Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-09-04
NEWS SUMMARY.
THE JERSEY CENTRAL IN COURH
YELLOW FEVER AT PENSA.
COLA-OTHER NEWS.

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In the U. S. Circuit Court at Trenton,
New Jersey, yesterday, counsel for the
New Jersey Central Railroad Company
lied an answer to the amended bill of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Com any,
touching the suit over the New York
and Long Branch Road which has been
pending for some months past. The
answer, including certain exhibits,
covers fifty-two printed pages. 1t con.
cludes by denying the right of the Court
to interfere in the premises, and pray
ing that the bill may be dismissed with
costs. The final arguments will take
place on the fourth Tuesday of this
month.
One new case Of yellow fever aud one
death-that of DR.. Easso-were report
ed at the Pensacola Navy Yard yester.
day. DR.. Basso, according to a tele-
gram from Pensacola, appeared in that
city when the fever was raging there
last year, with specific " for the dis
ease, and "obtained certificates from
hund-cds of intelligent persons Of mar
vellouS cures.' When the fever ap-
peared at the Yard this season BasH0
wenU there, and the people on the Ma
val Reservation gave him certificates Of
more cures.
S. f. Goats, a young merchant OF
Bulwer village, in the Provence OF
Quebec, died suddenly few days ago.
Poisoning being suspected, his stomach
was sent 90 Quebec for analysis, which
resulted in the discovery that death
was caused by strychnine. The dead
mans widow, q years of age, has been
arrested for the crime. 1t is known
that she recently bought strychnine
from a druggist of Sherbrooke. and she
was suspected of being unfaithful to her
husband.
1t is believed at the Internal Reve-
nue. Bureau that the claims for rebate
of taxes on tobacco, snuff and cigars,
under the new Internal Revenue law,
have nearly all been presented, and it is
estimated that they will aggregate
about So, 500, 900 The total annual re-
ducticn in the revenue from tobacco,
snuff aud cigars is now estimated at
S36, 900, 900.
The drought of the last two months
in Southern Virginia continues and is
doing great damage to the crops. In
some sections not more than half crops
Of corn, cotton and tobacco can be made.
The streams are fast drying up, making
milling operations impossible. At
Petersburg the river is so low that mil
lers cannot do more than a fourth of
their usual work.
At Allentown, Penna., yesterday,
lorty-one additional suits were brought
before an alderman against the Bethle-
hem Iron Company by former employees
to recover the amounts deducted
from their wages in payment of store
bills.
A higbwayman boarded a train at
Ogden, Utah, on Sunday night, and
covering eight passengers and two train
men with his revolver plundered them
of their watches and money and
escaped.
The First Nationa Bank of Shakopee,
Minnesota, with capital of $4,000,
and the First National Bank of Manas-
quan, New Jersey, with capital of
$40, 600, have been authorized to begin
business.
George Wagner, private watchman,
daughter in q cemetery 'at Columbus,
Ohio, on Sunday night. He was living
at last accounts, but not expected to
recover.
William B. Stearns, President of the
Fichburg Railroad, died in Boston on
Sunday, aged 56 years.
The sessions of the General Assembly
of the knights of Labor will begin in
Cincinnati to-day.
Arrangements have ,oon ,oao :,
Ghlcaso ,or a pp" ..lc reception to Presi-
'o''' 1Ai' :. on Wednesday evening.
J. Proctor Knott, Governc reject of
fort to-day.
A Romance From the Department.
From tho Washington Post
A pretty little romance has been con-
Strncted by some of the ladies in the In.
terror Department upon the recent re-
signation Of Miss Pink Chaplin, lately
one of their number. The story is that
Mr. James ). Phillips, IA son of ex-Con-
gresham Phillips, of Kansas, wooed
and won the lady while he was clerk
in the department. His father objected
and tried to head the youns man off by
having him appointed an assistant pay
master il the navy, with station at San
Francisco. But the Young man was not
going to let such a small thing as that
disturb the course of his true love. The
young couple, therefore, ON the 10Th of
March last ulIietly betOOk themselves