Daily Republican., 1882-06-16
NEWS SUMMARY.
COLORkD N Is N DEMANDING
THEIR RIGHTS SUICIDES
TERRIBLE GAS SEKPLOSION.

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By an explosion of gas in the Stanton
air shaft at Wilkesbarre yesterday
morning, James Carey was killed and
tour others-John Welsh, Michael
Lynch, Henry Hughes and Biward
Finnegan-were so badly burned that
their recovery is doubtful. The men
were descending the shaft in a bucket
with naked lamps on their heads,
which, coming in contact with the gas,
caused the disaster.
A largely attended Convention of
colored men OF Kentucky has just closed
a session in Lexington. Resolutions
were adopted declaring that coored
men are tree aud equal citizens of tho
l'ni5ed States, aud entitled to all the
privileges enjoyed by their white
brethren also, that the provision for
the education Of colored children is in
adequate
President Garrett, in his address to
the Directors of the Baltimore and
Ohio Rtilroad, on Wednesday, said
that. an o0her cable company, to connect
Railroad telegraph system, would bo
formed, nnder the title of the "Balti-
more aud Ohio European Gable Com
pany."
There was parade in Detroit yester-
day in honor of the veterans of the
Army of the Potomac The procession
was mile and half in length, and
attracted thousands of spectators. Gem
erals Grant, Sheridan and other dis
tingushsd persons in the line were
loudly applauded.
The captain of an Italian bark, which
arrived at Baltimore on Wednesday
night, reports that on March Goth, in
| latitude 81, longitude 10, he fell in with
the German ship Henry Mary, on fire.
She was laden with coal, from Cardiff
tor Singapore, and had been aba n
doned.
Two. physicians attending Edward
Hanlan, the oarsman, have issued q
card certifying that he is confined TO
his bed with typhoid fever, and that,
"under the most favorable circum-
stances, he will not be able to com
mence his training for the next two
months"
The Treasury Department decides
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thread on cushions, with bobbjns NOV
ed by hand, and known under the
general designation Of thread laoes,
shall be dutiable at 80 per cent. ad
valorem.
The President has approved the sen t
ence of the court-martial in the case
of Lieutenant II. 0. Flipper, of the
Tenth Cavalry, convicted of embezzle-
ment and conduct unbecoming an Off
Ger, and sentenced TO dismissal from
the service.
Thomas M. Marshall, who declined
the Republican nomination for Con-
gresham at large froM Penna., has
written an open letter denying tho
validity of the Republican State Con-
vention called to meet on the 2lst
instant.
The bodies Of Patrick Gavin and Pa
rick McMenamon, victims of the Pc
gue's Run disaster in Idianapolis, wero
recovered yesterday morning. Several
others are missing, and one supposed to
have been carried into While River.
The forty sixth annual Commence
ment of Franklin and Marshall COL
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place yesterday. The degree of Bache-
lor of Arts was conferred on % gradu-
ateS.
The Cabinet was in session yesterday
until nearly four O'Clock, consulting in
regard to filling the vacancies in the
Tariff Commission, but no conclusion waa
reached. Another meeting will be-
held to-day.
The prospects for wheat, oats and po-
tatoes in Colorado is reported to be bet
ter than in any previous year. The acre
age of potatoes is third larger than
ever before.
James Mitchell, colored, who had
criminally assaulted a white woman,
was taken from the all at Mount Ster-
ling, Kentucky, on Wednesday night.
and lynched by n mob.
The body of Mrs. st. Charles, a seam
tress from Troy, New York, was found
in the river at Montreal few days ago.
1t is supposed she committed suicide
while drunk.
Vessels arriving New York, Boston
and other Eastern ports, from Europe,
continue to report the presence Of large
icebergs and much drift ico in the At
lantic.
Fifteen loaded freight cars were de-
stroyed, with.thelr .conCents, by tumbling
down, a sixty-foot embankrent, near
Springvale, Maine,o on Wednesday night.
G. Dckerson, resident of Denville,
New Jersey, died on Wednesday, Of hy-
the result of being bitten by
d rabid dog about six weeks ago.
No tidings have yet been received oil
the ten men in the missing boat from the
Pera, which foundered OF
Cape Race.
Jefferson Maddux, a young man
shot himself de .d in Augusta county,
Virginia, on Wednesday night. He
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