The daily gazette., 1883-07-31
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Conrad Splese, prominent citizen Of
Port Carbon, Pa, was killed yesterday oy
runaway accident. ----------- -
,Sabato Alexander, convicted Of murder at |
Easton, Pa, is hying TO starve himsef to |
death He has refused food since thursday |
last. ...,
1t 10 estimated that over 1,Q0O acres Of
growing tobacco In Lancaster county, Pa, |
was destroyed by the hail ard rain storm on
Saturday night. Il
/ Patrick Moulton, aged A years, was
killed by Bernard McCaiIrey, aged 30, Ia |
Troy. NY, yesterday morning, in quarrel |
about woman. g4 4
Z The steamship Nettlesworth, which left !
Montreal week ago In ballast, Is ashore on !
one OF the Magdalsn islands. A vessel has
been sent to her relief. 1f vL "a
The boiler In saw mill vt Russellviils,
|, Arkansas, burst yesterday, killing William
Hudsbu and fnlurinR two other men, one,
named Payne Hudson, fatally. mo l' irIl
William Moseley, aged 2s YEARS.. hanged
himself in the jail at Sunbuiy, Pes, on SUI
day night. He WAS Teestitly senteneed 70
IL years imprisonment for bofnIridt. ,S i.
Horace Shepard, 90 years Of age, shot and
killed his vile and then Committed suicide
Ia New York Yesterday morning They had
married secretly, in opposition 70 tn wishes
oi ShFpard's parents. ,-t, 81 ...u4 5...t6s.
In Jersey City, yesterday, tx-PollcemaR.
John NugeDt and Edward Farrell, ROB yiVled
of attempting to rOba bank officer OF $1,000,
\ on a railroad train, we're sentenced each 70
/ 10 years imprisonment in the Pe.itentiary'
A Court-martial has been ordered to- meet
l at Vancouver Barracks, Washington Terri
tory, on the 3Oth OF August, TO try Second
lieutenant Samuel c. Robinson, charged
4 with duplicating his pay accounts for the
month OF June last. e-I..aq .t-.- g
In the Criminal Court at Washington,
| yesterday, Judge Wylie bverruIed rhe mo-
tion to quash the Indictment in the Kellogg
case. Kellogg 3 counsel gave notice that he
wished to have the case tried at the earliest
practicable mOnent u els
Surgeon General Hamilton yesterday re-
1eived a cable dispatch from Havana saying
that the steamship City OF Merida, from
Vera Cruz tor New York, left IL cases of
yellow fever at that port. The City Of
Merida was disinfeeted on Saturday.
The steamship British Crown arrived from
Liverpool yesterday, bringing 278 ppssen7
gers, AMONG them Mrs. Benedieta Price, .
lady OF SO, who was met on landing by her
intended husband, John T. Howell, aged 20,
from whom she is said TO have been sepa-
rated for over % years. rf
4 A Rome, Watertown and Ogdenshurg
freight train yesterday ran into New York
Central passenger train, at Charlotte, seven
miles north of Rochester. Three of the pas
senger coaches were upset and one was
wrecked. The conductor and three passen-
: gers were severely injured. ... .t t.H
D Two men yesterday escaped in boat
I from vessel Quarantined at Ship Island
Z and made their way to Pass Christian
: They were arrested by direction of the
President of the Health Board Of Louisiana
= aud handed over to the L. S. authorities u
r answer the charge of stealing the boat.
; The steel mill at Bethlehem, Penna., wa
| In full operation yesterday, and at night th'
double shift was started. II is announce
that "the old mill will be put in operation
the latter part of the week, and by Mohda!
s next all departments may he working. Fou
r blast furnaces are working and two Will b
h rebuilt"
% Nearly 900 persons left Ottawa Canada
last night, on the annual pilgrimage to tn
shrine ofst. Anne de Beaupre. They wer
r accompanied by the Roman Catholic Bsho
3 of Ottawa and a number of priests. Amcnl
n | the pilgrims were "scores of iLvalids o.
= crutches and blind men and women," VIII
y hope to be cured through the ibtercesso
% of st. Anne. .t
II Governor Crittenden, IF Missouri. arrive
r at Ogden, Utah, On Sunday night, on hi
v | way ~ NdllIOTulh. II is bdIu Ut Htth HIAu
. 3 Careful study OF the work of tab Com
missions and the Mormon problem, and eX
y pressed the opinion that while the Las
q Commission had accomplished all the la,
It allowed them to do, further and more dc
d cided legislation WAS necessary. II
-e Charles H. Gogel had a hearing yesterda
= In Baltimore, on the charge of having oil
tain 900 from the National Unio
u Bank OF that city on forged paper. II
n waived an examination and was committe
q TO await the action of the Grand jury.
Il is said that besides the Union Hank, II
Manufaeturers' and Howard Banks and I'll
banking house of Nicholson u Sons, hol
OF discounted notes, the endorsements 4
ri which are alleged to be forged, ahountiI
yn to $50, 900.
to Several heavy failures in the boot an
shoe and leather trade were reported yeste
day. F, Shaw & Brother, OF Boston, said
be the most extensive tanners in the worl
n made an assignment Liabilities, 81, SEQ ,00t
OF assets nominally S5,0O0,000. G. w. Cop
d land Co., who have a factory at BrocktoI
- Massachusetts, also suspended with liabiliti,
~ estimated at $3.50, 600 Joseph Pratt, Who'll
d. sale shoe manufacturers, of Chicago; Stet
a man u Co., of New YORK, and W N. Tol,
20 u Co., OF Baltimore, are also reported
70. have failed.
MT A post examination of the boz
J., OF Captain Webb was made on Sunday
"a Lockport, New York, by three physician
nd 1t showed that none OF the injuries ON Il
ay body were capable Of causing death, exec
the Uranium wound, and that the docto
decided, was produced after death. None
the aracteristic symptoms of drownil
pu were apparent, and It was therefore co
or cluded that death "resulted from the sho,
Ily from the reactionary force OF the water
,ts the Whirlpool Rapids coming IN conta
with the submerged body with such force
l"t To Instantly destroy the respiratory powt
he ana in fact all vital action, by dire
pressure from the force OF contact. II
shock was of sufficient intensity to paraly
In the nerve centres, partially desicate q
.w muscular tissues, aud forestall death
:" =, drowning" '
In ST. Louis, yesterday morning, 236 wa
h- rants were sworn out against vi lators
we the new sunday law, which went into cffe
the day before. Among those reported
having violated tie law were keepers
ins livery stables, breweries, cigar stores, bt
30 bers, hackmen, theatres, newspaper III
from the propretors down, street ralw
VI ard express compants, tue Union Der
1t Company for sending out trains, and
rious other persons. The Prosecuting 4
torney decided 10 drop cases against liver
and men ON the ground that their business "
-, "a work OF necessity Test cases are to
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