Daily Republican., 1882-11-07
NEWS SUMMARY.
THE RED BANK PIRE-ECCI.
DENTS CAUSE OF COLEMAN'B
FAILURE,

The puddlers in the Terre Haute Iron
and Nail Works at the Wabash Iron
Company's mill, at Terre Haute, Indi--
ana, struck yesterday morning for SO
per ton until the { of june next. The
other men In botE mills are at work.
All the men in the Greencastle Works,
In the same city, struck yesterday and
the works are closed.
The Sunday midnight express train
on the Lebanon Valley Railroad struck
some heavy piece Of timber which had
been placed on the track near Werners.
vile, but luckily the engine threw them
from the track. A short distance fur.
tber on the engineer discovered a baud
car on the track, but was able to stop
the train in time. The hand car had
been pushed upon the track from tool
house which was broken open.
While LewiS Haag and Henry Bell
man, of Jersey City, we're riding in an
open wagon on Sunday night, they were
run into by an undertaker's wagon.
driven by Charles Taylor, of Bayonne,
and Bellman was thro wn out and killed.
Taylor drove rapidly away.
The large corn crop of Kansas is be-
ing rapidly sent East, owing to the
scarcity of corn in the Eastern markets.
The elevators at Kansas City are kept
running night and day and on SaJur-
day and Sunday 400 cars accumulated
at that point.
Mrs. Mary Parsons, wife of the Man
ager of the Willow Glen Plantation,
near Delta, Louisiana, fell dead on
Sunday while standing beside her hus-
band, and 1t is believed she committed
suicide by swallowing poison.
There were seven deaths from fever
at Camargo, Mexico, Oh the Sd inst,
and eleven deaths at Mier on the 1st
and 3rd. People returning to Camsrgo
and Mier have taken the fever.
President Arthur accompanied BY
his private secretary, left Washington
yesterday afternoon for New York. He
will probably return to Washington by
the end of the week.
A checker tournament bet ween WyI-
lie and Barker closed in Boston last
night. Fifty games were played, each
contestant winning one, all the others
being drawn.
A large cylinder in the jackson cot
ton compress at Jackson, Mississippi,
exploded yesterday, severely iDiuring
three employees. 1t had been recently
repaired after a previous explosion.
By the capszing Of q boat in Coos
Bay, Oregon, four days ago, the mate
and seaman of the schooner j. G. Wall
were drowned. The captain was badly
injured.
The will'of E. Peshine, of Roschester,
New York, formerly Minister to Japan,
provides for the erection of a "Christian
Chapel" in Toxic, Japan at . cost of
$4,000.
The loss by the fire in Red Bank, New
jersey, on Sunday nights estimated
at $3.50, 900. Twenty stores and offices
were burned.
A fire in Portland, Maine, yesterday
morning, destroyed q number of stores
and other buildings on Commercial
street, causing a loss Of nearly 100000.
The tallow factory cf EIbridge Rust,
at Peabody, Massachusetts, was burned
yesterday In "rning. Spontaneous CON-
bustion was the cause.
1t was reported yesterday that the
Governor and Secretary of the Mexican
state of Tobasco had been murdered
but no particulars were given.
The examination of Chief Engineer
Melville was begun yesterday by the
Jeanette Board ofInquiry in Wash
ington.
An earthquake shock was felt at
Parama at thres o'clock yesterday
morning.
The Governor of Illinois has designa-
ted the Both Instant as . day of thanks
giving.
The stables at the Harrisburg Driv-
ing Park were burned yesterday after
noon.
The loss by the fire at Shreveport,
Louisiana, on Sunday, ls now estima-
ted at $l25, 900.
Only six new cases of yellow fever
and one death were reported yesterday
in Pensacola.
ORe case of yellow fever was reported
-. po{n+ TsuhaI on Gafurdav