The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-06-13
GENERAL NEWS.

The House of Representatives hy n vote of TO o
e. has passed the bill admitting Colorado into the
Union.
Mrs Mary Kane. aged %, residing six miles from
Baltimore. burned 10 death on Saturday by q coal
oil explosion.
The President, after Congress adjourns, will
visit family relations in West Virginia He will occupy
his cottage nj Long Branch about the 4th of July.
Mrs. E. J. Bradley, of Lancaster. Pa, committed
suicide at Wilmington, Del, Saturday by taking
audanum. Domestic trouble and illness had unsettled
her mind.
The Presidents letter to Senator Jones giving his
views OF the financial problem, published on Saturday
morning, had the effect To send the premium on gold
down one per cent.
AT last accounts from Arizona, Coclse. the Apache
chief i'll that he not expected to recover
He imagined in his delirum that the spirits of white
men whom he had murdered tearing his flesh.
A soldiers monument will be erected in the city of
Lancaster the 18th of July 1t being built Hart
ford Conn., of granite 40 feet high at cost of $50 o0o
ESGov. Curtain will deliver Grafton OH the occasion.
Mrs. Ann Vanderberg fatally burned in Cncin-
natl, while kinding fire with coal OIL Her father
mother and husband badly burned while trying to
extinsush the flames She was only five days married
Another cable the Atlantic. The cable
steamship Faraday arrived in the arbur Portsmouth,
N H., Monday. No trouble occurred in laying the
cable from Halifax to within ten miles of Portsmouth,
where it is buoyed.
The first locomotive and train, consisting of three
passenger cars passed the bridge at St Louis
on "Wednesday. General Sherman of the party
and he drove the last spike connecting the bridge track
with That oil the Naniaila Railroad.
AT Jacksonville. Ind, Saturday evening,
Keeper named McDcrmott, being drunk shot his
wife while she nursing her baby. The ball passed
through the head of the child and lodged in the moth
ers breast ncting wounds that will probably prove
fatal. He then blew out his brains. 1t appears
that his wife had left him and applied for divorce but
had gone back to live with him.
Several thunder storms appear to be much nvogue
In addition TO the which swept part of our
county on Monday night, the telegraph brings
counts of one of the most terrific thunder storms
know prevailed Sunday at Utica, N. Y. The tele-
graph wires between Utica and Syracuse Frustrated
There was report that twenty persons drowned
in Onea lake aud in Onondaga lake, during the
storm. The village Of Tampico, in Whtcsde county.
ILL.,, devastated by tornado Saturday night
Twenty-one dwellings and two grain elevators were
demolished while other building in the village
was damaged. No lives ware lost, but many persons
injured, several of them seriously. Troy. N. T..
visited Sunday by a thunder Storm during
West Troy was blown down struck down by light
ming. In falling the span sank four canal boats lying
at the dock beneath. Fifteen persons were those
boats, but all supposed have escaped, The span
240 feet in length. and the loss is estimated at S40
600. There thunder storm north of Pougl
keepse Saturday. The track of the Hudson River
Railroad was washed telegraph poles were torn down
and other damage done. There heavy rain
Storm with hail, mt Morrstown. n. j. Wednesday even
ing. Some of the hail stones two inches in crcum
ference and it is feared that the peaches have been
ruined.