Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-12-15
NEWS SUMMARY.
SUICIDE E-INDICTED FOE MUIR
DER.AN INDANE MANS FREAK
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SUICIDE INDICTED FOB MUR.
DER.AN INSANE MANS FREAK
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The Grand Jury, ct New Orleans, on
Saturday, indicted Thomas j. Ford,
Recorder of the Second District Court
Patrick Ford, his brother 7 Caulfeld,
Buckley and Bsder, officers of the
Court Baptiste, Favelto, Porter and
John Murphy, city police officer, and
cousin Of the Fords, for the murder OF
Andrew ii. Murphy on the lst OF De.
cember. The murder was the result of
. feud. The trial 10 expected to take
place next month.
Tho Savannah Morning News says
that . yacht club house, to cost $780,
600, and . yachting station will be es-
tablished at the Southern end Of Gum
berland Island, near Duhgeness, the
homo Of Thomas w. Carnegie, the. Pitts
burg steel manufacturer. Cumber
land Island is just below Savannah.
The club house Is to be built by the|
New York yacht clubs, and is intended
as q winter rendezvous for the yachts
men.
John Mason, an insane convict in the
asy lum attached to the penitentiary at
Jefferson City, Missouri, arose on Fri
Iday night, took possession of o heavy
poker, went into an adjoining room
where four patients were sleeping, and
beat three OF them in the head with the
poker, inficting fatal injuries upon
two. Mason is AZ years OF age, and
was considered harmless.
The engine Of Lehigh Valley
freight train was thrown off upon an
other track,by striking a frog at East
!, Newark, New Jersey, early yesterday
{ morning. The tender was derailed,
{ four cars were wrecked and several
hundred feet of both tracks were torn
up. John Pfetzinger, of Easton, fire.
/ imam, was killed, and two other train
I men were injured.
Il At Lancaster, Penna., on Saturday,
William Wilson convicted of voluntary
manslaughter in causing the death Of
. John Dixon, colored and Charles
!. guilty ~ accessories, were sentenced
each TO three years and three months
imprisonment in the penitentiary.
:. Mrs. Keiser, Mr.. Richards, and the
{ latter's wife and three children were
taken violently sick after eating din.
ner, In their tenement in Dayton, Ohio,
on Friday. 1t was not known whether
!, poison had been placed in their food or
whether they had been sickened by i'm.
lpure cistern water.
!. A special correspondent of the Balti.
: more Sun, sent to investigate the recent
> disasters by the storm on the Kappa
hammock river last Tuesday, reports that
Ionly eight lives are positively known to
. be lost. There Is q rumor that seven
u men were drowned near the mouth
y Of the river, but this is not confirmed.
j, The total number of immigrants who
arrived in Canada from January LIST to
November 30th was IA, ,8A2, against 172,
979 during the corresponding period o.
last year. OF the arrivals this year "a,
1913 were for settlement in Canada, tn,
rest going to the United States.
II At South Orange, New Jersey, OF
Saturday night, August Githings, en-
I. ployed by DR.. NJ. 81. G. Vail, saw {
man looking into window of DR.. Vail
house, and asked him what he wanted
u The reply was shot which dangerous
stIl ly wounded Githipgs. The ruffiar
y escaped.
O Elisha Hyatt, ono of the wealthies
- men of Davies, county, Indiana, ba
- - made an assignment. He was Presi
% dent of the banking company Of Hyatt
Levings q Co., which suspended las
ID month. His liabilities are estimated
J, at $lOO, 900, and he is supposed to b,
q worth $3.50, 900.
It Is understood that the liquidator
rd Of the Exchange Bank of Montreal hav,
decided to begin civil suits against tn,
n. directors of the bank for 500, 900 over
drafts, including one OF the ex- Presi
be dent for $240, 900, and another of q Goa
dealer named Beard for $3.50, 200.
|. Frank Dowling, 20 years of age,
deaf mute, shot himself in the breast il
Cleveland, Ohio, on Saturday evening
and his recovery is doubtful. He wa
we'll educated and had informed hi
10 aunt that "he longed to go and see wha
heaven was like"
E. Mrs. Julia Turner recently obtained
verdict for SIC, 900 against the city o
to Newburg, New York. for injuries re
ceived BY falling on q defective side
i'd walk. Her husband now brings sui
ii. for an additional SIC, 900 for loss of he
services.
The Worlds Exhibition, at New Or
leans, will be formerly opened to-mor
~ row at noon. The machinery will b.
IN set in motion by President Arthur b.
u telegraph, from the White House Ii
,;s Washington.
70. Tho Supreme Court of West Virgins
ae on Saturday, rendered q decision assert
ing the right of the Legislature to regu
late passenger and freight charges on 9
railroad chartered before the passage o
the regulating act.
to +. B. Laughlin, Vice President of tn
w defunct Penn Bank of Pittsburg, mad
NJ an assignment on Saturday, to cover al
that Is left over judgment of 500, 90
v confsssed last week for his individua
:. creditors.
The Law and Order Society of Nyack
Now York, held its annual meeting OF
=. Friday night, elected officers, and re
'ie solved to fight the liquor sellers will
40 increased vigor."
all An American f0ur-ton schooner
b. valued at 5000, was seized BY tn
an customs authorities near Victoria
British Columbia, on Saturday, on sus
picion of smuggling.
Percy Eldridge has been arrested il
ls' South Abingdon, Massachusetts, on tn
Oh charge Of having set FIRE to two house
ed where his wife, who had left him, re
oe ceived shelter.
A. ]. Foster, awealthy stock deale
Of Jerseyville, Illinois, committed sui
eide on Saturday morning because b
or had suffered some pecuniary losses.
Up A man named Buergen has begul
'r. nineteen suits in Cicero, New York
10 against persons who rode him on q raj
on the night of the 4th instant.
,..l If we would have powerful minds