Daily Republican., 1882-09-16
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IN brooklyn, were set on hr6 by light
ming, and Donnells' oil works were alst
fired. The total loss will be about
800, 900. Early yesterday morning
when the fire at the Dounell works had
nearly burned itself out large tank Of
naphtha ignited and exploded with
great force, burning to death Captain
Deary, OF one of the lighters belonging
to the works, and John b. Cooper, Su.
perintendNnt. 1t is reported that
Deary's son was also lost in trying to
save his father.
The tornado at Winsted, Connect
cut, on Thursday night, moved from
west TO east, cutting swarth fifty
yards wide and two miles long. Ten
dwellings and seven barns were de-
stroyed, and the loss on property Is es.
timated at $40, Mrs. Thompson,
Two children OF John DuAn, Julia
Fahey, Mrs. Daniel Maxwell and Miss
Mary Connell we're injured, the last
named fatally.
In Cincinnati, yesterday afternoon
while Wm. Wiley, clerk, and John
Slathen, porter, of Charles K, Coffin q
Co., whose oil store was burned the day
before, were Tightening the hoo 8 on
barrels Of oil in the cellar by the light
Of a lantern, the oil suddenly exploded,
burning Wiley to death and seriously
iniuring Slathen. Wiley was 10 years
old, son of Bishop Wiley, of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church.
At meeting of the Tammany Com.
mi nj in
laet night, John Kelly said that "if
Tammany Hall was admitted to the
State Convention it would support thr
ticket nominated ; and if rejected, they
would take time and consider what
they would do, as it was q matter of
grave consideration if they would sup
port ticket nominated without their
aid.
In the Criminal Court at Washington
yesterday, the verdict in the cases of
kerdell and Miner, the alleged Star
Route conspirators, was set aside by
Judge Wylie, and they were granted a
new trial. They were then released in
SIC, 900 bail each. The first Monday in
December W as fixed for the new trial of
the cases.
The Republican State Convention of
Colorado met on Thursday, in Denver,
and, AFTER organizing, adjourned until
yesterday. On reassemb bling Ernest T,
Campbell, of Leadville, ;|as nominated,
for Governor on the second ballot, VII.
liam FL. Meyer was nominated for I4iea-
tenant Governor, and James B. Beltord
was renou1insted for Congressman.
Ths long contest in the Democratic
Congressional Convention Of the Sec
Ond District of Wisconsin was ended
yesterday noon by the nomination of d.
FL. Sumner, of Waukesha, on the 160lst
ballot. This was affected by two Brag
and fourteen Delaney votes going over
to Sumner. Bragg's friends say he
will run az Independent.
The platform of the DAmoor~tio sCoIo
UT Nebraska opposes tariff,
prohibition, railroad interference with
political conventions, and the squander-
ing of the public money in River and
Harbor bills, Star Route contracts, and
other corruptions.
A telegram from Montreal says the
Governor General has expressed his will
ingness to assist in coloniziug French
Canadians in the Northwest, in order
to prevent their exodus to the United
States.
Nathan Bonnet aged II years who
attempted TO commit telOnious as.
sault upon white girl, was taken from
the Jail at Williston South Carolina, on
Wednesday evening and lynched by
mob.
A m Getting of officials, army and
navy officers and leading citizens will
be held this evening in Washington to
arrange for a public reception to Chief
Engineer Melville and his companions
upon their arrival in that city.
The Mitchell s. Rowland Lumber
Company's mill in Toledo, Ohio, wa
destroyed by fire yesterday morning
with about 13, 100000 feet of lumber in
the yards. The loss is estimated at
1926, ,0O0
The Board of Aldermen of Brooklyn
yesterday adopted resolution giving
the freedom of their city to Engineer
Melville, and offering him the use of
the Mayors reception room.
A freight train on the Passumpsic
Railroad was derailed in Lyndon, VeI-
mont, on Thursday event ng, by sand
which had washed on the track. The
fireman was fatally injured.
A fire at Milltown, Maine, on Thurs
day night destroyed McAllister's
steam box mill, Todd's storehouse, the
railroad depot and several other build
ings.
The British war steamer Phoenix, of
1880 tons hurthen and carrying six guns
is ashore at East Point, Prince Ed
wards Island, and it will probably
be total wreck.
John W. Gilpin, aged 81 years, died
yesterday in Baltimore, from drinking
tincture of aConlte in mistake for
whisky.
Capt. Oliver S. Pease fatally shot
himself on Thursday while cleaning a
loaded gun on a boat near ktrkville,
New York.
Charles Moseley was, yesterday
struck and fatally injured by an en-
gine while walking on the railroad
track near New maven, Conn.
Three freight cars on the Lebanon
Valley Railroad were wrecked yester-
dap at Lebanon, while making flying
switch. No person was injured.
William NJ. Snyder, injured by the
railway accident near Mt. Carbon, Pa,
on Thursday night died yesterday
in Reading.
Patrick Markley was killed yesterday
at Nesquehoning, Penna., by
the fall of hoisting car by the break
ing of rope.
About one-fOurth of Brownsville is
under water, and the flooding of the
streets gives rise to further apprehen-
sion regarding the public health.
Nineteen new cases of fever and five
deaths were reported in Pensacola yes.
Berday making total of 163 cases and
20 deaths to date.
La Prairie Barracks, at Montreal,
we're destroyed by fire on Thursday.
They cost the Government S5OO,OOJ to
Dnild,