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SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Interesting Items from Home and Abroad.
William Legg, a prisoner in the jail at Kingston, N. Y., was fatally shot by the jailer, upon whom he had made an attack .... Gen. Grant left England for Belgium...... President Hayes and Secretary Evarts assert that there is no scheme on foot for the annexation of Mexico, as has been rumored...... Col. Wilkins was suspended from the collectorship of Baltimore and Mr. Thomas has been put in possession of the office...... The business portion of the village of Chester, N. Y., was almost totally destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of over $67,000. ...... The ocean steamships Elphinstone and Redewater collided in the St. Lawrence river and both were sunk; total losses, $175,000.... Daniel McQuay, of Williamsport, Ohio, got into a dispute with one of his harvest hands named Redcliffe, and knocked him down. Redcliffe drew a pocket knife and stabbed McQuay ten times, instantly killing him...... The four members of the Louisiana returning board—Wells, Anderson, Kenner and Casanave—were indicted in New Orleans, charged "with having on the fourth of December, 1876, falsely and feloniously uttered and published as true the altered, forged and counterfeited election returns for Presidential electors from the parish of Vernon at the election of November last by adding 158 votes to each of the Hayes electors and deducting 395 votes from each of the Tilden electors."
Henry Blair, of Sullivan street, New York, fatally stabbed his wife during a dispute. Religious differences led to the act...... France has announced that her Exhibition will positively be opened next year, but this government will not appoint a commissioner until Congress meets...... John Gerhan, a night watchman in Hoboken, N. J., and his son of twelve were drowned while fishing in the Hackensack river. ...... Great swarms of red-legged locusts have made their appearance in Michigan and are devastating the growing grain...... A recent hailstorm in and about Watertown did damage in the town alone to the amount of $20,000.... William M. Tweed has written a letter in answer to the charge of the attorney-general of New York that he (Tweed) was acting in bad faith. Tweed offers to refer the question whether or not he intends to keep faith to Charles O'Conor. ...... The two-year-old daughter of Henry Bruns, of New York, died four weeks after having been bitten by a dog.... At La Grange, Ga., Jack Thomassen, a colored boy of fifteen, was hung for the murder of the two children of Charles Miller, also colored. The murdered children were aged eight and two years, and the crime was one of unparalleled atrocity, young Thomassen being instigated to it out of motives of revenge against Miller and his wife, who had forbidden him to come to their house
O'Leary, the pedestrian, who undertook to walk 520 miles in six days, failed in his attempt, having accomplished 471 miles at the end of the sixth day..... The Keeseville (N. Y.) National bank was robbed of about $75,000 by seven or eight masked burglars, who bound and gagged the watchman, blew open the safe and abstracted the contents...... John Oldroyd, an English carpet manufacturer, has failed with liabilities reported at $1,350,000.... Three boys, all under twelve years, were drowned while bathing in Niagara river...... Recent dispatches from Cuba report that over 180 insurgent prisoners, who were captured in various actions of late, have been shot...... The steamship Wisconsin, from Liverpool, arrived in New York, having on board 750 converts to Mormonism on their way to Utah..... A lieutenant, ten soldiers and two citizens were killed by the Indians who revolted recently in Idaho and Oregon..... The boiler of a steam thrasher near Nashville, Illinois, exploded, killing N. W. Moore and Harvey Lee, and injuring three others...... W. H. H. McAllister, deputy collector of the St. Albans (Vt.) custom house, has become a defaulter to the amount of nearly $1,700...... The Planter's House of Carbondale, Ill., was destroyed by fire. Loss, $9,500. ...... Elijah Killam, a farmer of Wayne county, Pa., was struck by lightning and killed.
Troops under command of Gen. Ord crossed the Rio Grande into Mexico in pursuit of a band of horse thieves, with whom they had a severe fight and defeated, recovering the stolen horses. The event caused considerable excitement throughout the country, as the occupation of Mexican territory by American troops is supposed to be the result of the policy determined upon by the government towards Mexican marauders on the border...... In India over 1,250,000 persons are receiving relief from famine ...... The plague is raging in a portion of Persia, and many persons are dying daily. ...... There will be a State election in Alabama and Kentucky, August 6; California and Vermont, September 5; Maine, September 10; Colorado, Iowa and Ohio, October 2; Louisiana Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin November 6...... Dr. W. Gadding, of Taunton, Mass., has been appointed successor of Dr. Nicholls as superintendent of the government hospital for the insane at Washington. ...... A tornado in Wisconsin destroyed the lumbering village of Pensaukee, killing eight persons and severely injuring about twelve others. All the buildings in the village—including a hotel, schoolhouse and lumber mills—were swept away. The neighboring town of Coullardville was also severely damaged.
A fight took place at Chester, Pa., between about a dozen men, and two of them were badly cut, probably fatally...... The German Bank, of St. Louis, has suspended on account of an insufficiency of business...... Messrs. Moody and Sankey were present at Rome, Pa., at the dedication of the monument to the church-song writer, P. P. Bliss—one of the victims of the Ashtabula railroad disaster. The monument is partially the result of contributions of three thousand Sunday schools, representing over 500,000 scholars in this country, Canada and Great Britain...... At Portsmouth, R. I., the centennial of the capture of the British General Prescott was celebrated...... The removal is announced of Captain Brackett, the revenue officer who recently brought to light the heavy operations of a gang of silk smugglers in New York ...... Dr. E. H. Reed and a lady were drowned by the upsetting of a carriage in the canal near Trenton, N. J.
A number of men at work in a coal mine near Wheatland, Pa., succumbed to the deadly fumes of gas generated by a furnace, and of the thirty odd miners who were taken out unconscious seven died, while several were seriously injured ..... As a team containing Ira Davis. Mrs. Jonah Davis, Mrs. Ira Wakefield, Mrs. Eugene Brown and Miss Lacey was crossing the railroad track near Greenfield, Mass., a locomotive ran into it, killing the whole party. They were returning from a berrying expedition...... The sentry on guard at the military barracks in Montreal bayoneted a young man named McKeown, who was one of the party of young men that had attacked the sentry in an endeavor to force an entrance into the barracks. A large crowd gathered and attacked the guard with stones, but was dispersed by a few shots from the soldiers...... A man named Green fatally shot his wife at Roanoke, Mo., and a few days after his arrest he was forcibly taken from the sheriff's hands and hung to a tree by a party of fifty men...... The Yorkville Savings bank of New York was closed by the State bank superintendent, investigation having disclosed a deficit of about $700...... The session of the international cotton convention opened in Liverpool..... Several members of the cabinet—among them Secretary Evarts and Attorney-General Devens—will visit the coal mines of Pennsylvania soon .... The Greenback party of Iowa met in convention at Des Moines, adopted a platform, and nominated a State ticket headed by Daniel H. Stubbs for governor. ...... The Brazilian mission has been given to John McNulta, of Illinois.
