Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-02-21
NEWS sum MARY.
PRNNsYLvANIAE AELECTION.RAIL .
ROAD ACCIDENT-COAL OIL
LAMP EXPLOSION. ~

| Municipal elections were held yester-
day in various cities and towns of Penn
sylvania, with the following results =
Rcading, William G. Rowe, Republic
can, reelected Mayor, the other city Of
ticers and Councils being Democratic
Harrisburg, Simon Cameron Wilson,
elected Mayor. Wilkesbarre, Thomas
Broderick, Citizens candidate, re-elect-
ed Mayor. Norristown, T. j. Baker,
Democrat, elected Burgess. Chester, j.
Newton Shanafelt, Republican, elected
Recorder. West Chester, Chief Bur
CESS Wood, Republican, reelected. Lam
caster, Democratic majority of in Sc
lect, and Republican majority Of II in
Common Council. Allentown, Smith,
Democrat, reelected Controller; Com
mon Conncl Republican. Pottsville,
Joseph Derr, Republican, elected Chief
Burgess, and Republican majority in
Councils chosen.
In Philadelphiaa Police Magistrate
being voted for, the city and members OF
Select and Common Council, School
Directors and other ward officers being
chosen in most of the wards. The vote
polled was light even for a purely mu-
nicipal election, reaching only 1lO, ,121.
Thompson, Republican candidate for
Police Magistrate, is elected by S,O21
majority. OF forty-six candidates for
Common Council endorsed by the Com
lnittee Of One Hundred, thirty. three
were elected and thirteen defeated.
Favette Rroun of CLEVELAND Ohio
was Yesterday appoiuted by the U. s.
Court in that city receiver of Brown,
Bonnell & Co. 1t is announced that
the COmpany's Youngstown Works
will continue to run for the present at
least. The members of the Company
say it has a large quantity of stock on
hand and good contracts, and that its
asSests largely exceed its liabilities.
Asan exnress train ON the Iron Noun.
tain Railroad was turning a sharp
curve into Poplar street, St. Louis, on
Monday night, the engine ran off the
track and dashed into IA stone building,
breaking hole about fifteen feet square.
The baggage car was badly damaged.
A boy, who was stealing ride, sus-
tanned fatal injuries, and fireman had
one Of his arms broken.
An empi v engine and a night freight
train, on the Danhury and Norwalk
Railroad, in Connecticut, colldei near
Danbury at haIf.past one o'clock yes
terday morning. A tank of oil explod-
ed, setting the " reck OH fire, and the
main track was blocked for about ten
hours. The night mail bags from New
York were burned, No person was Sc
verely injured.
Atelegram from Cheyenne, Wyoming
saws it is asserted that the recent gneat
storms "haye forever settled the eues-.
tion of ranging cattle on the plains, ,'''by
demonstrating that "cattle will live
through anv Weather - The President
Of the Stock Growers Association, Mr..
Davis, thinks cattle worth 81 more Ter
head since their security is assured.
William G. Smith. an express mes
senger for the Erie and New England
Exnress Cu,on,nv was attacked by a
robber on an Albany and Susquehanna'
train, near Bainbridge station, ON Mon
day night. After b+ing shot twi@a he
kept up the fight until the robber fed,
without getting any plunder; Smith
had more than $40, 900 in his charge
Four children of Mrs. Mcdonald,
aged from two to seven years, were
burned to death by the explosion of a
coal oil lamp ina frame house near
Hrackett, Texas, on Monday night. The
who was alone in the house
%l'h 'heil' was l'lanle 10 asSis' Ner
i' hi.''reh' 'iie niaiileS cutting nei 'n- ''''h
e'ie'l rooui'
a Wabash freight train divided on a.
steep grade near Fort Wayne, Indiana,
Yesterday, ana 'he rear portion dash"d
Ia .ie o'ner, smashing several cars and
e',ihg tneln on hre. John Me"hhn
niu D. H. A"rher were bhrned to
'e"'n'
Al ia!e aftlcle IN the Louisville,
n.y. noui,tr nIil 'o''r'lal; we observe that
!, ~ n'"ch 5urh' oi 'hat State, speaks ::
As"ln anu again nave l nal occasion
- oSe 81 'a'op w, ana eNe.y time it
=,
IVY, t"o more iheneG'ual pallots for u.
,; !: oenAtor were taken yesterday in the
,,nh!s"m hesisItture. Inc sec0ni
toou w. 1,,' ;uJi'"i'' 4o' burrows, ~ Palm
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:, LOUIS r: FellltZsch, Master in
'hlhcery Oh ood1ord county, Illinois,
il orrn,,n.s ,nnua ,o ,h", "'t az noo hvlh
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a telegram from st. John, New
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