Daily Republican., 1885-01-15
NEWS SUMMARY,
A $50, 900 f1RE.A PERUvIANvET'
E8Ah DEAD-REsTRIOrIOHS
ON AnERICAN PORK.


A telegram from Concord, New
Hampshire, reports the Ice IN the Mer-
rimac river broken mp, and the inter-
wales At that point Inundated. A wash
out 30 feet long and 20 feet deep oc-
on the Northern Railroad. A bridge
over Iron Brook, on the same road, was
carried away.
The National 8 " inc Breeders Associa-
ton met yesterday at the Agricultural
Department In Washington. A COM
n. ittee was appointed to get informa-
tion from the State Department relative
TO the restrictions placed upon the i'm
portatisn of American pork products
and ths methods Of inspection followed
by foreign Governments"
The steamer Harbinger, with cotton
for Grimsby, while going to sea from
Char lesion, South Carolina, on Wednes.
day morning, struck on the bar and
spraDg . leak, which sxtinguished her
fires. She was fowed back to her
wharf with eleven feet of water In her
hold.
Mrs. Jacob Reigsl and Charles
Heisler, arrested In Reading, Penna.,
several months ago on the charge OF
having poi soned the woman g husband
were discharged yesterday. An anAly-
sis Of the dead mans stomach revealed
no trace Of poison.
Frederick Mohrhardt, . well-to-do
brewer Of Milwaukee, has been arrested
on the charge OF abandoning his wife
and three children. The wife died a
week ago Of sickb ess aud starvation
too proud ~ make known her trou
bles.
A pile OF commercial fertilizers o.
the works Of Wilcox, Gibbs & Co.
near Charleston, South Carolina, caved
In on Wednesday morning, crushing u
death two colored iaborers and iDjurin6
. third.
The pork pack ing establishment o.
James Morrison * Sons, in Cincinnati
was damaged on Tuesday night by I
fire caused by the explosion OF ren
dering vat. Loss 90, 900. A fireman
had his arm broken.
The stone mill Of Samuel Kafroth, a
Milliord, Lancaster county, Penna
was burned yesterday morning, with
ten thousand bushels Of wheat. Loss
$50, 900 ; insurance, u 900.
The health of Chief Justice Waite
reported be slowly improving He ex
poets to leave Washington for the Soutl
next week, to seek the benefit Of
milder climate.
| Lewis and Henry Priest, brothers
were k killed by a railroad train Dea
! Delaware, Ohio, on Tuesday nigh,
: They we're drunk at the time.
. The dry goods store Of s. II. Myers
, in Augusta. Georgia, was damaged b
fire ON Wednesday morning TO the e1
tent Of $50. coo.
Fernandina, one OF tho veterans @
the Peruvian war OF Independence, ha
Q just died In Lima at the age OF ninety
one years.
The Earl of Ay lesford died at Bi
= Springs, Texas, on Tuesday night, age
thirty. Ave years. He occupied ranc
at that place.
A private despa ch was received 1
Boston on Wednesday announcing tn
burning Of the ship Onowell off th
coast of North Carolina.
Judge j H. Jones was shot dead b.
w. X. Davis at Blakelsy, Georgia, o.
Thursday night, in u dispute about th
stabling of "A horse.
The hog cholera is reported 10 b
raging in the country around Hills
boro, Illinois. One farmer alone Is sal,
10 have lost one hundred hogs.
A heavy snow storm set in at Chi
cago early Wednesday evening. A
midnight six inches of snow had fallen
Professor benjamin Silliman, of Yal
College, died on Wednesday night.