Daily Republican., 1884-02-27
NEWS srAMARY.
LabOrers Retarn 10 Their Nati We
Isles - The GreeIy Expedition
YeIIOW Calf aud His BraYes, etc.

A report comes from Auckland, New
Zealand, that the Government schoon-
er Julia, which Is regularly employed
in procuring laborers from different
groups of islands In the Pacific to work
on the sugar plantations in the Sand.
wich Islands, RECENTLY landed at the
island Of Nanouki with about thirty re.
turning laborers. The returned labor
ers belor ged to the islands of Tarawa
and Apiang, In the same group, the
warfare with the Inhabitants of Nan.
ouki. The labOrers assaulted q mum.
ber of young girls, which provoked a
fight with the inhabitants, who were
only armed with clubs and spears.
Twenty NaDoukis were killed and
many wounded, while others escaped
to the Island of Apamama. They were
reinforced and returned when another
fight ensued, IN which several were
killed on each side.
| The reported sale of the Pittsburg a.d
Western Railroad was confirmed late
on Monday night. The majority of the
stock was taken by the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Comnapy, which elected
seven Of the thirteen Directors, az fol.
lows Robert Garrett, Samuel Spencer,
j. X. q wen, N. S. Hill, Thomas M.
King, Scion Humphreys and l.. s. Fer
ry, This opens upa direct line from
Baltimore to the lakes.
Chief Engineer George Melville will
accompany the Greedy Relief Expedi-
ton rs engineer of the advanced shin
Thetis, which will be commanded by
Captain Schley. The Bear, one of tn.
vessels of the expedition, will he plac-
ed on the dry dock at Brooklyn on
Saturday and got ready for her voyage.
A telegram from Ottawa, Canada,
says Joseph DE Letoine, of the Depart.
ment Of the Interior, "has rendered his
services, with til, hope that they will
he accepted, to The Greely relief expedi-
ton. Mr.. De LetOine "has invented a
gigantic aerial navigation machine"
At the Whitcoinb House in Roches-
ter, New York, yesterday, Mrs. Il. H.
Ru,scy, Of Troy, shot at and attempted
10 Kill another woman, who, she alleged,
was too intimate with her husband
The bullet took effect in the woman's
forehead, hut the wound is not fatal.
"A despatch from Broadview, North
west Territory, says, contrary TO expec-
IatiOn, Yellow Calf, the rcbclliOus In
dian chief, gave himselfup to the police,
together with four of his braves They
have gone 10 Regina to be tried by the
tourts.
The sale oi tie Stewart building, at
Broadway and Chambers street, New
York, by Mrs. Cornelia Nj. stewart to
ek Judge Henry Hilton was recorded
yesterday, The price paid was Sl,2lo,-
900.
The apple alton Of Warren Currier
for an Injunction against the West
Shore Railway Company and the North
River Construction Company,at Pough.
keepsir, was refused yesterday.
Luciu- J. Knowles, Of Worcester,
Mass, died in Washington on Monday
night If neuralgia OF the heart. He
VAS TIE iuvaninr Ol the Knowles steam
pump ana Knowles fancy loom.
The trtpar'iye agreement" was rati-
fled yesterday by tho Executive Com
mittee Of the Chicago and Northwestern
Railway Company, in New York.
The Getty sburg and Harrisburg Rail-
road was completed yesterday 10 Get
tysburg, aud, Il is expected, will be
open iOr traffic in about six weeks.
More than 100 children of the Zuni
Indians in Colorado have died OF the
measles within month, and the dis
ease is still raging.
Henry W Davis, a prominent citizen
of Rochester, New York, died yester.
day, aged ~ years.