Daily Republican., 1883-06-28
NEWS SUM MARY.
EFFECTS OF THE SCOTT LlQUOR
LAW OF OHIO-FIRE AND IA.
RINE DISASTERS.

When the decision of the Supreme
Court of Illinois, in favor of the con-
!. stitutionality of the Scott liquor tax law
l.. became known in Cincinnati on Tues
day, saloon keepers began at once to
make payments under the law. The
total revenue therefrom in that city is
estimated at 100000. "Hitherto all
sales Of liquors Except ale, wine and
, beer) to be drank where sold was il
legal, and though the law was generally
, dead letter, its repeal and the substi-
tuition of the tax gives saloon men .
legal standing in their business, which
most OF them appreciate.
A six-year-old daughter of Lawrenos
Johnston, of Huntersville township,
North Carolina, was found dead in her
fathers barn yesterday hanging by
halter. She was alone playing in the
barn with a halter, one end of which
was fastened to door hinge, and it is
supposed her foot slipped and she fell,
the moose closing under her chin and
breaking her neck.
A fire occurred yesterday afternoon
in heading in a breast at the Monitor
Colliery, situated about two miles from
Mount Carmel, Penna. Several men
were overcome by gas and were carried
out OF the mine The origin and extent
or the fire are at present unknown. The
colliery employs over five hundred men
and boys.
fire in Nashville, Tennessee, yes
terday, destroyed the building at Clark
and Front streets with its contents, and
greatly damaged the Woodward build
ing adjoining. The loss is estimated at
S49, 1000
Later accounts of the disaster on the
Northern Pacific Railroad at Heruu
Station, Montana, last Saturday, show
that 70 Cinnamon were killed and I5
injured. The disaster is attributed to
gross carelessness.
The President has approved the find
lngs and sentence Of the court-marial
in the case of Paymaster Wasson. Tho
sentence is that he be dismissed from
the army and be imprisoned at hard
labor for Is months.
The Surgeon-General of the Marine
Hospital Service is advised that on the
18th inst, the American bark Helen
Sands left Havana for New York.
several of her crew being sick of yellow
fever
The suit of James Gordon Bennett
against the city of New York to recover
$4,000, with interest, due on account
OF advertising, resulted yesterday
in verdict for plaintiff for $l9,2l3.
Out Of two-hundred persons sum-
1Eoned only one juror has been secured
for the trial of ex-Treasurer Polk, of
Tennessee. All the others
had formed opinions in the case.
Henry Gillespie, late postmaster at
Davidson's College, North Carolina
md James F. Gamble, his clerk, were
arrested yesterday on a charge of rob-
oing the mails of $500.
Walter Gardiner, an alleged cattle
lealer, by means of forged drafts on
New York and Chicago, is said to have
obtained $4,000 from the banks Of
Toronto, Ontario.
The steamer Rothesay struck a rock
lear the Thousand Island Park, in the
IT. Lawrence, yesterday morning, and
vas run ashore, where she filled with
yater.
The schooner Clara Bell, with a cargo
f paving stones for New York, struck
n Avery's Rock, at Rockport, Mass,
n Tuesday evening, and will be total
)ss.
The steamer Rbinwidda, ashore near
orbay, Nova Scotia, is reported in SO
ad position that there is no hone of
aving her.
The yacht Hayward, reported bya
slegram from Portsmouth. New
as probably lost, has been
card from. She was og-bound.