Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-02-20
NEWS SUMMARY.
RAILROAD TR AIN COLLISIONS
AND RESULTS.

Polygamy Aeeaing-TAe Great
Mavorhlll Fire-Dsathsf from
PO1sOn-GOne Into Li4ui.
datlen Other NoWs.
The Directors of the Merchants
Bank OF WatertOwn, New York, do
ciced on Saturday to 60 into liQuida.
tion. They say the defositors will be
paid in full. Their action is the resul,
of the failure of Kenyon Il Co., of st.
Louis, Kenyon being a director of the
bank, and the public confidence in the
concern being weakened by his connec.
tiOn with it.
Both the Senators and all the I.epre-
ssntatives III Congress from New Jersey
have signed the memorial to the Presi-
dent asking him to take action tor the
relief of FiUZ John Porter and his
restoration to the rights and positions
t0f which he WAS unustly deprived
by the sentence OF court.martial, ia
1868.
On Saturday morning three men went
| into the store Of RaIoh Davis, in
Albany, ostensibly to BUY silver ware.
While Davis was exhibiting his goods
| IN the rear OF the store ono of the men
slipped behind the counter and carried
OFT tray Of diamonds valued at $4,000.
His contederates escaped through rear
door.
Two freight trains collilei on tres.
tie bridge thtrty feet high, near Canes
Vile, Georgia, at one o'clock yesterday
morning. BoJh trains were wrecked
and the trestle was badly damaged.
-Four of the cars were burned. Three
train hands were injured. One OF the
trains was running ''out Of time"
The importation into Canada of
head ropes used for tying up cattle in
the United Kingdom or on shipboard
will be prohibited after March LIST, by
order OF Council. 1t is believed that
contapious diseases msy be comm uni
Gated by the use Of such ropes.
The schooner Corinna H. Bishop.
which returned to Gloucester, Massa-
chusetts, Oh Saturday, reports the loss
OF Elk OF her crew in hurricane while
Wishing travis on the 9th inst. The
Bishop picked up two of the crew of
the Plymouth Rock and brought them
home.
Upon information that the San Carlos
Agency in Arizona is threatened by re.
turning Chiricahuas, the War Depart
ment ON Saturday ordered the com
mander Of the Department of Arizon
n ard Ln
agency.
Paul R. Seavy, ofthe editorial staff of
the Bangor, Maine, Wing and Courier,
died yesterday OF pneumonia, IN the
45th year of his age. Seavy was wide
y known as n total abstinence and po-
litical speaker, and a member of the G.
A. H.
Five masked burglars entered the
house of Michael Ulrich, few miles
from Harrisburg, on Saturday night,
with drawn pistols, compelled Ulrich
and his wife to tell where their money
was concealed and secured $1,000 in
cash.
The house of James Johnson, coored,
on the GuysborO road, eighteen miles
from Nova Scotia, was burned on Sat-
urday night, and Johnson's aged and
helpless parents perished in the flames.
The son was burned in trying to save
them.
Miss Minnie Richardson committed
suicide in Montgomery county, Virgin.
ia, on Friday last, because of "mor-
titicatiOn consequent upon the dis
appointment of ner sister In love at
fair.
The editors of the City of Mexico met
on Saturday morning to form an Asso-
ciated Press, and adopted resolutions
providing for arrangements for reCeiv-
ing telegraphic news from Europe and
the United States.
A passenger train ran into the ca
boose of a freight train in Marshall !
Pass, Colorado, on Saturday. Con-
ductor Seely lost both legs, and two
other train hands were injured, but not /
fatally.
The Grand Jury of the District of
Columbia, on Saturday night, indicted
ex-A Assistant Postmaster General Bra
dy, ex-senator Dorsey and 9th rs in
with the Star Route frauds.
Freeman Blanchard, doorkeeper at
the skating rink, in Providence, was
held on Saturday in $500 bail for trial
for refusing admission TO q cOlored man
who had bought II ticket.
Rev. DR.. Egerton Ryerson, well
known Methodist minister, for long
time Superintendent of Education in
The Province of Ontario, died yesterday
N Toronto, aged rs years.
The schooner John ID. Buckalew,
from Hokoken for Newport with coal,
vas totally wrecked near Montauk
Point on Saturday morning. Two of
ler crew were drowned.
A freight engine on the Pittsburg and
broke through a tres
lie bridge at Pittsburg on Saturday
Ifternoon, killing the engineer and
atally injuring the fireman.
Elijah Whitten, for thirty years a
Court bailitf and formerly coun y
coroner, was found drowned in gutter
It New Albany, indiana, last Friday. ,
During last week 1904 immigrants
anded at New York against 1928 dur. {
ng the corresponding period of last f
ear. lie
Twenty two coal CARS were wrecked
t Monmouth junction, New Jersey, on '
by the breaking of an ayle.
brakeman was slightly injured.
Patrick Kearnan's brewery. in Chel- !
GA, Massachusetts,; was destroyed on
aturday morning by an incendiary +
re. Loss $4,000. =
The shoe shop of John H. Parker and t
barn adjoining, in Berlin Centre, v
Massachusetts,, were burned on Satur. il
ay afternoon. Loss $44, 500.