Daily Republican., 1881-06-09
BY MAIL AND WIRE.
GENERAL NEWS DRIFT OF A DAY
AND NIGHT.
Peculiar Death from Lightning.
The Reer StrIke-S5O,O 900 Lost
in "a Collision, &c.


as Chief Of the Bureau of Ordinance Of
the Navy Department has been ac-
cepted, to take effect on the Both inst.
About tue lSt Of July Commodore JEFF
ters will visit Europe to examine and
report upon the ordinance and torpedo
service of the European navies, and
when this duty is completed he
will, at his own request, be placed on
the retired list.
Richard Thompson, colored, was kill
ed by lightning in Richmond, Virginia,
yesterday afternoon. There was no
storm at the time and the electric flash
which killed him cane from two small
clouds which were passing at the time.
There wAs oul y one flash and a moder-
ate clap of thunder.
A heavy rain storm prevailed at
Wheeling, West Virginia, and in the
surrounding districts on Tuesday night.
A family named Straub, living on
Glenn'S Run, were swept away by a
food, and tine mother ana five children
were drowned.
The General Synod ofthe Evangelical
Lutheran Church met yesterday in AL
tOOna, Pa, and elected the following
officers: President, Rev. G. A. Hay Of
Gettysburg; Secretary, Rev. j. w. Good.
win, Of Finley, Ohio; Treasurer, Alex
ander Gebhard, of Dayton.
That portion of the Robinson Wagon
COmpany'S factory in Cincinnati which
was saved when the other buildings
We're destroyed by fire IL few months
ago, was burned on Tuesday night,
with machinery and stock. Loss
S3O, 900.
Yesterday was the eleventh day of
John GriscOm'S fast, at Chicago. He
weighed us pounds, showing further
loss of q OF a pound in twenty-four
hours. His pulse was 6S, respiration
Is, and temperature % 1-lO.
Two freight trains on the Wabash,
St. Louis and Pacific Railroad were
wrecked by collision near Burnside,
Illinois, on Tuesday morning. The loss
is estimated at $50, 900. Two men were
injured, one severely.
A coaStng steamer Of $50 tons bur-
then, for the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
road Company, to be run between For
treSS Monroe and New York, was
launched yesterday at Bath, Maine. She
is naIned the Kanawla.
j. y Il. Klnsland, paper manufacture
crS OF PasSaiC county, New Jersey, were
convicted yesterday in the County
Court, ut Newark, Of polIuting the wal
ter Of the PaSsaic river with carbolic
acid.
1t is reported in Toronto that Boston
capitalists have subscribed $4,000, 900
towards the construction Of the air line
from Winnipeg to Duluth, to be built
westward from Duluth this summer.
Two of the new locomotives for the
Canada Pacific Railway have arrived
at Toronto. Eleven hundred men are
now employed on Section i. Of that
railroad.
: Mrs. Mary E. Nash, Of DesMoines
who was nominated by the GreenbaCh
) Convention Of Iowa, last week, for Su,
: perintendcni OF Public Instruction, has
declined the nomination.
John Grant and Daniel Mcneil, los
from the Gloucester Schooner BellOrop
hon, while tending travis on the Grand
Banks, We're picked up by u passing
schooner.
The severeSt thunder storm of the
season in Baltimore visited that city
yesterday afternoon. The Lightning
struck in several places, and trees were
|, damaged by the wind.
Secretary Hunt left Washington yes
tcrday afternoon for Annapolis. He
will deliver tie certificates to the mem
bars OF the graduating class
Frederick Herman Kroger, aged II
years, died yesterday in New York, OF
hydrophobia. He was bitten by a dog
about six weeks ago.
Secretary Kirkwood has returned tC
Washington, and resumes his duties il
the Interior Department to-day.
Ninety-three children destined for the
Marchmont Home, have arrived al
Bellrville, Ontario.
Fish are reported to be plentiful OIL
the Grand Banks.