Daily Republican., 1884-08-23
NEWS SUMMARY.


tai OINOUIUG-sHOkTC CORN
CROP-BODIE0 RECOVERED.
j. H. Stewart, General Superin senl.
ent Of the Cincinnati, Washington aud
Baltimore Railroad Company, has
gathered information regarding tLe
crops slong that road, which stretches
across Southern Ohio. The reports
agree that the corn crop willn excesf
ten bushels TO the acre, and that tho
yield Of potatoes In many places will
pe insufficient for home consumption.
Near Shelbyviile, Indiana, on Thurs
day morning, Mrs. Treece, while pre-.
pairing biscuits for breakfast, put ar
senic In them in mistake for baking
powder. She and her grandmother and
. two-year-old child were poisoned BY
the biscuit. The child died and at last
accounts the women were at the point
of death.
Colonel Morton, the missing Assist
ant Postmaster of Brook lyn, 10 reported
by the Times OF that city to have sailed
on the steamer Belgenland for Antwerp
on July 10Th. He WAS recognized on
board by a fellow passenger, and ac-
knowledgSd his identity. When the
vessel reached Antwerp he disappeared.
The bodies of William Clark and
William Taylor were recovered from
the Groenback Mine at Shamokin, Pa,
yesterday afternoon. Subsequently
those of Robert White and George Beck
were brought to the surface. 1t Is ex-
pected that the other three bodies will
be recovered to-day.
The San Francisco Chronicle esti-
mates the total value of California's
products for 1884 at $S1, ,OO0, 900. About
$58, ,000, 900 will be exported, consisting
Of wheat, barley, -four, wine brandy,
wool, salmon and canned fruits. Wheat
leads the list of exports, l, 800, 900 tons,
valued at $40, 500, 900.
1t 10 reported that on Thursday orders
from the President of the Northern Pa
cific Railroad were executed withdraw
ing the rolling stock from the branch
from Tacoma to Seattle, and the latter
place is now without railroad connec.
tion with Oregon and the East.
The Iowa Com missioners to the New
Orleans Exhibition arranged yesterday
to supplement the %, 900 appropriated
| to Iowa from the national fund by
| raising $50, 900 on notes aud bonds, an
ticipating reimbursement from the next
Legislature OF their State.
Two freight trains on the Penusylva-
mia Railroad cOllided yesterday in the
| west yard at Columbia, Pa. An engine,
caboose and five cars were smashed; the
wreck caught fire, and about 800 sheep
and hogs were consumed.
Sarah South and Maggie Kinderline,
the former 20, the latter 10 years Of
age, were drowned yesterday in the
canal al Ltmberton, Bucks County, Pa, /,
by the horses attached to their buggy
| backing into the water.
In view of the prevalence of pleuro-
pneumonia, the State Veterinarian of
| Illinois has notified all owners of in
fected herds to maintain a strict quar-.
antine until notified TO the contrary by
the State authorities.
George Genge, a telegraph operator
employed by the Canadian Southern
Rail way, has been fued $35 at St. Thom'
surreptitiously taking off train reports
intended for the despatchers' station.
John James, a discharged clerk from
a dry goods store, and George Scott,
were arrested in Dallas, Texas, on
the charge of stealing several Thousand
dollars worth of goods. James made q
con fession.
While Carleton Holmes and G. Beach,
eight year-old boys, we're playing with
shot gun near Sherburne, New York,
on Thursday, the weapon was dis
charged, killing Holmes and woundine
Beach.
Early yesterday morning burglar
on tered the room of a Boston lady In
ithe Pleasant House, at Old Orchard
Maine, and took away valise contain
ing several hundred dollars worth o
jewelry.
John L. Smith, colored burglar,
was captured at Flushing, Long Island
on.Thursday night, and morethan 81, ,00'
worth of stolen property was found OF
his pr emises.
A stack 80 feet high. at Kaufman
furnace, Sheridan, Penna., fell OF
t Friday morning, wrecking The casting
house. Twenty men narrowly escaped
death.
Bush free are raging in the Saguenay
istricts of Quebec and have cut of
! communications south Of St. AlphOnse