Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-09-12
NEWS SUMMARY.
Meeting Of Catholic PrelateS-
Damages to the Crop OF Fruit
Train COll1siOn-Casua and
other News.

Other News.
A council of Catholic prelates will
meet in Baltimore to-day :" to perfect
arrangements for their visit to Rome
and to decide on the matters to be pre-
sented TO the Pope" 1t is expected
that there will be present Archbishop
Corrigan of New York, the coadjutor of
Cardinal McCloskey Archbshops Fee
han OF Chicago, William of Boston, and
Heiss OF Milwaukee Bishop Ryan OF
st. Louis, O'Hara of Scranton, and
Chatard of Nincennes, and Very Rev.
Dr. Walsh, Administrator of the Arch
diocese of Philadelphia. Archbishop
Gibbons of Baltimore, the Primate Of
the Church in the United States, will
preside.
AT Dedham, Massachusetts,, yester-
day morning, verdict of guilty was
rendered in the Superior Criminal Court
against the Wrentham Mormons, s"
and jackson l.. Evans was ser to the
House of Correction for three years.
The sentences of Catharine Is. Cobb and
Katie l.. Whitney were deferred to
allow of further investigation. The
accused have created much scandal
" by the practice Of immortality under
the guise of Spiritualism.
In st Louis, on Monday night, Henry
u. Blessing, an engineer, fired several
shots at his brother-in-law, Thielman,
int1icting fatal wounds, then fired two
shots at his wife, wounding her dan
gerously, and then fled to the garret of
his house, where he cut his throat. All
the injured We're taken to the same hos
pital. The cause of the tragedy is sup
posed to have been family quarrel.
Thiclman died yesterday, Blessing and
his wife are likely to recover.
The Chicago Farmers Review, in TO-
days issue, referring to the frosts which
have occurred throughout Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Montana, Michigan, North
ern and Northwestern Illinois and In.
diana, says it will be safe to estimate
the damage to corn in the territory
named at 20 per cent. Of the estimated
crop. "Other minor crops, such as to-
bacco, tomatoes and other tender gar
den vegetables, as we'll as grapes wele
greatly injured or entirely ruined"
Two freight trains. on the St. Louis
on Monday night near Wyandotte Sta
tion, Arkansas. Both engines and many
of the cars were wrecked, but no per-
son was injured A telegraph operator,
to whose negligence the disaster is at
trlbuted, was arrested.
President Arthur has issued procla-
nation declaring that "the Worlds
Industrial aud Cotton Centennial Ex-
position. will be opened on the first
Monday in December, 1884. at the city
of New Orleans, continuing until the
3lst of May, 1885"
j. Nj. Haven was again arrested in
Rutland, Vermont, on Monday, on the
charge Of embezzling S4O, 600 while he
was Treasurer of the Rntland Railroad
Company He gave bail in $4,000, and
his examination was postponed for
week.
Two passenger trains on the Cumber.
land Valley Railroad collided last even
ing near Harrisburg. Both engines
were damaged, but no persons were in
jured.
Judge Choate, at Lawrence Massa
chusetts, has refused to admit the Au-
gustinian Society to insolvency, ruling
that the depositors in the savings instl
tuition are not creditors of the Society.
By collision between two trains on
the Long Island Railroad, near Hunt
er's Point, last evening, two men were
killed and eight injured, one of the lat
ter fatally.
The steamships England, from Liver
pool, Neckar, from Bremen, and West
plalia, from Hamburg, brought l,2jl
to New York yesterday.