Daily Republican., 1885-08-17
News Summary.
BY TRAMPs-VERY
NEAR A PANIO ON NAbrEAMER A
MURDER AHD ARSON.
SOCIALISTS ARMING.

OUUlALlOlO ANWlNUs
At Anderson, near Huntington. Pa,
on Friday night, Thomas Crepps while
walk ing on the railway track. was ae-
saulted by two yraDps and knocked
down and gagged. After stealing his
watch and che"k for his months sala-
| ry, which he had just received, they
tied him to the track and left him 10
to his fate. BY frantic efforts he work
cd himself partially free, but passing
his left hand, which he was unable to
release from the rail.
While In mid.lake, between Milwau-
kee and Grand Haven, early on Friday
morning, the steamer City Of Milwau-
damaged to the extent Of 10000. The
shock of the accident awakened the
eighty or more passengers, who rushed
frantically from their state rooms and
were with difficulty prevented from in
|augurating q serious panic.
The house of Susan Ashley. colored
at Graham, Georgia, was burned on
Saturday, and the oharred bodies of
her four children were found covered
with q mattress ON the middle of the
floor. The FIRE broke out during the
temporary absence Of the mother, and
IS the house was open and she left the
children playing outside, 1t is sus.
peeted that they were murdered and
the house set on fire.
Louis Henke, first baseman of the
Atlanta base ball club, while trying 70
reach first base at Q game played in
Atlanta on Friday afternoon, came in
collision with Marr, first baseman Of
the Nashville club, aud suffered rupture
of the liver, from which he died on
Sat urday afternoon. Henke was from
Cincinnati. He leaves wife and one
child.
-Four hundred Socialists, including
many Of the striking Bohemians and
Poles, held meeting in Cleveland,
Ohio, on Saturday night, and INDUCED
in mnch wild talk. Gorsuch, who was
one of the speakers, D." advised the men
to arm themselves with Winchester
rifles and 60 around to the warehouses
and help themselves, and shoot down
any man who opposed them"
John X. Fairman and wife were pois.
oued in Chicago few days ago by eat
ing toadstools in mistake for mush.
rooms. Fairman LIS dead, but his wife
is expected to recover. Seven or eight
ouhCA PCioohb 0Ao uoukOTOubly III III
Hyde Park, suburb of Chicago, from
similar cause, and half Of them are
not expected to recover.
There were 40 cases of small pox in
the hospital at Montreal on Saturday.
and more than 100 houses were placard.
cd for the disease. There have been
12o deaths from the smallpox since Its
appearance In April.
Fannie Wagner, domestic, in Balti-
more, committed suicide yesterday,
closing the doors and windows tightly
and unscrewing the tips from the gas
burners She was found dead in the
afternoon.
Maxwell, the supposed murderer of
@. Arthur Preller, In St. LOUIS, arrived
in that city yesterday from San Fran.
cisco, in charge of detectives. It IL
positively denied by the officers havirR
him in charge that Maxwell ever spoke
in relation to the crime with which he
is charged.
j. G. Castor, a lawyer Of Chester,
South Carolina, blew out his brains in
hotel In Atlanta on Saturday. He
was several times Solicitor General,
and once candidate for Congress.
Rev. j. r. Speck, q preacher of Can.
ton, Georgia. who was "deranged on
the holiness question:" attem pted sui
eide on Saturday by using knife.
-Four boys were drowned ON Sunday
Dy the capslzing of skiff in the
Monongahela river, near Pittsburg.
Their names were Charles and Mark
Rich, Court Ahlers and Jacob Meshser.
A light frost, the first of the season,
was observed at East Tanas, Michigan,
on Friday night. There was frost also
at Quebec the same night.
The miners OF the Warrior Coal and
Coke Company's mines, at Birming.
ham, Alabama, struck on Saturday
against an attempt to introduce Italian
labor.
The Roman Catholic church in Union.
Vile, Connecticut, was DESTROYED nv
hre on Saturday night. The loss ia
about $26, 900. insurance $13, 1000.
The White Mountain House. near
Fabyan's, New Hampshire, was en-.
.ered on Friday night by burg lars, wlo
'ook out the safe, blew it open and
with $3.50.
The jury in the case of the brig Mary
celeste, at Boston, were discharged on
saturday morning for inability TO
agree.
By disaster on the Lehigh Valley
Railroad at Allentown, on So turday,
Twelve cars were wrecked and Others
were damaged.