Daily Republican., 1885-08-12
News Summary.
BOGUS BARRELS-FRAUDULENT
TRANSACTIONS-A POOD lie
SMUGGBER AROUND.
WHOLESALE SUFTOCATION

WHOLESALE SUFrOCATION
Some Peoria distillers are accused of
I using barrels constructed with q
/ thick stave opposite the bupg. The
bunR stave was also made thick The
heads of the barrel, instead of being
three quarters Of an inch in thick ness,
were only half an inch. These barrels
hold from . gallon to gallon and q
half more than the gauger's rod and
calipers show" The matter is being
investigated by a revenue agent.
Joseph Kreiser. a harness maker OF
New Haven, who recently failed, turned
lover to trustee $500 OF assets to Offset
%, 900 liabilities. The trustee instituted
an investigation, whom it was found
THAT Kreizer had recently drawn 81 900
from the bank, and that q few days be-
fore his assignment several loads of
Igoods were removed from the store.
ICharges of fraud will be brought against
X reizer.
A seizure OF jewelry smuggled from
New York has been iuade by the GUS
toms officers at Montreal. II appears
that well dressed woman has been
noticed to cross the boundary several
times at different points. She was
always accompsn led by a small poodle
dog, and it was under the blanket which
the dog invariably wore that the valu-
| ables were stored"
The four masted ship Frederick Bill
ings, the second largest ship ever
built in the United States. " was launch
ed yesterday at Rockport, Maine. Her
| capacity Is 1928 tons; length, 291 feet;
from deck to main truck, 161 feet. Her
| masts will extend 70 feet above the
Brooklyn bridge, and three of the four
I oacti0na ufl1 he 1ouorad sr ordor
pass under that structure. Her total
cost is 100000.
The New Jersey Capitol Rebuilding
| Commissio met yesterday in Trenton
and decided to 60 on with the excava-
ting immed lately. While this is being
doing Architect Broome will perfect his
plans. 1t has been decided to sell the
old mater ial, which will be of no use to
the State
| The men on tho day shift of the West
End Coal Conpany's mine at Mocan-
aqua, near Wilkesbarre, entered the
mine as usual yesterday morning,
to work, although they knew the fan
had broken. The consequence was a
Wholesale suffocation, resulting in the
death of ten men, and the injury of sew
eral others.
| A telegram from Belleville, Ontario,
says the Ind ians on the reserve at Des'
eronto, becoming dissatisfied with
the Rural Dean Baker, violently as.
saulted him Sunday night. They drag
ged him from the pulpit and threw him
out of the door of the church. Mr..
Baker will lay the matter before the
Courts"
AS Grand Trunk train was passing
Blue Bonnets, near Mon sreaI, on Mon.
day, it struck an express wagon in
: which were two men, George Walsh
and James Miller, and toy. The
g,y men wsTe sIsIIld kiIlsd and tina how sar'o--,--
A heavy rain and a thunder storm
| visited Kansas City, Missouri, before
| daybreak yesterday morning. Cellars
and streets in all parts of the city were
| flooded. Two brick stores collapsed
Iduring the storm, their defective foun.
dations having been weakened by the
fiood.
The strike against " double headers" "
on the Wheeling division Of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad is at an end,
and trains are again running as usual.
The dissatisfied employees have been
discharged, paid off, and their places
6lled with new men. No more trouble
is anticipated.
| The Liquor Dealers Assc citation Of
Mississippi has called a convention to
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take steps to Offset the action of the
Prohibition lists in their refusal to sup
port candidates for the Legislature not
committed to prohibition"
A conference Of the m iners of the
| Monon gahela and Kanawha districts is
| being arranged, with the view of order
ing a strike if the operators refuse an
advance of 4 a cent per bushel.
Notice has been given TO the quaran-
tine officers at Baltim ore and the De!a-
ware Breakwater 10 look out for three
vessels which have sailed from Genoa
for those places without proper bills of
health.
| Icemen frcm Iceboro' got into a fight
a Gardner, Maine, on Monday night,
and two of them were stabbed. One
died in few minutes, the other is
severely wounded.
IN the City of Mexico, on Saturday
night, drunken man, named Gabriel,
ran amuck, stabbing sew. raj citizens
and two po licemen, and fatally wound
ed retired colonel. The assassin was
captured.
The New York Worlds S1OO, coo fund
for the PEDESTAL of the statue of Liberty
was comp lettd on Monday, the contri-
buttons reaching the actual gum Of
iS1O2, 900.
William T. Rucker, appointment citi-
zen of Betton, Texas, committed sui
eide on Tue sday by shooting himself in
the head. He suffered from despon-
ldency.
The hostile Chief Geronimo is re.
Iported in the southern part of the
!, Sierra Madre, three hundred miles be-
, low the United States frontier, with
two commands pursuing him.
: The Post office department has been
, Informed OF the arrest of Thomas j.
t Grier. a postal clerk running between
8 gainesville and Social Circle, Georgia,
t for rifiing letters.
Hine and Stewart Pond, brothers,
J were gored to death by Hoistein bull,
? OF Sunday, on their farm, twelve IN lies
from St. Paul, Minnesota.
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II clair voy ant.
Mrs. f. W, Sanborn will give sit
tings every day in the week, except
Sunday, until p. m. Has given salts
faction the last ten years in revealing &
< much of the past and future, Gentle