Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-07-15
NEWS SUMMARY.
OBTAINING HONEY ON FALSE
PBETENCEDLMURDER on SUI
CIDE-NEGRO RIOT.

OBTAINING HONEY ON FALSE
PBETENCED-MURDER on SUI
CIDE-NEGRO RIOT.
Harry Hart, Of the firm of Brem mer&
Hart, shipping merchants, of halifax,
who failed recently, has been arrested
on charge Of obtaining money under
false pretences. 1t 10 alleged 1ha. he
obtained 5000 from halifax Banking
Company on notes made by his father
and endorsed by himself. upon assert
Ing that the notes were bonafide trans
actions, but which were afterwards as
certained to be only accommodation
notes. Other banks are said to have dis
counted notes under conditions. Hart
was released on $4,000 bail.
The Coroner's jury In the case Of the
railroad collision on the Baltimore g.
Ohio road near Washington, last Satur.
day night, yesterday rendered . verdict
placing the responsibility on John Sulli-
van, who displayed white light to
the train, which was behind time. when
he had been signaled to display . red
light as an evidence that the track was
not clear" Sullivan was arrested last
night.
The body of George Ober was found
on Saturday hanging In . barn near
lronville, Sussex county, New York.
0osr s.s !.ss Mss asss seen :esa snyesks aS9. aS9..xdte xdte
Whom found the body was partly lay
ing on the hay, and the head and upper
parts were held up by rope around the
neck.
A passenger train on the Coney Island
Railroad collided with an engine and
coal car near the curve at Greenwood
Cemetery, Brooklyn, yesterday after
noon. About nine persons were injured,
one, perhaps, fatally. The disaster 10 at
tributed to the oarelessneAs of Charles
Mercer, engineer Of the GOAL train.
The small town of Mission San Jose.
AlamAda county, California, WAS almost
destroyed by FIRE on Sunday night. Loss
e50, 900. "W hon the water was exhaust.
ed claret was usedi to extinguish the
flames and prevent the destruction of
the old mission church.
The steamer Warwick, from Newport
for Quebec and Montreal, with . cargo
of iron, Is ashore near Fox river, in the
St. Lawrence. She had fourteen steer
age passengers, but all were saved, and
1t 10 thought she can be hoated.
John Frazior has been arrested at
Coh0es, New York. ON the charge Of
having enticed Lucinda Cleland into
the woods, drugged and assaulted her,
and tied her to o tree, whore she was
found by some boys.
Yesterday being the ninety. fifth amir
versary Of the capture of the Bastile,
the French National Fete Day, 1t was
appropriately celebrated by the French
residents of New York, New Orleans
and other cities.
the steamer Harrington, with phos-
iphate, from Charleston for West Har-
tlepool, ran ashore at St. Shots, New
foundland, on Sunday morning, during
q thick fog, and became total wreck.
Her crew was saved.
Eli Barringer was killed and Loftin
Martin fatally injured in q riot among
negroes at colored festival at Mount
Holly, North Carolina, last Saturday
night. Ten or twelve others wero
wounded.
The plough manufacturing drm of B.
d. Buford & Co., of Rock Island, ILL.,
nois, made an assignment yesterday
} The liabilities are estimated at $200, 600
the assets are unknown,
Flocks and herds are being driven in.
to Mexico from Western Texas, to seek
) water, all the wells and streams on the
, American side Of the Rio Grande being
! dried up.
The Hicksville Bank, of Hicksville,
Ohio, has made an assignment. The
concern WAS owned by e. d. Otis, "who
worked up good business, but his
, credit was limited"
t The steamer River Ettrick, with q
cargo of coal, on Sunday struck a rock
off Green Island, Quebec, and sank
She will be total loss.
, Charles II. Martin was fatally kicked
, by another boy, named Charles Thomp
son, in q quarrel at Toronto ON Satur
day, and died Monday morning.
Burgert s. Hart, wholesale boot and
. shoe dealers of Toledo, Ohio. made an
|. . assignment yesterday. Liabilities, 800 /,
900; assets not stated.
1t il announced that no more one dol
q lar notes can be supplied by the United
n States Treasurer until about the 1st of
a August.
8 James Reilly, "snake charmer and ex
hibitor," was bitten Ey q rattlesnake Oh
Sunday, in New York, and died Mon
day.
q John b. Hoffman, for the murder Of
| his son Robert, was sentenced Monday
: in Cincinnati to be hanged on October
l oath.
Gustav Werner, aged 40, an ar tist
committed suicide Monday In New
9 York because "his mistress deserted
him about three weeks ago."
!. Grasshoppers are reported to be de
stroying the sugar cane in the Mexican
2 State of Vera Cruz.
VIM. Fl. Howard, wholesale dealer in
I neckwear of Boston, has made an rs
8 signm ent.