Daily Republican., 1885-06-01
N eWs Summary.
NO DEATHS FROM FEVER.

The body Of Charles II. swink was
Depot in Fort Worth, Isxas, on 5atur-
day. Ewink was dosing In . seat in
the Union DepotA few nights ago.
VIXEN some confidence men attempted
Ito rob him. The sleeping man aWoko
and began firing at every one in the
room, wounding fatally two innocent
men, named HAgood and Terboe. Swink
then ran from the room, .nd nothing
body was found.
A telegram from Wichite Falls says
that the Special Committee OF the U. 8.
Senate to investigate Indian leases
reached there last Friday, and were to
10 to Harold ON Saturday. The tele-
gram adds: Senator Maxey telegraph
/ cd to the Postmaster General request
ing the immediate appointment Of b.
". Starr as Postmaster at Harold.
This town, although only one week old,
has . population Of over So0,. with
twenty-five stores and a. many shops"
A violent storm Of wind, and haii and
thu1der passed over the northern Sec
tioa Of Lancaster county, Pcnna., yes
terday afternoon. The wind tore
strcng trees MP by the roots and threw
them across the roadways, and in sew.
eral instances tobacco barns were pick.
ed u9 bodily and demolished. The
hail stones. which were very large, fell
to IN unusual depth"
Richard Hands, night clerk In Henry
IV. 0rawford's drug store, at 120 Hui
son, street, New York, was found mur-
room in the rear of tie store, where he
Was accustomed to sleep. His body was
sitting in chair, with the skull crush.
eds In and the throat cut. Money
which had been taken In the store en-
Saturday was gone.
All the iron mills in youngstown
and the Mahoning Valley, Ohio, shut
down on Saturday night on account Of
ItAe refusal of the Manufacturers to
si3h the scale presented by the Amalga-
mated Association. About ten thousand
lnen are thrown out Of work BY this
movement, and the strike prom ises to
be long.
In the United Presby erian Assembly
y at Topeka, Kansas, on Saturday, .
resolution was adopted asking the pro-
prietor OF the Daily Capitol "to date
, his edition of Sunday morning and
! intended for distribution through the
bly,, Monday, June LIST, and not
. to distribute 1t through the Aest mbly
until that day."
A meeting of the creditors o. the
Lamson & Goodnow Manufacturing
, Company will he held at Shelburne
Falls. Massacb usetts, on the 9Th instaI
when plan for settlement will be pre-
! sented. The company has assets
. amounting to about $177, 900, not includ-
ing real estate valued at 800 900. The
8 debts are about $240, 600.
, No deaths from fever were reported
y at Plymouth. Pa, on Sunday, but there
vera three admissions to the hospital.
Z Treasurer Shupp reports that the total
). tf contributions for the relief of the
o plRgne- stricken people mp to May 29th
was $16, 254 81, Of which about Sl4, 500
d las been distributed.
~ G. 7. Howard, of " Insleside," died
q yesterday at Yonkers. Nsv York from
ls, on Saturday. He was well known at
. New Orleans, where hs had sugar
= plantation.
The wabers Of tic Prazos river ai
h Hearne. Texas, on Saturday reached
10 the highest mark 9, er known. On
Il Saturday night the food began to sub.
:. side. Many plantations were sub.
merged, and the loss in crops Is heavy.
p Daniel Deohert. editor of the Spirit OF
;. tao Valley, the leading Republican
newspaper Of Harrisonbnrg, Virginia,
died suddenly ofheart disease yesterday
morning, aged about 60 years.
bCA0VOx bAllcu AIOIu N6W
o York on Saturday for England. He IL
to testify before q committee of the
House of Lords in q suit affecting one
'' OF the oldest peerages In England.
rs The corner-stone of the new Roman
Catholic church Of the Holy Ghost was
laid on Sunday afternoon in the grounds
of Jesuit College at Woodstock, Nd.
Archbiship Gibbons offici ated.
L The first salmon ever captured In
Chesapeake Bay was caught ON Friday
rt lear the mouth of York river. 1t was
brought to Baltimore AMI weighs eleven
m and half pounds.
Thomas Brown, Of the Brown Oil
~ Company, at Erie, Penna., Is reported
- to have failed for nearly $500 900.
Judgments for $3.50, 600 against him
n have been recorded.
10 Rufus Magee, our new Minister tc
Sweden and Norway, sailed from New
D. York for Bremen on Saturday.
- A local branch of the Canadian i'm.
perial Federation League han been or.
lganized in Montreal.
-, President Cleveland returned to
- Washington last night.
n The Worlds Exposition at New Or
leans closed on Saturday.