Daily Republican., 1883-06-19
NEWS SUM MARY,
A CROOKED IASHIER-sWOLLEH-
STKEAMS-NUTT'S CASE
OTHER NEWS.

. OTHER NEWS.
Arthur II. Blaney, cashier and head
:. book-keeper of the Massachuset Loan
t. and Trust Company, is under arrest fo,
9. stealing S44, 900 of the Company s funds
!. He has confessed the crime and states
) the cause to be mining and other stock
!. speculatons. He is only thirty years
old. He went through the books and
l. pointed out all the discrepancies and
falsifications. He was arraigned and
g held in $780, 900 bail. He had been In
the employ of the firm for ten years,
$ and resolved salary of $1,000. When
customer drew $500 he would charge
MIN in the books with having received
$1,000 or more and appropriate the
9 balance.
All the rivers and streams in West.
ern Missouri and Kansas have beeu
. swollen by heavy rains, and Railroad
travel seriously interrupted. The town
T. OF Corning, 40 miles north of St. Joseph-
on The Missouri river, is flooded, and
r several houses have been swept away.
: The village of Harlem, opposite Kansas
City, was threatened yesterday, and it's
inhabitants began to move out, At
, Bakerstord, Kansas, on Saturday even
ing, seven persons were drowned by the
uPsettlng OF wagon in a flooded creek.
telegram from Uniontown, Penna.-
says no efforts have yet been made for
the release Of young Mutt on bail
Judge Wilson is holding Court in Green
County, and no steps can be taken be-
tore his return next week, but it. is
| dom IlttuI If tha off ,,; T.,
Counsel for the prosecution has not VET
been secured. Contributions to The
Mutt defence fund continue to flow in.
kev. Arthur Ritchie, Rector of the
Episcopal Church Of the Ascension, in
chicago announced to his congrega
tlon on Sunday that he would resign
this week. His resignation grows out
of differences between himself and the
bishop, owing to the latter's condemna-
flon of ritualistic practices at the Church
OF the Ascension.
Frederick Hill, piano maker, COM
mlttei suicide yesterday, at Union
Hill, New Jersey, by swallowing rat
poison. He could make good wages at
his trade, but had been on a protractett
spree, and killed himself because his
wife, who owned some property refused
to pay his liquor bills.
Yesterday was observed in Boston az
local holiday, in commemoration of
the battle of Bunker Hill. Business
was suspended. There was a military
parade, in which the visiting Continen-
tals OF New Orleans took part, and u
regatta came off on the Charles River.
Three horse thieves, John Frankford,
y. l.. Robinson and a man named
Dunn, escaped from the jail at West
Chester, Pa, yesterday morning. Thir-
teen men arrested for stealing rides on
the Railroad scaled the wall the jail
on Saturday night and escaped.
The labor agitation AT Stellarton,
Nova Scotia, has resulted in a strike
for higher wages by the boys at the AL
bion Coal Mines. Work on the slone
has ceased, and an advance has been
asked at the other mines.
At Plymouth, Massachusetts. yester--
day, the suit of George W HmD Dhreys
against the Old Colony Hailr>ad for
sou, 600 damages for injurir, caused by
he abrupt stoppage Of a train resulted
in verdict for S1O,53
1t is reported that Il suits have thus
ar begun against the trustees of the
BROOKLYN Bridge by relatives of the
'lctlms OF the disaster on Decoration
Day, and that the damages claimed ag-
,regate about $4,000.
General Charles Ewing, a brother of
General Thomas Ewing, Of Ohio, and q
rlatlon by marriage Of General Sher-
nan, IS reported to be dying of pneu--
nonla. He was soldier OF the Union t.
The $4,000 breach Of promise sui
,rought by Mary Alice Livingston
gainst Henry Flemming,i in New York,
as been settled hy the !aintif' for
1000.
John and Martin Reuter-, brothers,
we're srnothered 10 death at Milwaukee,.
esterday, by gases from a well they
tcre repairing
Two sons of Alexander F0minister,
gcd respectively Is and ~ years, were
rowned at pixm0unt, Maine, on Sun
ay by the sinking of Il boat
i is reported from Greensboro, North
Arolind, that 'Taues NJ. Smith, while
lowing near that li!A@e yesterlays
lrned up an emerald worth $1,000.
The work Of deepening Lake 81.
eter, at Montreal, 10 2115 feet was
1g'n yesterday. It vii occupy tive
,arS.
Fifteen female clerks were DISCHARGED
'sterday from the Typographical Bu-
an of the PoSt-otfce Department in
'ashington.
Two Chilcot Indians havo been SELL
need to death in British Columbia for
ling two Cinnamon.