Daily Republican., 1885-05-19
News Summary.
pRMONSTRA.
TION-CROWLEY EENTENCED
-EPIDEMnC DYIE6 OUT.
THE REIGN OF TERROR.

An Associated Pr66S telegram from St.
Johns, Newfoundland, says that on
Sunday "another anti-Roman Catho.
lie demonstration occurred at Bay Rob-
erts. The house of VIM. Daily, lead
ing Roman Catholic trader, was almost
demolished by stones. Some Of Capt.
Hanpeburry property was flung over
the wharf into the sea. Several Roman
Catholic boys and men were assaulted
on their way to the chapel. The Judge
Of Harbor Grace imposed q money pen.
atty on the Orange ringleaders.
1t is doubted In Pittsburg whether,
an adjustmen of prices for the next
year can be reached by the iron manu-
facturers and workers. Each side is
firm in Its demands, aud only two
weeks remain for settlement. Each
side says that If there is q settlement 1t
must come through advances from the
lother.
A boiler In the Bibb cotton mill, at
Macon, Georgia, burst on Monday
morning, killing Frank Gibson, engf-
neer, and injuring three others, one
named Wesley John son, mortally. The
damage to proper ty is estimated at
$4,000.
The relief committee at Plymouth,
Pa, reported on Monday that there
we're nearly one hundred fewer cases of
the fever than were shown by the last
canvass two weeks ago. No new cases
have appeared, and many of tho sick
are convalescing.
The Coroner investigating the colli-
| sion on the Reading Railroad near
IWilkesbarre ON Saturday, by which
two men were killed, reports that it
was due to the gross carelessness Of
John Hoover, the train dispatcher.
Hoover has fed.
A passenger train broke through q
sixty. foot trestle bridge near Yale,
British Columbia, on Sunday morning.
A fireman and brakeman were
killed and two other train hands iniur-
ed. Two bents Of the trestle had been
washed away by flood.
Police Sergeant Crowley. convicted of
o felonious assault upon Maggie Morris,
in New York, was on Monday SEN
fenced to seventeen years and six
months imprisonme ent at hard labor in
the State penitentiary.
Five Senators and thirty.six Repre-
sentatives were present yesterday in
Ijoint convention OF the Illinois Legisla.
ture. After several scattering votes
for q. b. Senator an adjournment was
had until noon to-day.
A telegram from Lynchburg, Vir.
ginia, says: 1.-THE reign of terror re-
lported in the Fiat Top coal region,
Tazewell county, has no existence in
fact. A religious revival is in progress
There"
The Massachusetts House Of Repre-
sentatives yesterday, by \ vote of 81 to
"a, refused to pase 10 engrossment the
bill restricting the man ufacture Of dy-
namite and other explosives.
Mrs. Pauline Hood, an elderly
. woman who had inst been brought
home from an insane asylum, commit.
ted suicide yesterday In Baltimore, by
hanging herself to clethes-line.
The refining of stack No. Of the
iAllentown Iron Company at Allentown,
Penna was begun yesterday, prepare
, tory to blowingin the furnace, which hal
been idle since 1850.
All the schools in Kingston, Massa-
10 chusetts, were close yesterday, owing
to the prevalen CO Of diphtheria. There
were four deaths from the disease
Sunday.
William McCauley, o young man,
was suffocated while sleeping on top
OF lime kiln near Wrightsville, Penna.,
on Sunday.
The seventeen. year locusts have
appeared at Bridgeport, Illinois.