Daily Republican., 1885-11-18
News Summary.
OvERCOME BY GAS--sUIrIOES-
A POSTMASTER ABsCON DS-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
SMALLPOX IN MONTREAL

While repairing 8 blast furnace of
the Cambria Company, at JUhnstown,
Penna., on Monday night, j. b. Smith
was overcome by gas and fell head long
into the furnace. N fewer than seven
teen men were rendered insensIble
while trying to rescue him, bu. they
were dragged from the Jaws of death
by their comrades. Finally, the life.
loss remains of Smith were pulled out
with hooks and ropes,
Mrs. Rhoda Howard died cn Tuesday
In Bath County, Kentucky, at the al
legged age of 1lG years. "Shs was VOL
fully well preserved and retained her
faculties to the last" She WAS three
times married, and one Of her husbands,
it is said, was in the Revolutionary
War. "She smoked a pipe and never
took dose of medicine.
At Eddyville, Iowa, on Tuesday,
Mollie Meeker, aged seventeen years,
lay fully leveled a revolver at a com
panion, demanding "her money or her
life" Moliie then playfully pointed
the weapon at her own head aud pu He'd
the trigger. The pistol was discharged
and she fell dead.
The Irish American Union in New
Oh L uOoho1 H1ooOA A~oOAo
tions "denouncing tie execution of
Riel as a judicial murder, and urging
the French Canadians ID bring their
Province into the Union, and to en- ter
within the pale OF American citizen
ship"
The store OF 7. " Reese & Son, in
Baltimore, was robbed of securities and
money to tbs amount of s., 500 on Mon.
day night. The securities included
S4 900 in registered bonds, which the
burglars cannot negotiate.
A well dressed man, apparently
about 70 years OF age, who had regis
tered as John w. Evans, committed
uicide by shooting himself in front OF
a mirror in the Hershman Hotel, New
York, on Monday night,
At Freehold, New jersey, yesterday,
William Dugo pleaded guilty TO the
charge of ticket scaiping, in violation
of the new State law, and was sentenced
to pay fine of $3.50 and the costs ot
! prosecution.
Edward Quev:t., a young Frenchman
! was shot and dangerously wounded by
| Adeline Duval, in hotel in Chicago
yesterday morniag, The woman had
been living with tueVir, out be lett her
few days ago.
William Campbell, Postmaster at
Aylmer, Ontario, has aoseonded, and
his accounts are said to be considera-
bly, short." This is the third abscond.
ing Postmaster in Ontario within a
short time.
lis charged in Canada that the army
accounts of the late rebellion have
been falsifed, and that several high
officials ara implicated. A Parliamen.
tary investigation will be made.
. Mrs. Ray Good and Miss. Lillian
| Walter, who ~ese shot BY A. G. Burras
as they were leaving +, 6. Dun q Cos
office. in Chicago, three weeks ego,
have nearly recovered from their
| wounds.
Two men were killed and two severe
ly injured by fall of slate from the
roof of coal mine az Pomeroy, Ohio, On
Monday evening.
N. Webster, assistant supsrlnten
dent OF the town of Pullman, near Chi.
oa2o, has beer arrested on the charge OF
en- bezzling $4,000.
John Otis, So years Of age, pork
butcher, committed suicide in New
York yesterday morning. He had been
drinking heavily.
William Sanbgook ard his wife were
run over and killed by railroad train
near Pontiac, Michigan, yesterday
morning.
Seventeen deaths from small.pox
were reported in Montreal and seven in
the suburbs on Monday.
The barge Saucy Jane was capsized
in Chesapeake bay last Friday night,
and two of the crew were drowned.