Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-08-13
NEWS SUMMARY.
DEATH-FUNERAL OF ONE OF
THE GREELY AURvIVOR0.

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THE GREELY sURvIvOR0.
A Gr8co- Roman wrestling match
took place in San Francisco, on Mon
day night, between " Tom" Cannon,
champion of Eng land, and Pietro Del
mos, champion of France. Ten thou
sAnd.pe0ple were present at the Begin
ming of the match. The conditions were
the best two In three falls, for $500 .
side. The contest which began At o.
clock in the evening did not end until
4 O'Clock yesterday morning, and re-
suited in b draw. The wrestling on the
third round lasted three hours. Gam
non won the first ami Dalmos the second
fall.
Yesterday at Ocean Grove was de-
voted to the New Jersey Annual Con-
ference Historical Society. Addresses
were made by Rev. r.. A. Andrews, Of
Highstown, on the organization Of the
Rev. DR.. John Atkinson, ON the life
and work of Bishop Asbury. An ad.
dress was made in the afternoon by the
Rev. DIR. Charles II. Whitacar, on the
connection of memory and history.
Rev. Anthony Atwood followed in q
speech upon his experience In the timer
ancy in New Jersey fifty years ago.
At Switz City, Indiana, on Saturday
night, George Rankin, aged 10 years,
was showing his brother James, aged
13, how to handle self-cockinG re-
volver, when the weapon was dis
charged, fatally wounding James in
| the head. George thereupon turned the
revolver upon himself and sent bullet
through his breast. He died on Mon
day and his brother was not expected
to live. ..-
The steamer Newfield has returned to
Halifax with 1900 packages Of the car
go of the steamship A msterdam wreck
ed on Sable Island. 1t is believed that
II the weather continues fine the vos-
sci will be saved. The crew ofthe wreck.
ed steamer arrived. at New York on Tues.
day morning from Halifax on the
steamer City Of Mexico.
The funera. of Lieutenant James B.
Lockwood, ,one Of the Greedy Expedition
victims, took place yesterday, in An
napolis, with military and naval honors.
There was a large attendance. The buri-
al services Of the Episcopal church
were read over the body, which was in
tered in the Naval Cemetery.
The miners who went up the Monon-
gahela river on Monday were engaged
lycoVoAuny III hyAhB W ihouCo Uu0
Fourth Pool men to strike for the Dis
trict prices. 1t is said that number of
operators haye engaged special police to
guard the mines and keep strikers off
, their property.
Post-ofice Inspector Simpson tele.
graphed yesterday from Bamberg,
South Carolina, that the post-office there
was open and would report the cause
/ of trouble by mail. The postmaster,
Bamberger, telegraphed, as published
: yesterday, that his life was threatened,
and he had closed the Office.
The colored people of Elmira, New
York, yesterday celebrated Emancipa-
O. tion Day. In the afternoon there was q
!. parade of fire mpanies, military and
other organizations, after which John
r. Lynch, of Mississippi, addressed q
meeting in Hoffman's Grove.
William Dougherty and Zachariah
Gray, young rauchers of Sand Prairie,
Texas, fought a duel with revolvers
last Sunday evening, in which both
were wounded, Gray fatally. The duel
was fought for the purpose of settling
~. old fnnd.
8 The session of the Amalgamatel As
), sociation Convention, at Pittsburg, on
Tuesday morning, was occupied in dis
0 cussing the recommendations of the
6 Committee on the General Welfare of
the Order.
y Notice of a reduction of We per cent,
In the wages of the weavers has been
posted in The Barnaby bingham mill,
in Fall River, Massachusetts. The re-
duction is to take effect on the 10th
inst.
!, Three children under ten ye ears of age
were burned to death by the burning Of
barn near South Perry Ohio, on Mon
day. They had gone into the barn to
smoke.
}, In Nc Keesport, Penn, on Tuesday
J during the temporary absence tf their
mother, two children poured can of car
bon oil in the stove and were fatally
burned.
! Judgments aggregating 500, 900 were
entered yesterday in Pittsburg against
Robert NJ. Kennedy, one of the parties
charged with completely in the Penn
Bank frauds.
;; Charles Crowley, distinguished as tho
oldest person in New Hampshire, died
at Suncook, in that State, on Monday,
at the alleged age of 104 years. He was
born in Ireland.
A freight train on the Delaware.
A<oohaWdHbd S w 6hCbrU R41lrC10 ran
OH trussel near North Buffalo on Tues.
day morning, killing the fireman,
named Leonard.
Rev. II. II. Collision, pastor of the
Fullerton avenue Presby ter ian church.
in Chicago, shot his wife and himself
on Tuesday afternoon. Both are dead,
d. l.. Moody, the revivalist, has been
engaged by the Young Men s Christian
Association to preach in St. Louis next
! fall.
Jasper Keller was on Tuesday shot
dead by William Kent in a Quarrel
about cattle at Fountain CITY, Mime
sofa.
The Directors of the suspended Wall
street Bank, of New York, decided yes.
| terday to wind up the aff'tirs Of the con.
Germ.
Hendricks Hard at Work.
NEW YORK, Aug. PA private CON-
ference took place in this city last night
between Thomas A. Hendricks. the
Democratic nominee for the Vice Presi,
dency, and two of the Tammany leaders
who have charge of affairs during John
kelly's Temporary abseuce at Sor,to,,o