Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-04-03
NEWS SUNNI AIRY.
A YOUNG POSTAL THIEF, A RE.
CORD OF OFACCIDENTs.
The Louisiana Hoods - Destruc.
ton by hre-FurtOus Storm In
York County Suicide OF a
Vanderbilt -- Other Incl
dents. Acciden Is, &c.

| James Coleman, a col ored booth lack,
II years old, attempted in Baltimore,
on Friday, to sell U. s. Treasury
check for $50, dated in Washington and
payable to Baltimore party. On
Saturday he offered TO sell another
cheek for S75, drawn in New York and
payable in Baltimore. Being arrested,
| Coleman confess sd that he had stolen
| letters from boxes III the po4t-cttice,
| from which he obtained the checks. He
opened the Yale boxes with strip of
iron, about = inches long, and of
an inch wide. He took, from different
| boxes, twelve letters which he destroy
ed
The coroner'S jury on the remains of
the woman found floating near the
wreck of the burned steamer Gold n
City, at Memphis, returned a verde,
on Saturday, Censuriug the ma ard
other officers OF the boat for criminal
cartlessness. Wa hingJon Smith, cap
tain of the watch, through whose care
Ie6snesS in carrying lamp the disaster
occurred, is in jail, awaitii < the verdict
of the Granu Jury.
Daring storm of rain andi wind !
in Berhs County, yesterday al ternoon,
George Shelthorn and family, being out
riding. took shelter, with several others, !
in Shed on the Angelica tarm, 2 miles
FROM Reading. A large water reservoir, |
about 80 feet high, Was blown iu upon
the shed, crushing 1t into ruins. Shelf |
horn, his daughter Rosa, and j Grouse
were taken out dead; Mrs. SheIthorn
was baldy Injured, but not fatally.
A fire yesterday morning, in the up
per portion Of the slA story building, |
Nos. - Ann street and l56 William /
street, New York, occupied by Koch x
Son, manu- facturers and impoi Jers Of |
stationery, caused damage to an amount |
estimated Also, 600. The firm employed |
about 100 men and girls, more than |
half of whom will be TEN porarily
thrown OUT of employment.
While Heury Burroughs, Peter Foyer
and Isaac Lareau, Of HopeWell, were
driving through Trenton, n. j., on Sat
urday night, they missed bridge on |
the canal feeder aud tumbled into the
water. Laurea and the horses got OUT, |
but Foyer and Burroughs were
drowned,
At meeting of the Irish Land
League in Portland, Maine, yesterday |
afternoon, resOlut ions were adopted ask.
ing the recall OF Minister Lowell, and |
requesting the President to demand the
speedy trial or release of American |
clJlzeus confined in British prisons.
The late Edward d. Gale, who was
City Attorney for TIE collection OF ar !
rears Of personal taxes in New York |
from tle fal # 1870 uu,il bls death III
February lat, Is asCertaiued 10 have |
been "A dealtcr, Tor about SIS, 900, +
not u great deal more.
The E."tnora Springs Hotel, at Hays |
vile, Twelve miles from PIt1bnrg was
destroyed early on Saturday morning
by al lncendlary lire, Ihe dtA"s csrak-
lug out in three places d. rnce. Th"
building aud It's furniture wore valued
at Sl31 600.
A Chicago, Milwaukee and st, Paul
tram ran Lti Uh,, track near I'D WHY
| Minnesota, on Saturday at crrIoOu, and
two coaches and two slreper1 tlHbtrd |
in soft piece of sandy ground. s.
eTal persons were nj tre4, hut NONE
seriously.
The mDuder3 of the different shops |
in Paterson, New jersey, re,"l we'd on
saturday evening to strIk9 for fifteen
per cent. increase, except ut the lh1u-
forth works, where wages have been &d-
vanced 10 per ceut.
Six new cases of smallpox were re-
ported yesterday, in South Bethlslem,
five of them in houses previously quar-
rantined. Three deaths were reported,
making the number TO daLe Gl There
are l25 cases Ut smallpox in the town.
Reports from one hundred and tfy
different points Ill Kansas, Missouri.
| Illinois, Indiana, OnlO and Michigan
represent the wheat to DO in an AT.
vanced state aud the PROSPECTS favor
able for d good crop,
Jacob a. FAunce, member Of the
City Council OF Harrisburg, and tax
collector OF the sixth ward OF that
city, was found Saturday to be- short L.
hiS accounts as collector TO the amount
of $1,000.
An unknown man, apparently 80 |
years Of age, died suddenly yesterday |
mor1inS in Turkish bath house in |
Brooue street, New York, presumably |
rom exhaustion CAUSED by the Oat@.
By the caving in OF sand tunnel at
Port Providence, near PnUniXyilIr, 90 |
Saturday afternoon, two sons OF Lewis |
Rowland were killed ana two others
seriously injured.
The house of Mrs. Julia Pockner, AT
Gayhead, Massachusetts,, was burned |
last Sunday while she was visiting a
|, ,r,, nj h.r flraA oh II tram IA It. Il
were locked ii the house, persisted
County Conventions are being held in
Utah for the election Of delega'es to the
coming Constitutional Convention.
Only monOgam!Sts are chosen. Tne
Convention will meet On the lOth inst.
There seems to be little doubt that
the President will veto the Chinese
bill, on the ground that it violated the
treaty with China, and is opposed to
American principles.
All the trackmen employed by the
Naugatuck Railroad Company, in Con
necricut, struck on Saturday for an ad-
vance OF % CENTS per day.
P. NJ. Dillingham; and Eicharl +.
Woodward were drowned while gun :
ming on large pond at Edgar tor,
Massachusetts, last Thursday.
The steamer Leipsic, at Raltimore,ou t
Saturday night from Bremen, brought {
1858 immigrants, all of whom went
West by rail yesterday morning.
IL is understood in Washington that
John j. Piatt will be nominated for
Counsul ~ Cork in place Of Brooks,
resigned.
A private despatch received in Balls
timore laft night rop orted the dangerou.
illness of Bishop Bowman, of the Me
thodist Episcopal Church
General Stephen A. Hurlbut, lpetly
to Peru, died suddenly Of
neart disease in Lima on the 2Stu ult.
1t is officially announced that the New
York State canals will be opened and
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