Daily Republican., 1885-07-14
TH|RD D EDITION,
News summary.

A telegram from Pittsburg says the
Allesheney Valley was visited on MON
day by one of the most disastrous
storms ever known there. for an
hour the rain fell in torrents, tht
wind blew O hurricane and the hghI
ming was incessant. The loss III pro-
perty of all kinds between PittsburgI
and T,rusyiils is very large. At Free.
port AZ inches Of rain fell in an honr.
At Harmarsville the telegraph office
was struck by lightning aud q boy
killed.
Judge Perish ng. at Pottsville, has
made a rule OF County Commissioner
John Leonard, returnable August lst,
10 show by wnat authority he exercises
his Office. Tne rule was issued upon
she suggestion of Attorney Genera
Cassidy, in q quo warranto proceed
ing, in which Commissioner Leonard Is
Charged with bribery, fraud, and
wilful violation of the election laws
The forthcoming annual report OF
Poor's Railroad Manual will show thai
the total tonnage tf oil the rallroaus III
the United States in 1884 was 390. .Oi4,-
749 tons, a decrease, compared with
that of the preceding year, OF lo,o. > o9o
tons. The gross earnings we're eHo,,
684 ,9tS, a decrease OF S33 0oo,olo anu
the net earnings wereS26S, LOG, ,25S. de-
crease of So, ,26l OF.
General M. d. Mercer, President OF
tbs First National Bank in Waterloo,
New York, died last night after short
illness, aged 56 years. He wasa Pc
mocratic Presidential Elector In the
late election, and was Quartermaster
General on Governor Cleveland's staff,
and held the same position under Cover
nor Hill.
In accordance with a recent act Of
the Legislature Of Illinois, Governor
Oglesby yesterday issued proclsma-
ton recalling all existing orders against
the import alton of cattle into that State
fro n certain localities in other States
scheduled IS containing pleuro'pneu'
m onia.
Judge Duffy, in the Circuit Court
in Baltimore, yesterday, ordered the
removal of a bay window just added tt
the residence OF Robert Garrett, OF
Mount Vernon Place. 1t was alleget
that the Objectionable window cut of
light from a neighbor's house.
John G. Barkley, trading as Barkle,
81 Co., coffee dealers, of Baltimore
yesterday made deed of trust, for TIL
benefit OF mis- creditors, to Fielder {
Slingluff. The firms Liabilities ar
estimated at Sl30,0OO and its assets q
nearly the same.
Duncan Mackenzie, of Kingston, Or
TAR 10, has been arrested On the charge
completely in the robbery ot $1,000 |
Harrison, Michigan, year ago. tt
Town Treasurer was gagged and bour
TO q chair and that sum taken from u
safe.
Daniel Anderson, while rowing wi
his wife and four children on sIns
stream near Spotswood, New Jersey,
Sunday atterl oon, upset the boat whi
trying to pull it off snag, and his "
boys, five and seven years of age, We
drowned.
Frederick j. Wallen, one of the FL
men injured by falling wall at I
hre in Albany, en- Sunday, died yest
day morning. The loss ou the proper
is now estimated at $50. go; insurar
$23. 1000.
The inau surat on of the Information
Park at Niagar Falls, to morrow, W
be attended by Lieutenant Govern
Robinson, of o ltario, Lieutenant Co
mel Growski an the Thirteenth Bait
ion OF II Hamilton, Canada.
The Worlds Exposition plant, but
ings and machinery, at New Orlea
y
600, and were bid in tor the new
poration Company.
Delegates from the United Heb
r. f Association of nearly all the pi
cpal cities Of the Union met yester,
in st. Louis to form nnion of the
brew charities of the u n:ted States.
Lieutenant Commander Webb, of
Asiatic squadron, has been convicte,
drunkenness by a court martha and
been suspended for two years, with
Tough pay.
A " shortage" of $500 discove re,
the accounts of the pos. master at {
Nebraska, has been made good, but
sureties Recommend that he be reu
ed.
A rich deposit os mica, said to
worth from IS to So per POUND bas
discovered or the Sonth Mount
three N lies from Sh sridan, in Leba
County, Pa.
The saw mill of Ralph Cassel n an
Casselman's Station, Ont-rio,
burned yesterday. Loss, S27 ,0JO ne
covered by Insurance.
The Forest Flouc Mills, at 0 ia
Kansas, were burnsd yesterday m
ing. Less, $35 900; insurance, :
O00
A fire at the corner o. Canl,
Bourbon streets, New Orir ye'
day morning, CAUSED ddn. 49, 10
ex tent of about SIS U0O,
Richard II. Williams, builder,
silled yesterday by falling throuP
sky light ofthe City National Banl
Utica, distance of 10 feet.
Sixteen new cases of small pox
reported inMontreal yesterday FL
deaths occurred last " eek iron
,diseaes.
Secretary Whitney aud par
guests, including President Cle9 9el
spent yesterday in bass iohni
Woodmount, near Harper's Ferry.
Steamships arriving at Que1sc
report numerous icebergs, rspec
around the Straits of Belle Isle
A new case Of fever apps. u
Plymouth, Pa, on SunGay, d. II:
employees eng the victim.
Warwick McCray, a thirl c'asa
rom Pennsylvania, was dr ,~',..i
erday while bathing ~ Wes' PA
Base Ball.
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