Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-03-18
NEWS sun MARY.
FIVE BOYS KILLED IN A TUN
MEL.
1nrend1ary fires The Oma h q
strike Mari0e Disasters The
Tobacco COnventiOn-A de-
faHlttDg Clerk No ExfTL
bessiOn OF North Car,
Oiina Lekisiatare

Five boys Michae, Garrish, aged
II; Allen Falles, aged ~ Samuel Mont
gomery, aged 8; John Montgomery
aged IA, and Nicholas KelI, aged l3-
were suttocated by the c4sing in of a
tunnel which they dug in the side OF a
hlli in play at 81. j Os'ph. riisSou~i on
Thursday afternoon. All were dead
when got out except G,tirish, but he
expired III a IN omeut after being ex
humed.
The American briGantine Thetis,
from Bu"nos Ayres Tor New York, with
d cargo of salt and ogwood, a crew Of
seven men and six passengers, went
ashore on Thursday Night uear Barn4-
gal, New Jersey. The passengers and
crew were rescued hg the lite saving
men, but the vessel aud cargo are going
to pieces, and will be Il totAI loss.
The members of the Tobacco Con ven
ton in session at Washington called on
the President yesterday morning., to
pay their respects. In the afternoon,
after adopting resolutions for per
manent organization and thanking
Judge Kelley and others for opposing
the 'Free L"af' bill the Convention
adjourned slne die
The Senate yesterday confirmed Lieu
teuant Colonel Rufus Saxton to be AS
sistant Qaartermaster General, with
the rank OF Colonel; Major Richard y.
Batchelder to be Deputy Qnartermas.
ter General, with the rank of Lieu
tenant Colonel; and H. NJ. Van Arman
to be Secretary for Utah Territory
Crow Dog was arraigned in the L.
$. Court. vt Deadwood, Dakota. for the
murder ofthe chief, Spotted Tail, in
August last. He pleaded not guilty,
and that he had been tried for the same
offence under the Sioux laws. The
whole day was occupied in securing a
jury.
The North Carolina Council OF State,
at meeting yesterday, declined by
tie vote to take action in regard tu call
ing an extra session of the Legi gislature.
AS the Governor can only make the
call by advice OF the Council, the Legis-
latnre will not be convened.
The strike of the miners in the Cum
Der and coal region is expected to be
OF long duration, the men being well
supplied with funds ndividualIy, and
the knights Of Labor having nearly
S4O, ,OOO-the fruit ofseveral months as
sesslneL ts--ln their treasury.
A petition is receiving many sigma
lures in Portsmouth, New Hamshire,
ASKING Congress to provide for the re
mov"l Of the rocks at "Pull- and. be
Damned Point" and the reefs at Bod
gers Island, both dangerous to nAv!ga-
tion.
The smallpox continues to increase
in South Bethlehem, Penua. Fourteen
aduitlt nal houses were uuarantiued
there yesterday, and tour more deaths |
from the Ciseaae were reported. The |
totai number of cases is nov estimated
at 225.
Hunter G, White was yesterday ap-
pointed Assistant Adjutant General 0 |
the lthJre lsIald militia.
Samuel =. Colt was Yesterday re-
elected Assistant Attorney General OF
Rhode Island, by tue Legislature Oft
that State, TO serve until May.
The Senate Committee on Terri
tories yesterday adopted the House
bill for the admission OF Dakota az a
Slate as u substitute for the Senate bill
on the subj tct, but made various
amendments to he measure.
Two masked burglars entered the
house of Samuel Lewis, a farmer, near
Barneston Station, Berks county, on
Thursday night bound Lewis and his
wife, AMI then maze Oft with about
$500 cash, found i'll the house.
j. w. Johnson, editor OF the Gazette
newspaper i'll Sheldon, Illinois, local
politician and applicant for a 5 wedisL
has disappeared after
oEglng commercial paper to the extent
)f several thousand dollars.
Nehemiah MilIiard, classmate of ,
PRESIDENT Garfield, aud at one time
Judge of TIE B>rgen county, New Jer-
Ay, Common Pleas, died in Patterson
IN Thursday night.
The dwelling Of Alfred Willis, at
;arditf, Ontario, was burned on Mon )
ay, and his three children, aged re-
pectlvely II months, years aud II L
ears, were burned to death.
The boys employed in the Pacific /,
dill, at Lawrence, M4sIa., about IS in II
uni Der, have followed the example of II
he spoilers and struck against IA reduc. ri
ion of wages
Slight earthquake shocks have been
eported in different parts of Mexico tc
'lthin a few days. There was one of HI
several seconds duration in the City cl
Mexico Yesterday morning, NJ
1t is understood that Attorney Gen p'
raj Brewster has accepted the resig- II
atioa of Cololel w. A Cook special y
'sisJant attorney in the star Route
ase.
The carpenters and ioners of Cleve-
nd, Ohio, have de 'ided to ask So per 81
ay--an increase OF 80 to IS ceuts-atter IS
lo first Of April. "
The miners and laborers of Luzerne II
nd LackaWanA ,ounaies Ill set iu Puts -,
~ to-day for the purpose OF forming "
United Labor organization.
Ex .Govorner Edwin y. Morgan, OF
e" York, has given $4,000 to Viii a,
ans Co.iege, Massachusetts, iur the "a
'ect!on ofanew dormiCor,. h,
The Western Uuion Telegraph Com M
my messenger boys IN BoStou struck Is
esoerday horuing against reduction pa
wages.
John Reeser, a brakeman on the
ebtnon Valley Railroad, was run over
I'd fatally injured by a freight tram at 10
eading last evening. ST.
A costly stained glass window, in oe
emory Of President Garfield, ha. been III
aced in st James Episcopal Church
,ng Branch.
Geuer Il and Mrs. Grant are expected u.
the White House next Tuesday rs ''
rests OF President Arthur. ~
Representative Black, of Georgia, sick
Wa-hin ton, was hardly expected to
We through last nigAt.
1t is stated that all the moulders in at
'Oy New York SOO in pun,h.r rp;1I ~