Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-12-26
VIEWS SUMMARY.
OMRISTMAB ACCID&ATS THAI
WERE FATAB-kAILkOA AO-
CIDERTS-0THkk HEWB.

CIDERTS-0THRk HEWB.
A west-bound express train ON tne
Chesapeako and Ohio Railroad was run
into near Millboro Station, Virginia
soon after midnight of Sunday, by
freight train which was running pas
sepgsr time. Both engines and tDG
passenger and combination CARS wore
wrecked. Five men were killed u
Il. Leach, engineer; John ". A!soPs
baggage master; L. L. Loring andJ. n
O'NeiIl, tiremep, and George K. Netn-
erlsnd brakeman. Two men, one Oh
them a passenger, were slightly in1uT-
ed.
The city officers appointed by the
Read uster Council Of Petersburg, VIZ
ginia, on the 1st of Luly last, and woo
have been ON duty since without pay
were payed off yesterday in full to De,
cember 1st, the total amount required
being $4,000. the city officers appoiAt-
ed by the Funder Council on juno 2otR
and declared illegally elected by the
Court of Appeals, will meet to night W
frame petition asking the Council 10
pay them for services rendered, as they
are in absolute want,
A street fight between whites ana
negroes took place in Petersburg, VIZ
ginia, yesterday afternoon. PISTOLS apu
Climbs we're tlourished ard one or two
shots fred. John s. Cook, q we'll
known citizen, who happened to Dc
passing, was shot and painfully Wouno-
, ed in The thigh. Several policemen,
, irving to quell the riot, were knocked
down and clubbed. Other street hghts
=, occurred last night, and the Mayor ana
!, police we're on the streets to prevent
, | further breach of the peaCe.
= At Bedford, Indiana, yesterday, the
wife OF the jailer, Owens, gave permls-
l sion to Mrs. Ball to talk in the CORRIDOR
= with her husband, imprisoned on D
r charge of murder. Mrs. Owens De1n&
: temporarily called away, Mrs. BOIL
gave her husband revolver, and also
o the keys of the prison, which she 1ouno
+ in an adjoining room. Mrs. OwSnS 70
= turned and tried to prevent Be!is e.
4 cape, but was held by the lattsr's VILE
% until he had got away.
d Dunbar, the displaced Mayor OF
q Opelika, Alabama, has refused to give
n n6ssession of the city property to the
d Commissioners appointed under the act
r of the Legislature vacSting the clty'H .
d charter. The Sheriff of the county has
n heen called upon to sustain the Com
d missioners, and should 1t become NO
u cessary the Governor will SEND troops
"a to sustain them.
10 During the absence from home OF
/ Mr. and Mrs. Barker, at Estelltne, Da'
kota, few days ago, their three cnli'
dren, aged six months ana three n.1 anu
FIVE years, respectively SCI nre 70 GnS1t y
clothes Two of them were Dufneu ~ y
lg death, and in rescuing the baby, Whlcn
I'd fterwards died, the mother was fatally
~ burned.
III Mrs. Mryra J. Osborne and her sol
= Oliver, aged II, were found dead in bed
" at Greene astle, Indiana, yesterday
"a merging, 1t is supposed that the moth
Nv ~ ar. who had been respondent for som'
n9 time, poisoned her son and then com
nu mitted suicide. She was in good cir
nu Cumstances.
nj. One hundred of the boys on the train
hO ing ship Portsmouth are reported .
ad have deserted on her arrival at new
all mort from her European cruise. Bltte
ri, complaints have been made OF thel
treatment, and an investigation vii
probably be ordered.
WAS pardoned yesterday. With the u
sual reduction of time for good oenaV
ior, he would have had about tou
ck- wears more to serve. AT the time OF n
md arrest he Was State senator and
me leading citizen of Worcester.
vas A convention of the tobacco grower
lin of Connecticut and adjoining State
Cbe will meet in Hartford to-day LII
ind tariff on Sumatra tobacco, and poSsi0l
d the internal revenue tax on tooac(
ing will be discussed.
Cne Mary TimoShy, sixty-ono years
VoI aoe was burned to death in an attic
And St, Louis on Sunday. She sat down D
IN An open fire and fell asleep and b
nS' dress was ignited by sparks from u
ter fire.
Obn G Lorenzo White, small boy, was a
inc. cidentally shot by a drunken man WI
in was playing with revolver yestoru
ON one Of the streets of Lebanon; Fen
sylvania.
ebig The body of Mrs. William Barr
oca' was found in field three miles frc
nlu. her home, near Scranton, on SundS
edi. with a dog watching beside 1t. MI
lave der is suspected.
k in Three ice gorges in the Ailegh1a
use. river, between Pittsburg and Parke
sur gave way on Sunday and carried
ents Sic, 900 worth OF lumber.
Wig Lucius W. Pond, Of Worcester, MAJ
fheh who was sent to the State Prison
Iom- March, 1876, under twelve years
L'eo eo tence for forgery and embezzleme
exo A fire at Livermore, Iowa, on 81
d, day, destroyed the post office and Q;
gical ern section OF tho Vlll"s0' 0"U0'De
of $30, 900.
The Herald office and the Poop
National Bank building, at Pulas
Io,o Tennessee, were burned yesterday
ased Themoulders in the Ontario car sh
'enp- at London, Canada, are on a strike
d is Six inches of snow fell yesterday
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