Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-02-11
NEWS SUN AADY.

Snow storms In the Norsh.asai
EleetiaE Senate Clesk-Sessu
q Moore Get . 0oyysSvneni Oxz
SPact-ShOs by . anheriR.
Contracts for supplying printing ps
per to the Government Printing Ofiic,
in Washington, for the ensuing veal
were awarded yesterday, Az follow,
Common printing paper to Jessup
Moore Co., of Philadelphia; writing ps
per and Manila paper, Woolworth [
Graham, New York; book printing pa
per, Joseph Il. Ditn an, of Philxdelphia
and glazed bond paper, q. Mcdowell 1
Co., New York.
AT Scranton yesterday, while Sheri
Stevens and Deputies Finch and Cai
man were ejecting Darby Melvin from
premises occupied by him they were at
tackled by Melvin and his wife, arme'
with revolvers. Finch was fatal
wounded by Melvin; Carman wa
knocked senseless by Mrs. Melvin
and Melvin was shot in three places
The desperate couple we're finally ar
| rested.
At a brief caucus of the Republican
Senators in Washington yesterda,
afternoon, il was determined 10 resis
the resolution offered by Mr.. Harris 70
the appointment of Neil Brown as act
ing Chief Clerk of the Senate. Shoul,
the resolution ba passed stfe Republi
cans will support an amendment sub
stituting Charles W. johnson, OF Min
,IN hn;p
for Chief Clerk last year.
Jack Brush and his gang of forger
were arrested in Chicago on Wednes
day and on Thursday held in 5000
bail each for forgery and $4,000 for con
spiracy. They remain in Jail. 1t ap
pears that they had selected az thei
victims about twenty business firm
and all the principal banks of Chicago
and had obtained and lithographa
firm che ;ks for the purpose of forging
them.
Ten inches of snow fell at Concord
New Hampshire, On Thursday nigh
and yesterday morning, making a tota
of 70 inches for the winJsr to date. The
amount which has fallen in that sec
tion during the first ten days of th'
present month is greater than in any
whole month of February during the
last twenty years.
The house of John Moreland, Hunting
don township, Ontario, was burned on
Thursday night, and his wife, step
daughter, and three children peIished
while two men named Eambaugh anC
HUFF, stopping with the family, were
seriously if not fatally burned.
The bodies of two men were een float,
ing on the ice at Port Colborne, Ontario
on Thursday evening. Search was
made for then yesterday morning, hui
they had t1oated out into the lake. They
are supposed to be bodies of sailors los,
last fall.
~ move" said delegate in n Vir.
ginia convention, "that our chairman
take dose of Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup,
he is so hOarse that cannot understand
him" That gentle man had no doubt
tried this wonder ful medicine.
The case of ex. Congressman Voorhis
at Hackensack, New Jersey, resulted
yesterday in the disagreement of the
jury, who were discharged after having
been out twenty.four lhours. No time
has been set for a new trial.
Willie Burke aged years, was IA
tall y shot in the head by James John
son, aged IA, in Brockville, Ontario,
yesterday morning. 1t is not clear
whether the shooting was accidental or
not. johnson was arrested.
Jesse Bar Der, convicted of the mi
der of his stepfather, Mack Perry, was
hanged yesterday in the Jail at Wins.
boro, South Caroliua. He asserted that
the pistol with which lie shot Perry
went of accidentally.
The L. S. Senate yesterday confirm.
cd John j. Finn, of Chicago, to be
Counsel at Chemnitz, and Sidney T.
Taylor, of Maryland, to be Chief Engi-
neer i'll the revenue service.
The Fire Commissioners of Boston
yesterday ordered fire escapes placed on
every workshop or mandatory in
which fifty or more persons are em-
ployed above the second story.
The British barque Chimborazo, from
Mobile, for an English port, with Ium.
Der, went ashore near Charlotte Har-
Dor, Fioride, on Thursday, and has ten
feet of water in her hold.
The New Jersey Court of Pardons
Yesterday refused to commute the sen
,ence of Robert Martin, of Newark, SEN
,enced to be hanged on March 18th, for
,he murder of his wife and Child.
Ths roof of the intercolonial Railway
,ar shed, at St. John, New Brunswick,
vas crushed in yesterday by the weight
If snow upon it, and nine cars were de-
The loss is $4,000.
The new elevator of the Chicago, Rock
sland and Pacific Railroad, in Chicago,
will be finished in about ten days. 1t
will have a capacity of | 800, 900 bush.
ls.
John Murray and John Gerahty were
uff0cated to death by gas in build
ng of the Honesdale (Penna. Gas CON-
'any yesterday morning.
A public meeting, called by the Min
sters' Association Of Troy, New York,
o deuOunce polygamy, will be held in
hat city on Monday next.
A snow storm equal to that of Sun.
ay last ragged Yesterday in New Bruins
Vick, again stopping travel OIL the rail.
Dads.
A twelve-year-old boy named Gra-
am killed another boy with a club, in
quarrel at Keokuk, Iowa, on Thurs
ay.