Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-07-17
NEWS SUMMARY.
A nAY0R AND CIEY OOUNO1L AR.
REsTED tND COMMITTED
To AAIA.

Ed ward Mckinley, Thomas King
aLo an"tber man whose name is no
gwen, al circus employees, were riding
from Mlllersburg to Lykens, in Penn.
sylVania, yesterday, seated ia the oper
/. door OF box'car, with their legs hang
I. ing OUT. While passing siding near
!, Lykens, McKinley's legs coming in
" contact with car he was thrown viz
, lently against his companions. and ali
three were knocked off the train. kim
was Killed and the other two suffered
severe injuries.
The Spearfish and Rsdwater valleys
in DakOtah, were visited on FRIDAY
i. night by destructive storm of wind
and hail, which ''entirely wiped out all
the growing crops for distance of
thirty miles by four wide. 1t is esti-
mated that 1000 acres of wheat, oats
and barley, nicely headed and giving
promise of an unprecedented yield,
were entirely destroyed"
The National Tobacco Association. in
session at Washington, unanimously
agreed, on Saturday, to seek reduc-
tlon OF the tax on tobacco TO cents, to
lake effect on the 1st of January next.
A resolution was also adopted recon-
mendlng a reduction OF the tax on
cigars to " 30, and on cigarettes to 80
cents Ger thousand.
Mrs: Lincoln, widow of President
Lincoln, died in Springfield, Illinois, last
night. She has been i'll for long time,
and, on Saturday evening, had stroke
OF paralysis, and fell into IL comatose
condition, in which she remained
until she died. Secretary Lin
coin left Washington last night for
Springfield.
| The Convention of the National Win.
dow Glass Workers Association, in ses.
sion at Pittsburg, last week, adopted
with slight notifications, last years
scale of wages. The Eastern and
Northern blowers are to work for 10
per cent. less than the PitLsburg scale
of wages.
The Mayor and City Councilmen of
Leadville, Colorado, were arrested on
Saturday, fired $3.50 each, and commit.
ted to Jail for ten days, for contempt of
Court. The police judges and City At
torney of Leadville have been removed
and new appointments made in their
places.
1t issaid that the Mayor of Mil
waukee will to day cause the arrest of
al! the employees of the Cream CITY
) rect Railroad in that city, and take
possession Of the cars, because the com.
pany has neglected to comply with the
law requiring license for each car
A Constitution and Bylaws were
adopted at an adjourned meeting of the
Federation OF Trades and Labor Unions
In Boston yesterday afternoon. Among
the delegates present wa a young
woman representing the mule spinnerS
Of Law renee, Massa chusetts.
The annual reunion of the Pennsvl.
vania Reserves will take place at Gettys.
burg on the Goth inst, and Ex-Governor
Curtin, President of the Association.
will preside. During the same week
he Grand Army of the Republic will
9ncamp on the battle field.
The steamer Eleonora, from New
York for Portland, Maine, reports that
IN Friday morning she sa W a sunken
schooner Of Quick's Hole, in Vineyard
sound. The wreck is in the track of
'assing vessels and its masts are Is
eoC ouC OI wafer.
William Carroll, Felix O'Brien and
marx Ad"ms, all of Boston, were dis
oVered Yesterday in the act of
lacinF p large rock on the track of the
'anfa, Ket Beach Railroad at Nantas-
e. they were captured after long
htse.
The National Convention of WindoW
lass workers, after a eSsion of sever.
days in P1ttsbug, adjourned on Sat-
rday sine die. The proceedings were
ept strictly secret, but it is said will
published in few days.
The steam Charlotte Vanderbilt, an
ID boat, run as berry steamer, was
III into and sunk by the iron steam
ac9t Yosemite, on the Hudson, north
Esopus Light, at one o'clock on Sat-
day morning. No lives were lost
A fire in Colfax, Washington Terri.
ry, last Friday, destroyed fifty build
gS, comprising the business part of
Q town. The loss is estimated at
5O, OOo. The fire is attributed to in.
Wilson, 45 years of age.
mmitted suicide at Milton, Penna'.
Friday night, by drowning himself
a rain barrel. 1t is said he was in.
10. He leave wife ane seven chill.
al.
There were two earthquake shocks at
IL FRANCISCO at a quarter before s
lock on Saturday evening. The first
'ck, which was slight, was instantly
lowed by heavier one, but no dam
was done.
he customs officers ct Montreal
70 seized a consignment of tea,
ued at about S35, 900, sent from New
X and entered as a direct importa-
!. in order to save the duty of 10 per
indian Agent Miles telegraphs to the
nmissloner of Indian Affairs a con-
1iction of the reports that the Chey-
eS and ArapahOes are desirOus of
ag upon the war-path.
William N. Evans, q manufacturing
eler, of New York, committed sui
on Friday night, by shooting him
through the bead with a revolver.
was twenty-nine years of age.
1irty bodies have thus far been
IN from the ruins of the building at
arkana, Arkansas, three of them
led to crisp. Fifteen persons are
missing.
e thirteenth anniversary of the
pendent Order of Good Templars
celebrated last evening by the
es of Brooklyn, in the Fleet Street
odIst Episcopal Churches.
,ator Brown, of Georgia, has given
JO to tile State University at Ath-
'he interest to be used in educating
young men.
!, Sprague estate syndicate, has
ID that the Natick Mill will be at
d In behalf of one Of the creditors,
las not accepted the mortgage.
Nathaniel Foster, an old and
Known physician of Cincinnati,
n that city last evening of paraly-