Daily Republican., 1881-05-24
NEWS SUMMARY.
A DAYS DOING THROUGHOUT
COUNTRY.
PiIOta@e on the Dclaware-R0fler
Explosion and other
CASUALTIES.

y steam Saw-luili near OakImI, Ohio
was demolished yesterday by the ex.
| plOsiOu Of its boiler. Marshal Butler
the fireman, was blown distance OF
seven hundred feet and killed. Eight
or Ten others wereiWured, one severely.
John Daily was killed Yesterday by
being caught III the shaltiug ar the
Stamford, Connecticut, Woollen Mills
Reuben Whitaker, aged four years
was killed by falling over u precipict
while gathering flowers At Ithaca, New
York, on Sunday.
A committee of merchants and ship
| perN OF Philade. .phiaappeared last even
my before the Committee on Muni"ipal
Affairs OF the House, in Harrisburg, Il
urge the passage of the bill regui;ttin.
The rates Of piutage IN the Delaware.
| Addresses Were made hy Seth |. Come
| ly, William Brockie, Allison Whit
and Others and the Committee, at late
hour, adjourned until mis- morning
The Committee had previously mega.
| tived the bill,
Two boys named Baker and Herman,
were drowned in the North river, New
York, yesterday morning, by the up.
setting of a boat Four men were
drowned by thc Swamping Of a pilot
schooner, at hiylere de Loup, Quebec,
last Saturday. Thomas Carney, aged
~ years, fell overheard while trying to
get on a steamer, at Brooklyn, On sun
day night, and was drowned.
The supreme Gourt. at Harrisburg,
Yesterday rendered al opinion in the
Reading case, affirming the decision of
the Common Pleas Court, declaring f.
s. Bond and others the legally elected
officers Of the Philadcl phia and Reading
Railroad. Judges Turnkey and SterreIt
and Chief Justice SharSwOod diSsented.
A farmer OF Markham township, 2,
miles from Toronto has discovered u
pit on his farm containing 500 skulls
"and five times as many leg and arm
bones " II is believed the pit was an
Indian burial place and that the re-
mains have been there two hundred
years.
At the annua. meeting Of the Massa-
chusetts Bible Society, held yesterday
in Boston, Robert c. Winthrop was
elected President The Secretary re-
ported that 1911 Bibles and 13,22l Tes-
taluentS were circulated dnring the
year. The toral receipts were So, jl7:
disbursements, S2j,jJG.
The Duke OF Sutherland and PARTY
yesterday LETT Chicago ~ visit the town
0t'Pullman, containing 30o0 inhabitants.
and the extensive shops OF the Pullman
Palace Car Company. III the evening
the party left Tor Milwaukee,, whence
they will 90 10 III" Pacific Coast.
Justice Stanley Matthews has re
turned TO Cincinnati, anu will to-day
perform his first duty under his recent
appointment, 10y sitting with Judge
Swing on the bench Of tue L. :. Cir
cult Court, aud calling the equity
docket.
The resignation OF George stephens.
President of the Rank Of Montreal, has
been placed before tn" Directors and
will be accepted. It is said that Mr.
SmitherS, 1lle present Manager, will be
chooses President.
Christopher G. Mould, a prominent
citizen of Montgomery. New York, was
attacked with hYdrophobia, on Sunday
morning. He was bitten by a dog,
which had shown symptoms OF rabies,
nine months ago.
The crop reports from the interior Of
Arkansas are nuG favorable, owing to
heavy rains, and the appearance in
some distri rts Of rh" locuSIS and new
species OF cut worm,
Mrs. Catharine Coffin, widow oE the
ate Levi Cotin, died on Sunday, III
Avondalp, Ohio. She and her husband
we're active before the war i'll helping
Might've slaves On their way ~ Canada.
Moses Colt Tyler, of the Michigan
University has been appointed ProIcS-
or of History Of Cornell University, to
uccecd William c, Eus~el, and has az
epted the position.
Mrs Garfield $ condition was unchan-
red yesterday. Her physicians, it is
aid. "whi!e confident OF ultimate IT,
overy, donot look for any decided i'll
,rovcmeut for some days.
Three men named Hatton, O'Harl
nd 81. John were terribly burned by |
he lEnltlNN Ui $bS lt All blL-Ntl! IifHt |
Bradford Penna, last night. D'Hara
, believed to be fatally burned.
The Boletinc Mercantil, Of Porto Rico,
eports that "Uhe United States and
Denmark have agreed TO the alienation
f the Danish Islands for the SUN OF
1000, 600 francs.
The three men arrested at Pierre, Da-
,ota, for the murder Of Lieutenant
,herry, give their names as DOM Ha.-
tea,l. Thomas jackson, and John
,oherts alias Richard Burr.
The Presidents Of the various mercan-
Ie associations OF Boston have called
Meeting for the 18th inst, I" consider
he feasibility of holding Il world $ tiur
4 Boston in 1885.
DIR, +. f. Green, of Lynn, MaSsa-
husetts. has been arrested for com
licitv in the death Of Miss Mary Chan
Ter. of Boston, a victim Of malpractice.
The amount of five per cent. register
L bonds presented at the Treasury De-
artment for cOntinuanceS at 81. per
nnt. has reached $2+j, ,0O0,0
William Leory and Samuel Potter
esperadoes, were lynched by a mob, at
lei Norte, Colorado, on Sunday night.
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