The daily gazette., 1883-10-11
monrlNe SUMMARY.

trail railroad station, Augusta, Georgia, ex-
ploded yesterday morning. The engineer
and fireman were scaldsd.
The lock out of the window glass makers
at Pittsburg continues without any change.
Trade is reported to be as dull as ever, with
no prospect of improvement.
A cyclone struck Arcadia, Wisconsin, on
Tuesday night, causing the destruction OF
number Of barns and outbuildings, and the
loss Of considerable live stock,
The body of an unknown man was found
| In the Ohio river, a short distance below
Beaver creek yesterday. A paper was found
on which was written, r. q. Philadelphia. :"
The captain and crew Of the British
| schooners M. A. Paine arrived at Norfolk
yesterday, and reported that vessel, with
cargo Of guRuo, ashore near Cape Charles
The schooner Emily, with q cargo Of wood
for Philadelphia, put in at Norfolk, VIZ
ginia, yesterday, for repairs, having been run
Into by the steamship Cubano in Hampton
Rhoads.
The record Of the evidence in the last Star
Route trial has been printed by the Govern
ment printing office. It makes four large
volumes aud flils more than 5000 pages in
small type.
william Funk was killed on Tuesday
night during an ARRAY 10 q saloon in Coving-
ton, Kentucky, by "Joe" Williams, who
surrendered himself and stated that he had
acted in self-defence.
The barkentine Barranquilla, for Fall
| mouth for orders, arrived at Fortress Mon
| roe, Virginia, yesterday. She loet two men
| and her captain on B&rranquiil& Bar, and
was short Of provisions.
| The Washington street car drivers strike
\ ended yesterday In the defeat OF the strikers,
and last night cars on all the lines were run
ming as usual. The companies are reported
to have made their own terms with the
1 men.
State Veterinary Surgeon Bulge visited
Trexlertown, Penna., and yesterday, ascer-
tanned that the cattle reported suffering
from pleuro- pneumonia were merely affected
by capillary bronchitis. The disease is
not contagious.
Brigadier General Charles II. Crane, eur-
geon General U. 8. A., died suddenly In
Washington yesterday morning. He was
born In 1928. General Crane entered the
army in 1s4s, and was appointed BrigadieI
General and Surgeon General in 1852.
United States Deputy Marphals Sperine
and Weatherforth, while gua,ding somt
English prisoners at Fayetteville, Arkansas
on Monday night, quarreled over game o.
tards, drew revolvers and killed each other
one firing three ond the other seven shots.
The colored man, who murdered Police
man Street, of Huntsville, Alabama, OF
Monday last, by splitting his head oper
with an axe, was taken from jail on Tues
day night by so masked men and hanged
He refused to give his name. His confeder
ate Is still at large.
. The Navy Department Is informed tina
the U. 8. steamship Pints, on her reeen
trial cruise from Portsmouth to New York
collided with an unknown brig and damages
her to such an extent that she had to
abandoned, The Pinta escaped injury. N,
, particulars are given.
The President of the Board Of Trade O
Chicago says the proposition Of the Wester
Union Telegraph Company, to pay $40, 90
year for Quotations, has been considered
but will hardly be accepted, as Minneapo
lis business man is ready to pay S400 for tn
exclusive use Of quotations in that cit
alone.
Secret Service officers have arrested o
Grand Forks, Dakota, three men supposed
to have been engaged In printing and circu
lating spurious $40 silver certificates. Para
phernalia for carr ying on coanterfeitinl
was discovered, and also four copper-plate
for printing IS and $40 bills on the Bank Q
Montreal.
| OulLeU 6LAIeb Attorney ftOOb vel
rerday, In the United States Circuit Court
in New York, entered nolle prosequis in tn
suits about the loss of the steamer Seawau
haka. The principal witness for the prose
cution, Captain Smith, of the Seawanha aka
was dead, and he was satisfied no conviction
could be obtained.
A special dispatch from Moorhead, Min
nesota, says that, on Tuesday night,
men, members of threshing crew, who ha
been threshing for Mr.. Northruf, went 3
sleep In the lower story of granaTy. Dul
. ing the night the floor gave way, and tn
men were buried under 400 bushels of oatl
Four of the number were killed.
A riot occurred In Cumminsville, OhiC
on Tuesday night, between thirty white me
9 and an equal number OF colored mel
: Policeman Delaney and three colored me
were wounded. The colored men were hun
= ing for a man who had assaulted one
their number at the polls, when they wei
attacked by party of white men.
:. A petition was fled In the Supreme Cou
In Washington yesterday for a mandamV
to compel the Secretary of the Navy to con
, plete the steps which, 1t is alleged, WEI
taken by his predecessor to establish nav
stations aud coaling depets In the America
Isthmus, at Chiriqui Lagoon, on the Altar
tic Coast, and at Golfo Dulce, on the Pacif
Coast.
An axle on an east-bound freight train O
the Pennsylvania railroad broke at ElIzi
J beth, New Jersey, yesterday morning
throwing two freight cars over on the wei
track just as the Boston express came alonl
The express locomotive turned completed
: over, and the baggage car and three ireigl
cars were destroyed. Nobody was serious
e injured.
:, AT the monthly meeting of the Board
if Directors of the Baltimore ami Ohio Raj
7 road Company In Baltimore yesterday, div
= deDds were declared on the stock OF IL
= = main stem and Washington branch. Pres
dent John W. Garrett announced that a
rangements had been made for a reguls
weekly line of first class steamships b
v tween Baltimore and Liverpool.
! A special dispatch says that six childre
II of John Stauffer, at Ligonier, Pa, were DO
r soned yesterday by eating weeds In Il
10 woods. The mother had been visiting
,e neighbor ard upon her return home foun
the children lying around the room, to a
appearances dead. Me iical aid was sun
N moned, and after several hours four of the
E. were pronounced out Of danger. The otht
s, two will die.
c. AT the annual meeting of the Wester
" Union Telegraph Company in New Yor
yesterday, the following Board of Directo
were elected: NoIyin Green, Thomas ,
L. Eckert, John 7. Terry, John YanHorn
Augustus Schell, Harrison Durkee, j,
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