Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-12-24
NEWS SUMMARY.
ARRESTED FOR sTEAl4ING-A Pc
CULIAR DaSEAAE PREMA-
TURE EXPLOSION. Etc.

Richard Coyle, . fresoo painter, died
on Monday in Bridgeport, Connecticut,
from q peculiar disease. He was 4t
years of age, and had been sick two
years. His bones had apparently
turned to chalk during the past year,
and he was barely able to move in bed
arms has been broken several times fo-
Gently by merely raising it from the
bed.
Rudolphe Schicke, 28 years old, book
keeper for j. W. McFadden & Co.,
Wholesale notion dealers, in Cincinnati,
was on Tuesday accused OF stealing
over 81 900. A constable who WAS pres
ent arrested him. He got perm ission
to go to the yard, but returned in two
minutes and dropped dead in the store,
was to have been married to-day.
Richard @. Cunning, . member Of .
Chicago firm Of marine Insurance.
agents, has been held in 81 900 bail in
Buffalo to answer the charge Of illegal
voting ut the last election. It 10 charged
that he voted without having . legal
residence in Buffalo, but he says he
never gave up his residence In that city,
twenty-three years DID,"
The Salvation Army in New Haven,
Connecticut, was arrestedslast night, ON
the charge Of fparading without . license.
Three men and two women were taken
to the police headquarters. The "war-
riors held oelebrai ion in the police
office and prayed fer the officers and tho
Mayor. The women were let out ON
bail.
A telegram from Toronto says -" A
Frenchnan nan d Paquet, . professed
infdel, while d. .ying the doctrine Of
eternal punishp -nt in . discussion
with his FELLOW b arders, was stricken
with paralysis, rre whole of one side,
from head to foot, including the tongue
losing vitality"
The dead body of Simon Seward was
found on Q roadside in Sussex county
Virginia, on Monday morning. There
was cut on the head and other marks
of violence, indicating accidental injury
or foul play. He was ON his way to
market with produce.
A member of Parliament named Ls
Blanc. and q lawyer named Cornellier,
have been committed for trial on the
charge Of tampering with two Grand
Jurors at the Assizes in Montreal, to
get them to ignore true bills for libel
against the editor of La Minerve."
An express train on the Cincinnati
and New Orleans Railroad was thrown
from the track by an obstruction near
Purvis, Mississippi, on Monday night.
The engineer and the -hreman were
killed, and several other persons wers
injured.
, William Heckler, Michael Mulroy
and Henry Heinz vera fatally inj ured
on Tuesday by the premature explosion
Of blast In quarry near Mill Grove,
Schuylkill County, Pa.
Henry Strong and William Ervine
were fatally injured by driving their
sleigh over an embankment near Mount
Carmel, Pa, ON Monday night Both
were drunk at the time.
Emit Smith committed y burglary in
q hardware store in West Salem, Ohio,
on Sunday night. A constable started
in pursuit, and when Smith was cap
tured he cut his throat.
A mail stage was.stopped near Choch
Vile, Arkansas, on Monday morning
by two armed robbers, who escaped
with the mail bag. Fortunately it con.
tanned only one registered letter.
L uC ulbu 6uu Ouc ldSb Vi LILO DlR guns
for the United States Government was
cast on Tuesday, al the south Boston
Iron Works. 1t is q 10 inch rife, and
when finished will weigh "a tons.
At meeting of cigar and tobacco
manufacturers and dealers In Chicago
on Monday night resolutions were
adopted protesting against the ratifi-
cation of the Spanish treaty.
Two petrified bodies, one of man,
the other of a woman, are reported to
have been discovered In a gypsum
quarry near Point Sol, California.
Miles Ross has been appointed Ripa-
rian Commissioner Of New Jersey, by
Governor Albeit, in place of General
Gershom Mott, deceased.
1t ia reported that specimens of rock
and earth assaying $1,000 in gold to
the ton have been found on several
farms in Clermont County Ohio