Daily Republican., 1885-08-13
News Summary.
CONFESSl OF A N Il ERE
MUKDERs BECOMINa EPI.
DEMaC-COrTON.
FOUND DEAD IN HIS BARN.

FOUND DEAD IN HIS BARN.
A despatch from Wilkesbarre, Penn
says there are no new developments ia
regard to the accident In the West
End Colliery at Mocanaqua. The b0diei
of the ten men who were sudocated
were all removed from the nina. The
stoppage of the fan and the consea uent
accumulation in the mine of fumes
from the boiler 9 res and foul gas eau Sc d
the accident. Tie Coroner will hold
an inquest on Saturday, and endeavor
to ascertain who was responsible for
the accident.
The attention of the Dominion De-
partment of State has been called to the
appointment Of the Fenian, James
lWhelan, to be U. 8. Consul ut Fort
Erie. 1t is announced from Ottawa
that nothing can be done in the mat.
ter .. present, as the Dominion Govern
ment has not yet been officially noti-
fed of his appointment" There is no
doubt in Ottawa that Whelan's ex.
equatur will be refused.
| The oolored citizsns of Frederick
Maryland, yesterday celebrated the
signing of the Emancipation Proclama-
ton. About 5000 visitors from Balti-
more, Washington, York, Harrisburg
and neighboring towns participated.
There was parade and public meet
ing, at which addresses were made by
Thomas Dent, Of Georgia; Milton Urner
and Louis K. McComas of Maryland,
and others.
Charles Wright, a noted botanist.
was found dead in his barn in
Weathersfield, Connecticut, on Tuesday
night. He was "a years old. He was
employed by the Government in An ex-
pedition to Texas and Arizona, and hsd
also explored Cuba for tte Spanish
Government. Last year Harvard Col
| lege secured his collection of fora.
Many American plants are named af.
ter him.
The "shantymen ," who have return.
ed to Canada from Egypt are under the
Impression that their services will be
required again. They say that when
Lord Wolseley parted with the Canadi-
an contingenet he said he expect Ted
that vigorous campaign would
take place In the Soudan country
in the fall, In which case he wished TO
have the services of the Canadian Voy-
agenrs."
The people of Bristol, Tennessee. on
Tuesday voted unanimously 10 sub
Iscribe $50, 900 towards the building of
the South Atlantic Railroad. The
road will extend from Bristol to Stone
Gap, Tennessee, and connect with the
Kentucky system. The line will open
vast mineral and timber country.
:. Daniel Noll, who several months ago
fired an outbuilding on Wentzel's farm
In Berks County, Pa, the fire causing
the burning OF four persons, was yes
terday acquitted at Reading on the
ground of insanity. The oocrt ordered
him to be confined In o lunAtic asy-
lum.
The Northwest 70, ,unteers were sell.
ing their scrip. in Montreal yesterday
for an average Of SIS. The scrip Is
said to be the same as that issued to
the half breeds, who realized from $50
| for the scrip was spent for liQnsr.
| One bale of new cotton from Macon,
Georgia, and one from South Carolina
we're received at Chsile,to South
Carolina, yesterday. 1t was sam pied,
accepted and classified as strict low
middling and middling, respective
! ly.
A petition is being circulated through
ooo &'A oSaucosoct oPRoohAhk w CoOEo@
tary Bayard to use his influence in
behalf of Louis Risl, who is to be hang
cd on September 18th next, ON the
ground that he Is an American citizen.
A fire in the upper stories of III
Duane street, New York, last night,
caused $1,000 damages to the building
and about $50, 900 to the stock of Green
~ Blackwell, candy manufacturers.
The loss is covered by insurance.
The pIoprietors of the Montezuma
Hotel at Las Vegas, New Mexico,
which was burned last Saturday, be-
lieye that the fire was started by an
incendiary, aud they will try to bring
the susp ected perpetrator to justice.
At Silverton, Oregon, on Tuesday
morning, G. +. Libby, aged go years,
shot and killed his partner, Arthur
Patty, aged 81, and then committed
suicide. 1t is supposed Libby was in.
sane.
Ihomas Armstrong, stepson OF Albert
Il. Herrick, who was shot dead in his
house in Brooklyn on Monday, has con-
fessed that he shot Herrick. He says
hs did 1t in self-defence.
Malachi Herring, a farmer and promi-
nent citizen of the Indian Territory,
was shot dead by an unk nown assassin
near Scullyville, in the Choctaw Nation,
on Monday evening.
The first bale of new cotton was re-.
ceived at Mobile, Alabama, yesterday,
from Shubula, Mississ ippI. 1t was
classed as strict middling and was sold
at 1511 cents per pound.
The Chief of Police at Chattanooga
has sued the Daily Times OF that ciIy
for $25 900 damages, for alleged libel in
making certain structures on his ad in
istration of the police force.
During fight in a tenement house
in Boston on Wednesday 1i1ht. be-
tween John Cullea aud Timothy and
John Caffsy, the former was stabbed
and died in a few minut
| Daniel Smith, an insane patient In
the City Hospital in Savannah, Geor
gia, leaped from the window in the
upper ward on Wedn esday and was
killed.
A letter from Havana, dated August
8th, says that up to the 7th of June
%, 877 negroes had obtained their free-
dom in the province Of Santa Clara.
Claiming Nearly Everythinr.
A Pittsburg paper states that to. mo. i.
row the Rev. W. r. Coovert, pastor of
the Church of G cd in that city, will leave
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