Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-02-17

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Services were held yesterday in Har
, ward College over the body Of KO Kun
8 Hua, late Professor of Chinese. Tbsr
were present the faculty of the Colleg
{ and q large number Of students, tn
. eldest son of deceased, and Mr.. Quong
"a mandarin from Hartford. "iProfessO
Everett, ,lDean Of the Divinity School
conducted the services. He read "se
and from the New Testa nent," after
which there was chant by the choir
In tho Lenahan murder case at Siou1
City, Iowa, the coroner's jury yesterday
J rendered a verdict that Lenahan "camt
to his death from q shot from q revOl
yer in the hands of Maggie Lenahan
aud that her mother and sitter Annie
and Herbert Birch are accessories. y
Maggie Lenahan and her mother con.
'essed the crime, the motive being Len
ahan's refusal to allow one of his
Mrs J. M. Robinson, wife of farmer
near Ithaca, New York, drowned her
self on Wednesday in a cask of rain
wafer. She had been grieving for the
dss tn of her only son. Henry Straus
berger, stranger, commit sSd srioide
in Reading yesterday by shooting him
self with pistol. Indulgence is sup
posed to have been the cause.
Governor Cameron, Of Virginia, ar.
rived in Norfolk yesterday afternoon
and ordered company Of militia to the
mouth of the Rappahsnnock river,
where a conflict is threatened between
the oyster fleets and the citizens, who
allege that the oyster gatherers are tres
passing upon their private rights.
A "mass constitutional prohibition
convention" in session at Minneapolis,
adjourned yesterday, after agreeing to
q resolution urging the State Of Mime
sofa to adopt q constitutional amend.
ment prohibiting the manufacture, i'm
quors as beverage.
The Susquehanna river was % feet
above low water marx at Wilkesbarre
yesterday, while the ice remained soil d
for distance of several miles between
that citv and Kingston. The flats at
Plymouth were overhowed; part of the
main street was covered. and the Avon
dale mine was filling up with water.
Joseph E. Sheffield, founder of the
Sheffield Scientific School, connected
with Yale College, died yesterday
morning in New Haven. His c0ntri-
buttons to the endowment of the
school, which was established in 1847,
have amounted to nearly $500, 900.
A coal train on the Delaware Lacka-
wanna and Westeren Railroad broke
through an iron bridge, II miles north
of Belvidere, yesterday morning, and
about half the cars fell in the creek, 30
but not seriously.
| Seven Students have been expelled
from Williston Seminary at East
Hampton, Massachusetts, for insubor-
dination. Most of the senior class are
rebellious, but the trouble in the other
classes is believed to be Substantially
over"
Judge Smell, in the Police Court at
Washington, yesterday decided that
Cabell, Dickson and Minnix, charged
with conspiring to defraud the Govern
ment, must give bonds in $1,000 each to
appear before tho Grand Jury.
Col. A. B. Meacham, long prominent
in connection with Indian Affairs in
Colorado and a member of the Ute
Commission, died suddenly apoplexy
in Washington last night, at the age OF
56 years.
The Star Route trials Of Corbin and
Iddings, in Lincoln, Nebraska, resulted
yesterday in their acquittal by direc'
tion of Judge Bundy. The defence of.
fered no testimony, the prosecution hav-
ing broken down.
Ellen Slevin died yesterday morning
in the New York Dispensary while un.
der the influence of ether, administered
to her by the surgeons previous to per.
forming an operation on her arm.
Parkham Adams. aged - years, a
student of the University of Tennessee,
is dying in Knoxville from the effects
of smoking 40 cigarettes and inhailing
the smoke con wager"
The New Brunswick Legislature was
opened yesterday. The Lieutenant
Governor in his speech said the Pro-
vincial Government intended to start a
breeding farm tor the Improvement OF
stock.
A telegram from Poughkeepsie, re-
porting the continuance of the thaw
and another rain storm last night, says
the ice harvest on the Hudson IL prac-
tically ended, with about half a crop
housed.
Two bodies, showing evidence of
murder, were found in the Rio Grande
river, near Laredo, Texas, on Wednes-
day. One of them had rope around
the neck.
The Mutual Union Telegraph Com
pany yesterday filed certificate in
the office of the Secretary OF State, at
Albany, increasing its capital SlO, ,OOO,-
900.
The wife of Governor Long, of
Massachusetts. died yesterday in Bos-
ten. She had been an invalid for long
time.
Seventeen cases of smallpox and
five deaths from the disease were re-
ported in Richmond, Virginia, last
week.
The ship General Knox sailed yes
terday from Norfolk, Virginia, with
1856 bales of cotton.
| Bis ck silks.
We are offering magnificent black
silk at $1.OO a yard. Crosby u Hill,
9 o and 222 Market st.
| Destructive Fires.
A fire in Lynn, Massachusetts, on
Wednesday night, destroyed Clark s
building, occupied by gas fixture store
and morocco factory, and two adjoin.
ing frame buildings, occupied by several
stores and the hall of the Lynn Land
League. The losses aggregate about