Daily Republican., 1884-08-04
NEWS SUMMARY.
BASE BALL AND THE POLvCE-
CORNER STONE LAIO-N An.
TER RE&ORTs. ETC.

A telegram from Hunters Point,
Long Island, says there was q large
& altering OF base ball players at the
grounds In that city yesterday after
noon. The police attempted to stop
the playing, but were run off and 5he
game went on. Senator Otis, o.. that
district, wrote letter to Mayor Perry
on Thursday, urging him to allow on
Sundays ball playing and the SAFE of
beer, but not whisky"
The cornerstone of the new Catholic
church of the Sacred heart, at Trenton,
New Jersey, was laid yesterday after
noon by Bishop Shanahan, OF Harris
burg. The church, which will replace
St. Johns church, destroyed by fire,
will be in the Roman style OF architec-
ture, and, with the basement chapel,
will accommodate 1900 persons. Its
cost Is estimated at about S65, 600. ss
The despatch boat Dolphin is being
fitted with heavy engines, aud is eSpec-
ted to be completed by the end of this
month. The Atlanta and Boston are
ready to be launched, but, il is said,
will be kept upon the ways two weeks
longer. The framing of the Chicago ia
not yet finished.
Warren Leland, Jr., Que of the pro-
prietors of the Ocean Hotel, at Long
Branch, has bought an estate at Nassau,
in the West Indies, where he will open
q winter resort A number of stone cot
tages are being erected in the PARK, sew
| eral of which are already rented.
The Executive Committee of the
| striking bricklayers in New York met
yesterday, and received reports show
ing that all but 300 had obsained em-
| ployment. The voluntary subscrip-
tions in aid of the strikers aggregated
Isl 900.
John Lyons, while quarrelling with
his wife in Brooklyn, yesterday, on tho
front doorsteps of their dwelling,
was pushed down the steps and
killed. William McKenna, who Is
said to have pushed Lyons, was ar
rested.
OF the $500 members of the State mi
litia to whom transportation to. Gettys-
burg was issued Z, 503 had reported for
Troop was yet on its march to Getty3-
burg.
II Bishop Grace, of the Roman Catholic
diocese of st. Paul, has resigned IN ac-
| count Of old age, " ard, at his request,
bisnop ireland s,'nceeds LiA; WIG Wsa the
approval o. the Pope"
/! The potato rot has appeared in the
Provlnce OF Quebec, owing to the wet
weather. Hay has also suffered much
damage from the sarue cause.
/ President Arthur left New York, on
Saturday morning, for the Catskili's,
! and arrived in the afternoon at Kings.
ton, where ue is the guast of General
Sharpe.
a Quebec despatch says John G. Emo
, has Instructed his lawyers 10 procsed
: against Detective Fancy, High Conssa-
BILE Bessonette aud other Montreal Off
Gals Tor damages for false arrest.
VI Half the village of Alton, on the
Albany and Susquehanua Railroad, %
: miles from Binghanpton, New York,
i was destroyed by fire yesterday morn
q ing. Loss $4,000.
! James Gordon Bennett, arrived at
Newport, Rhode Island, on Saturday
4 morning i'll his steam yacht Namouua,
= after run of seven days in stormy
y weather
e William A. Woodside, of the present
! senior class of Harvard College, was
d drowned yesterday while bathing at
Newton, Massachusetts.
The Cordaville Woollen Mills at
Q Southboro, Massachusetts,, were closed
+, on Saturday for all indefinite period.
They employed one hundred hands.
The merchants and manufacturers Of
, Portland, Maine, are arranging for q
reception to James G, Blaine ou We'd
nesday evening.