Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-06-21
NEWS SUM MARY,
MURDER AND SCICIDE-A SAW,
DUST SCARE-CROP
REPORTS, ETC.

j. Cechura, of st. Paul, Minnesota,
rented rooms to Mrs. Katharine Mes
serchmidt, seventy-six years old, and
her daughter Margaret, aged twenty
seven. The women paid their rent 70
Cechura's wife, which an gered him.
On Thursday night he entered the
rooms OF the mother and daughter
armed with large butcher knife. He
stabbed the old lady in the back and
breast, causing instant death. He then
attacked the daughter and inflicted
wounds from which she will probably
die. Cechura then took poison and
cut the arteries Of both arms. He can
not live.
James McGrath, John Dougherty and
Richard McGee, young men, went out
in small boat off the navy yard at
Brooklyn yesterday morning. Soon af-
ter the report of gun was heard, and
McGrath fell to the bottom of the boat
saying he was shot. His companions
pulled ashore, and, medical aid being
procured, it was found that load
of buckshot had penetrated his lungs
and that his condition was critical Da-
vid Carpenter, watchman on the
oi"h"uCo Nooh, CouloSocu tudI Ao
fired the shot, but was aiming at a
cat, and did not notice the men in the
boat"
A package addressed to O'Donovan
Rossa was received at the post-oftice in
Washington yesterday fsom Nashville,
and tossed about carelessly with other
mail matter Finally an employee tore
off the wrapper and disclosed what
looked like an internal machine, caus.
ing general stampede of the clerks.
An expert from the War department
was called in, and he, after examining
the machine declared that it was filled
with common sawdust.'
Alta meeting of the Directors of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in Balti.
more yesterday, it was resolved to re-
duce the pay of all the officers and
clerks twenty per cent, and to dispense
with all labor not necessary to an ef-
ficient working of the canal. The ques.
tion of a reduction of tolls was not dis
posed Of.
The official crop bulletin for the Prov
ince of Manitoba shows an increase of
50 per cent. In the average on last year.
The condition of W heat is good, and the
yield will bs much larger than in 1883.
The other crops are suffering somewhat
from drought.
Mrs. Warren, wi te of Bishop Henry
W. Warren, of Denver, Colorado, has
given 500, ,0G0 to the Denver Universe
ty, for the establishment of the lift
School of Divinity" on condition
ttat others endow a single Professor
ship.
Several cases of smallpox are report
ed in Shelby County, Iowa, originating
in family of immigrants who passed
through Baltimore and there received
health certificates. Two of the family
have died and several neighbors are
sick.
AT Pittsbnrg yesterday morning, the
hearing of the conspi acy case Of Cash
ier Rieber, OF the Penn Bank, and Z. j.
| Watson, oil broker, wa- concluded,
dants in $50, 900 bal. each TO answer at
Court.
The Methodist Conference in session
| in Toronto, Ontario, yesterday passed
a resolution and ordered it telegraphed
toPhiladelphia, Offering loving tribute
to the memory of the late Bishop Simp-
son and mourning his loss.
The police of Chicago on Thursday
night made sc cond raid on gambling
houses which had been raided on We'd
nesday night Thirteen men were ar
rested and $4,000 worth of milling
implements seized.
Lieutenant Governor Lewis, of Vir-
ginia, was thrown from his wagon by a
runaway horse, near Harrisburg, last
evening. 1t is feared he is injured in
ternally. Heis 66 years of age.
The Saloon Keepers Association of
Chicago, at a secret meeting on Thurs.
day night, resolved to refuse payment
of taxes under the Scott law, and thus
compel suits in all cases.
Avery, the wife murderer, was yes
terday convicted of murder in the
second degree at Kingston, New York,
q, d was sentenced to imprisonment for
life.
The s,>W mill Of the Midland and
North Shoe Lumber Company, at Parry
Harbor, Onta rio, was burned yesterday
morning. Los9 100000; insurance,
0,000.
The Louisiana Htshse of Representa-
tives has passed bill appropriating
100000 for the New Orleans EXPOSE
ton.