Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-12-17
NEWS SUEMA. Y.


The State BOaId OF Part OBS m6t yes.
terday in Harrisburg, Pa. The cars OF
DIR. Albert q. F. Goersen, Of Phiiadel-
phia, convicted of murder, was held
under advisement, and viii be con-
sidered at a special session. A re-hear.
ing was refused Frederick Eberly, OF
Philadelphia, convicted of larceny.
Pardons were refused Isaac r. Hall, of
Philadelphia, and Thomas Barrett, Of
Lackawanna, the latter Convicted OF
murder in the dlst dtglte.
A telegram from Calais, Maine, re-
ports the collapse Of q concern known
as the Royal New Brunswick Lot
terry" On Wednesday last Note s.
Read, of Philadelphia, said to be tho
leader in the lottery company, was ar
rested in st. Stephen for wrongful use
Of the mails, and held in 81, ,000 bail for
trial yesterday. He has an elegant
| residence twenty-five miles from Calais
He did not appear for trial and js sup
posed to have fed Others Of the lot
terymen have also disappeared.
A despatch from Galveston, Texas,
says General Cervantes was yesterday
inaugurated Governor protein. of the
State of Coahuila, to continue In office
until new State election can be held
four months hence. This settles the
dispute between the contending Gov
ernors, and all fears Of o revolution
have subsided.
Several knit goods manufacturers at
Cohoes, New York, were yesterday
served with papers in u suit brought
by the Wilcox B Gibbs Machine Com
pany for an alleged infringement in
using Gibbons frar seam trimmer,
on which o royalty 4 five cents . doz.
l. hna h<avr 1xa<I
for five years at Col oes.
The Board of Heath Of New York
yesterday began ovement for the
Thorough cleaning 81 lhe filthy tene-
ments In that city. ne occupants of
seven foul tenements in Mulberry
street were notified to vacate by the
l27th instant, and 143 vaults in various
Iplaces were ordered to be closed.
| The Hazard powder mills, at Secau-
Gus, New Jersey, on the limo of the Erie
.. on Monday night. The shook was felt
as far north as Yonkers and as far
! south as Staten Island. No person was
injured. Windows In farm houses
were shattered for several miles
I around.
The arrest of three boys, aged from s
T to 10 years, in Reading, has led to the
discovery of gang OF thirteen boys,
a who systematically robbed stores, fac
tories and dwellings. Their plunder
was taken from them and they were re-
leased on promise to disband.
" An arolite, one foot in diamete fel
10 on a farm at Chateau Richer, near Que
bee, about 3 O'Clock on Saturday morn
/ ing. 1t made such light that thu
@ people were woke up ard many rushe1
n out of their houses.
70 Joseph Cough, farmer of Water
:, bury, Connecticut, has lost 55 out of 1O
hogs from cholera Yesterday seventeen
more were ordered to be killed by tn
State authorities, and the rest will
If quarantined.
/. A second party of colored emigrant
N from South Carolina, about 100 in mum
ar ber, arrived at Petersburg, Virginia, o.
L. Monday night, on the way to Arkansas
=. More are to follow.
ls John Handley, aged IA, was killed
Oh and John Wagner dangerously iDjure
4 10 yesterday morning by fall OF coal
y y Turkey Run Colliery, at Shenandoah
~ Peuua.
IL A cold wave struck Sioux Cit!
IN Iowa, yesterday morning. 1t was te
M degrees below zero, twelve below
r. Yanckton and "a below at Sioux fall
John B. Hoffman, convicted OF Il
o, murder of his son, was hanged yeste
in day in the Jail at Cincinnati.
of The whistling buoy off Hatters
TX Shoals is reported adrift in latitute 80
IN Longitude 1880.
= The Steam tug Sea Lion, from Phil
O. delphia, arrived at San Francisco ye
:. terday.