Passaic City record., 1893-04-08
LATER NEWs.

THOMAS A. BROWN. picture fran,
maker, of dissipated character, was arrested
charged with beating to death his mother,
Mrs. Cathsrine O'MsalIy, an old woman,
with whom he lived at South Boston, Mass.
SIX farmhouses and many head of cattle
have been burned in forest fires near Hoiii
daysburg, Penn.
'.DAH" DONOVAN, of Cleveland, Ohio was
killed by joe Dunfsa. of Syracuse, N. Y.
in prizshght near Syracuse.
FOREST fires in New Jersey threatened to
wipe out West Pleasantville and Sutton
town entirely.
THE State election in Rhode Island re-
suited in no choice for Governor by the
people, but Browns plurality of 2037. with
majority of 1876 entirely disappeared, and
in its place is plurality for Baker, the
Democratic nominee.
The Florida Legislature, at Tallahassee
elected Samuel Fasco to succeed himself al,
United States Senator.
SECRETARY CARLISLE designated Morris
l.. Muhleman. cashier of the New Yorl
Sub Treasury, as acting Assistant Treasurer
at New York.
The contract for furnishing the seven
spring return mortar carriages for the
twelve-inch breech.loading rifed mortar
has been awarded to the West Point
Foundry Company, of New York, the
lowest bidder at &6120 each
A FIRE at Pedhaiczyki, near Sambor, in
Galicia, destroyed one hundred buildings,
including the schoolhouse, and three persons
persisted in the flames
THE Sultan of Turkeys pleasure steamer
has foundered off Constantinople: it was
said that sixty people were drowned.
THE Colombian Government has granted
an extension of twenty months to the
Panama Canal Company in which to resume
work.
FAST DAY was celebrated in Massacnu.
sstts and New Hampshire.
THE New York State Board and the
County Secretaries Of the National League
for Good Roads held meeting in Utica.
JAMES CLooNAE, convicted of wife MUIR
der, was hanged a few days ago at Pitts
burg, Penn. William Moore, colored, was
also hanged in Moyamensing Prison. Phila-
delphia. Moore was twenty two years old.
He shot and killed his rival, Charles Mad
den, also colored.
THE schooner Genesta, of Gloucester.
Mass, capsized in squall thirty miles off
Barnegat. N. J. OF her crew Husting But
Ter, Clark McGenny, and two Doane broth
ers were lost.
The Morgan murder cases were called in
court at Waynesburg, Penn. and were dis
posed of in less than two hours. Thomas
Morgan, who shot his father, was tried first,
the jury bringing in second degree YER
diet. The three sisters, jennie, Rebecca and
Callie, were tried together. The verdict
was voluntary manslaughter for the first
named and second degree for the other two.
The children had forbidden their father to
re-rarry.
ALMOST the entire business portion OF
Anson, Texas, has been burned. Nineteen
buildings were destroyed. The loss is over
SIS, 600; insurance, $4,000.
CONFEDERATE Memorial Day was cele-
brated in the South with more ceremony
than usual, the day being the anniversary
of the battle OF Shiloh.
GEORGE jaeger fatally shot Anna Nero
and himself because the girl refused to set a
date for their wedding near Big Rapids.
Mich.
PRAIRIE fires have destroyed mucn prop
erty in Graham and Philips counties, Kan
sas. Mrs. Bowen and three children were
caught in the flames and fatally burned.
SECRETARY MORTON appointed Martin
x. E. Argo, of Indiana, to be State Statis-
tical Agent of the Agricultural Department
in Indiana.
TIE United States Senate in a measure
reorganized by electing Democratic officers,
but they will not begin their duties until the
next Congress assemblies. They are: William
r. Cox. of North Carolina. Secretary of the
Senate; Richard j. Bright, of Indiana, Ser
peant-at-Arms and Doorkeeper, and Will
lam b. Muburn, D. D.. of Illinois, Chap
lain.
Mr.. GLADSTONE moved the second read
Ing of the Irish Home Rule bill in the
British House of Commons.
TIE Khan OF Khelat in India, not only
murdered his Prime Minister and tortured
high officials, but put to death five OF his
wives. The British made him pay fine of
10000 rupees.
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