention to secure the adop.
tion of the proposed Prohibition Amend.
ment in Ohio met yesterday In Columbus
About 500 delegates were present Ex.
< Congressman Mills Gardner was chosen
u e. airman. Ii was intimated n his address
s that an organization would be effected s1hy
!. viii h all can vote their respective party
n State tickets and concentrate on the amend
ment."
= The Democratic State Convention of Vir
:, ginia meets IN Lynchburg Today. The Statt
II Central Committee last night chose orhiI
NJ. Reynolds, formerly X adiuster STATE
Treasurer, for temporary thurman of th,
e Convention. It WAS not believed last nigh
d that any tariff plank would be put into tn,
- platform. John s. Barbour is generally re
garded as the probable Chairman OF the
State G ntral Committee.
ballot for United States Senate taken
Yesterday by the New Hampshire Legislature
resulted as follows: William S. Ladd, E. H
Rollins, Frederick smythe, A. F. Pike. B
/, F. Prescott, C. II Berns, Moody Currier ant
r d. Barnard, each; G.. II Bell, 2; j. H. Gal
= linger, 4; II f. Burnham. ); A. F. Stevens
10 Is; j. W. Patterson. 81; q. Marston, 2G: NJ
:, w. Tappan, 35: W E. Chandler, H. II. Bing
= ham, 100. Necessary to "a choice l5f.
A water famine is threatened in ST. Louis
only "a feet OF water remains in the reser
yoir by which large portion of the city 1
supplied for drinking purposes, and tn
c; pumping capacity OF the works is not equa
u to the requirements Of the present warn
weather. In consequence of a communica
tion from the Board of Public Improve
ments the Mayor yesterday issued procla
's nation stopping all street sprinkling th
:: washing of sidewalks and the use of hant
,r hose
: Washonts occurred on Monday along th,
z. Chicago and Northwestern line in Wiscon
sin, and on the Milwaukee, Lake Shore and
Western tracks near Appleton, and on thu
Wisconsin Central road at Theresa. The
;, telegraph lines everywhere are iu bad con.
! dition. The Milwaukee river ha risen NOR,
d than four feet above the danger line, whole
1t sale stores arc flooded in many places, an6
rs lumber is floating from the yards near The