The daily gazette., 1883-01-12
MORNING SUMMARY.


State Treasurer Polk has left Austin,
Texas, for Tennessee, in charge of Marshal
Gosling.
A sharp earthquake, lasting about i've
seconds, was felt yesterday morning, at /. .25
o'clock, at Cairo, Illinois.
Ex-Minlster Washburne was painfully,
though not dangerously injured, by being
thrown from bis horse yesterday, at New
Orleans.
The frame dwelling Of James Davenport,
colored, In Moberly, Mo-, was burned on
Wednesday night, and two Of his children
persisted.
Destitutlon is feared among the Indians
near Edmonton, Manitoba, the catch of fish
this season having been much below the
average.
Two men were killed and a third was
badly injured by the bursting Of the boiler
of saw mill near Brook Haven, Louisiana,
on Tuesday.
A raid was made by the police In Wash
ington yesterday upon 13 policy shops, and
the propretors, employees and paFApher-
MALTA were captured.
Henry Durley was shot dead by his bro
ther-iH-law, "Gus" Budd, in Central City,
III. on Wednesday. The murderer escaped.
Family trouble caused the crime.
DR.. s. NJ. Ballard, prominent local poll
tician and land owner, was robbed Of y, 200
in cash, at his farm, In an isolated place In
Audubon county, Iowa, last Tuesday.
The schooner Wyoming will be total
wreck. She now lies well up on the beach
at Ocean City, Maryland, and Is badly
strained. Her cargo of sugar 10 rapidly dis
solving.
Captain d. B. Halligan, OF the steamer
Argus, from Philadelphia, reports the loss
OF two mud scows, which he had In tow for
Norfolk, Virginia. The steamer was saved
with the greatest difficulty.
Another snow storm occurred yesterday
throughout the Northwest. At Chicago
about Ave inches had fallen between mid
night and morning, and there was no sign
Of an abatement of the storm.
The schooner Harriet Thomas, from Bal
timore to Providence, was abandoned In q
sinking condition off Hog Island, on Tues
day night The captain and crew took to
the boats, and arrived at Norfolk, Virginia,
yesterday.
The Grand Jury at Washington has begun
an investigation of the alleged Star Route
bribery cases. Yesterday witnesses were ex-
amined in the case of Francis II. Fall,
charged with attempting to bribe the colored
juror, William II. Brown.
A member OF the Washington Board Of
Health, sent to Baltimore on Wednesday
TO investigate the smallpox In the latter
city, reports that nearly 5000 cases of the
disease exist there, only 200 Of which were
reported by the Baltimore health authori-
ties.
The three masted schooner Sallie W.
Kay, of Somers' Point, New Jersey, from
Baltimore to Washington, with a cargo OF
coal, is ashore five miles north of Ocean
City, Maryland, and Will be a total wreck.
A German sailor, called "Antoine," was
lost. The other six were taken off in the
brecches' buoy by Life Saving Station Crew
No. 4.
A severe northeast gale and snow storm
ragged on Wednesday night at Vineyard
Haven, Massachusetts,. About 900 feet OF
the railroad was washed away by the high
tide, & c railroad hulkhead, built last fall
being washed out. Many wharves were sub
merged, the tide being the highest since
1855. The snow In many places drifted to q
height of six and eight feet.
A storm in the Gulf last Tuesday did
much damage at Vera Cruz. The railroad
warehouse was unroofed and the goods
therein were considerably damaged. The
works for the improvement of the harbOr
were destroyed, with many lighters and
small vessels. The American steamer James
A. Garry, a schooner and Mexican bark
were totally wrecked, but the crews were
| saved. The steamer had just discharged
her cargo. A Mexican schooner was also
wrecked near Anton Lizardo, but her crew
were rescued.