Daily Republican., 1885-04-17
News Summary.
GRtsT MILL ROBBED AND
BURNED-HORSES BURNED
TO DEATH-LYNCHIN
SM0THERED TO DEATH.

CElOluEAED lU UEAIH,
A fire in Buffalo last evening des-
troyed the Morning Express building
occupied by that journal, job printing
office, two lithograph ofiicesi and the
ONeil Wagon Co. The fire was caused
by tho ignition of oil tanks above the
printers' cases while lighting the
lamps in tho news room. The fire
spread so rapidly that the reporters
ana editors who were in the building
had barely time to escape with their
lives, and George Il. Matthews, one
OF the proprietors, had his face badly
scOrched.
j. II. Bell, charged with having mur.
dered Il. g. Lovall in December last,
was taken from the jail and lynched
at Pierre, Dakota, about two O'Clock
yesterday morning. 4 confederate of
Beils named Bennett, who had confess.
ed the crime, was not touched by the
lynchers, who were scared away by
the authorities teiephoning for aid. The
murder was one of peculiar atrocity,
and the case of the mdrderers seemed
likely 10 60 over to the next term of
Court.
Fourteen hundred employees OF the
Barbour Flax Spinning Company, of
Paterson, New Jersey, struck yesterday
for an increase of ten per cent.in wages.
TO counteract two reductions that have
been made within two months. The
strike compelled the closing of both the
large mills, and advices are awaited
from Ireland, where the Barbours are
at present.
Memorial services In honor of ,presi-
dent Lincoln were held on Wednesday
In Springfield, Illinois. Speeches were
made by Governor Oglesby, General
John A. Logan, General Sherman and
others. Letters were read from Presi.
dent Cleveland, ex.Presidents Arthur
and Hayes, and Robert Lincoln.
On Wednesday, some tramps called
at the ranch of Senator Stanford, near
Red Bluff, California, and were driven
away. At daylight yesterday morning
the stables were discove to be on
fire. They contained 1l5 horses and
mules, all of which, except four, were
burned to death.
At q meeting of the State Board of
Charities in Albany, yesterday, resolu.
tions were adopted recommending a
thorough sanitary inspection of all the
charitable and reformatory institutions
in New YorE State, in view of tho dan
ger Of cholera.
The Senate Of New York has passed
tho Niagra Reser vation bill, and 1t goes
to the Governor for approval. 1t pro-
vides for a free park around Niagara
Falls forever, and makes an appropria.
tion for the purchase Of the land.
The grist m III of Charles Hilliard, in
Salisbury township, Lancaster County,
Pennsylvania, was robbed and burned
on Wednesday night. The j." Welsh
mountain gang" are suspected Of the
outrage.
Fifty Senators and one hu..dred and
forty. five Representatives attended the
joint convention of the Illipois Legisla
ture yesterday, but no vote was cast fol
United States Senator.
The three hundred miners who struck
at COehocton, Ohio, last week. against
reduction of 10 cents per ton for min
ing, resumed work on Wednesday a
the reduction.
John Kuntz, aged ~ years, was
smothered to death near Norristown
Penna., on Wednesday evening, by
slipping into funnel lealing from
bran bin on the second floor of q BARI
to a feed box on the first floor.
Ex-Secretary Frelinghuysen wal
somewhat better yesterday. He wal
able to take little nourishment and t.
reply to remarks made by members o.
his family.
A tornado passed over the country
east of Ham let, North Carolina, OIL
Thursday afternoon, demolishing trees
fences and buildings. No lives are re
ported lost.
A mad dog appeared in the northwest
cru section of Milwaukee, on Wednes
day evening, and was not killed unit
he had bitten twelve children and on,
man.
1t is now feqred that two month.
may elapse before the bodies Of the vic
tins of the Raven Run mine disaster
near Shenandoah, can be reached.
Anthony NJ. Kelley, the new minis
ter TO Italy, will sail for Rome in thu
early part of next month. He receivet
his commission several days ago.
John Hoolihan, ex.superviser of tn,
town of Hancock, Delaware county
New York, 10 reported to be MISSING
with $1,000 of the town funds.
Philip Hill, Postmaster at Chatta
nooga, Ohio, has been arrested on the
charge of stealing registered letters, ant
held in $500 bail,
The Kennebec river, in Maine, i
now open to navigation from Gardner
to the sea.