Daily Republican., 1881-07-29
A DAYS NEWS.
A Hl6TAKE OF SIGNALS CAUSES
THE WRECK OF A TRAIN,
A Montreal Widow after q For.
tune-The FrepOh Visitors 10
YOrktOWn-Other Inctdents,
Accidents, Grimes, ke.

New Haven Railroad at Rye, New
York, yesterday afternoon, two loco
motives and eight cars were wrecked
Eli Latin, conductor, was killed, and
Henry Hallock, brakeman, and James
MILDLY, engineer, we're severely injured
1t is feared Hallock will not recover
All the trains on the road were delayed
four hours by the wreck. The damage
TO rolling stock is estimated at about
100000. "a mistake of signals is said
to have cansed the disaster.
Mrs. McKlernan, a widow, of Mon
treal, has had her claim established az
one of three heirs to the estate OF
the late Philip Donohue, of San
Francisco. Donohue emigrated from
Montreal in 1862, a poor man, His
sister, Mrs Mckiernan, never heard OF
him after his departure until search
was made for his heirs. His estate,
valued at l.500, 900, is divided among
a brother and two sisters, all very
poor.
The U. S. steamer Trenton, the flag
| ship of the European station, will bring
TO this country the French visitors in
vited to attend the Yorktown celebra.
ton. AS he will have to surrender his
cabin to the ships guests, Rear Admi-
raj Howell has been authorized by the
Secretary Of the Navy to return to the
United States "by any steamship line
he may prefer.
BY a runaway accident near Read
ing, yesterday afternoon, William q.
De Turk was killed and his wife and
son and sister, Mrs II. II. Hall, were
severely injured. James Reed a private
Of Battery B, Fifth Y. ). Artillery, was
killed by being thrown from a wagon
in Atlanta, yesterday
The captain of the schooner Provi-
dence, from Boston for Philadelphia,
reported at Vineyard Haven yesterday
that John Howard, seaman, was killed
by falling from the mainlnast to the
rail. Howard was A. years old, and a
citizen Of Frankford, Philadelphia.
The South Carolina Railroad was sold
at Auction yesterday III CharIestown,
by order of the T. S. Circuit Court. 1t
was purchased On behalf of the stock
and second bond holders for $1,27J.00O
over dit huoNc VIZ iliot h'l lSdSo ucpb
of S3, O00,0 900
The Official journal of the City of
Mexico says that five hundred Italians
will arrive At Vera Cruz next month to
establish colony in Mexico Their ex-
penses are to be paid by the Mexican
Government.
The first eprize In the Ladies Lawn
Tennis Tournament at Newport was Sc
cured by yesterdays gar.es to Miss
Ewing, of New York, and William
Gammell, Jr., OF Providence. They lost
only one game during the match
The dead body of Mrs. Julia Flood
was found yesterday ruorning,in a barn
in Auburn, Massachusetts,. An iuves-
tigation shows that she died from ex-
posure. She leaves husband and six
children
Two cases Of yellow fever-the first
Of the season there were reported at
the New York quarantine yesterday.
One of the patients is the captain of the
Steamer British Empire, from Vera
Cruz.
The British ship Oriilamme, from
London tor San Francisco, was burned
at sea, in latitude 1912 south, longi
sude ". ~ west. Her crew was saved
by the Italian bark st. Andrew.
Captain Thomas Spencer, a veteran
Of the War OF 1912, native Of New
York, but for many years prominent
citizen of Wisconsin, died on Wednes-
day at the az" OF ~ wears.
Montpelier, the home and burial
place Of President Madison, was sold at
public auction yesterday, for so, 600, TO
Colonel Darlington, OF The Exchange
Hotel in Richmond, Va.
The through rates on wheat from |
Chicago to Liverpool are 10 cents per
buahel via Montreal, and Is cents via
New York. These are the lowest rates
aver known by these routes.
DR.. Tache. neru.y Minister Of AEri-
culture 1T Ottawa, SAYS there Is no cat
in the British order III COun- !
III regarding cattle Importation.
Mrs. Celia Schmidt, aged 40 years,
md her daughter Eliza aged ii, were
"A ally burned in Bruokly yesterday
afternoon, by IL explosion OF n kero-
,ene stove.
The boiler of thrrshing machine eX-
)lodt4l yesterday morning, near NaPa,
California, KILN. Willis Grove, George
Ilatt and Robert Davis.
Andrew Martin, Of pit'sbnrg, wa,
'atally injured yesterday by an engine
hilecros,lng the Long island railroad
rack ia Brook 81.
John j. Bagier, rg-t,pN"rn0r Of Mich
Gan, died in san lgauci SO on We'ines.
lay afternoon
Secretary W!ndom las approved the
1Ond of Judge Robertson rs collector OF
he Port OF New York.
The sum of $5olu was received yrSttr-
lay toward the New ,lpr" Chamber OF
'omnerce fu.u rur Mrs. Garfield.
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Auothers Experience.
Mr., Thomas Tormy, scott station, Put
lam county, W. Va, in Il late c"mlnu-