Daily Republican., 1883-01-08
NEWS SUMMARY.
DEsTRUCTIvE FIREs-MINEks
QUAKE SHOCK Al rOHIO, ETC.

Louis, on Saturday night, by sub
acute inflammation OF the larynx. Six
thousand dollars worth of seats had
been sold. She was prevented by the
same canse from singing in ct. Joseph
on Thursday night, disappointing
s. 900 house in that city. She left st.
Louis on Saturday evening for the
milder climate of New Orleans.
A telegram from Pittsburg says that
call will be issued in q few days for .
convention to meet in that city for the
purpose of sffecting "a general organi.
ration OF the bituminous coal miners of
the United States" The object is "to
get the 40, 900 miners in the United
states under one head for mutual pro.
lection and the prevention Of strikes.
Each State will have it's separate organ
zation."
The rannery of the Wisconsin Hide
and Leather Company, at Milwaukee,
was damaged yesterday by hre to the
extent of about $25, 900 The fire start
ed in the Office, and Shelly Kimball,
Secretary of the Company, who was
there at the time, says it was caused by
the explosion of an lamp. All tbs Com
pany's books and papers we're destroyed.
The affairs Of the company are reported
to have been embarrassed.
Ovington Brothers china warehouse,
246 and 252 Fulton street, Brooklyn.
was destroyed by fire on Saturday
morning, and several adjoining build
ings we're damaged. The loss is esti-
mated at $500, 600 Among the insur-
arces are "a 800 in the Franklin, and
$500 in the Union Company, of Phiis-
delphia.
In the Superior Court at Chicago, on
Saturday, Judge Barnum decided that
Board OF Trade memberships are not
subject to judicial process, but are per-
sonal property, and not liable to At
tachment. Judge Gardner, who rem
dored an exactly opposite decision, has
been sustained by the Appellate Court
William Seav.r, editor of the
Drawer" iu "Harpsr's Magazine"
died yesterday i'll Mount Vernon, New
York, of pneumonia, alter an illness
OF only Two days, in the 69bh year of
his age. He was also a contributor
to "Harpcr's Bazaar" and was former
ly editor ola newspaper IN Buffalo.
Ex- County Comm issioners Corson
and Elmer, who pleaded guilty to the
ccarse of embezz ement, in Williams
p .rt, Penna., were sentenced on Satur-
day--each to pay fine of $3.50 and to
10 imprisoned in the Eastern Psni'en-
tia1y, Corson for 81 months and Elmer
tor 1J.
III -odore Wieiesch " Co., owners of.
the White House dry goods store in
Tucson, Arizoua, male an assignment
on Saturday. Their liabilities are said
to be 500, ,O0U, and their assets about
the same. About SAC, 900 Of their liza
bilities are preferred.
B. NJ. Burdick, u well-known dry
goods buyer in New York, committed
suicide on Saturday evening, in
Breoklyn boarding house, by cutting
his throat. Domestic trouble was the
cause. He was a fine looking man,
about 45 years OF age.
1t is believed that negotiations will
soon be- opened by Canada for recip-
rocity treaty with the Sandwich Is
lands. The leading Hawaiian products
are coffee, sugar and indigo, in ex.
change for which Canada would send
coal and lumber 1rom her Pacific coast.
Fifty acres Of laud in Irondale, south
of Chicago we're sold on Saturday for
$50, 600 1t is understood the purchase
was made for West Virginia capitalists,
WHO intend to build large iron works on
the ground at cost of $3.50 900 to 81 900
O0O
8. Marcus & Son. of Brooklyn, New
York, Mobile and Birmingham, Ala
bama, and Pensacola, Florida, have
made an assignment to A. j. Moses, of
Mobile. Their liabilities ara about
S15O,0OO, their assets nominal.
The conservatory at Golden Gate
Park, in San Francisco, was damaged
by fire on Friday night to the extent of
$4,000. A valuable collection of ex-
otios, which 1t will take years tv re-
place, was ruined.
Russell Lester went from Muscogee
to Vinits, in the Indian Territory, on
Friday, Tor the avowed purpose of kill
ing n man named Rutledge, with whom
be had quarrelled. When they met,
RutleIge shot and killed Lester.
Owen Lynch was killed and John
McGovsru and John McCarty were
severely injured by an engine that
was backing up toa train at Glendon
Station, on the New Jersey Central
Eailroad, on Saturday night.
Charles Smith and boy named
Samuel Smith were drowned by the
breaking Of the ics while they were
skating yesterday in the bay at
Toronto
Il. Champion s. Co., dealers in books
aud stationery, Of Rock Island have
made an assignment. Their liabilities
and assets are stated at about S4l 900
each.
A necting Of German citizens was
beld yesterday in New York, under the
auspices OF the Turnvere,n, to devise
means of relief for the sufferers by the
floods OF Germany.
A violent earthquake shook Northern
Ohio, between 2 and 3 o'clock on ,atur-
cay morning. People were aroused
from their sleep, and in some places
cLimueys were tumbled down.
General L. 7. Lewis, of St. Landry
Parish, Louisiana, was nominated for
Cong ress man Oh Saturday, by the DEM
oCrats Of the Sixth Louisiana District,to
I'LL the vacancy.
Charles L. Slocum shot and killed
himself in the presence of his wife, At
Plano, Illinois, on Friday night She
had applied for divorce, aud refused
to return to him.
David W. Brown, widower, CON-
mitted suicide by taking laud anum,
in a hotel at Providence, II. L, on Fri
day night.
A farmer named Hayman and COL
ored man fatally shot each other on a
plan alton near Darien, Georgia. last
and both have sinco died.
A despatch to the New Orleans Times
Democrat reports the arrest, IN san
Antonio, Texas, OF Marshal I. Polk, the
Treasurer of Tennessee,
..u.n ,.,r, of AuuiIpapk Mill