Daily Republican., 1883-08-20
NEWS SUMMARY.
Notable Deaths-TOrnadOes and
Thunder stOrms-TneFire Demon
NAfAn.

Thunder StOrms-Tnek1re Demon
-Other Notes.
The sloop Columbia, with 80 pas sen
gers, went ashore among the breakers
Oh the bar at Atlantic City yesterday
morning. The sea ran high, but the
passengers and crew were taken off by
Charles and Samuel Adams in a life
boat. The Columbia was got off in a
damaged condition in high water In the
evening.
The Democratic State Convention OF
Massachusetts will meet in Springfield
on September 26th. The State Com
mittee has chosen Charles Levi Wood
bury to be chairman of the Committee
on Resolutions, and Charles p. Thomp-
son, of Gloucester, to preside over the
Convention.
William W. Holden, Ex-Governor OF
North Carolina, publishes a card an
nouncing his withdrawal from the Re
publican party, and saying that he is
not member of the Liberal party.
This apparently leaves him nowhere If
not with the Democracy.
David Gallup, a leading Republican
politician Of Connecticut, died in Hart
fort on SATURDAY, at the age of73 years.
He had been a Probate Judge, and
served several terms in the Legislature,
and in 1879 was elected Lieutenant
Goveiu nor of tho State.
The Secret Service Division of the
Treasury has received foar sets Of dies
used in the manufacture OF one dollar,
half.dolar and quarter dollar gold
coins for charms and bangles, which
were recently seized in California
| Naval Surgeon Owen, who is sick of
yellow fever at the Pensacola Navy
yard, is in a critical condition. Two
new cases of the fever have appeared
at Woolsey, the village adjoining the
yard.
Charles Ingram was shot, and per
haps fatally wounded by his brother
in-law, G. w. Richardson, in Cincin-
matt, on Friday night. They had been
in the habit Of quarreling on family
matters.
The Ridgetield Park Hotel, i'll Ridge
field Park, New Jersey, was burned
early on Saturday morning. 1t WAS
unoccupied, but was being fitted up for
New York Club. The loss is about
S38,0O
Frederick SchoermeL, a repairura Il
Oh the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad, fell
asleep on the railroad track near Mid
lietown, while drunk, on Saturday
night, and was killed by passing
train.
Mary Lamb, an Eng glishwoman, Of
Plainville, near Wilkesbarre, died on
, Saturday, III thu Tooth year of her age.
Her husband died short time ago at
: the age of97.
Il A. NJ. &. Smith, a large steamboat
owner OF New York and member of the
Republican State Central Committee
died Oh Friday, aged OIL.
The Heater Lumber Comrany's Mil
and yards III Rock Island, Illinois, were
burued on Saturday evening. Loss
) 500, 900.
A fire in Crawford, Mississippi, OF
i Friday night, destroyed twelve store.
: and six warehouses, causing loss U
, 100000.
n Dennis Butler, aged So, resident o
II MahOnty tlty, ftiha., was kllltu u.
!, railroad car near Wilkesbarre, OF
!. Saturday night.
If John Tudor fatally shot Mrs. Name!
t Judson, colored, who was depredatinl
'r in his watermelon patch, near Lexing
r ton, Kentucky, on Friday night.
II The body of Charles Altman, weigh
NJ 275 poands, was burned in the crema
-, tory at Washing on, Penna., on Satur
>, day evening.
Il A small flow of oil has been struck il
q wei at Martins Ferry, opposit
Il Wheeling, West Virginia, and there
,r great excitement in consequence.
a The caterpillar is reported to b
Is ravaging the cotton plants in RichmOn
X and Sumter counties, South Carolina.
$. Two mills and carriage shop i
Z, Wellington, Illinois, were burned o
Ne Saturday night. Loss, S35,OOO.
William Jessup's -four mills, a
Princeton, Indiana, were burned 0
Thursday. Loss, SO, 900.
,S K. McCready & Co.'S. boot and sho
ID factory, il Montreal, was burned ye
~ terday. Loss about $50, 900,