Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-08-02
NEWS SUMMARY.
CNILDREN KILLED-A STRANGE
DISEASE-CATTLE FEE Err
ABATED-EcC, ETC, ETC.

ABArED-EECs EEC., ETC.
A telegram from Tehachapi, Califor-
mia, reports strange disease among Ehe
men working on a new bridge near that
place. The victims" fell in tit;" { 40
Of them died in apparently great aghny
within two hours, and fourteen Others
were taken to the hospital in an uucon-
scious condition. One of the sick men
when questioned, on his recovery, as to
how he felt when attacked, replied that
"he remembered nothing" The disea o
Is attributed to lead water anh Intense
heat.
Health Commissioner De Wolf, at
Chicago, s1ys that, so far as the present
state of things is concerned, the danger
/ from Texas fever is over. "Of COURSE"
he remarked, new arrivals of injected
cattle may come at any time. Or in.
formation as to the extent of 'he dis
trict in which Texas verstrickon cat
| tie are to be found is as yet very in-
complete. I believe that the cattle
which were sick or dead developed tho
disease on the way hither.'
Professor Brooks, of the Observatory
at Phelps, New York, observed, about
. o'clock yesterday morning, n IN sgni-
ficent meteor moving from near the
zenith toward the West. I" 1t was Of
Extraordinary brilliancy, illuminating
the country as if by an electric light.
leaving train Of sparks forty degrees
in length. 1t was visible several min
utes, and with the telescope was seen
to roll and curve like a wreath of sm )ke
with slow motion nOrthward."
At Recalling, Penna., yesterday after
noon, the Coroner re-convened the jury
that held the inquest in the case of the
murdered inmate Of the Almshouse by
John Flowers, a lunatic. After state
lmeut from representative OF the State
board of Charities, the jury decided to
rescind that portion of their verdict In
which they censnre the Board of Chari-
Ties for withholding certain powers from
the Almshouse steward.
The Soldiers Monument at Dayton,
lOhio, was unveiled on Thursday, by
Governor Hoadly. There was grand
lprocession OF Grand Army Posts, and
General Hawley delivered an grafton.
Speeches we're also made by Ex-Presi-
dent Hayes, aud Genera ls Sherms an Rose
Icrans and Kennedy. In the evening
there was display of fireworks on the
river.
Three regiments, the Tenth, the Six.
teenth and Eighteenth, with three COM
panies OF the Eighth, and portions Of
o5her regiments, had arrived at the
Pennsylvania National Guards camp,
at Gettysburg, yesterday afternoon. The
! greater part of the Guards will arrivs
To day, and strict camp discipline will
r begin. No guardsman will be allowed
in town without a pass.
!, A building on Water street, Nav
forb, occupied in the upper portion by
two families, was burned yesterday. 4
four year old boy WAS burnei to death
J anu three or four others sustained iu-
ljuries which may prove fatal.
Il "Jay-Eye.Sse yesterday male a
mile in 10, ON the Narragansett Park
track at Providence. This beats all
! records, the best previous one being the
2 10H of Maud S.
: The Delaware and Hud son frei yht
house, and the freight house of the
Plattsburg Dock Company, at Platts.
a burg, New York, we're burned yesterday
morning. Loss, $4,000.
q The reunion of army chaplains, u lion
and Confederate, with the members OF
the Sanitary and Christian Commits
!, sions, was begun yesterday at Ocean
Grove.
al A fire at Fort Plain, New York,
: yesterday destroyed Ashley e Bailey's
silk factory and the Fort Plain glove
and mitten factory, causing loss of
$4,000.
, Three children of James Burgess, of
iGrindstone Island, near Watertown
, New York, were killed yesterday by
the caving in of a bank under which
they were playing.
Samuel w. Davenport, a crockery
merchant of New York city was yester-
! day run over and killed while walking
on the railroad at Somerville, New Jer.
sey.
The pilot boat Warrington was sunk
on Thursday night at New York by
. the steamship Roma. Cook Freeman
t was drowned.
Representative Culbertson, of Ken
lucky, who attempted to commit
suicide in Washington on Wednes lay,
was considered out of danger yesterday.
The first bale of this year hops,
grown in New York State, was received
yesterday in Chicago. This is several
weeks earlier than usual.
Mrs. Thankful Donnell died on
Thursday in West Bath, Maine, at the
alleged age of 100 years, months and
l8 days.
The Greely relief vessels arrived at
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, yester-
day, and were received with all the
honors.
Il The school census of Chicago indi-
Gates population of 629,0O0, an in
crease of about 121a per cent. annually
since 1880.
The Johnstone Block, at Cohoes,
New York, was burned yesterday.
Loss. $4,000.
Leighton & ClarS's wholesale drug
store, In Omaha, was burned yesterday.
Loss, 100000.