Daily Republican., 1883-05-02
NEWS SUNNI
- OFFENSIVE TO THE IRISH
RACE"-CLOSE ECOUNTING-
OTHER NEWS.


yesterday resolution was adopted ask
ing the Trustees of the East River
Bridge to change the day Of optning the
bridge from the oath inst. to the 30th-
Decoration Day. The Alderman who
offered the resolution said that us the
oath day Of May was the birthday of
the Queen Of Great Britain, it was
a day that was offensive to the Irish
race.
The special committee appointed to
examine the accounts and count the
money in the e. s. Treasury in connec-
tion with the transfer of the Office from
Mr.. Gilfllan to Mr.. Wyman, finished
its labors yesterday. The committees
report shows that the only discrepancy
discovered was an error Of 3 cents in
favor of Mr.. GilfIlan, but said excess
EXISTED when Mr.. Gilhllan took pos
session of the office"
| A forest fire is now raging on the
Marshtield plains, Marshheld, Mas
sachusetts. 1t is estimated that three
thousand acres of woodland has already
been destroyed. Several dwellings are
in danger. 1t is supposed the fire caught
from a match thrown among the
leaves
A telegram from Toronto, Canada,
says that several Orangemen there
''have decided to form third or Protes-
tant party, one of the chief planks in
their platform to be the abolition of
separate schools and of the use of the
French language in Parliament.
In New York, yesterday, j. D.
LathrOp, who absconded with 10000
belonging to the Central Railroad of
New Jersey, where he was employed as
a clerk, pleaded guilty TO the charge Of
grand larceny, and was sentenced to
four years Imprisonment.
Four attempts to burn the Gle ndon
House, in Boston, were made on Mon
day night and two last night. The cul-
prit was discovered in the u year-old
daughter of one of the boarlers, who
gave as reason that she g liked to see
a blaze"
Ann NJ. Virgins, keeper of the Elm
House at South Newmarket, New
Hampshire, was robbed on Monday
night Of 81 $50 in cash and a trunk con-
tanning valuables. The burglars over
looked 50, 400 in bonds and other securi-
ties.
A telegram from Livingston, Mon
tana, reports that can organized band
of Rusters are running off the stock of
the Crows on the Wyoming border, and
that the Indians have asked for protec-
ton"
The election fraud case before the
Criminal District Court at New Orleans
was yesterday Indefinitely postponed,
one Of the accused, Bartholomew
Thames, Jr., being sick with the small
pox.
The steamer W. j. Behan left Fort
Randall last Saturday for Standing
Rock, with Sitting Bull and his band Of
$50 men, women and children, who
intend to settle down at farming on the
reservation.
An unknown scoundrel yesterday
broke the key Of the switch in the Truro
Railroad yard. causing the locomotive,
tender and three freight cars to be
wrecked. The loss is $4,000. No lives
were lost.
A soda water fountain in a drug
store in Syracuse, New York, burst
yesterday, fatally injuring Clarence
the proprietor, and less
seriously injuring two others.
DR.. Robert Eustace of Canso, Nova
Scotia, died suddenly yesterday with
yrnptoms which gave rise to a suspi-
ion that he was poisoned.
The T. S. District Court at Louisvill
Yesterday refused to enjoin the Western
Union Telegraph Company from remov-
ng tickers from bucket shops.
Miss Clara Burton qualified yesterday
ts Superintendent of the Retormatory
Prison fer Women at Sherborn, Massa
,huSettS.
The ice bridge at Cape Rouge, Quebec,
firm, and the military auJhori-
les will attempt to blow it up to-day.
A northeast rain storm prevailed all
lay yesterday at Charleston, South
Carolina.
There was no improvement in Senator
A Anthony's condition YESTERDAY.