Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-07-01
NEWS SUM MARY.
THE LONG BRANCH RAILROAD
DISASTAR-OTHE GEN.
ERAL ITEMS.

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The inquest on the victims of the
Long Branch Railroad disaster was be-
gun yesterday. The injured are all re-
ported to be doing we'll, there being a
slight Improvement in the condition Of
Mr. Garrison. James E Mallory, who
was fatally injured, died yesterday
morning alta farm house at Elberon,
where he was taken after the disaster.
He was formerly an ink manufacturer,
aud lattery areal estate broker in New
| YORK.
In yesterdays Cabinet meeting the
letters of Jay Hubbell and George w.
Curtis, on the subject of political as
seSSments, were referred to the Attor-
ney General for a decision. The inter-
ests of our Government in the affairs Of
Chilli and Peru were discussed, but no
conclusion was reached,
The race between the Harvard and
Yale crews, at New London, yesterday
morning, was won by II ,rvard at
length. The official time of the win
nlng crew was 20 AN, being the fastest
with one exception, ever made on a
four mile course.
Heavy thunder storms prevailed
yesterday morning, throughout the
Northwest, doing considerable damage
in many places, Notwithstanding the
heavy rains and high winds, however,
the crop reports generally are of the
most promising description.
William j. Sipple, telegraph opera
tor, recently convicted of attempting to
defraud the Erie Railway Company of
S43, ,6l0 by bogus kilograms, was SEN
fenced in Jersey City yesterday to
five years. imprisonment in the peni-
tentiary.
Twenty additional cases of smallpox
and seventeen doubtful cases, was dis
covered yesterday on the steamer Belgic
at San Francisco. The Chinese and
white cabin passengers will be quaran-
tined separately, and the vessel disin-
fected.
A premature discharge of fireworks
in front of store in Minneapolis, on
Thursday night, caused panic among
a crowd Of several hundred persons, 13
of whom were injured, one perhaps ta-
tally, by runaway horses.
William j. Fave, alias G. II. Lin
wood, who has been obtaining money
In different parts of the country by pre-
tending to represent Lord & Taylor, Of
| New York, was arrested in Whitehall,
New York, yesterday morning.
The Captain of the British steamer
Strathairlie was fiued S11, ,15O by the U.
;. District Court at San Francisco,
yesterday, for bringing Chinese passen-
gers in excess of the number allowed
by law.
Surgeon General Barnes was placed
on the retired list yesterday. Rear
Admirable John G. Febiger will he re-
tired to-day, and Commodore A. X.
Hughes promoted to the place Of Rear
Admiral.
The senate Committee on Territories
decided yesterday to report in favor q
bill creating the Territory of Pembi-
ma, out of all that portion of Dakota
now lying north Of the 46th parallel.
| The railway companies are now
working with full force of laborers in
Jersey City and they are now moving
an enormous quantity Of accumulated
freight,
A telegram from Montreal says that
large quantity of freight is being sent
from the United States to that port for
shipment in consequence of the strike
in New York.
A bill to settle the debt of Louisiana
on the basis proposed by the bond
holders has passed the Legislature of
that State and gone to the Governor to
sign.
The strike Of the freight brakeman
on the Hudson River Railroad was
amicably settled yesterday af ternoon,
and the strikers resumed work.
The planning mill of the Streator
Manufacturing Company, at Streator,
Illinois, was burned yesterday morn
ing. Loss, $4,000.
Wilson McCandless, retired Judge of
the U. s. District Court, died yester-
day in Pittsburg, in the 73d year Of his
age.
Thirty.sever clerks in the Land office
and twenty-one clerks in the Patent Of
flee at Washington were discharged
yesterday.
Captain Florence Donoughue,
Medical Storekeeper, U. s. A., died on
Thursday in New York.
1t is expected that the public debt
statement for uDe will show a reduC-
tion of over $12,O0O,O00.
Another call for continued skies of
1863 will be made next week, probably
for fifteen millions.
Ray g. Connell's champion saw mill,
in Louisville, was burned on Thursday