Daily Republican., 1888-05-07
news summary,

Joseph Gouty and Dobos GIgorjy,
Poles, supposed TO be from Hazleton, re.
gistered at the Central House, in Read
ing, Penna Friday night. Saturday
morn!ug Gigorjy was found dead, and
douty unconscious, from inhsling gas
which escaped from the burner. Gouty
may recover. The men retired with the
gas burning, but the fiamein some man
ner became extinguished.
At Washington, North Carolina, on
Friday evening, Joshua II. Cox, a lum
herman end storekeeper, was shot dead
by one OF his employees named Thomas
H. Frazier, to VIII I'm he had refused to
sell liquor. Frazier was taken from the
jail by a mob duriug Saturday night and
riddled with shot. His body was also
mu,ilated beyond Identification.
The Pastor OF the Presbyterian Church
of the Covenant In Wilkesbarre, Penna
received telegram last evening ann ounc
ing the murder in Texas of Alonzo
Church, a colored teacher from Wilkes
barre Church was graduate OF Lin.
coin University. No details OF the muir
der are yet known.
The body of John Atkins, colored, who
disappeared last December, was found on
Friday floating in the lake at Vandalis,
Michigan. Gus Harris and Loomis VIII
son, colored, were charged with his mur
der and are In jail. 1t is also thought
that others are guilty. W ilson made q
partial confession.
Anton Carlo, his wife, Sarah, and their
daughters Josephine and Antonia, aged
respectively IA and 10 years. were arrest
ed In New York yesterday for passing
counterfeit dimes. Counterfeit parapher-
MALTA and material were found In theii
dwelling.
Frederick j. Stewart, Treasurer Of
Luce County, Michigan, and poetmaste
of Eewbury, was arrested on saturday,
with his deputy, q. W. Heux, editor ol
the Hewbury News, on charge Of en-
bezzling $1,000.
A high wind ttorm passed over Eliza
beth, Illinois, on Friday. A frame build
/ ing In course OF construction was wreck
ed and six men were thrown from the
roof to the ground, q distance of 20 feet
but were not fatally hurt.
Forest johnson, who was stabbed In
the hand W ith Q long steel hafrpin by
Mrs. Margaret A. Young in Boston IN
April, died on Saturday of blood poison
ing. Mrs. Young was out on 5000 bal
and cannot now be found.
Daniel II. German and IsaRc Ednun
son were arrested in Huntington, Penna.
on Saturday, Tor circulating counterfeit
dollars Il is said that the whol5 regior
is flooded with spurious coins OF this de-
nomination.
The First Massachusetts, Heavy Artil.
lery Association. which has been making
visit to the bAttle-felds of Virginia
aud is now on its way home, had &
special reception by the President at the
White House on Saturday.
A firs In Jersey City, New Jersey, oI
Saturday morning caused loss Of t25,
900 TO Christopher Herdit & Son, coop
ers, and $50, 900 to Theodore Smith 4
Bro, boiler makers Several othel
firms sustained slight damage.
Lightning struck sshoolhouse 4
Delaware County, Ohio, on Friday after
noon, killing John Bowers, aged II years
and stunning the teacher and twenty o
the pupils, throwing them from thei
chairs to the floor.
The Jury in the case Of William McCue
on TRIAL in Wilkesbsrre, Penna., fol th
murder of Thomas Brennan, ut Berwick
last November, yesterday morning re
turned verdict of murder In the secont
degree.