Daily Republican., 1885-05-14
News Summary.
A TR AMP AND BANK FORGER-
SWINDLING IrALJANS-CAR.
TRID6E IN A CIGAR.
STABBED AND SHOT.

In NyOCk, New York, Oh Tuesday
night, br. j. o. Polhemus was badly
injured in the face and eyes by the
explosion Of cigar which he was
smoking. 1t was asscertained that the
cigar contained . pistol cartridge,
John Burke, aged 10 years, was fatally
shot by Mrs. John Harris at her house,
near Nanticoke, PenDa., yesterday
morn ing. Mrs. Harris, accompanied
| by her husband and three small child
went to Wilkesbarre and gave herself
| up, saying the shooting was acciden-
tai.
Baker Brothers, glass manufacturers
of Baltimore, have offered $1,000 reward
for the arrest and conviction of the
scoundrels who made two attempts to
blow up houses in which resided non.
union employees Of the firm. The second
of these attempts was made on Tuesday
night at the house Of the foreman,
Sears the other about q month ago on
house in which several apprentices
boarded.
The East mammoth gangway of the
North Ashland oolliery at North Ash
land, Penna., caved in yesterday morn
i ing upon James Ennis, Charles Dough-
erty, Martin McKerno and Michael
Head. The latter was dug out badly
| injured, but the others remained en-
| tombed last evening, and there was
littl le hope that tthey would be found
alive.
Charles Huber, recently arrested at
Birmingham, Connecticut, as tramp,
| turns out to be John 8. Palmer, bank
| forger. He has been taken to Boston
to answer charge of forgery on the
continental National Bank. He has
swindled nearly every post office in the
State (Connecticut) and several firms
in the Naugatuck Valley.
Frank Rotunno and Tony Mascarillo
were arrested in Chicago on Tuesday
night for swindlinR 100 Italian laborers
out Of $3.50 each on pretence of OBJ
tanning work for them in Indiana.
The laborers assembled at the depot,
but could not obtain transportation.
In Wednesdays session OF the Catho
lie Knights of America, in New York,
Mr.. Reilly, Of Tennessee, offered reso-
Tuition authorizing women to establish
branch councils, to be known as the
Ladies' Catholic Knights of America. !"
The matter was referred.
The American Rural Home, of
Rochester, New York, says that special
Information from all over the country
indicates that winter wheat will he 81
per cent. of full crop, as against 8S
per cent. last year"
General Sheridan was Injured 80 30.
verely by the upsetting of his carriage
, near Santa Monica, California, on Mon
! day, that he was obliged to remain there
all the next day. No serious result,
however, ia expected.
A pay train dashed into the rear of q
= repair train on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad near Savage station, Mary
i land. early yesterday afternoon, max
= ing wreck which obstructed travel or
|, the road for nearly three hours.
Willie Thomas Kennedy, 80 years o.
t age, was burning off new ground on q
:. faru In Crawford county, Georgia, last
8 Tu. sday, a tall pine tree which had
. been burning fell upon and crushed him
to death.
Three frame dwellings In Lawrence.
vile, Penna were burned on Tuesday
night, and Mrs. Binder was dangerous
! ly injured by jumping from a window
Of one of them.
The mill of the Massachusetts Warp
and Yarn Company. at Parker Village
Connecticut, was burned on Tuesday.
Loss, $4,000
The large brewery Of M. Brands Co.,
in Chicago, was burned by fire yester-
day to the extent Of $3.50, 900.
James Richey's coffin factory, in Gin.
cinnai, was burned on Tuesday night.
Loss, 5000.