Bridgeton pioneer., 1884-02-28
CONDENSED NEWS.
"wednesday, February 30.

removed, and the office is under the charge
of his bondsmen He is accused OF embez-
element.
Three robbers broke into Jacobs cigar
shop, at East Greenville, Pa, on Sunday
night Jacobs fired six times, and they fle.i.
One of them was found badly wounded
Senator Dawes was authorized by the
senate committee on Indian affairs to favor
ably report bill providing for the punish
ment OF trespassers on Indian lands.
Senator Cockrell of the COMMITTEES on mil
itary affairs reported bill yesterday TO pro-
vide that the 179 abandoned military reserv-
ations be sold at not less than S125 an acre.
Thursday, February 81.
Six residents of Wheeling, W. Va, lost
their lives by railroad accidents Yesterday.
Election returns from the interior of Penn
sylvenia generally show Republican vic
tories.
A severe cyclone yesterday DESTROYED
much property and caused several deaths in
Georgia.
Mr.. Bradlaugh RadcaD has been elected
for the fourth time to parliament from
Northampton.
The president gave card reception last
evening i'll honor of the members of the SEN
Governor Stockley, of Delaware, has par
doned Mary E. Meteer, negress, s.ntenc d
for life in 1878 for child murder
The lightning express train on the Wabash
Railroad was wrecked near Glenwood, No,
yesterday morning. Six passengers were in
jured.
Friday, February 22.
One thousand coal miners about Pittsburg
are on strike.
The Maine Republican state convention
will meet at Bangor on April 30.
A call for $40, 900 three per cent bonds
was issued from the treasury yesterday.
Nova Scotia coal miners oppose the re-
noval of the duty on coal in reciprocity
with the United States.
The Thatcher will case in Boston is re-
opened on the ground of new and important
evidence having been discovered.
Five firemen were injured by the falling
Of the southern wall at the ruins of Lath-
bury's MILL Philadelphia.
Four hundred and fifty men and bows
were thrown out of work yesterday by the
flooding of the Stanton mine, near Wilkes.
barre.
A break in the railroad pool is threatened
by Chicago house offering oats in Boston
at lower prices than could be afforded at
regular rates.
A syndicate of prominent eastern Califor-
MIA capitalists backed by wealthy German
mouse, have completed contracts with Ha-
waiian sugar planters for their crop.
Saturday, February 90.
Gov. Pattison has issued a warrant for the
execution of John Coyle, Jr., of York coun-
ty, Pa. The hanging will take place April 25.
Efforts are to be made to stop the snug.
Cling that is carried on between the United
States and Canada.
John and James O'Brien, James Foley
William Casey and Joseph Sparling have
been held for the murder of William J.
Pugh, in Philadelphia, last Tuesday.
Mr.. Parnels amendment condelnning the
governments policy in Ireland was rejected
i'll the house of commons by vote of 81
to 30. Speaker Brand announced his resigna-
ton.
The missing bodies of colored man, his
wife and adopted child, whose house in
Avondale, O., was burned, have been found
in the Ohio Medical college. The three had
been murdered.
Relatives of the nineteen miners, who lost
their lives in the West Leisenring fire damp
explosion, threaten to bring suit against the
Connellsville Coke and Iron company, own
ers of the shaft, for damages.
Monday. February 25.
The czar has offered Gen Ignatieff the
civil governorship of Turkestan.
The garrison of Tokar has surrendered to
Osman Digma, of the False Prophets army.
John Flood has an unknown whom he will
match for $3.50 side against George Full
james man, Jack Riley, to run from one up
to ten miles.
Peter Hax, aged about forty, Baltimore
street paving contractor, was found dead on
Saturday in his duck shooting blind on Gun
powder river.
Strong sermons we're preached in all the
churches in Wilkesbarre yesterday on the
subject of enforcing the law against intoxi-
eating liquors.
William Z. Hull, fireman on the Balti-
moro and Potomac railroad, on Saturday
night jumped from tho engine, fracturing
the skull, from which he died yesterday
There will be glove contest between
Charley Norton, the lightweight champion
of America, and an unknown, said to be
Billy Edwards, az Clarendon hall this even
ing.
The twenty-second annual ball of the
Purim association will take place in the
Metropolitan opera house on March 5, and
will be the first fancy ball given in that
building.
Garter and other snakes, measuring from
two to four feet in length, have begun to
crawl in the lower portion of Ulster county.
Two large ones were killed at West MARI
borough on Saturday.
Tuesday. February 90.
The Free Sons of Israel in convention at
Cincinnati voted 81, 200 to the food sufferers.
AT Atlanta, Ga, Tobia Turner, mur-
derer, was sentenced to be hanged April Is |
Commissioner Dudley is being urged as
the Republican candidate for governor of
Indiana.
The rumors of fight between the police
and Indians at Crook lake, Manitoba, are |
unfounded.
John Heith, a murderer of a woman at
Tombstone Ari, was lynched the day after
his conviction.
w. B. Cash, a son of the noted duelist,
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