Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-08-22
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| In the Peace Convention, at Mystic
Connecticut, yesterday, Amanda Deyt
appealed for funds for tie Universe
Peace Union, and urged the publica
tion OF . weekly paper to keep the
movement alive. Addresses were also
made by Messrs. Cookingham and
Davis, Of Philadelphia G. w. Angel,
President OF the Massachusetts, Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ami
mails Henry 8. Clubb, editor of the
Peacemaker, and others.
The sixth annual session of the Col
orod Methodist Protestant Conference OF
Baltimore began yesterday, Rev. w.
w. Wilson presiding. The Con ference
includes the State of Maryland, Della
ware, a part of West Virginia and the
District of Columbia, with 80 itine-
rant ministers and 1900 church men,
bers. The value of Its property Is S27, :
600.
The new counterf felt ten dollar note
on the Third National Bank of Cincin.
natl have appeared. 1t is described as
OF the series Of 1882, with the brown
or chocolate colored back. The vigil
nettes on the face of the notes have a
very coarse, scratchy appearance, but
the back is well executed, and calcula-
ted TO deceive"
While freight train was crossing
| the iron bridge on the Reading Railroad
Canal at Harrisburg yesterday, one of
the cars left the track and six others
were hurled against the girders with
such force as to wreck the bridge and
throw the cars into the canal. The
damage is estimated at $40, 900.
Chief Engineer Doring and Chief
Constructor Wilson have gone TO New
York to confer with Secretary Chandler
in regard to the work on the new
steel cruisers. The members of the
Naval Advisory Board have gone to
Chester to inspect the vessels.
George Kramer, the saloon keeper of
Reading, Penna., who gave Christian
Bowman half pint of whisky 10 drink,
thereby killing Bowman, has been ar
rested. The arrest was made in conse.
quence Of the IN lid censure of the COro-
ner's jury.
Judge John II. Dillon, of New York,
yesterda delivered the annual address
before the Amer lean Bar Association
at Saratoga, his subject being" The
General Character of American Institu-
tions and Laws"
The U. S. steamer Powhattan arrived
in Now York yesterday from Lisbon.
She brought the officers detailed from
the European station, and also the re.
mains of Januarius Aloysius McGahan,
the famous war correspondent.
A coach of q Sunday school excur-
sion train was run into by aoother train
near kaukakee, Illinois, yesterday
morning. One passenger was killed
and ten or twelve others were injured,
two perhaps rhortally.
1t is announced that the manufac-
turing companies of Lowell, Massachu.
setts, " are to shut down work the
week commencing September 1st by
reason of the accumulation of goods and
low prices"
Schedules in the assignment of
Charles w. Green, the New York pub
Usher, were fled yesterday. They show
liabilities amounting to $258, 1898 nomi-
nal assets, $1S1 ,473; actual assets,
50, BAL.
Rev. DIR. Daniel Curry. of New York,
lectured at ChautauCua, yesterday
morning, on Finding Creed" and
President Seelye, of Amherst College,
lectured on the Power OF Ideas"
The property of the A. & w. Sprague
que Manufacturing Co., in Augusta,
Maine, was sold at auction yesterday.
What cost the Spragues fully 81, ,000, 200
fifteen years ago realized only 5000, 600.
Adam Bebney was yesterday placed
on trial at Lancaster, Penna., for the
murder of Bernard Short, committed
in January last. Behney was an evict-
ed tenant of Shorts
Lieutenant Greedy has been invited
to attend the meeting of the British As
sociation for the Advancement of Sci
ence, to be held in Montreal.
All hope of floating the wrecked
steamer Amsterdam, ashore on Sable
Island, is Abandoned, but tmost of her
cargo has been saved.