Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-12-09
News GunnaPy.

The Supreme Court CT the United States
decided on M0pday that the restrictive Chi
nese law does not apply to Cinnamon who
were in the United States at the time the
law was passed, and that these Cinnamon
can come and go without obtaining certifi-
Gates as freely r. sldents Of other countries.
The Court also rendered decision sustain
ing the validity Of the" Head Money" act,
levying TO cens per capita for every passen-
ger r0ught nto the United States who Is
not n citizen
John Garis, aged SO years, was found hang
Ing to n rafter In q shed near his house at
| Easton, Penna.. on Monday afternoon. He
had been peculiarly unfortunate His first
| wife burned herself to death, his only son
was killed by the cars, his daughter -lplaw
became ir sane and committed suicide, and
.. ne was latterly pinched by the depression in
BUSH ess His second wife survives him.
J Loring V. Cawley, of Philadelphia. who
shot Mamie Benson In Lancaster last Octo-
ber. and then shot himself-neither shot
charge Of felonious assault with intent to
kill. and was sentenced to two years and six
months imprisonment. His sanity will he
inquired into.
Three Of the gang who robbed the railroad
train near Little Rock on Saturday night
have been captured. Cook, the leader, has
were Clifford King and Adolphus Parker. a
boy fl6. Ten watches and about $500 Of the
stolen money have been recovered.
The town OF StocO, in Hastings County,
Ontario, 10 suffering from sn epidemic Of
small-J OK. There have been thirty.one
deaths from the disease, and twentythree
leases are now In he'hOspital i. is said there
are $50 cases altogether In the district. Two
Sisters OF Charity have been sent to nurse
the sick.
| lsaac Cline. President OF the International
Windo~ Glass Workers Ass0cia' ion, yester
dup v.t pa In hnf "a mr.
lgaDizati0n had been completed In England
with heac quarters In Sur derand. The As.
sociation now embra' es all the skilled win
ldCw glass workers In the world.
The American Electrical Exhibition in tn
Massachusetts Mechanic Fair building, In
Boston was open, d yesterday 1t Il sta I'd
thf mObg the novelties shown are the
popping OF cora and the pro ucti n OF pinn
music by elec ricity.
| The man who gave his name as T. Miller
who lost his lite near st Simons, Ge rgia
from the steamer Flor ds, wns named n. F
Peterson. and he Ommitted suicide He had
written letter 10 . friend In New York an
InOuncing his intended su' eide.
Ma Ann Young, one OF the victims Of III,
atifs owde- explosion a. SrafiOrd, New
Hampshire, died yesterday of her injuries
The other six sufferers are still living but a
least three of them are ct expected to r, GOV
The deaths in New York CITY last weel
included l2T from consumption, II from
pneumonia, and 20 from bronchitis, TIN
largest record known of diseases OF that ma
ture In the history of the Health Depart
Inent
! Miss Nettie Horan died yesterday at For
| Atkinson, isconsin. from poison, takeI
with suicidal intent Before dying she con
fessed that she had poisoned her father
mot, er and two sisters, who had died sud
de My at intervals within three years.
The President has informed the Manager
of the New Orleans Exhibition that he viii
he unable TO attend the opening OF the Ex
hibition. on the 9th inst, but he hopes to bs
able to visit the Fair at q later date.
Secretary Teller and Postmaster Genera
Hatton lett Washington on Monday nornin.
lina special car for New Orleans, to attent
, thu opening of the Exhibition They will
stop IN Florida for few days en- route
A telegram from Ottawa contradicts tn,
report that Pr ies or Virgins, the weatbe
prophet has joined the Salvation Army
II was another Virgins, Westerner, VIII
did so.
James Woodward and his son wsre fatal.
poisoned yesterday at Paramount, Soutl
Carolina, by taking IL orphine in mistake TO
quinine.
The 18th annual session of the Stat
+ Grange CT Patrons Of Husbandry will meet II
Harrisburg to-day.