Daily Republican., 1885-06-25
News Summary.

NCWD oeAAm 0hWhy.
Rev. DR.. Samuel David Ferguson,
colored, was oonsecrAtod Missionary !
Bishop Of Cape Palmas Africa, in New
York yesterday morning. Bishop Lee,
OF Delaware, WAS the consecrator, his
nsylvahia, and Littlejohn, of Long |
Island. Bishop Ferguson Ia the first |
colored member OF the American House !
OF Bisnops. He 10 . native Of South |
Carolina. 43 years Of age.
The Prohibition State Convention
West Virginia met yesterday in Grafton |
and split on the question OF third |
party. About one third OF the delegates
favOring non partisan action withdrew.
The remainder resolved that "a third
party is expedispt In West Virginia"
With few exceptions, they were
All Republicans who left the conven' !
ton.
The pilot of yacht Pilot, at Baltimore
yestert ~, reports, that on Tuesday she
fell in with the schooner Peter O.
Schultze, II miles outside Cape Henry,
the captain and mate being sick with
yellow fever. The Schultze, which
was bound from Mobile for Philadel.
phia, was towed 10 miles inside Chesa-
peake Bay.
In the U. 8. Court Of Baltimore1 yes.
terday, Daniel w. Kaufman, mail
agent on the Potomac Railroad between
Baltimore and Washington, pleaded
guilty to having robbed the mails while
In his charge He was sentenced to
three years 1T hard labor in the Mary
land peniteDtiary.
While some boys were searching for
O lost ball under q stable At Cape Blanc,
near Quebec, on Monday, they found .
can OF dynamite, consisting Of sixty
charges done up in fancy paper pack
ages. The can WAS neatly labeled with
an American makers name. Detec-
tives have taken up the case.
| During circus performance at
Lapeer, Michigan, on Thursday, large
elephant became enraged, tore up seats
and smashed things generally. After
IcleaniDg out the tent he took to neigh
Iboring swamp. In the panic num-
ber OF people had their limbs broken.
Il An epidemic Of diphtheria is re-
ported at Laporte, Indiana. Some
Twenty or thirty cases have resulted In
one locality from allowing quantity
of refuse removed from a sewer to re
, main for several days in the street ex
: posed to the sun and air.
s. l.. Phelps, ex-U. s. Minister tc
5 Peru, died yesterday morning, at Lima
He was about "a years of age. He had
. served in the navy; was form erl Com
3 missioner of the District OF Columbia
3 and was appointed Minister to Peru II
1883.
James II. Dandy has been arrested IL
Lincoln, Illinois, for alleged swindlinl
by iasuing fictitious notes. 1t II
lclaimed that his operations have beef
going on for fve years md will reacl
1850, 600. "Danby had the confidenc
u OF the com munity."
The first wheat of the new crop, 4
- bushels grown in Lancaster county
virginia, was sold on change in Balti
l. more yesterday at 81 per bushel. An
lother inferior lot grown in Middlese
: lcounty, in the same State, sold
:; 1880.
A prist mill In Mobile was wrecke
n yesterday by the explosion OF boilel
|, !, land three men were killed. The wit
= of one Of them, who was taking Dime
v to her husband, is believed 70 be mol
!. tally injured.
a Cornelius B. Demarest, "A carriae
ie manufacturer, committed suicide Il
In New Haven, yesterday morning, D
cutting his throat. He was Al years I
age and leaves q widow and three chi
Idren.
att A delegation from Montreal call,
vn on the Dominion Government ON Tue
". day to urge the resembling OF the du'
ly upon Newfoundland fish and Oil impor
ed into Canada, which duty by the &C
Fl comes into operation on July l.
John 9. Rives, aged 81 years, wi
found dead yesterday in his room
the Emmett House, in Washington.
G formerly publisher of. the Congression
Globe.
Thirty six Young ladies on Wedne
day took the white veil at the Conve
at Nortre Dame, at Govanstown, ne
mans, and came from various sectio
Of the country.
Twenty families In Rock Island, II
were poisoned on Tuesday by o'
which they had eaten, and on w Wedn'
day q number OF them were pronounC
In q serious condition. An investii
ton Is going on.
A four.year. old daughter of Jacks
Wood was killed another daughter a
Mrs. Wood was fatally injured, a
Mr. Wood was dangerously injured,
a runaway accident at Elgin, llline
on Tuesday.
The report OF the termination of
|. strike at the Smith carpet factory
Yonlkers, New York, was contradict
on Wednesday, both by Mr.. Smith
the leading strikers.
The War Department on Wednesd
received dispatch from Col. Bradl
ke lat Fort Lewis, stating that the trou
between the Ute Indians and the &C
boys in that locality has ended.
Judge Van Brunt, in Now York, ,
Iterday granted o temporary stay of ?
rO- ceedings In the case of the builder b
densiek, 10 allow Of review OF
ho case.
The principal business block in RI
III mond, Texas, was burned on Tuesd
Gil The loss Is estimated at about y
600, the insurance aggregating OF
his $4,000.
Secretary Manning has requested
Eli resignation of Horatio G. Burchard
Illinois. as Director of the Mint. !
understood that Mr.. Burchard will
fuse to resign.
The new "asylum Of Palesl
Commandery, No. 2, knights Temp
tOI in Trenton, N. j., was dedicated
terday afternoon.
blet Henry A. Myers, convicted Of "
beating, received 70 lashes from
n Sheriff in the Baltimore jail on W
oii nesday.