Daily Republican., 1881-09-08
HOTTEST DAYS NEWS!
THEHOTTEsT DAY KNOWN FOR
MANY YEAkn.
A number lOf &C cc1dents-kiIled ny
RatlrOads-Int tue lnd an Conn
try.-A1lled his wife and
hanged him. telG-ROOfinx
aPOst Office.

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| Maximum temperatures were reroft
ed yesterday by the Signal Bureau a
follows: Washington, 1915 in tn.
shade Philadelphia, 1915; Baltimore
ION These figures were reached in tia
comparatively COO, attitude of the Sig
nal Offices, and are several degrees low
er than temperatures in the streets OF
the cities nantd. A temperature OF
100 in the shade was reached at Albany
and J"@ at Wilmington, Delaware. In
New YORK city temperature of lUU
was reached, ami there was 43 SIM
strokes, many or them fatal.
Charles Rust William Benton, Char
less rharshlr and Charles Crause were
killed at Sawyer City, near Bradford,
i'enna, on Tuesday, 10y the premature
explosion of a torpedo, at an oi! well.
William oatterly and Edward Wilson
were fatal y injured by the same ex-
pIoslon. The explosion was caused by
the recklessness of Rust, who, finding
The cap did not fit on the primer of the
shell, knocked it down twice with his
nSt. The derrick, engine-house and
boiler were blown to atoms, and the
men were frightfulIy mangled.
John Kennel, a tavernkeeper of
jamaica, Long Island, who lived un-
happy with his wife, killed her yester-
day moraing, and then after setting
fire to the house, hanged himself. The
fire was discovered and extinguished.
John Caspar Dietzel was arrested near
Ten Mile l;un: New Jersey, last Friday
for stealing grain. He and his family
resisted the otfioer, and he was shot in
the melee. His dead body has since
been found in the woods.
Bids were opened in the Treasury
Department at Washington yesterday
for roofing the dome OF the new post
office in Philadelphia. The bids we're
as follows: Phoenix Iron Go Trenton,
n. j., S97 ,750 Dwight ~ Hoyt, Spring
field, Mass, $50 900 Stewart & Stevens
Philadelphia, Sll5,42l Hough, Ketch.
chum & Co., indianapolis, '62, ,692. 30
"When nr. Blank breaches" said an
humble pastor, "the p,owman leaves
his turro the tradesman his shop, the
scholar his book, and the fne lady her
toilet to crowd around his pulpit
When | preach set all things to rights
again, and everyone follows his own
business.
A man giving the name of Walter
Harmon was arrested 1T Shreveport,
Louisiana, on Monday, on the charge
of swindling, representing himself as
agent for IA New York life insurance !
company. He had been committing
similar frauds in Tennessee and Mis-
souri, under the name of II. IL. Howard.
Alexander Grey, of Allegheny City,
Penna one o: Wardens of the Western
Penitentiary, was fatally injured by
stepping off II railroad car near Lancas-
ter, yesterday morning, and died in a
few hours. Ha was on the way to New
York to meet his wife, who is returning
from Europe,
The business portion Of the town of
Homecoming, Maryland, including the
Town Hall, Merchants Hotel, Luther
an Church, Post-ottiCe, several stores
and fifteen dwellings, was destroyed
by fire yesterday afternoon. The loss
is estimated AT 100000
To-day will he observed in New York
and New Jersey, in accordance with |
by the Governors of
tiose States, as d day ofprayer for the
recovery Cf the President. In New
York it will oe a legal holiday, like
Sunday.
Seaman 4 Brothers cooper shop was
burned in Chicago on Sunday night.
Loss 500 900. The barn of Walter Ca
ruth, near Galveston, Texas, was burn
cd ON Monday night, with large
quantity OF grain and hay, and twenty
horses and mules.
Four prisoners, named Lawless,
Schoop and White, escaped
from the county Jail at Snubury last
evening, by cutting through the iron
plated stoue ceiling Of d cell, and get
ing into a garreJ from whence they
rushed down the main stairway.
If you have or are liable to cramps and
pains in the stomach and bowels, do
not fail to use Dr. Simms' Pain Search
er. 1t never fails. (50cts.) Sold by
lealers, depot, Fourth ana King, Phila-
lelphia. 6O2 Arch street.
The Republican State committee of
Mary land met Yesterday in Baltimore,
With closed doors, and arranged for the
holding OF a convention in October next
% nominate Comptroller Of the Treas
Try.
George Hoover, aged Is years, who
hot and killed his sister Lottie, near
Sunbury, Penna., was convicted OF
nanslaughter. Sentence was deferred.
Eleven men were killed by the blow ,
ng up of the packing house of the Lake
superior Powder company at Marquette 9
Michigan. on Tuesday morning.
Balders Burnhauser, an old citizen OF
.Iauch Chunk, was fatally injured yes
erlay, 10y being struck by a ca: while e
Walking II the Switchback track.
John Burk, miner, was killed by a [
all of top coal in the Hartford mine, at a
ycster day.
There was Il heavy onOw storm in the
,lack Hills, Dakota, last Monday night h
nd Tuesday morning. t