Daily Republican., 1884-07-26

News summary.
A telegram from Pittsburg says the
|Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
bought 125 acres of land at Freedom,
Penna for $104, 900. Repair shops and
|round-houses will be erected on the
property, and all freight trains bound
Fast and West will be made up there.
81, 800, 900 will DO spent on the improve.
mentA The yard will accommodate
about 1000 cars.
The police of Cincinnati are paid from
the fund raised by the license tax under
the Scott law. Az the liquor dealers
are contesting that law, the police have
not been paid for nearly month. The
City Solicitor Is of opinion that II the
Mayor retains the force after August
1st he will be obliged 70 pay their
salsriesout of his own pocket"
Thaddeus 8. Goodwin, well-known In
Harrisburg, was yesterday morning
found lying dead under q railroad
bridge near New Cumberland. He and
several others were out camping and II
Is believed he got up during the night,
and, in attempting'to cross the bridge,
fell through.
Walter Hartman, Ex-Governor OF
New Hampshire, died yesterday in
Concord, aged u years. He was Colo.
mel OF the Eleventh New Hampshire
Regiment during the civil war; was
Secretary of the State Of New Hamp-
shire from 1866 to 1857, and Governor
fror 1867 to 1869.
The Pan Handle Railroad Company
yesterday paid Lafayette HUFF. at Co.'S
hocton, Ohio, the sum of $4,000, for
injuries caused by being elected from
train a year ago. The case had been
twice appealed, but went against the
Company each time.
A picnic party at Broad Ripple, near
indianapolis, Indiana, sought shelter
from a.storm on Thurday afternoon in q
dancing pavilion. A large tree was
blown upon the building, crushing the
roof and injuring ten or twelve persons,
none fatally.
The Cromwell line steamship LOuisi-
ana arrived at New Orleans yesterday
from New York, having made the pas
sage from wharf to wharf in five days
and eleven hours. This is the quick
est trip ever made between those
ports.
Miss Mary G. Aulters shot herself
through the breast at Leechburg, Pa,
last night, and is not expected to re-
cover. Her betrothed, DIR. Ossian Ter.
burgh, committed suicide a few weeks
ago by taking prussic acid.
The tannery of Charles II. Sauer &
, Co., In Louisville, was burned yester
day. Loss, $780, Captain William
Herman, of the fire department, was
dangerously injured by falling fromth'
burning building.'
Part of q wall of the Lexington roll
. ing mill, at Lexington, Kentucky, iel
. yesterday afternoon, killing jam
. Hester and dangerously injuripl
Samuel Grow.
\ -Four men were killed yesterda,
morning by the explosion Of q locomo
8 tive on the Lehigh Valley Railroad
l between White Haven and Wilkes
D barre.
Peter 8. Porter, colored, died yester
2 day, in New York, aged GO. He wa
I associated with Garrison and othe
leading Abolitionists in anti-Slaver.
7 7 times.
A fire in Charles City, Iowa, OF
+ Thursday night, destroyed-fwo wagon
: and carriage shops and the con
Z tents of two lumber yards. Loss, $50,
900.
3 Frederick Elliott and Frank Man.
q ming, aged respecti vely 8 and 10 years
r were drowned by falling from raft a
r st. John, New Brunswick, on Thursda.
Q night.
J. The New Jersey State Board G
Q Health has ordered an investigation @
Q several alleged cases Of pleuro-pneu
3 monia among the cattle on farm nea
t Highstown.
Frank G. Vittum, Frederick Jone
and John Orendorf, boys, living i
. Canton, Illinois, were drowned yeste
day while fishing.
= Hail storms at Fergus Falls, Ston
a Brook and Otter Tail, Minnesota, o
; Thursday afternoon, ruined the graf
a crops on many farms.
a Frank DeWalt, the embezsling bankt
l. of Leadvilie, was sentenced on Thur
g day to ton years imprisonment in th
n lpenitentiary.
a The quarantine at Galveston again!
ii New Orleans steamers, growing out of
's yellow fever scare, has been removed.
l. Seven persons were bitten by ma
D. dogon Thursday at Newman Station
. fifteen miles east of Topeka, Kansas.
'' The President has appointed John ]
I Bryant U. s. Marshal for Georgia,
h place of General Longstreet.