Daily Republican., 1885-07-31
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dead General will be promptly rene.
died."
News .: mmary.
"a dsshy individual" giving Tbs
name Of Adam Wilson has swindlel
many of the farmers of Somerset,
Fayette and Bedford Counties, in Pa,
"by taking orders for Lightning
rods and weAther vanes, to be supplied
BY the International Manufacturing
Company Of Chicago, which concern
has no existence Wilson, who Is
said to be "of handsome exterior and
well dressed" obtained ad vance pay
ments to the amount of $8, 600.
Governor Pattison and General Hart
ranft and their staff on Thursday even
ing reviewed the Third Brigade, Ma
tional Guards, in camp at Mount
Gretna, Pa. Tho encampment will
break up to-day. William Mowry, of
Columbia, o member of Company C.,
who had been carousing in Lebanon,
morning and killed.
The drouth prevailing In the vicinity
of Reading, Pa, is the most severe
are almost entirely destroyed, and
crops in general will realize only one.
half. In the country many persons are
compelled to haul water long distance,
the wells having given out. The
Schuylkill river IL lower than for years.
A violent storm passed in the vicinity
OF Tolford, Montgom cry Comfy, Pa,
on Wednesday evening. In o track
about twenty feet W wide and mile in
length. stacks were blown down,
trees uprooted, barns unroofed and
wagon houses demo lished. The tornado
was accompanied by rain, hail and
lightning.
Tae county Jail at Baker City, Ore
gon, WAS burned on Wednesday morn
ing. Five prisoners perished in the
flames a nd sixth was bad ly scorched.
The latter, q half.witted fellow,
charged " ith m urder, is believed to have
set fire to the building, in the hope of
making his escape.
The stage going from Pena, Rio
Grande City, to Texas, was robbed of
the registered mail by two highway
men, on Tuesday morning. The quar-
terly remittance of the Rio Grande
Post Office was in the stole pouch. 1t
, is believed the robbers fed to Mexico.
At Waynesburg. Pa, John Thomas
and William Faulkner were overcome
by foul air while working at the bottom
of q we'll forty feet deep. Thomas died
! in the we'll, and Faulkner was taken
! in such condition that his recovery
was considered doubtful.
j. Barry, who recently finished q
large contract with the Canadian Pa
cific Railroad Company, on the north
line OF Lake Superior, has sued the
company for $500 600 in addition to
tha mr. ho hoa
Of work done.
! Joseph Creitz and Michael Bailey
were struck by lightning while passing
through wOOd near Stinesville, Pa.
on Wednesday evening. Both were
badly injured, and Bailsy's recovery is
Association s.nAn !. IN Ssi.
In yesterday 's session a report was
unanimously adopted, strongly pro.
testing against the Introduction of
Temperance text books In the SCHOOL,"
J The comm itree of the Union of
American Hebrew c0ngregat ions met
in New York on Thursday and voted
that services in memory of Sir Moses
MOnteflore shall be held simu ltaneous.
ly in all cities Of the country.
Henry Dun, Wiman and Henry
Tay lor. each II years Of age, arrived
at Montreal on Thursday in an open
ten foot boat, having rowed or sailed
the whole distance from Staten Is.
land"
William Smith, son of the Post.
master at Blue Earth City, Minnesota,
was arrested in Minneapolis on Thurs
day on the charge of robbing the mails.
He confessed his guilt.
The body of an unknown man, ap-
parently colored. but 80 decomposed as
to prevent identified ton, WAS found on
Thursday morn ing in the woods, near
Landsville, Lancaster County, Pa.
Suit has been begun in the United
States Circuit Court of Chicago, in.
volying the title to the .rea estate of
the town Of Pullman, valued at 81 ,0OO,-
900.
Mrs. Lawrence Leismayer, while
frenz led from drink cut her throat, at
A AlbanS, New York, on Thursday
morning.