Daily Republican., 1888-08-01
News Summary.

Frank Mott. confidential bookksepe,
for Daniel Stone & Co., OF Oincinp at,
left bis home on Saturday, falling bis
wife she would probably not see htm
again. On his desk was q note sayiug
that II his books were wrong his father
would make up the deficiency. He has
not since besn heard OF. 1t is not yet
known that he is o defaulter.
Three men who. white drunk, muir.
dered Charles Burks, brakeman on q
passenger train on the Gulf Road, near
Hardy, Arkansas, on Sunday, have
been arrested by deputy United States
marshal. Feeling against the men, who
are In jail, is bitter, and mob violence
Is feared.
General Myers and Attorney General
Bradford, Of Kansas, passed through
Liberal on Sunday atternoou, on their
way to Stevens County, TO prevent fur.
ther bloodRhed there and, presumably,
arrest the murderers Of Sheriff Oress
and his deputies.
Near Ourtisville, Indiana, John Had
ley, for whom Constable George Orutch.
neld had . warrant charging him with
horse stealing, on Tuesday shot and
lnortAlly wounded the constable. Two
hundred men are Searching for the
murderer.
A. G. Radcliffe, . mounter Of Rlaz 'ers'
diamonds, is reported to have dIsap-
peared from New York with diamonds
valued at $50 600, which he obtained on
credit from different merchants. IL Is
thought he hAs gone TO Earope.
Secretary Whitney sent to Nsw York
yesterday an order commanding Lieu
tenant SohAefer, Of the swAtarA, TO Ap
pear before the General Oourt-mArtisl
Of the Brooklyn Navy Yard to Arsrer q
charge of absence from his station and
duty without leave.
Sidney Dolby and George Armstrong,
both colored, being drunk, quArrsled in
Saratoga on Monday night. Armstrong
threw Dolby down stairs, and As Dolby
died soon Afterwards, 1t is supposed his
neck was broken by tbs fall.
L. Smith, school teacher, was found
dead In sloop near Esquimslt, British
Columbia, on Monday. Two other men
who left on the Bloop with Smith are
missing and supposed to be drowned.
A man who committed suicide ct the
Riohelieu Hotel, In Montreal, on Mon
day, proves TO have been Henry Hol.
brook, defaulting bookkeeper Of the
AnsoniA, Connecticut, Savings Bank.
At the Treasury Department 1t Ia eg-
tlmated that there has been . decrease
Of 81, 500, 900 In the public debt during
July. Over e14, 100000 was paid out
during the month for pensions.
Benjamin. Duncan, coloFed, was
killed in aght with IN unknown COL
ored woman, who attacked him with q
butcher knife, near BardstoWn, Ken.
lucky, on Monday.
The incendiAry fires that swept Port
au. Prince, the capital Of HAyti, on the
4gh and 7th ult., destroyed $50 build
ings, and the loss amounted to 81, ,0O0,.
600.
Charles a. HGoklsy, who recently
gave Muskegon, Michigan, 800. 600 for
public library, has given S25, GOO ad-
ditionRl for the purchase of books.
The fEst bale of new cotton was re-
oeived At Montgomery, Ala, Tuesday.
Only one bale WAS ever received earlier,
and that on July 80, 1887.
Rudolph Sevic, the gunsmith charged
with completely In the dynamite plot ct
Chicago, was released Tuesday evening
on bail aggrsgAtinR SIG, ,0GO.
Three bales of cotton were received on
Tuesday at Oolumbia, Ga, eight days
ahead Of the reoeijt Of the first bale In
any year since 1865.
Senator Reagan had his pocket picked
Of 800 on Friday night In Washington,