Daily Republican., 1885-06-24
News Summary.
I'm TExAs-EN GIN NEs
WKECKED-THE STRIKE AT
MT. CARMEl. REA AUAED.
FAILUREOFTHE TEACROP.

A telegram from Dallas says that
800. COO acres of land have been purchas.
ed In three counties in Texas, on which
will be colon ized $50 families from
Ohio. comprising American, German
and bohemian farmers. A new town,
called Wilsonia, has also been located
fifteen miles north OF Niranfeld by q
colony from northern Illinois.
An express train ON tho Pan Handle
Railroad yesterday morning eollided
with An empty accommodation train
1t Burgett's Town, Penna-, about 27
miles from Pittsburg. Both engines
were wrecked, two train bands were in
jured, and the passengers ON the express
train were severely shaken-up.
= George W. Dent, brother-in- law of
General Grant, received letter from
the President on Monday, notifying
him of his suspension from the office of
Appraiser of Customs in San Fran cisco.
Thomas Beck, recently appointed. will
succeed to the Office.
Arbitration has failed to settle the
differences between Congressman Scott
and his seven hundred employees At
the Pennsy lvania C0lliery at Mt Car
mel, Pa, and the strike Was resumed
on Tuesday. The miners demand De-
ComO0X WAACbS om0 oOObs SA0Ao sAOAAA Av
per cent. less.
Yesterday was the second day Of the
National Encampment of the Grand
Army Of the Republic at Portland, Ne.
The feature of the day was . grand pa
rade. 1t is estimated that there were
%, 600 men in line, Of whom n, 600 wore
the G. A. r. uniform.
The latest mail news from China and
Ia aotl UnAYn 1anAnaoo
silk crop at 20 per cent below the aver
age, and says that reports received ct
Shanghai from Kinkiang indicate that
the quality of the new season teas is in.
ferior to that of last year.
Sixty thousand quarts Of strawber'
berries were received on Monday in
Albany, New York. from within q
radius of ten miles, and the sales were
at from 3 70 6 cents quart. The receipts
were the largest ever known at Albany
in one day.
A committee of fPhiladelphians, headed
| by Mayor Smith, called upon Presi-
dent Cleveland on Tuesday, and invited
him to visit the National Encampment
in Fairmount Park. Tho President
was unable to say whether he could
attend.
The strike Of the employees Of the
Smith Carpet Company at Yonkers,
New York, for an advance Of 10 per
cent ended on Tuesday. The strikers,
after four months idleness, agree to
resume at the old rate.
| Charles A. .Buddensick, the builder
OF tumble-down tenements In New
York, recently convicted Of manslaugh-
ter, was sentenced on Tuesday to ten
Years imprisonment at hard labor, and
fpayment of fine of $500.
A disease resembling CHAMBERS is epi-
demic among the horses aud other ami
mails at Knoxville, suburb Of Pitts-
burg. Twelve horses have died since
Saturday, and a number Of cate and dogs
are reported sick.
| A family of six persons named Quello'
mard were poisoned In New Orleans ION
!; Monday by female servant who put
poison in their food. A physician was
prom pity called in, and all are expected
to recover.
| A severe storm visited Sulphur
Springs, Texas, on Monday, wrecking
the Catholic and oolored Methodist
churches. unroofing three business
blocks, washing away bridges and dam
aging the crops.
Richard T Merrick, the distinguished
lawyer, who has been ill for some time
OF congestion of the brain, died on
Tuesday morning in Washington in
the fifty ninth year of his age.
| Estimates based on reports from
t~ enty seven counties In Kansas, where
the wheat harvest is in progress, indi-
cate that the yield is 1b per cent.
greater than the June estimate of the
State Board of Agriculture.
Smallpox of virulent type has
broken out at Fort Davis, Texas, land
there are no facilities for taking care of
the sicK."
| George Illmansee, aged forty-seven
years, committed suicide in New York
on Tuesday by taking Paris green. He
was intemperate in his habits.
A violent type of measles followed
by flux, which often results fatally, is
epidemic in Elbert and Madison eoun-
ties, Georgia.
Hog cholera Ia causing heavy losses
to the farmers in the country around
Shelbyville, Illinois.
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