Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-01-20
NEWS SUMMARY.
A rEAPERANCE MOVEMENT II
PENNSYLVAAIA.
Wh0t tth0Flames Did. - udge Lynch
II Work-T1red Of Life
Fatal Accidents.

u Work-Tired Of Life
Fatal Accidents.
The house of George G. Smith, a.
Lewis, near Clinton, Missouri, wa
burned before daylight yesterday morn
ing. His wife aged A years Elizabetl
Smith, aged II Rachel, aged 13 Ella
aged Q, and Theodore, aged 10, perishet
in the flames. Scharfenbe Hotel
at Mont Clair, New jersey, was burn
ed yesterday morning. A servant cir
is missing, and supposed to have per
ished in the building A man was se
verely injured oy jumping from one 0
the windows
Floods continue in Louisiana, Missi
ssippi and Alabama, doing considera
BILE damage in the low lands. TIL,
Atchafalaya and Big Black Rivers con
tinue to rise, and about thirty miles o.
he Chicago st. Louis and New Orleans
Railroad are near water. Part of tht
town of Goodman, in Mississippi, is in
undated. All the lower buildings along
the Tombigbee, In Alabama, are cover.
ed, and the river has been 81 feet al
Tuscaloosa.
The State Temperance Convention
met yesterday in Harrisburg, and adopt
ted resolution approving the intro
duction in the public schools Of educa'
ton on the physiological effects of alco-
hol on the human system. The form.
ula of the prohibitory amendment to
the State Constitution, to be presented
to the next session of the Legislature,
was also adopted. Gov. s.. John, OF
Kansas, addressed the Convention in
the evening.
James Sullivan, W. Howard and B
Payne, awaiting trial for murder, were
taken from Jail in Seattle, Washington
Territory, and hanged by a mob, on
Wednesday sight. The COMMITTEE OF
safety" in Seattle has issued ii notice
that "persons guilty of highway rob.
berry in this city, if arrested, will suffer
the penalty Of death in summary
manner.
In the Senate of New York yesterday
a resolution was adopted for the ap-
pointmenr of committee of five to 60
to Spuyten. Duyvil Creek and take tes-
for tie basis of legislation to
prevent railroad disasters. In the
House, after six more Intellectual bal
lots for Speaker, an adjournment was
agreedto.
The total number of immigrants who
arrived in the United States during 1881
was TIC, 1864 Of this number there came
from Germany, 243,3i3; England and
Wales, 77,75O; Ireland 20 S9G; Scotland
l6,44I; Dominion of Canada, "a, ,159;
Austria, 14,SGO;Norway, 4G. 24;Swsden,
1905; China, 2O,b2S; all other coun.
tiles, S6,3-"s
A Committee of the New York Pro-
tective Tarif Association had a confer
ence with President Arthur yes terday
afternoon. The result was that "the
left with the impression
at the President was in sympathy
with the matters they were hero to ad
yocate.
Gregory Starvoni, merchant of
Petersburg, Virginia, was convicted in
that city yesterday of receiving and sell
ing manufactured tobacco knowing it
to be- stolen. He was sentenced to receive
twenty stripes at the public whipping
post
Lieutenant Nc Donald, scouting along
the southern borders last week, for all
Indian trail, crossed into Chihuahua,
Mexico, and was arrested by the au-
tborities and taken to Chihuahua City
for trial for invasion. The matter has
been reported to the War Department.
Twenty new cases of smallpox were
in Pittsburg yesterday. Ihe
smallpox has increased alarming In
Chicago during the past week. Both
hospitals are crowded, and the Health
Officers say that "not one.twentieth OF
the cases are reported as yet"
The. arrest of Colonel Carr, of the
Sixth Cavalry, In Arizona, was made,
his friends say, by order of General
Wilcox, not by order of the President.
The charges against Carr are disrespect
and disobedience of orders.
The Blackfeet indians on the Row
River, in the Northwest, are giving
trouble to the Canadian stock growers
and have killed some cattle on one OF
the ranches. The mounted police have
asked for reinfOrcements.
Alphonse Narcotic, q dry goods msr.
chant, who had retail bores in Montreal
and other towns in Quebec, and also In
Winnipeg, is reported 80 have abscond.
ed, leaving debts to- the amount OF
100000.
joseph j. Stewart,a q well-known law-
yer of Baltimore, died yesterday IN that
CITY of heart disease, aged 81 years. Lie
was ut one time arbitrator for the Unit
ed States Oh the Spanish Claims Com
mission.
The Select Com mittee of the Senate
OIL the Rights of Women will to-day
hear Miss Phpbe CoZzens and other
members of the National Woman Suf.
frage Association, now in session N
Washington.
John H. Hicksox, an assistant In thf
Congressional Library, Was arrested
Yesterday in Washington cn the charge
of stealing money from letters addressed
to person. in. thu Cabinet. lie was held
in $1,000 bail.
William Smith was fatally shot by
his insane wife, at Mount Joy, zeal
Reigelsvllle, New Jersey, on Wednes,
day. She was not considered bad
enough to be subjected. to restraint.
Archibald Forbes, the famous EN-
glisk. war correspondent, leGtured IN
Baltimore last evening, to large audi
encs. on the "Inner Life of q War Cor
respondent"
lThomas Wilson, Of Philadelphia, en-
poyed n, apaintea by the PennSylva'
MIA Railroad com pany, was fatally ia
inred yesterday Nncrning by tra'" a
Lehman Place.
James r.. saurging, aged 40 years
was killed yesterday by a Kick from
mule which he was hitching 10 wagon
at New Brunsvick, New Jersey.
Two unknown bricklayers wert
strurk nv switch engine and killed
while going to work at lrondale, neal
Chicago, Yesterday morning.