Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-06-17
News Summary.
CMAGRES FEvER-THE OLD LIB
ERTY BELL PRESIDENT
OF LII Ii 4 II IA.
THE Y ELL 0W FEVER.

A large number Of the Marine Corps
| at the CharlestOwBy Massachusetts.
Navy Yard are on tho sick list, their
illness being attributed to Cbagres fe.
yer. M0st of the sick are men returned
from Panama. On Monday twenty six
men reported to the yard surgeon TO be
placed on the sick list, and Ave were
sent to the naval hospital at Chelsea.
Their clothing, beds and bedding wers
burned, and the sale of milk at the bar.
racks has been prohibited and the can
| teen closed.
The old Liberty Bell and its escort,
accompanying the Mayor and MEM
bers of City Councils of New Orleans
and . military escort from the Conti-
mental Guards, arrived at Baltimore last
night. The party were given q recep-
tion by the Fifth Maryland Regiment.
The bell " Ill arrive in PhilaAelphia- to-
day.
MonrOvia announce the re. election Of
Hilary r. w. johnson as President Of
Liberia, at the biennial election held
on May 9TH. Mr. johnson Ii the first
native Liberian elected President Of
the Republic. His opponent was Rev.
E w. Blyden, ID. d.
Joseph &. Miller, Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, was taken suddenly
i'll in his office, At Washington, on
Tuesday, and had to bs removed to his
home. Overwork and the effects of the
heat caused his illness, which will
probably confine him to the house for
severa. days.
The Relief Committee at Plymouth,
Penna., say they "beiieve that the
funds now on hand, toaether with the
amount appropriated by the State, will
be sufficient to carry on the work of
1eliefi among the fever patients now
sick until the epidemic shall be brought
to an end"
The Norwegian bark Augustine ar
rived at the Delaware Breakwater ON
Tuesday from Cienfuosos, with ner
fever. She will be detained for dsisin-
festion, and the captain placed in the
quarantine hospital If necessary.
The temperature in Washington on
Tuesday reached 95 degrees in the
shade. In Stafford County, Flew Hamp.
shire, a temperature of IS to So was
reached outdoor work was abandoned
in many places and several persons
were sunstruck.
The Benton coach, due at Helena,
Montana, last Thursday, has not yet
arrived. 1t is reported that Priekly
Pear Cannon contains =" q solid body of
wster," and ,elegraphic comm 1nication
is iuterrupted.
While unloading iron castings at a
railway freight house in Cleveland,
Chic, on Tuesday, Frank Bntierfield
was killed and John Albright danger
ously injured.
The Kentucky State Board Of Health
on Tuesday issued orders establishing
Quarantine restrictions in Harrison
Coan.t,, where pleuro.pneumonia exists
among the cattle.
1t was rumored on Tuesday night
that President White, of Cornell Uni
vsrsity, would tender his resignation
to day, and insist upon it's acceptance.
Two cases of smallpox have been
discovered in a tenement in Milwau-
kee, the patients being y young man
and woman recently arrived from
Germany.
The Treasury Department. decides
that " leakages of spirits through worm
holes or sprung slaves are not entitled
TO the benefits allowed in cases of casu-
alties.
The L. S. ship Constellation, with
Naval cadets on board, sailed on Tues
day from Annapolis on hsz annual
summer cruise.
The Nationa. Conven tion of Amer; can
Railway Master Mechanics opened on
Tuesday in Washington.