Daily Republican., 1884-06-11
News Summary.

The Giant Powder Company's mags
zine. containing 1000 pounds Of powder
situated three and half miles east o
Denver, Colorado, blew up yesterda.
morning. A new farm house thre
hundred yards distant from the maga
zine was demolished, but the occupants
escaped injury. A number Of plat,
glass fronts In the city of Denver wer,
smashed.
A suit has been instituted In the
name Of Colonel Henry R. Rathbone
now in the Hanover Insane Asylum,
against the recently suspended bank.
Ing firm of Middleton & Co., Of Wash
ington. D. O., for damages assessed at
$4,000 for the alleged wrongful conver.
sion to their own use of bonds deposited
in their hands for safe-keeping.
A motion was granted in the United
States Circuit Court in New York
yesterday for . nolle prosequi in the
case of Samuel J. Singleton, who WAS
indicted under the Civil Rights act for
refusing to sell tickets to . place OF
amusement to colored man. The mo-
ton was granted on the ground that
the law bearing on this subject was un.
constitutional.
Samuel +. Hobkins, whose body was
found on the Long Island (Hew York
shore on Sunday, was drowned April
18th with his son and q MI. West, of
Germantown, Pa, by the upsetting Of
a small yacht. Mr.. Hopkins was q de-
scendant Of Johns Hopkins, the founder
OF the university In Baltimore, Of
which city he was a native.
During severe thunder storm in
Harrisburg, Pa, yesterday afternoon,
Frank Dively and his wife were struck
by lightning and killed, at their door
way. Several other persons received
shocks, and number of buildings were
struck. Altogether, five thunder storms
prevailed within a circuit Of seven
miles. The rainfall was the heaviest
known in many years.
Two Italians were killed and four
others severely injured by land slide
at Deep Cut, on the South Pennsylvania
Railroad on Monday.
The engine of train on the Connecti-
out Valley Railroad was thrown from
a trestle bridge, at Hartford, yesterday
morning. The engineer and fireman
were badly injured.
A serious cave.in occurred yesterday
morning in No. 4 colliery of the Della
ware and Hudson Company, near Ply
mouth, Pa. Five acres Of the ground
sank four inches, and II frame houses
were damaged.
The celebration Of the semi-centennial
Of the city Of Rochester, N. Y, was
wound up yesterday with a procession
including 10000 public school children,
a banquet,an illumination, and displays
of fireworks.
Patrick Murray, . carpenter, said to
be from Philadelphia, was found dead
in barn in East Jamaica, Long Island,
yesterday. He had expired from rupture
Of the heart.
A natural gas we'll, said to be equal
In pressure to the Washington Well in
has been struck at depth
of 1900 feet on Raccoon Creek, In Wash
ngton County, Penna.
Tilden G.. Abbott, the thisving
,ashier OF the Watertown {Massachu.
'etts) Bank, was yesterday sentenced
% eight years Imprisonment In the
Pinder & Winchester steam tannery
md currying shop, In Salem, Massachu- |
setts, were burned early yesterday
Tho loss is estimated at
upwards of 100000.
The Ohio River Railroad, from
" WheelinR to Pnrkersburg, In West Vir-
,inia, was finished on Monday last, and |
Will be regularly opened to traffic on
Monday next.