Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-11-28

Inc steamer EMMA dfAnams ifOn
Pittsburg for Cincinnati, sank at Ripley |
Landing, near Parkersburg, West Vir-
ginia. on Thursday night. Thedisaster
was caused by the steamer striking .
barge ~ she was swinging into theI
drowned, and several deck hands are
missing. All the passengers are be.
ieved 10 be saved.
At Birmingham, Alabama. on Fri
day, Business Manager Hayes, OF thel
Daily Age. was tried for the violation
OF the clause Of the new Sunday Law
forbidding newsdealers to sell papers.
Judge Sharpe, presiding, decided that
Mr.. Hayes, as agent Of the newspaper
| he published, was not . newsdealer, and
could sell on the street or In his officet
A telegram from Montreal says that
q United States Treasury bond for So,.
900, which was sold az Sherif's sale
there few days ago for 500, proves
10 be stolen one, payment on which
had been stopped. The Treasury De-
Ipartment ut Washington have requested
that the bond be returned 10 them.
A fast mail train On the Baltimore
partially wrecked at Glover's Gap, near
Wheeling, West Virginia, on Thurs.
Iday night. The engine, and the m all,
baggage ando smoking cars were badly
damaged, yet, beyond . severe shaking
up, no person was injured.
Benjam Simmons, convicted of the
murder Of Mary Ann Stokes, was hang
cd yesterday in the Jail yard In London,
Ontario, In the presence Of one hundred
ape ctstors. He offered prayer ON the
scaffold, expressing . belief that hii
sins had been pardoned, and asking Q
similar grace for all those present.
i The Court of Alabama Claims ha.
decided that Chesapeake Bay mus
be held TO be wholly within the terri
Itorial Jurisdiction and authority of tn,
United States, and no part of the higl
|seas,' within the meaning of the tern
as used In Sec . Of the Act Of June 8
I1sS2."
! The Citizens Health Committee o
Montreal has adopted q report recon
mending the Quebec Legislature, at II
next session. to provide tor the compul
cory vaccination OF children within
thirty days after birth and for parochis
registration Of births.
| Warren Samuel Yates, q member o
\ the Yale Junior academic class, wa
blown out In Long Island Sound in al
!, Iopen boat on Thursday while duckiDl
near New Haven. He has not tecl
heard Of since, and 10 believed to b
lost, - high sea was running.
II Rev. DR.. Smith, Presiden. Of Trinit,
, College, at Hartford, Conn, on Frida!
decided to decline the position Of Bisho
, of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese Q
). Easton, Maryland, to which he wa
recently elected.
The Morgan Houoe, at Tallahas se<
a Fla. formerly the City Hotel, wi
totally destroyed by Ere Thursda.
night, with Its furniture and all b,
E longings. Loss, 5000; insuranc,
= $1,000.
IL A fourteen year old boy, named sny
i der, was killed and eaten by hogs Will
lsleeping on straw stack on his rather
a promises. near Carberry, Illinois, o
9 Wednesday.
ell BY the cavipg in Of earth in ne,
70 railroad cut, near Mil waukee, yestel
It day. George Scheafer was killed an
III another man dangerously injured.
ri The Secretary OF the Interior has d,
'eIc!ded that patent "has not formal
ISSUED beyond recall until 1t has bee
delivered to the patentee."
Four cases OF smallpox and OF
l. death have occurred in French famil
who recently arrived in South Adam
Massachusetts, from Canada.
A freight train ran off the track
New Hampshire, on Fri,is
= and the engineer, Worcester Dearborn
y WAS killed.
I'll The eight Indians convicted of u
"a m assAcre at Frog Lake, In the Mort
a west Territory, were hanged yesterdi
"a at Battleford.
Isl LONDON, Nov. 28.-The latest els
n ton returns foot up l31 liberals, ].
h tories and IS PaInellites elected thu
for. The tory net gains is 26.
A class to study vocal music has be,
IorRanized in the Second Baptist churc
A and teacher is wanted to take char
q Of the same.
I'll Mayor O'Brien, Of Boston, was r
~ \, nominated by the Democratic Couve
~ ton Of that city last night.
Benjamin Simmonds was hung ye
10 terday at London, Ontario, for the mu
ner Of Mary Ann Stokes, his parsmou
The English court goes into thr
weeks mourning for King Alfonso.
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Tim EAsanu.