Daily Republican., 1885-04-29
News Summary.
WIFE MURDER-HORsE THIEF
CAPTURED CROP REpORTs-
THE EPIDEMIC.
GOLD DISC0V VER E D.

Crop reports from all parts of Ca Ii.
fornia show that the grain yield in all
| the counties except Cne will be only
from one quarter to three. quarters OF
that of last year. This is largely due IL
the decreased acreage. The fruit dis
triots report largely increased acreage
and promising crops. What Is lost
in grain will be made up In fruit and
wine.
Samuel G. Abbott and Julius A. Pen.
niman have been arrested in Boston On
| the charge of having attempted to set
fire to the, Hoffman House In that city.
At intervals since July, 1888, Ave at.
tempts have been made to burn the
hotel. Abbott and Penniman were en-
ployed in the house.
The epidemic at Plymouth, Psnna.,
ia reported to be chiefly prevalent In
the lower section Of the town, where
Hungarians and Poles are crowded
together in tenements, as many as ff.
teen or twenty occupying one house.
In others quarters the disease Is believ-
ed to be abating.
In the Circuit Court ut Buffalo yester.
day jury rendered verdict against
salOen keepers In favor of the wife Of an
habitual drunkard for $1,000 damages
for selling liquor to her husband after
being warned not 70 do 60. Two saloon
keepers were on the jury.
DR.. N. W. Day, dentist, of Chicago,
In whose chair Mrs. Ella Shay died on
Monday afternoon, while under the in.
fiuence OF chloro form, has been commit
ted on q charge of manslauRhter,i In de-
fa ult Of 1000 bail.
A complimentary dinner was given
to Minister George II. Pendleton by the
Civil Service Reformers in New York
last night. II WAS largely attended by
prominent citizens, aud George William
Curtis presided.
Jacob Scott, aged rs years, shot and
killed his wife at the house Of George
Shook, near Port Gibson, New York, or
Monday afternoon. Jealousy was the
cause. The murderer was arrested ,aud
lodged In jail at Canandaigua.
Nine men were buried under the rains
of the burning buildings in PiJtsburS
on Monday night. Nelson Wood wat
killed and John Gre,zinger fatally
injured. Theothers are expected to re.
cover.
The Grand Jury of Brunswick Coun
ty, Virginia, has indicted forty
citizens for gambling. Their tria! will
ltake place at the May term of Court
Some of those indicted are leading resi-
Idents.
Near Concordia, Ohio, on Monda!
night, Adolph He's, OF intemperat
habits, Murdered his wife and chill,
and then committed suicide BY hanginl
himself.
Mics Lydia Clements committed sui
, eide by taking strychnine, nea
Vienna, Alabama, ON Wednesday Last
Z She was to have been married on Sun
! day.
An election held in Princeton, Ne'
4 | ] Jersey, on Monday to get the sense
a the voters on the license question. II
suited in the triumph of the licens
Q party.
Congressman Brady, of the Fourt
Virginia District, has lost three childre
from diphtheria within a few day
The third, q daughter, died on Monda
Il night.
nj a bill passed the Ohio Legislatri
@ yesterday requiring the saloons In Gu
v cinnati to remain closed from midni2l
to six o'clock a. m.
8 aGold quartz in ying quantities
. is reported to have been iaken from
h farm at Eritztown, Berks county, Pen
J, sylvania.
n The body of another victim Of Il
" Cuyler colliery disaster at Raven Ru
], near Shenandoah, Penna was foul
yesterday morning.
,f Governor Martin, of Kansas, yeste
N day issued a proclamation imposing
n quarantine of ninety days on all oat'
40 from Missouri.
Conrad Baker, ex Governor of In'
X ana died yesterday, in Indianapolis,ag
Id 68 years.