The daily gazette., 1883-01-08
LATEST NEWS CONDENSED.

Mrs. Lizzie bunker, aged 6s years, com
nitted suicide yesterday In Brooklyn by
Jumping from fourth-story window.
Sixty members Of the Pigeon Creek Pres
byterian Church near Monongahela City,
Pa. have been "sessioned" for dancing.
David w. Brown, widower, committed
suicide by taking laudanum, In hotel
at Providence, Rhode Island, on Friday
night.
The tannery Of the Wisconsin Hide and
Leather Company, at Milwaukee, was dam
aged yesterday by fire TO the extent of about
$751;
The weavers Of the Aquidueck Mil, at
Newport, r. l., have refused to resume
work, and the mill will be closed for an In
definite period.
Charles Smith aud boy named Samuel
smith wee drowned by the breaking Of the
ice while they were skating yesterday in the
bay at Toronto.
The | 800 steel workers on strike at the
Vulcan Iron Works in st. Louis nave been
notified that they will to-day receive their
pay for December.
dispatch to the New Orleans Times
Democrat reports the arrest In San Antonio,
Texas, of Marshal T. Polk, the defaulting
Treasurer of Tennessee.
Colonel Edward C. Anderson, ex-Mavor
of Savannah, and President Of the Ocean
Steamship Company, died on Saturday
morning at the age Of 6S years.
r. Champion d Co., dealers iu books and
stationery, Of Rock Island, ILL.,, have made
an assignment. Their liabilities and assets
are stated at about S4l 900 each.
General Z. T. Lewis Of st. Landry Parish,
Louisiana, was nominated for Congressman
on Saturday by the Democrats of the Sixth
Louisiana district to I'LL the vacancy.
Charles Perry, aged 20 years, member Of
dry goods firm IN Washington, com
mitted suicide last evening by shooting
himself in the head. Dissipation was the
cause.
violent earthquake shook Northern
Ohio, between 2 and 3 O'Clock on Saturday
morning. People were aroused fr"m their
sleep and in some places chimneys were
tumbled down.
The Episcopal Churches Of the Diocese of
Springfield, Illinois, have unanimously re-
FUSED TO assent to the conservation of Rev
Hugh Miller Thompson, OF New Orleans,
recently elected Bishop Of Mississippi,
). Marcus u Son, OF Brookly, New York,
Mobile and Birmingham, Alabama, and
Pensacola, Florida, have made an assign
ment to A. j. Moses, of Mobile. Their liza
bllities are about Sl50,O00, their assets nomi-
nal.
owen Lynch was killed and John Nc
Govern and John McCarty were severely In
lured by an engine that was backing UP to
4 train ut Glendon Station, on the New
night.
FIFTY acres of land in Irondale, south of
Shlcago, were sold on Saturday for $50, 900.
~ ~, 10 understood the purchase was made for
"tsI virginia capitalists, who intend to
pu'iu iaiee IRON works on the ground at a
cost of $3.50, 900 to 81 900 900.
b. NJ. Bnrdick, a well known dry goods
nuyer IN New York, committed suicide on
saturday evening, in BROOKLYN boarding
nouse' Dy cutting his throat. Domestic
tIouole was the cause. He was a fine look
ing man, about 45 years OF age.
M ineodore Welesch Is Co., owners of the
"hlte House dry goods store in Tucson,
rnrt.i1ona, ilade an assignment on Saturday.
inelr liabilities are said to be SOC, 900, aud
tHeir assets about the same. About $40, 900
vi thelr liabilities are preferred.
Moses q. Hanauer, a wealthy coffee mer-
vnant OF New York, was found dead at Fort
mSenlhgton Polnt last night with q bullet
npIe ~ MS head and revolver near by one
chalhoer oil which was discharged II is
supposed he committed suicide.
-, TWO OF the five woollen mills at Newbtry,
SeW iork. have suspended until the market
improves, throwing 200 operatives out OF
h "olA. ne other three mill, employing
"uouL ouo hands, continue running, but in
per cent. NV
&. william Seayer, editor of the "Drawer"
II hdrPers Ndgdzine," died yesterday in
snt"l snunt vernon, New York, of pneumonia,
es vna az an illness of only two days, in the Goth
war OF his age He was also a contributor
20 20 Harper's Bazar, and was formerly editor
Vi newspaper in Buffalo.
,.o4 large meeting of Frenchmen was held
3esteIuay, In Tammany Hall, New York, to
nStbl nSuor lhe memory of Gambetta. In front
., c,ro e,I5 stage was heavily draped catafalque
i1|aGIayette, and on the stage was a portrait
~ uannnetta, draped In mourl ing and In
"i' Fleolor flag. Addresses WIRE made.
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