Daily Republican., 1884-09-13
NEWS SUMMARY


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Surgeon General Hamilton is report
cd as saying that the most rigid.
quarantine precautions are observed on
the Canadian frontier against the i'm.
portation of rags from there into this
country. The Canadians them selves
enforce stringent precautions. The
English ports, from which re-shipments
are made from injected districts, are
regarded by the Canadian authorities
as infected ports, and importation
thence is prohibited.
Yesterday being the 10th anniversary
OF the battle of North Point was ,bserv-
ed in Baltimor6 as q municipal holiday.
The parade of the Old Defenders, which
had been the great feature of the day,
did not take place, the Association hav.
Ing been disbanded. Four of the sur
vivors and several prominent citizens
dined with Mr.. Robert Rennert the
other three had dinners furnished at
their homes by the same gentleman.
William Valea, an old man, employ
cd as night watchman in the office of
the Augusta and Summerville Street
4 A~st"oy NohA Pehyf III Aukuotdj
Georgia, was found murdered in the
Office yesterday morning. An attempt
had been made to burn Che body by
smearing 1t with oil and setting II on
fire. A desk in the office had been
pried open and $38 stolen.
I The schooner Dresden, of Macheas,
Maine, with dry dock piles for New
York, collided on Thursday morning, of
Cape Cod, with the steamer Lorenzo d.
Baker, and was badly damaged. The
Baker took the schooner's crew TO Bos.
ton. The Dresden was taken in tow by
the steamer Berkshire, but when of
Provincetown she capsized and was
abandoned.
A telegram from Pittsburg says thai
A. M. Bowser, who was convicted oi
murder in the second degree for killing
IObadiah Haymaker, during the Muir.
raysville gas we'll riots, and sentenced
to ten years imprisonment in the
penitentiary, was released this morn.
ing on $40, 900 bail pending application
to the Supreme Court for new trial.
Il The Acting Secretary of the Treasury
has sent q letter to the New York Com
missioners of Emigration defining a,
paupers such immigrants as come
from the foreign almshouses. The
commissioners are directed &C to make
Investigations, and use their discretion
in other cases that may be brought be
fore them."
Captain Danl McKennon, of tn
schooner Grace f. Littleton. of Pro
vincetown, was lost overheard in gall
off the Graud Banks, on September 1st
Hiram jerks, aged 80 years, the oldes
hunter and fisherman at Schroon Lake
!, in the Adirondacks, was found dorwnet
in the lake on Thursday.
, Commodore johnson, commapdinl
= the Naval Training Station at Newport
has received orders informing hin
transformed from the Bureau Of EQUIP
. ment and Recruiting to that of Navi
, cation.
The contract for lighting the new
steel cruiser Atlanta has been awarde,
Ito the United States Electric Com pany
I lof New York that for lighting tn
steel cruiser Boston has been awards
y to the Brush Electric Company, @
= Cleveland, Ohio.
: A Boston and Maine r ilroad trai
y ran into stationary gravel train, nea
.Old Orchard, Maine, on friday morn
ing, and threw it into a ditch. Bot
engines and a passenger car wer
damaged, and one man was slight
4 injured.
By the flood in the Chippewa river
+ Wisconsin, thirty five buildings a
chippewa Falls have been carrie
.. away, and nearly all the bridges aIon
!. the river and its tributaries have bee
! destroyed. The total loss is estimate
8 at ST. O00, 900.
A fire in Pierre, Dakota, early yes
terday morning. destroyed block O
t buildings, including the First Nationa
rank, the stores of Phelan & Co., an,
Goode q Co., and the Shurtliff and Pal
ace Theatre. The loss is estimated a
S75 600.
While the steamer Norman, fror
3. Philadelphia, was going up Boston hal
! Dor, on Thursday evening, she brok
r her shaft. Word was at once sent I
the city, and she was docked by tug
yesterday morning.
Benjamin Johnson, colored, convic
: ted Of completely with Allen Ingalls, /
the murder of Beverly Taylor and VIII
and little girl, near Avondale, Ohio, i
! February last, was hanged yesterday 4
the Jail yard at Cincinnati.
), The woollen mill of f. j. Salt, Jr., 4
j. Co, at Portsmouth, Ohio. WAS burned o
: Thursday night. Loss, $50, 900, covere
4 by insurance.
A block of stores on King street, Or
tario, was burned yesterday. Loss, $50
d 600.
Frank Hutchings, the stranger
8 was hanged yesterday at San Francisco
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