Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-06-26
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STEEL CRUIsERs - PREPARED
MEAT AND POISON
STEAMER ABHORE.
THE YELLOW FE ER.

THE YELLOW F E V E R.
Under the general invitation Of the
Secretary of the Navy to ofacers of the
navy and others to submit plans for the
construction of new steel cruisers,
Admiral Porter has for some time been
engaged In planning vessel which
he hopes will prove model In her
class" She is to bo $50 feet long,
and ut the same Time ram o torpedo
boat and gunboat, will 60 forward or
backward with equal facility, and
| carry . very heavy armament" 1t 10
expected that she will attain very great
speed.
A sample Of the prepared meat by
which q number Of families in Rock
Island, Illinois, were loisoned, has been
analy zed, and found to contain, in the
portions not thoroughly cooked, minute
lcystiera, visible to the naked eye. The
toxical effects of the meat we're due to
what IL known as sausage poison"
This is developed under certain condi.
tions in canned corned beef, blood pud-
ding, etc, and the only safeguard
against it is thorough cooking.
j. G. Forbes, q celebrated Canadian
artist, was attacked with bemorrhage Of
| the pose on Tuesday, and is bleeding to
death. He had been suffering from
catarrh and injected some patent medi-
| cine, which has 10 eaten away the COW
] ering Of the arteries of the nose that they
4 burst, and all efforts of his physicians
to check the flow of blood has failed.
William Kenney, age d IS years,
local politician OF New York, comm it.
ted suicide yesterday by shooting him
self. He had recently been discharged
from the Corporation Counsel's office,
where he was employed as . messen-
ger, and his only SOD, 20 years Of age,
has been placed in lunatic asylum.
The American steamer City of Toxic,
from San Francisco, is ashore near
Yokohama. She is leaking and part
of her cargo has been jettisoued. The
City of Toxic is q four-masted iron
screw vessel of %, $50 tons register, and
was launched from Roach's shipyard,
at Chester, Penna., in May, 1874.
A man about a5 years Of age, giving
the name of j. p. keating, was found
dead in his room in boarding house
in Baltimore yesterday. AS all the win
dows were closed and the gas turned
on at full head, he is supposed TO have
com mitted suicide. He iutimated that
he was from Philadelphia.
During Wednesday night the large
water main leading from Hampden
reservoir, one of the sources of supp ply
of Reading, Penna., burst. The cellars
and lower stories of forty houses were
Hooded. The water was ahout eight
fees deep. Several narrow escapes
from drowning were made.
In executive session Of the National
Encampment of the Grand Army of the
Republic,at Portland, Maine, yesterday,
a telegram was received from General
th.. Lv,n CO..
its resolution of sympathy. A resolu-
ton was adopted recon mepding that
!, Memorial Day be observed on the
! Sabbath.
The schooner P C. Schultz, from
Mobile for Philadelphia, which has
been detained at quarantine with yellow
fever on board, arrived at Mobile from
Aspinwall on the 2s1 of April and
cleared from Mobile on the Sd of
June.
A boiler in the rear of Frank Killers
lead pipe factory in Newark, New
Jersey, burst yesterday morning, de-
molishing the boiler house, wrecking
the engine room and tearing out the
rear wall of the main building. One.
man was injured.
Rev. Charles W. Rankin. for 80
years Rector of St. Luke's Protestant
Episcopal Church, Baltimore, has re-
signed because of declining health.
He was the first to introduce "High
Church ceremonies =" in that city.
While Edward Nolan and James
Rogers were watching passenger
train at Galesburg, Illinois. on Wed
nesday night, they were killed by
| freight train which was switched upon
the track on which they were standing.
The family of John Durst, of Ply
mouth, Wisconsin, was poisoned on
Wednesday night by eating cake in
which arsenic was accidentally used
for baking powder. One child has died
and three Others are in critical condi-
| tion.
The police of Pottsville, Pa, on
Thursday arrested "Tony" Reinhart.
"Skip" Mayer and "Buli' Carlisle on
the charge of causing the recent inceu-
diary fires. 1t is said the evidence
against the men is very strong.
| During thunder storm at Starkville.
Mississippi, on thursday afternoon, a
barn was struck by lightning and
Walter Montgomery, aged ten years,
was killed.
Several cases of glanders have been
discovered among horses on q farm
| near Mount Carroll, Illinois. Every
effort will be made to stamp out the
disease.
| The steamer st. Paul, at San Fran
| cisco, from Omalaska, reports that the
ice around the Seal Islands is thicker
| than for years"
The chinch bugs are now threatening
! the corn crop in portions of Illinois.
and causing great apprehension among
| the farmers.
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