Daily Republican., 1883-05-04
NEWS SUI NJ MARY.
CLARK GAINES-OTHER
NEWS.

Judge Billings at New Orleans yester-
day rendered an opinion i'll The case of
Myra Clark Gaines against the city Of
New Orleans, on an exception to the
report of the Master in Chancery. The
report of the Master is confirmed and
interest is added. Mrs. Gaines got
Judgment against the city for 81, 1,925,-
667, Of which $566, ,7O7 is interest. The
suit was to recover rents and profits for
the occupation OF property known as
the Beane tract, which the city has not
had in its possession since 1887 1t is
thought the case will be appealed to
the Supreme Court of the United States.
On Tuesday and Wednesday nights
several attempts were made to burn
the houses of the fire department in
Petersburg, Virginia. Balls Of yarn
saturated with oil We're thrown through
the windows. On Thursday night
man was detected in an attempt of this
kind on the hook and ladder truck
house, but he escaped after being shot
at four times.
Sixty members of the Pennsylvania
Legislature, who served in the late
war, will arrive in Petersburg, Virgin
la, this afternoon, to visit the battle.
fields near that city. A meeting of
citizens was held in Petersburg last
evening, at which committee was ap-
pointed to arrange for the reception Of
the visitors. Senator Malone is one of
the committee.
There is considerable apprehension
along the lower Rio Grande in regard to
| yellow fever. The Governor Of Texas
advises, if quarantine station should
be necessary this season, that it be
established at Bagdad instead of
Brownsville. He has directed the
health officers of Brownsville to consult
with the Mexican authorities on the
subject.
James A. Neal, brother of wealthy
! leather merchants of Boston, who was
stopping on rancho of the Kansas City
Cattle Company, in the Indian Terri
tory, was recently murdered during the
absence of his companions. Robbery
was the motive of the deed. The mur-
derers are unknown.
According to telegram from Otta-
wa, Professor Macune, of the GeOlogi-
| Cdl OuTNty, uOtldlVu oSioic pAS
Committee on Immigration that the
whole region from the Gulf Of st. Law
renee to the Mackenzie river, might
with draining be made productive for
wheat
A snow storm which had prevailed
in Montana for three days was break
ing up yesterday. There was storm
of sleet at St. Paul, Minnesota, on We'd
nesday night. No fruit or grain is suf-
| ficiently advanced in the Northwest to
be injured by these storms.
The press reports that General Crook
has crossed INTO Mexico in pursuit of
the hostile Indians are fully credited at
the War Department. No official re-
port on the subject, however, has yet
been received.
The Consul General at Rio Janeiro
reports that the yellow fever is regarded
as epidemic there, 13 deaths from it
having occurred in the city and II in
the South Isabella Hospital during the
last week in March.
Sixty-nine Cree Indians recently cap
tured by our troops near Fort Asine-
boine have been sent back to Canada,
their rifles and ponies being restored to
them.
Joseph Bork, ex-Treasurer of Buffalo,
convicted of misappropriating the funds
Of that city, was sentenced yesterday to
five years hard labor in the Auburn
Penitentiary.
Chairman Cooper, of the Republican
State Committee, of Pennsylvania, yes
terday issued call for the meeting of
the State Convention in Harrisburg, on
the llth of July.
The steamer Grappler, plying between
Puget Sound and Alaska. was burned
yesterday morning, and it is reported
that sixty lives were lost. Most OF the
lost are Chinese.
The St. Abans Iron and Steel Mills,
at st. Albans, Vermont, have filed
petition in insolvency, showing liablll-
ties of 100000 and assets of Sl91 900.
Advices from Lima and Callao, of the
It'll, ult., report great alarm because OF
an unexpected visitation of yellow
fever.
The saloons in Des Moines, Iowa,
have been closed because of the action
of the City Council raising the license
TO $1,000.
1t is announced that an extensive
seam of bitulninous coal has been dis
covered within ten miles Of Victoria,
British Columbia.
The steamer Braunschweig, from
Bremen landed ,l79 immigrants at Bal
timore yesterday morning.
Senator Anthony contin ued to i'm
prove slightly yesterday.