The daily gazette., 1883-06-20
MORNING SUMMARY.


By lightning yesterday while standing under
a tree at Bay St. Louis, Louisiana.
A sudden and violent storm at Reading yes
terday morning washed out humber oil
fields and destroyed > quantity of grain
The greater portion Of the town OF
Grants station, Ontario, was burned on
Monday night. The loss Is estimated a.
$15U,000.
A tornado at Steubenville, 0hio, on Mon.
day afternoon, caused loss of about Sl2,-
900, damaging and wrecking many houses
in the storm.
The ship Matchless. from Hoilo for Boston,
with cargo Of sugar, Is reported lost Inc
vessel was owned in Boston, and was ll9S
tons burthen.
The steamboat express train due at AL
bany at s. 20 a. m. yesterday, was run on
side track in that city by misplaced switch
and struck box car, killing two men.
Jane Kalloch, SO years of age, who lived
alone at South Thomaston, Maine, was
found burnnd to death on Monday evening.
A broken kerosene lamp lay beside the
body.
John Dewey, convicted of criminal libel
against August Belmont, was yesterday
sentenced by Judge Cowing, in New York,
to imprisonment in the Penitdntiary for
go days M.
John frankfort and Clarence Dunn, the
horse thieves who escaped from the jail at
West Chester, Pa, on Monday, were re-
captured in the evening. Robinson is still
at large.
The Supreme Court of the Province Of
Quebec has decided that the Local Stamp
act is unconstitutional. This will cause an
annual loss of $50, 900 revenue to the Pro-
| vineial Government. iam
The Navy Department has received no
news from the Vaudalia, which was sig
nailed off Cape Henry on Monday, bound
in. There lie considerable speculation as to
the cause of her return.
The two-masted schooner Laura Bridge
man, with coal, from Baltimore for New
York, went ashore at Asbury Park yester-
day during thick fog. As the vessel is
old she will probably go to pieces.
A tornado at Penn's Manor, in Bucks
county, Pa, about 5 O'Clock yesterday af-
ternoon, unroofed the tobacco warehouses,
blew down trees and upset vehicles on the
road, doing damage estimated at 5000.
The convention of coal miners, called to
organize State Association, met yesterday
In PittsbuIg. r. c. Campbell Of that city
was elected President and K. Davis Dubois
secretary. Only 1S delegates were present
Missouri, last Saturday, thunder storm
came up, and about 90 men took shelter
in barn, The building was struck by
lightning and three men were killed, three
others being injured. ..
1t Is reported that ga destructive bug
Is destroying the fruit in Berks county, Pa
'tWherever It stiugs the fruit falls unripe,
and branches of trees die when penetrated
by the bug Farmers are applying various
remedies without success"
John Belly, harness maker, of Water.
bury, Connecticut, has brought suit fol
$40 900 damages against DIR. s. B. Mum
an electric physician and his wife. Belly al
/, leges that Mum compounded and Mrs
>. Mum administered a medicine which to
tally destroyed his eyesight.
kilograms from Kansas City, Missouri
and Helena, Arkansas, report a continuanc,
of the floods, though at Kansas City thu
river has become stationary. At Helena
the guaee shows steady rise Of seven
inches daily, and alarm is beginning to bt
felt. The bottom lands are partly over
flowed.
A passenger train on the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, due in Baltimore at 2 As yes
terday morning, was thrown from the tracf
nine miles east of Grafton on Monday night
by tree which had been blown down. Tn,
engine, baggage, express and s1Al cars wer'
crushed, and the engineer aud baggag,
=, master were injured. 1t ooaN V9~sn hours t.
l clear the track. '''
D The Milton Hydraulic Mipiag Company
, reservoir at Smartville, California, contain
ing $50, 900, 900 cubic feel - - burst OIL
Monday afternoon. TIE var re- +Ae reser
voir is $4,000. The ror- -. rushing
! water was heard at dlutnnce of severa
miles. All the bridges in the torrents patti
were swept away, the Middle V~bs river was
raised 100 feet. and It's ~" = 'NSF severa
lives were lost.
The Senate of New HAFr'"e~ re Yesterday
by vote of 10 to 10, decides 70 elect only
one United States Senator this season. TIL,
vote for United States Senator In the Senate
stood Rollins 10; Bingham, 6; Patterson
2; Stevtns, 2: scattered, 3. Necessary to
choice, ~. The first ballet II he Hous
J stoo'; Rollins, III; Bingham, 1lB; Briggs
+ 81; Patterson, q; Stevens, Is, Marston, Q
r scattered, 2. Necessary to "A choice, l59
n The House, later in the day, by vote Is
: to 1872, rejected a proposition to elect
{ United States Senator for the term begin
n ming in 1885. 1t is I'D ast night that man
y of Rollins supporters would abandon hiI
to- day.