Daily Republican., 1885-08-29
News Summary.
THE GALLOWS-A CONVICT RE
LEASED AND RE-ARREsTED-
THE COLD SNAP.
CHILDREN POISONED.

| The frosts in Wisconsin have been
light and no damage reported.
No frosts have yet been reported at
Keokuk, Iowa.
The relics of the Greedy expedition
will be sent to the st. Louis exhibition.
The closing exercises of the season
were held at Chautauqau, New York,
on Friday.
The subscriptions to the Grant Monu.
ment Fund. in New York now amount
to $65, 1888.
| A telegram from Omaha says that no
frosts have been reported from any part
of Nebraska.
The lowest temperature reached at
| Rock Island. Illinois, during the cold
spell was ~ degrees on Wednesday
morning.
There we're light frosts in the country
around Bloomington, Indiana, on
Thursday morning. No damage was
done to the crops.
| A committee has been appointed at
Ocean Grove, New Jersey, 10 consider
the question Of erecting a memorial to
General Grant.
| Charles Townsend, the negro who
murdered an old man named Freeman
at Madison, Alabama, was hanged yes
terday at Huntsville, Alabama.
The closing services of the camp
meeting at Ocean Grove, New Jersey,
on Friday morning, were attended by q
very large number of people
AT a special meeting of the Board of
Health Of Halifax, Nova Scotia, on
Friday, II was decided to have general
vaccination of the population.
Butter * Peters saw and shingle
mill, in Mainstee, Michigan, was
burned on Thursday Loss on mill and
machinery, $4,000 insurance, $50, 900.
Mrs. Jacob Rosser, recently resi-
dent of Ashland, Penna., was danger
ously injured by falling from rail-
road car at Altoona last night.
Mrs. Lewis, 81 years Of age, was
killed By train while crossing the
railroad track at Duncannoa, Pen na. ,
yesterday afternoon.
Three freight cars ran off the track
lon the Delaware and Chesapeake Rail
road near Easton, Maryland on Thurs
day night. Martin Hubbard, a brake
man, was killed.
The Treasury Department has paid
out about $4,000, COO on account OF
pensions this month. If is therefore
expected that the decrease of the pub
lie debt for August will not be as large
as usual.
| John Wsiseman, who murdered Far
ley, last spring, and then burned the
latter's shanty to hide his crime, was
hanged in Duluth, Minnesota, yester.
day afternoon.
The Great Western Iron Boat Building
Company of st. Louis, Theodore Allen
and Anthony II. Blaisdell proprietors,
made an assignment on Friday. The
assets are listed at S36. $50; liabilities
unknown.
A train on the Texas and St. Louis
Railroad wAs thrown from the track by
a bull, near Mt. McGregor, Texas, yes
terday morning. The conductor and
several passengers were injured, one of
the latter, an aged lady, fatally.
Samuel W. Collins was hanged yes
terd&y at Bo Wing Green, Kentucky.
for the murder of man named Utter
beck, committed last year. Utterbeck's {
widow and her two little sons, aged re.
spectively and years, witnessed the
Execution.
Alexander Leman, convicted of in
| Icendiarism, was released from the Ian.
caster jail yesterday on the expiration
of his sentence. He was Immediately
re-arrested, and held in $1,000 bail on
the charge of having broken Jail with
Abe" Buzzard in 1888.
A. X. Henderson, coored, United
States Collector of Pensions at New
IOrleans for the widows and orphans OF
deceased colored soldiers, was arrested
yesterday, charged with forging the
name CT widow and witnesses to a
lpension claim.
Il Major Francis ID. Lee, one of the lead.
ing architects of ST. Louis, died sud.
ldenly on Wednesday Of apoplexy, at
one OF the Northern Lakes, where he
had gone on a fishing excursion. He
Twas the inventor of a submarine torpedo
land served in the late war on General
Beauregard's staff
Il William Roworths hardware store,
at Central City, Colorado, his drygoods
establishment at Pueblo, and cattle
lowned by him In various parts of the
Estate, were attached yesterday for
1872 900. Other attachments are
to follow. His liabilities are estima ed
at $4,000.
The will of Pauline Wilson, spin
ster, was entered in the Surrogate b
office In New York yesterday. II pro.
vides tn At she should be buried plain
lily, and that dog and several birds
pets of hers when she lived-should,
lon her dem ise, be cremated an0
their ashes strewed over her grave"
A constable was sent from Cincinnati
to Chester Park at noon yesterday
with a warrant for the arrest of John
l.. Sullivan on a charge of being "about
to engage in contention commonly
called priza fight" Sullivan's attor-
ney appeared in Court and gave bonds
, / in $1,000 In his behalf not to engage In
a prize fight. Dominick McCaffrey
gave similar bond.
Il Three children were fatally poisoned
/ at Fassil, 6. llhsm comfy, Oregon, on
, Wednesday. They got hold OF q cen
of concentrated i've and drank some oi
1.-The contents, which caused death before
medical assistance could be procured
iShortly afterward Rev. James Young,
who lives in the same town, gave two
To- ( his children, by mistake, an over.
idOse of medicine containing lauda-
mum, and and both died within an
hour.
Great excitement prevailed in Stur,
igis, Dakota, the scane of the lynching OF
Ross Hollis, the colored soldier and as
: sassin of DR.. Lynch. On Thursday a
number of colored soldiers of Fort
Meade armed themselves. and going to
lSturgis threatned to burn the place.
General Sturgis sent detail OF the 18th
lCavalry, which secured tho town and
lcap,ured the colored soldiers.
IL Dress cutting and Fitting.
n Mrs. Bond, s2l West Fourth street,
4.a %, =, ,anrfnct tailor aUstann Of dras.