Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-10-04
NEWS SUMMARY.
CRUSHED ON THE ICE THE HOT
TEST NIGHT-TkAlH WRECA'
ED-TBEFT (OhFESeED.

The lark George and Mary, at New
Bedford, yesterday, reported tnsG cno
schooner Roswell King, OF New London.
had been crushed in the Ice at Nortn
Bluff. Some of the crew started down
the coast with boats TO cross HUDSON
Strait and came down the coast OF LAD
rador. The captain and part OF the Grew
were at North Bluff. Captain CiisDy'
of the schooner Era, OF New Lonooh,
Was working into North Bluh to resc"o
them. E...t .5,.- ..l.i
A telegram from St. Paul, Minneso-
tn, rays Thursday night was the hottest
night on record in that part OF tne
country, "the thermometer never rail-
ing below 72 degrees, and rising as nign
as 80 degrees at midnight. At Duiutn
and other North western points the tenn
perature wan low, and at Helena IN
Montana, q snow storm prevailed. ihe
only Western city having temperature
as high az St. Paul was st. Louis.
Albert Bower, colored, the janitor OF
the New raven post office, confessed
last night that he stole letters from the
mail boxes Among them was regis
tered letter from George Crosby, eo
Broad street, New York, to William
Watrous, East Hampton, Mass, CON
toiping 1O5 shares OF Overland Ie'e-
graph stock. =.
Daniel, ,O,t, aged 80 years, who had
been living with Emma Storck, con.
cert saloon girl, in New York, shot ..
her in q concert garden last night ana
then shot himself deaf. She had refus-
ed to give him money and to continue
to live with him. She WAS not wound
led.
John Teemer says he will accept the
challenge Of p. H. Comfy, of Boston, te
row four mile race for $500 side. he
| will give Comfy ten seconds start. Int
race he wishes to take place in the latter
part of this month, on any course neal
Pittsburg.
At the Chicago Driving Park yeste-
day Commodore Kitson's PAGER John
Iston" lowered his record OF 2.!O py
making q mile in the uuprecedentee
time Of 20GX. " Richball" was brough
lout with +" johnston" but only succeed
ed in making 2.14
The National Convention of Drum
| mers was held in Louisville, on Thurs
day night. A platform was adopted
i" favoring working men and drummers
} and prohibition, and opposing convic
. and Chinese labor as against free labor.
The trial Of James Dacey for tn
murder of Alderman James Gaynor II
Woodstock, Illinois, resulted on Frida,
lin verdict of guilty, with the dealt
penalty affixed. The murder was com
. mitted six months ago.
r. @. Schmertz yesterday declined
4 serve as umpire of the Coal Trade III
!. bunal at Piitsburg, and Alexande
p. Bradley, a stove manufacturer, wa
h chosen in his place .. o..
"Tbe severest gaze of the season"
s reported on Lake Superior, causin
, much damage to vessels and othe
property.
Washington Fletcher, colored, va
hanged on Friday at Paducah, KeI
Q ltucky, for the murder of Amsud
y Jackson, committed in August, 1858.
= The trial trip of the Dolphin tloi
Chester has heen postponed till MOI
lday, on account of defects in her nj
8. chinery.
A. A car filed with Imam moth puml
n kins from Dakota" is in Chicago, el
n route for exhibition in Eastern cities.
IL The crew of the sunken steam'
d Tallapoosa have bes n discharged wit
J. permission to enlis' on the Dolphin.
l. is expected that the Atlanta wi
IL he launched at Chester next Thursds
u AFTERNOON.