Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-09-04
Vows in Brief.

Alexander Mcleod, Anthony Ginnees
aud Michael Ginness were fatally burn.
ed yesterday morning, by an explosion
Of gas in the Leh Ugh Valley Coal Com.
paGy's mine No. 3, near Shenandoah,
Penna. At No. colliery, of the same
company, Henry Lord was killed by a
fall of coal.
The Civil Service Comm issioners
having cnarge of the Custom House ap-
pointments in New York yesterday ex.
am ined 20 young men for places as
openers and packers in this appraisers
Store. Candidates for gaugers will be
examined to day.
at Fall River, Massachusetts,, have
The mother of the children admits that
she was in Montreal with them three
weeks ago.
The drilling of the great gas well at
Maysville, Chautauqua County, New
York, was completed ON Wednesday
night at depeh of 1919 feet. The pres
sure was found to gauge 100 pounds.
The onion crop of New England, ac'
cording to the reports of the New Eng
land HON estead win he be low the av
erage in all but favored sections, and
growers will hold the crop from &c
cents to 81 per bushel.
The Sherman Brigade held re- union
at Lakeville, Ohio, on Wednesday.
Nearly seven thousand people were
present, and addresses were made by
Senator Sherman and General Sherman
The fire in the Dorrance shaft Of the
Lehigh Valley Coal Company, al
Wilkesbarre, is now extinguished. Al
soon as the mine can be cleared OF OBJ
structions work will be resumed.
1t is said that sixty-one hogs affected
with cholera have been condemned a.
the stock yards at Chicago within two
days. The hogs were shipped to ths
city in q diseased cond ition.
The steamship Island, from Copen
hagen, landed two hundred and fifty
Danes in New York on Thursday
Many of them intend to join a colony
in New Mexico.
A boiler In the saw mill of s. M
Winchester, at Newport, Tennessee
exploded on Thursday, killing tw'
men and badly iDjuring several others
Mrs David Brown died while unde
the IN pfiuence of chloroform in a den
lists chair in Petosky, Michigan, oil
Wednesday afternoon. She was suffer
ing from heart disease.
| Sidney Sommers and James Healy
miners, were killed yesterday morning
by fall of coal in the Pennsylvani
Coal Company's ool.tery No. 8, a
Wilkesbarre.
Joseph Myers, who had been sick wit
xvaakl
mitted suicide in Syracuse, New forh
yesterday morning by cutting hi
throat.
Thomas A. Marshal comm itted SUI
eide in Indianapolis yesterday, becaus
of family. trouble, growing out of hi
marriage to his step-sister.
j Jehn johnson, wealthy farme
lof Duquesne Heights, near Pittsburi
hanged himself yesterday because hi
nephew had accused him Of swindliu
his sister out Of some property.
About fifteen cases of Texas fever al
reported among domestic milk COW
near the Michigan Central stock yardl
at Detroit. Several of the cows hay
died.
Dr. Butler, the Veterinarian of tt
Live Stock Commission of Ohio, VIII
has recently completed a tour of tina
= State. says there is no trace of pleur'
= pneumonia in Ohio.
Thirty-five cases of smallpox, eiel
, lof them officially authenticated, wei
q reported in Montreal on Weduesds.
a There were four deaths from II
disease.
. President Cleveland is expected
!, leave the Adirondacks Tomorrow f
Albany and Washington by way
Pittsburg.