Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-02-27
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The State Department has received
an application from the British Govern
ment for the sytradition Of p. j. Sheri-
. dan, suspected Of .complicity in the
Phoenix Park mnrdsis. fha, Sserstasy
Of State has, therefore, issued q warrant
for the arrest Of Sheridan, who Is now
in New York city. If arrested he will
be taken before a Z. S. Commissioner,
who will decide whether the prisoner IL
subject to cxtradition under the war
rant. Should the decision be in the al.
firmative, the State Department will
issue the necessary extradition papers.
; Heretofore Roman Catholic priests
have been prevented from visiting chill
; drsn of their faith in the Newark City
Home, the reformatory Of the City Of
Newark, at Verona, Essex County,
,. New Jersey. Last night the Board Of
Trustees of the Home adopted resolu-
ton "to admit ministers of all denomi-
nations"
The Massachusetts House of Repre-
ssntatives adopted resolution ysster-
day requesting the Senators and Repre-
sentatives of that State in Congress to
endeavOr to secure the passage of law
prohibiting the employment OF convicts
upon works or property ofthe United
States.
The house of Peter Dennen, in Muske-
gon county, Michigan, was burned
early yesterday morning, and the hired
girl and three children, the youngest
an infant one week old, perished in the
flames. Mrs. Dennen barely escaped by
leaving her sick bed and running out
in the snow in her bare feet.
Nine Americans are suspected Of
completely in the robbery Of $4,000
from the railroad company's vault at
Panama. Though the evidence, it is
said, seems to indicate their inno-
cence," they are detained in prison
without a hearing, and U. S. Consul
Turpin is interfering in their behalf.
A second attack was made by bandits
on the Tlatcote Hacienda, in QusretarO,
Mexico, on Sunday, and was repulsed
after two of the ruffians were killed.
Eight men captured for the first assault
have been condemned to death.
The one ballot for the United States
Senator taken by the Legislature Of
Michigan yesterday was as follows
Lathrop, 27; Palmer, "a Stockbridge,
21 Willetts, 9; Ferry, 2, and scatter
ing four.
A young girl in Philadelphia, who
for three years has been patient suf-
ferer with sore throat, has been effectu-
ally cured by using Dr. Bulls Cough
Syrup.
John King was killed and William
Buckley dangerously injured by an ex-
plosion of dualin which they were dry
ing in an clubhouse near MarmOra,
Ontario, yesterday morning.
Justice Schmidt, sentenced year ago
to eighteen months imprisonment in
the Albany penitentiary for an assault
committed in Washington, has been
pardoned by the President.
AT Port Hope, Ontario, yesterday,
Bridget Bullen, aged 70 years, cut the
throat Of her husband, aged 80 years,
and set fire to the house to conceal the
crime. She was arrested.
The case of ex-Treasurer Polk, of
Tennessee, was called yesterday in the
Criminal Court, at Nashville, but was
continued in consequence Of the con.
tinued illness ofthe prisoner.
Steamships arriving at New York,
from European ports, report terrific
storms, immense fields of drift ice and
icebergs on the Atlantic ocean.
Sixty wire drawers in the East
Haven, Connecticut, Wire Drawing
Works struck last night against re-
duction in their wages of 20 per cent.