Daily Republican., 1883-01-24
NEWS SUMMARY.
THE W0RK or THE FLAMES
MOHTkEAL's CARNIVAL
-OTHDh NEWS,

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t The winter carnival" at Montrea
5. has attracted large crowds from al
!. parts Of Canada and the United States
1t began yesterday with parade ant
n d curling Eatch, aud will continue dBr
ing the week with variety Of winte
2 sports. A conspicuous object in Mon.
treal Is an Ice palace, built in the tire
Of Dominion Square. 1t is constructed
of blocks of lee. snd measures nearly
100 feet square. At each Of the four
corners is tower 30 feet high, and .
tower in the centre is 80 feet ca uafe and
rises to a height of 100 feet. Tho crys.
tai structure is Illuminated at night by
slestris lights.
| In Milwaukee, yesterday, the wife Of
John Zimbrick, laborer, killed her
three children, the eldest seven years
OF age, and the youngest eighteen
months, and then atts nptsd suicide by
hanging herself in IN outhsuse. Her
neighbors cut her down and carried her
into the house, whore they fouud the
bodies Of the children, literally hacked
to pieces. The woman was arrested,
but showed no concern, saying she had
read in the Good Book that it was
right to sacrifice children. She is
believed to be insane from religious ex.
citenent.
j. B. Lyon & Co., Of Chicago, fled q
bill in the Circuit Court yestarday
against about twelve other firms, alleg-
ing ''that the defendant conspired to
corner January corn, by means Of which
conspiracy the price Of corn has been
raised Is cents above its actual value"
The bill asks that the defendants be
epjoin cd from calling on complainants
for margins, or purchasing for their
account when the margins are not put
! up. The suit 10 brought to test the
statute which provides that all con-
tracts made with parties running
cornOr shall bs void.
Yesterday afternoon about two o..
! clock, wheel broke under q car of
coal train on the Georges Creek and
Gu N berinnd Railroad, seven miles
west of Cumberland, Maryland, and
six y loaded cars and two engines were
| thrown down an embankment. Henry
Baldwin, fireman, and William Lyons
and James McGsttigan, brakemeu,
were killed, and Martin Welsh, engi-
neer, died soon after his inj juries. Dan
lei Brad ley, fireman; James Dolan,
engineer, and George Focken aud Solo
men Gross, brakemen, we're injured.
Joseph Hiscock, after being for SOW
eral weeks troubled vita sleepless ness,
in Toronto, told his wife on Monday
that he twas going into trance for
three days zxd nights" Soon after
wards he apparently disa, and the doc.
Tors pronounced him dead, but his
family keep the body in warm room
and are watching it carefully. They
will do this until the "three days and
nights" expire.
The Princess Louise will 60 on board
Her Majesty Is ship Dido at Charleston,
this afternoon, and sail for Bermuda
tomorrow morning. This evening the
Marquis OF Lorne wi II leave Charles
ton for Canada, stopping at Washing
ton on the way.
Waste no time delays have danger
GUS ends If member of your family
is suffering with a slight cough or cold,
don't wait until it develops itself into
consumption, but procure at once
bottle of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup, and
cure that cough.
Twenty six men were killed by the
powder explosion at Berkeley, near
San Francisco. All the bodies have
been taken from the ruins. The
cUrorer's inquest has thrown no light
upon the cause Of the explosi
While tho Reading steam collier
Allentown was epteriuZ New Bedford
harbor yesterday, she ran upon North
Ledge and knocked a hole in her
bottom. She was run on Butler Flat
to keep her from sinking.
A villa on Bellevue avenue, New
port, owned by Mr. John G. Weaver,
proprietor OF the Ocean House, WAS
burned yesterday morning. Loss $685..
600 The fire caught from steam radi-
Rtors.
The cider tauk Of the Cedar Point
Furnace at Port Henry, New York,
exploded on Monday night, killing
Charles Somers and iUjuring John Nc.
Mullen.
Celia Goetz-, DOMESTIC was killed
yesterday moraing in Chicago. by the
explosion of the boiler of kitchen
range, caused by the water pipes be-
coming frozen.
Smith, Democrat, WAS elected Alder
man in the Second Ward Of Newark,
New Jersey, by 400 majority at a
special election yesterday. This makes
the Newark Council tie.
Houston Hays Iron and Steel Works
at Coshocton, Ohio, were burned yes
teriay msrning. Loss, $4,000 The
works employed 100 men. The proprie
tor suspects iuoendiarlsm.
Abram S. Hewitt, Congressman from
New York, is quite i'll, and ii is not
his duties in the House.
Rol!n Phelps, . photographer, com
mitted suicide yesterday, III Auburn,
New York, by sWal!Owing cyanide
of potash. He was victim of iissipa-
tion.
The ship Fred L. Scammel, which
grounded on Brigan.iue Shoals, was
again tioated yesterday morning and
tored to New York.
The Exchange Hotsl. Wachita House,
aud fourteen other frame buildings in
Missouri, were burned on
Monday.
Joseph Hunsicker, aged 35 years,
was killed yesterday by "a tain while
irving across the PerkiOmen Railroad
trask near Yerke. Station, Penna.
The East Side School House, at In
Iowa, was burned on Mon
lay morning, Loss, S2a, 600.
Nathan Armstrong's plaEing mil IN
Anderson, Indiana, was burned on Mon
lay. Loss, $50 600.
A fire IN Cochran, Georgia, yesterday
destroyed seven stores>
a losr Of $40 900
The Tennessss Legislature Yesterday
.ook q recess until February 9th.
The inquest in the Milwaukee disas.
jer was begun Yesterday.