Daily Republican., 1884-03-22
NEWS SUN MARY.
FsSs' xplosiop ms GailOws Victims
Other News.

| Rudolph and Champ Fitzpatrick were
hanged yesterday at Columbia, Tennessee
for the murder Of Nj III, r brewster, committed
| In August last. The execution was witnessed
by about 5000 persons. Tho condemned and
their victim were nands on the farm of man
, named Perry, and the sole motive Of emur-
der appears to have been Jealousy because
their employer made favOrite Of Brewster.
| The Buckridge Levee In Louisiana, 80
miles below Vicksburg, broke on Thursday
night II 1t is not soon closed some Of the
best lands In Tensas Parrish will be over.
| flowed. The Davis creyasse Is now 100 feet
wide and very deep, and all efiOrts to close IL
have been abandoned. The levees at Ship 8
Bayou and Point Pleasant are also reported
broken.
The Missouri river at Yankton, Dakota
Territory, rose IS feet On Thurs0ay night and
is full Of heavy Ice. A gorge has formed be
low the city. The water ia running over the
low lands, and the Milwaukee and st. Paul
Railroad tracks have been destroyed for =
distance OF Two miles. People are moving to
the hills.
Before the Senate lnyestigatingC Committee
In New York yesterday, II man testified that
although he was only street sprinkler for
the street Cleaning Department, and paid
license fee for the use OF a hydrsnt, he was
assessed from 800 to $500 every year for the
TAmmany Hall organization.
While supper was being given to the prs-
Oners in the jail at Erin, Tennessee, on Thurs
day night one of the IN neld the taller vhlle
two other prisoners escaped. Tho prisoner
VINO was hOl'ing the laller then threw him
down and escaped in turn. One Of the fugi-
tives has been captured.
tnoch Brown, wife murderer, sentenced
y be hanged at Halifax Court House, North
Carolina, yesterday, has been reyrieved by
the Governor until the 18th of pril. 1t is
Browns third repr eve.
A raft Of lumber. on which were three men,
went down the flo ded Staunt0n river, in
VirRi la, on thursday night, and has not
been heard Of since. 1t Is feared the men are
lost.
One huHdrsd and sixty carcasses of "bob"
veal, on their way to the New York markets,
were seized by the sanitary police on Thurs
day night and sent to the oiial dock.
Representative y. ). ,ox, Chairman o.
the House Democratic caucus, yesterday
Issued a call for caucus OF Democratic
Represe natives on Tuesday evening next.
Judge II. A. johnson, OF New York, once
u partner Of II. NJ. teller, -ecrctary Of the
Interior Ia lying dangerously i'll of typhoid
fever
by an explosion yesterday In the Enter
prise Coiliery at Mount Caramel, Pa, Carl
Tauubontky was killed and two other men
were fatally injured.
The wife Of Wellington Ward. keeper of a
boarding house at Capelton, Quebec, has
been arrested on the charge Of numbering her
husband by giving him arsenic.
George Fuller, a well-known landscape
and portrait painter, died yesterday in Bos-
ton, aged 81 years
Edward ~. Watkinson. q leading bust ness
man OF Hartford Connecticut, died yesterday
morning, Of pneumonia.
Judge Thatch or, OF tho supreme court, o.
Colorado, died yesterday, OF Brights dis
ease.
The boiler In RaIman's saw mill. near
Augusta, Arkansas, exploded yesterday, ,kill-
ing tle fireman and three children.
John H. Pope, Dominion Minister Of Agri-
culture, Yesterday left Ottawa for Florida, on
account Of i'll health.