Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-03-06
NEWS SUMMARY.
Tho baltimore II. Y. Conference
Other MIscellsn eOus News from,
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Tho baltimore II. y. Conference.
Other MlsceIlsn eOus News frou
All Quarters.
The Tooth session of the Baltimor
annual Conference of the Methods
Episcopal Church was begun YESTERDAY y
In Washington. l42 delegates wer
present. In the absence OF BishO
Foster, who is sick, Bishop Andrew
presided. Rev. G. q. Baker, Secretar,
OF the last Conference, was elected Sec
retary. The Centennial sermon will b.
|preached this morning, by DR.. l.. f
Morgan.
i Il. H. Acklin and Lawrence Knatts
members of the jury who acquitte,
Dukes, have brought suits for crimina
libel against the editors of the Repub
lican Standard, of Uniontown, Pa
They will also bring suits for damages
The alleged libellous matter appeared
Ia that paper In March last, and con
sisted "in great part of head. lin,
articles written on the sub ject Of Dukes
acquittal."
A passenger train on the Philadel
phia and Reading Railroad was thrown
from the track last night near Bridge
port, Penna., by broken axle. Tin
Der on q passing freight train CRASHED
through the sleeping car, and one cal
was set on fire. None of the passenger.
were injured.
1t is reported from Los Angeles thai
several miles Of the Southern Pacific
Railroad have been washed out in tht
Colorado Desert, Lear Mammoth Tank
An East-bound passenger train which
left Los Angeles on Tuesday" is ditch.
cd at that station and isolated by
extensive washouts on both sides"
A despatch from Columbus, Ohio,
says F" The information furnished by
q coal operatorlast night that the strike
of miners, at Sunday Creek, had con
cluded was incorrect. Every mine in
the valley is now idle, and the supply
Is stopped from that quarter"
Several business firms of Newark,
New Jersey. have filed bill in chan.
cery for an injunction to restrain the
city of Newark from allowing huck.
sters, wagons and vende rs Of small
wares TO occupy the street in front OF
their stores.
Thomas H. Reeve, proprietor of the
Novelty Iron Works at Cleveland, Ohio,
which have been idle for some time, has
made an assignment. His liabilities
are 300 600 and assets twice that amount.
The assignment was precipitated by lack
OF ready money to meet obligations.
Arrangements have been made by the
Post.office Department for special fast
mail train between New York and Chi
cago, to begin running next Saturday
night. 1t will make the entire run
from New York to Chicago in q hours
John Crawford, who. with two other
men, was burned last Saturday at
Bickel colliery, Mount Carmel, Pa, by
an explosion of sulphur, was almost
roasted alive last night by his oil-soaked
bed taking fire.
George +. Hunt, Treasurer of the
Odd Fellows Building association in
Lowell, Massachusetts,, was arrested
for the embezzlement of
b2, 700 OF the associations funds. He
acknowledged his guilt.
The President has received strong"
petitions from Indiana, Illinois and
Iowa for the appointment of Post
General Gresham to the U. s Circuit
Judgeship, vacated by the death of
Judge DrummOnd.
One of the burglars arrested in Law
renee, Massachusetts,, on Monday, has
made his identity known as /" Johnny"
Irving, thenotorious burglar and bank
'obber, hailing from New York.
The thermometer registered SO degrees
'elow zero near Sunceok river, New
hampshire, yesterday morning-the
owest point touched in that locality
or thirty years.
M. o. Vantleet, Treasurer of Huron
;ounty, Ohio, disappeared on last Sat
Irday. His cash account is short be-
ween $50, 900 and 100000. His bonds
nen are good for the amount.
A work train on the Iron Noun tain
was wrecked yesterday morn.
lg near White river, Arkansas. Two
len were killed and three others
ljured.
A sleigh containing family named
lsk was yesterday struck by a snow
low at Sibley, Tenn. Mr.. Sisk was
tally injured, and his 10 year old son
as killed.
John w. Mason, of West Virginia,
mentioned in Washington as the
'obable successor of Mr.. New as As
slant Secretary of the Treasury. y
William Mcmillan murdered George
,ompson and then poisoned himself at !
uron, Ohio, on Tuesday night. =
It is said that the steamer Baltic, to
II for Europe on Saturday, will take a
It 81, ,OOO, 900 In gold. O.
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