Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-02-02
NEWS SUNNI MARY.
UNITED STATES sENA.
TOR D-DIkCOVERY
OF SALT MINES, &c.

/. broken yesterday, on the 29th ballot, by
t the election of ID. M. Sabin to be U. s.
L. tSenator The vote stood: Sabin, n:
Windom, 80; Cole, Is; Hubbard, g.
n Wakefield, /. Thirty ofthe Democrats
voted for Sabin, the rest being divided
! among the other Republican candidates.
Sabin is native of Connecticut, and 80
6 years Of age. He is prominent
and wealthy manufacturer and State
} Prison contractor. He never held an
office before except in the Legislature.
The Committee of Constitutional Re-
form at Harrisburg will to-day report
favorably the Prohibitory amendment
to the State Constitution, with provisO
that compensation shall be made out
of the Treasury to all persons owning
real estate which has been occupied,
licensed and license paid for the manu-
facture or sale Of liquors, for five sue
cesslye years previous to the adoption
of this amendment, which may be re-
Idnced in value by reason Of destruction
of business by its adoption, the Legis-
lature to provide for the manner in
which such injury or reduced value
shall be ascertained and paid.
| i utlt Is iuu'u th'lltIIcIt iL w aTSaW
and Leroy, New York, over the large
salt productions developed in that re-
gion. A telegram from Rochester says:
Hundreds of barrels are daily being
manufactured from two wells at War
saw. Agents of Syracuse, Auburn and
Canadian syndicates are on the ground
to make large purchases Of land and
silk wells. Over 1000 barrels of salt
havealready been shipped from Warsay
to Buffalo and hundreds Of barrels to
other points east Of here"
A crowded mass meeting under the
auspices Of the New York Association
for the Protection OF American Indus
try was held in Cooper Institute last
evening Peter Cooper presided, assis-
ted by William E. Lodge The list
Of Vice Presidents included number
Of the leading business and professional
men Of that city. Addresses were made
by Messrs Cooper, Dodge, William NJ.
Evarts and Dexter A. Hawkins, after
which resolutions were adopted sup
porting protective tariff.
At Socorro New Mexico, on Wednes-
day, two Mexicans fought horrible
duel to settle their claims to girl both
were courting. They locked themselves
III room and fought with axes. One of
them had his head cut off, and the other
was 50 terribly hacked that he was not
expected to live.
A dory containing two men which
had got astray from Gloucester ,scho ner
Grace l.. Fears, was picked up last
Monday at Little River, Newfoundland.
One Of the men, Thomas Walsh, was
dead, and the other, Albert Blackmore,
was badly frozen.
Samuel Bushman, OF Newark, New
Jersey, who pleaded guilty to the charge
of passing counterfeit money, was SEN
fenced at Trenton yesterday to six
imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary and the payment of IA fine of $500.
In Kingston township, near Wilkes
barre, Penn, yesterday morning, n
man named Leonard and his son were
found dead in bed, his wife dying, and
two young children in the last stages
of starvation. Relief was given.
James McMaillard, Justice of the
Peace, pleaded guilty yesterday, in
Trenton, New Jersey, to the charge OF
collecting fees from the county in ticti-
tious criminal cases. He will be senten-
ced on Monday,
Travel on the Shenandoah branch of
the Reading Railroad, interrupted by
he collision and wreck of coal trains on
Tuesday, was resumed yesterday. The
lamage by the collision is estimated at
s25,0OO.
A young ruffian, named Cobb, who
+ nt ,,,l al a
few days ago, was taken from the jail
lt Winfield, Kansas, on Wednesday
night, and lynched by masked mob.
Samuel Wakefield, prominent
'o!0red politician, committed suicide
yesterday in New Orleans. He was
! State Senator in 1874, and deputy
naval officer until December last.
The Safe Harhor Iron Works at
Lancaster, operated by the Phoenix Iron
'ompany, shut down yesterday. The
operatives will be transferred to the
other works.
Richard Bronson, for forty years
'eSdeut Of Dubuque, and fOrmerlya
member of the Iowa Legislature, died
yesterday morning after surgicaloper-
alton.
One Of the American Powder
'ompany's mills at Acton, Massa
husetts, blew up yesterday morning,
baking dwellings for many miles
round. No lives were lost.
Tuesdays blizzard in Minnesota has
'ecn followed by clear, cold weather.
he temperature III that State and in
Dakota is from 10 to 30 degrees below
crO.
Three more intellectual ballots for
'nitrd States Senator We're taken in
he Micgan Legislature. Ferry re-
civcd 40 votes, and Stout so, the rest
eing scattered.
Til" Union Iron and Steel Company,
Bridgeport, Illinois, is reported to he
1t is said the CoInpany's
Hills will be closed to-day. They en-
loyed 1000 men.
Henry A. Bowen was indicted yes
rday in Washington, for c0rruptly EN-
,avoring to influence William Dick
N, Star Route juror.
Otto S. Weeks, Queens counsel and
member of the Nova Scotia Paria
rnt, was arrested yesterday on the
large Of brutaly assauIting his wife.
Work has been suspended in the st.
artin Coal Mines, Nova Scotia, III con-
quence Of u recent cave in of the sur
&C.
The body Of Jacob Garnicr, a young
an who recently committed suicide,
$ been stolen from its grave at
pauphin county, frnna
The public debt statement issued yes
day shows q decrease of fl3, 1886, SS3.
The Secretary Of tn" Treasury yester-
Y issued call for fifteen millions of
tended iives.
rhc Detroit National Bank Of Detroit,
chigan, has been authorized to begin
siuess with u capital ofSl ,OOo,Oo0.