Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-01-03
NEWS SUMMARY.
kAVAGES OF = ne FLAMES-YIs-
AoTkOUS CASUALTIES 9TH.
Err GEN eRAL HEWS,

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The Naval Advisory Board to consid
er the expediency of completing the
iron-clads Monadnoch, Puritan, Am
phitrite and Terror, submitted report
to Congress yesterday in favor OF com
pleting those vesselS. The Board re-
ports that 'it will be prepared before
the end OF January to submit complete
and detailed plans, together with the
estimates OF cost for the completion of
the Puritan. With regard to the other
vessels, their interior dimensions will
require more time and more careful ex-
animation to prepare detailed designs
that shall give them the highest posi-
bic efficiency"
While thirty convicts, nsstly colOred,
employed on railroad tunnel in Jack.
son county, North Carolina, were
crossing the Tuckaseegee river, last
Saturday morning, 1t was discovered
that the HAT conveying them to their
destination was leaking. A panic en-
sued and the men rushed to one end of
the fat, causing IL to sink. Only twelve
iAA>n "uAS ooNOA, tuO I06U ucluk
drowned, most of them going over the
rapids.
The Matt nal Board CT Health is ad-
vise1 that during the last two months
5000 people at Capetown, South Africa,
have be n attacked by the ma)l-Dox,
and 2,4O03have died. All efforts 10
check the disease have proved unavail-
ing, owing to the opposition Of the ne
groes to vaccination.
An incendiary fire in Pine Bluff
Arkansas, yesterday morning, destroy
ed this brick block occupied by Rosen-
baum Il Ties, dealers in furniture, and
Solomon Rosen berg, dealer in plants
tion supplies. Several adjoining stores
were also burned. The loss is estimated
at $125,OC0.
Josh Billings says: "Next to a clear
copschiepce for solid comfort Gums an
old shu." He probably never suffered
with a cough or cold, otherwise he
would have referred to DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup as being also good thing
to secure relief and comfort.
la accordance with The Judgment
rendered last Saturday in Toronto, and
order was issued yes.erday for the ex-
tradition of Ellis p, phipns. Of Phila-
delohia, The order was transmitted to
the Court OF Appeals, where the case
h as been taken by the Majors coupseI
A telegram from Reading says the
strikers at the Topton Furnace caused
a riot on Monday night by trying to
prevent new men from taking their
places. Two of the ring leaders were
arrested and held in $500 bail each. and
the new me-. we.e at work yesterday.
The rivsr coal oner.tors ir T. a pitts
burg district have decided TO insist
upon reduction of the rate for digging
from to 81 per bushel. The red uction
will affect 800 miners employ yed in "A
pits. 1t is not believed there will be
much opposition to the decrease.
The house of George B Vandsrpool,
Tax Commissioner of New York, at
Chatham, New Jersey, WAS burned on
Loss, 81, 900. The fire was
caused by the upsetting of kitchen
stove, there being none but a servant in
the mouse az the time.
The factories, mills and works on the
river at Camden, Maine, are running
several hours short of their regular
time, owing to lack Of water. This is
unprecehenteo eo ID winter az that place.
All the "eils are IoW' 'and the CTS
terms gave out several weeks ago.
During the twelve months which
.,' onu.u s ou 4o'gtu?.r Nv oo, 1907 the ex,
po1 !? l.oiu .no v ni.Iu STATES ekoeeaeu
sho '"oAVo n.un!hs "nch ehu
eu oD N'Etiloef ~. 1851, the excess OF
exports was elSo, leu, l0e.
Dr. Robert =. Smedley, prominent
puyslcldu VI WesL OueSt