Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-11-02
News Summary,
CrNsCIEHCE-S1Rl EN-HALF a
nILLlON BUsss ELS OF COAL
SWEPT AWAY,
DRUGGED AND ROBBED

! Henry K. Davis, the Fitchburg rail
road collector who Ii charged with EN-
bezzlement, yesterday gave himself ar
Ito the police Of Boston, and also turned
over to them 500 in money and check
for 1910 He said " he was 30 dumb.
founded at the charges against him,
| which he first read In the newspapers,
| that he took to drinking and has been
under the influence of liquor ever
since" He says that his accounts will
be found entirely correct.
Gen John Newton, Chief of Engi
neers, in his annual report, expresses
hope that the com mniencement of an
elaborate system of coast defence mag
no longer be delayed for lack of appvO.
priations. The limited amount Of funds
avail able during the past year has been
mai 1nly applied 10 placing In service.
able cond ltion the platforms OF beavy
guns aud N ortars bearing upon the
channels OF entrance to the various har-
bors.
The Ksnawha river, ia West Vir
siuia, begun rising rapidly on Satur
lday morning. A number of barges,
containing half a million bushels OF
coal, were swept down tho river at
Charleston. The loss is estimated at
| $3.50 600.
The city OF Lynchburg, Virginia. is
almost isolated by wssnouts on the
railroads. On Saturday no northern
mails had been received for three days
Loring L Lord, aged 16 years, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself in
The head, at Westbrook, Maine on
Friday. He had been wrongfully
accused of breaking window at a
school zlich he attended
Carl WcyDer shot himself dead at the
rcsidence of his mother in-law, in New
ach, New Jtrs4y, on Saturo ny morL ing,
hccauae his wife had left him several
days before.
The State Board of Equalization of
California a. its last meeting made s.
|l9l$ per cent. increase in the assess
tnent roll of property in San Francisco
city and county. The auditor refused
to agree to the action Of the Board Ou
Friday afternoon, in the Supreme Court,
a decision was rendered compelling
him 10 make the increase ordered by
the Board.
?. w. Steele, principal of a College at
Lynchburg, Virginia, while on a trip
East was enticed from the train q. Pitts
burg by well.dressed stranger on
Friday night taken 10 a dive, drugged
and robbed of $500 in cash and jewelry.
Navigation ccased yesterday morn.
ing in Section 3 of the Champlain
Canal, al Whitehall, New York. The
zee was fully an inch thick, and an ice
breaker had to be run for q distance of
five miles TO release imprisoned boats
This is unprecedented for the beginning
Of November.
The carriage works of H. F. Brown.
at McComh, near Findlay, Ohio, were
burned on Friday. LOSS, $45, coo.
The works of the National Furniture
Company, in Williamsport, Pa, were
burned on Saturday afternoon. LOSS,
SAC, 900 insurance,$20 900.
A meeting In aid of the Parnell Par
liamentary Fund was held in Pittsburg
on Saturday night, Mayor Fulton pre-
siding, at which large sum Of No oney
was subscribed. Among the con.
tributions WAS $500 from Andrew Car
negle.
James Keenan, and Thomas Kelly.
each about % years Of age, were killed
by the premature explosion of a blast
In q section of the new Croton Aque-
duct, at Whitson's Station, New York,
soon after one o'clock yesterday morn
ing.
An anti election fight at Busstame ente,
iu Nueoa Leon, Mexico, on Saturday
resulted in the killing of six men and
the wounding of fifteen others. The
opposing factions shot at each other for
several hours.
Philip Carroll, our Consul at Paler-
mo, reports under date of October 18th,
that there have been 3,937 cases Of
cholera in that city-of which 2,093
proved fatal. Over $4,000 people sue
ceeded in leaving the city.
A fire in four story brick building
in Chicago, owned by the Blatchford
estate and occupied bs several drms,
cansed loss early oh Sunday morning
lof $50, 900.
William Smith and William Connors
were fatally injured by the caving in OF
a sewer bank al Dayton, Ohio, on Sat.
urday morning.
Arthur Doggett and Henry Burnett
were Oh Sunday paying Jesse James
with revolvers" At Mimic, Dakota, and
Burnett was accidentally shot dead.
THE co'ored state Fair at jackson,
Mississippi, closed on Saturday. 1t was
highly successful, financially and
otherwise.
Thirty eight deaths from smallpox
we're reported in Montreal or Friday,
and rhirt teen in the suburbs.
The public debt statement for Octo-
Der expected to show a decrease of
about SIS, 800, 600.