Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-07-29
News Summary /.

News Summary.
Crop reports from Ohio, Indiana and
Kentucky, published In the Cincinnati
Commercial. G azette, show that wheat
is the best In quantity and quality that
has been gathered In years. Corn has
suffered from drought, but the rains Of
the past week have rescued 1t, and the
yield will be an average one. Oats are a
good crop. Tobacco has suffered more
from drought than anything else, and
In some localities IL q failure, the rain
being too late. In other parts the crop
Is In an excellent condition, but the
yield will be below the average"
A large freight locomotive about to
start with train In Cleveland, Ohio,
yesterday, was blown to pieces BY the
exp losion of its boiler, and . box car
and switch shanty adjacent were wreck
cd BY the flying fragments. Thomas
scalded and bruised, and . little girl
jured, being hurled . distance Of 100
feet. fIt
II is reported from Aylmer, Ontario,
that " serious trouble 10 apprehended
about six miles northwest Of that
place, where the farmers turned out on
. farm owned by one Fagen TO stop the
construction of the Pontiac and Pacific
Junction Railway" The farmers are
not satisfied with the Arbitrator
award for the right of way. Troops
have been ordered to the scene.
A fire In DEVILS Lake, Dakota, on
Sunday night, destroyed hotel, seven
stores, the post-ofiice and 1nter-OceAn
printing office, q butcher shop, bakery
bank, the township offices, ten real O.
tate Offices, q restaurant, eight saloons
and nine dwellings. The loss is moi
stated, but is said to be fully coveref
by insurance.
Henry l.. Douglas, aged IT years, 1
clerk in the law Office OF WILLIAM l.
Royal, in New York, was arrested yes
terday on the charge Of forging his em
IplOyer's name to seventeen checks
|aggrsgating 1895. The money wa
spent at horse races during the absenc
OF his employer In the country.
i Colonel j. 8. Murphy, President o
J the Mobile Lie Insurance Company
, was shot dead by Reuben Tripp, Of
, Sunday night, near Mobile, Alabama
The trouble grew out of question @
, trespAssing on land. Tripp gave him
, self up, and sad he acted in self-de
> fense.
A tornado at Cimarron Station, eigh
. teen miles west of Dodge City, Kansa!
on Sunday night, demolished ten G
0 twelve houses and severely injured
3 woman and her child. At Dodge Cit
! the wind reached velocity of 81 mile
per hour.
Otis Strong, member Of glee clu|
Q who lost a leg by the wreck Of an Obi
and Mississippi RAilroad train, nea
'' Charleston, Indiana, brought su
yesterday at Louisville for 5000
!. damages.
el Mrs. Alice Walker and G. II. S
:. Clair have been arrested for arson
e Saltwater, Minnesota. The woma
o con fessed that she burned tn e Jut
2 residence at St. Clair's instigation
c revenge for a fancied grievance.
IL While yachting party was sailiI
% on the lake at Chicago, on Sunda
IS Miss Mamie LAWS fell overheard. OF
Is Mulhart, owner OF the yacht, plunge
It in TO rescue her, but he being unable
IL swim, both were drowned.
70 John Shea, a miner from Leadvil
fatally cut and stabbed his wife, an
70 then committed suicide, q: Greedy, Co
% RADIO, on Monday morning. Jealou
- Was the cause.
~ ~ The total expense of the Greedy I
r. lief Expedition is estimated at 7
"a Treasury Department at about $70O,C
a. -$2O0, 900 more than the original es
"a mate.
,dj Valeria MarQuet, SO years Of al
a. drowned herself yesterday In the car
~ at Pottstown, Penna. Domestic trout
lel was the cause.
Stephen Willis, aged 40 years, v
al killed by falling from q window OF
,d apartments in New York yesterti
re morning.
L VIII. Norris soap works and sey
DO wooden dwellings adjoiniDg, in Oh
he sea, Massachusetts, were burned !
el ~, night