Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1880-12-21

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! ual1ties.
II The small steamer r. 3. Lse sank OF
Sunday night while at anchor in tn
r kattspOnt river, ten miles above Wes
Psint, Virginia. From some unknOwI
cause she Sprang leak and filed, anc
sank so rapidly that her passengers snc
crew had barely Tins to escape. Thu
Z. K. Les was recently built in Pbila
delphis, and had been on the line bat Q
little more than month.
| James Collins was shot twice and So.
riously wounded by James Csrlin, in a
drunken brawl at Carthage, New York,
on Saturday night. Csrlin had swoin
out warrant against Collins and a
man named Burns, Eor assault with in.
tent 10 kill. Csrlin's Pockst book and
Rhisky flask were found in Collins
| pockets.
Secretary Ttompson's administration
of the Navy Department ceased ysSter-
day, and Secretary Ramsey took tenn.
porary charge OF the department. Mr..
Thompson's last ofioial act was the Is
sue OF an order for the establishment of
headquarters for the naval training
feet at Cosstel's Hartor Island, In
Nsrragansett Bay.
George Smith and Catharins Miller,
convicted in Willismsport, Pa, Of the
murder of the lat.er's husbani, and
sentenced to be hanged on the 9Th OF
January next, have b+en respited un-
Ill the Sd of February. The Board of
Pardons will be asked at it's nekt meet.
ing, to commute their sentence.
A telegram from Halifax, Nova SEQ
tia, reports that while a woman was
walking along the street, on Sunday
night, holding an umbrella IN front OF
her to protect her IRON the snow, she
came into collision with a man aud
tainted from the sbolk. She was re.
vived in usighboring drng store, but
has become Insane.
William 9. Bradley, Postmaster at
Princeton, Caldwell county, KY, has
bssn arrested for the recent robbery of
the post-o6ics at that place, and has
confessed his guilt, His accounts are
81, zoo short, in addition to the $SsS
stolen. Bradley was respectfully oon-
nected, and had just been married.
A switch eng ne and train of four
cars colIided at 3 street crossing in
Chicago, on Sunday night, and were
wrecked. Fred, rick Dwyer, engineer,
and Frederick Thomas, brakeman, were
fatally injured. John ByrIe fireman,
was injured seriously.
The truit distillsry of A. J. Lee, in
Putnam county, Tennessee, was aeized
yesterday for violation OF the revenue
laws. This is the distil cry seized by
Deputy Collector Davis at the time an
attempt was made 10 murder him.
In all the Catholic and several of the
Protestant Churches in Montreal, on
Sunday, the clergy warned their con-
grsgations against patIoniSing the per
formanOes OF Sara Bernhatdt this
week.
Jones < Mcdonald, wheat speeula-
tors, OF Chicago, tailed yesterday. Their |
liabilities are estimated at $500, 600, and |
their assets [seeLred) at about $780,
O0C.
Bishop Fabre ordained 26 priest, s
deaeon3 and % sub.des cons, in the
Grand Seminary, at Mo treal, on Sat
urday.
Diphtheria continues its ravages in
New York, $50 cases of the
disease ana SO deaths were reported
aat week.
Eugene Pintard, aged 80 years, died
rom the rupture of blood vessel while
EilIipg hog, at Parkersville, Nav
'ersey, yesterday. a.
Four hundred N lies Of new railroad
rave been constructed im Ohio during g
he last yesr. =
The building TO BE- erected for the
lew York Worlds Fair will cost, &C. .
ording to the estimates, five million OF
ollArs.