Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-10-24
NEWS SUM MARY.
GER IN TnOUBLE-IOw WA.
TER-OTHER NEWS.

Rain fell in the county around Peters
burg, Virginia. on Wednesday night,
for the first time iu eight weeks 1t ex.
tended along t.e Norfolk and Western
Railroad As far as Lynchburg and along
the Atlantic cOass line as tar south as
Weldon, North Carolina. Throughout
the - south side" Of Virginia, however.
rain Is still badly needed. The creeks
and smaller streams are dried up, g. and
on their beds ara 10 bo found many
skeletons of fish,"
According to a telegram from Wash
ington, all questions relating TO the
proposed s ar Route civil suits were
some time since placed by the At
torney General in Immediate charge of
Assistant Attorney Douglass. of the
Department Of Justice, and the latter
says that the cases are now being vigOr.
ously pushed in all directions.
Frank Patterson, the theatrical mana
ger, OF Asoury Park, New Jersey, was
arraigned yesterday at Freehold, upon
four indictments charging him with
having forged endorsements to notes
sggregating $4,000. He pleaded not
guilty aud was released on $40, 200 bail.
His first trial will begin ON November
18th.
The agent of the Amoskeag Manufac-
turing Company at Manchester, New
Hampshire, said yesterday that" the
water In the Merrjmack river Is at the
lowest point since the formation of that
Company. The horse. power at Man
chester to day is only 5000, as against
1000 in ordinary times"
The Masonic Grand Lodge of Ohio. iD
session at Columbus, yesterday adop.
'Ied resolution declaring it 1.-THE
opinion of the body that the selling of
intoxicating drin ks il q Masonic offence,
and sh ould disqualify any one from
initiation into or affiliatiop with any
Mason ic lodge"
A building in Milwaukee, occupied
by A. Chapman, dry goods, and Stark
Bros, was destroyed by fire last night.
The building was four stories high,
brick, and measuJ Oh 21O by $50 feet.
The losses on stock and building are
estimated at $780, The losses, are
covered by insurance.
In the Foreign Missions Society of
the Christian Church, at St. Louis,
yesterday, it was decided to open an.
other mission In Paris. a proposition
to open a mission in the COMO Valley,
Africa, was heartily endorsed.
1t is stated that the usw crusier At
lama will be taken TO New York next
week for her machinery. The Boston,
it is expected, will be launched within
two or three weeks. More than half
the work on the Chicago has been COM
pleted.
A convention Of the coal miners of
the Third and Fourth Poo's will be
held in Monongahela City, Penna. to-
morrow, to decide whether TO Continue
the strike or 60 back to work at the re-
duction.
The ship Albert q. Ropes, 2460 tons
burthen, was launched yesterday, at
Bath, Maine. She is the lar geat vess al
ever launched there. She cost $i25; ;O0O,
IL owned by New Yorkers, and il in
tended for the California trade.
The new Hebrew Orphan Asylum on
the bank of the Hudson river, between
I36th and I38th streets, New York, was
dedicated yesterday. IT, cost $500, 900
and will accommodate 800 inmates.
The tusks, ribs and part OF the verte-
bral column of mastodop were found
yesterday near Monroe, New York.
The specimens are very large.
The hoilors of b. ScattscEes Sc Co.'S
saw mill at Atoka, Indian Territory,
burst yesterday, killing three men.