Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-07-09
NEWS SUMMARY.


The Senate of Louisiana yesterdsy
organized "a . Court for tho trial OF the
Impeachment charges against Judge
Fontelteu, Of the Twenty. nth District
An order was adopted directing the
service of summons upon ge Fon.
teliau, made returnable the first day of
the next regular session or any inter-
vening extra session. The Court then
adjourned. This action postpones the
trial until the next regular session two
years hence. Under the State Con-
sttution Judge Fontelieu remaius sus-
pended from office until tried by the
Sonata.
G. G. Leib, the defaulting Treasurer of
Washington County, Texas. has been
surrendered by his b0ndsmen and
lodged in jail. He says he cannot tell
where the money has gone, as he did
not speculate or gamble, nor was the
$40. 900 is missing. His father and
brother have offered to transfer their
entire property, valued at SIS, 800. to
his bondsmen, but the offer has been re-
Jected. Criminal charges have been pre-
ferred against Leib.
An application has been made in the
Land Office in Duluth, Minnesota, for
an order of investigation into the titles
Of some of the most valuable mineral
land in the State, on which new mines
are being opened, on q charge that the
titles were procured through pre-
emption frauds by men hired by one
Strong, an agent for George @. Stone,
b. ID. Munson and Charlemagne Tower,
The application has been forwarded to
the Land Office at Washington.
Sheriff Moore, Of Fargo, Dakota, re-
ceived word from Lisbon ON Monday
that q horse thief had been captured.
Moore sent an officer and . small boy
to bring the prisoner to Fargo in Q
wagon. During their return the horse
thief snatched the officers pistol and
compelled the boy to take the key and
unlock his handouts. He then stole
the horse attached to the wagon and
rode away.
The steam tug II. @. Coleman ex-
p loded her boilers at Elliott's Landing,
on the M issouri river, on Monday night.
All the crew, consisting Of three white
and four colOred men, were killed. The
boat was torn to pieces, and the pilot
house blown 200 yards away.
The Chief of Police of Newark. New
Jersey, says that the murderer Of Phoebe
Paulin, or West Orange, "has been
found in the State Prison Of An adjoin.
ing State" He " is sure he has the man,
but cannot give particulars yet.''
DR.. w. T. Barnard, lately Secretary
OF the Baltimore and Ohio Relief As
sociation, has been promoted to the
pOsi9(on Of Assistant to Mr.. Robert
Garrett, President pro tempore, of the
Baltimore an Ohio Railroad Company.
The steamship Gulf of st. Laurent is
still ashore at South Beach, Long
Island. Her cargo is being removed
Tuesday morning the sea ran high and
carried away her rudder and rudder
post.
The Chic Coal Exchange has decided
to import Swedes and Hungarians t.
take the place OF the 5000 men now
locked out in the Hooking Valley, and
to start the mining machines.
n Mrs. David McLearn, Of Westerly
r Rhode Island, Tuesday morning cut hel
| throat with fatal results while visiting
!, relatives in West Troy, New York. i
! is supposed she was insane.
i BE Richardson killed his brothe,
3 Albert by striking him in the heai
= with chair, in Henry county, Virginia
, last Sunday. The murderer was abus
} ing his mother, and Albert resented it
w. B. Barren killed j. 8. Mitchell
near Caldwell, Texas, on Monday
Mitchell was pursuing Barren with muir
{ derous intent, in case the latter refused
to marry his daughter.