Daily Republican., 1885-08-19
News Summary.
YELLOW FEvEK-AR OF
ARABs-.ExPLOs AND
DEATH.
SPREAD OF SMALLPOX.


| from Acapu leo to British Colum bia,
put into that port yesterday with Pana-
ma yellow fever on hoard. The cap
tain said one sailor lied o the fever on
| the trip up, and that several others are
down with the disease. The vessel put
| in for medical assistance She has
been quarantined, and officers are now
Investigating the disease.
A despatch from Derby Line, Yer
mont, says sixty five pauper Arabs who
were refused permission to land in New
York a short time ago, were landed at
Quebec last week, and are encamped
within two m lies Of Derby Line. They
wi pass through here into the United
States to day. They have with them
ten performing bears, twenty monkeys,
and several horses, supposed to have
| been stolen, and are q filthy, ragged,
desperate crowd who are foraging on
the community.
A few days ago Emile Lizette was
moulding bullets for his gun at his
home in Little Gallon, Ter Bonne
parish, Louisiana. He asked his wife
| to fill his powder horn. While she was
spark from the fireplace, which ignited
the powder and caused an explosion.
The roof of the house was torn off,
three children were instantly killed,
the mother received Injuries from
" hich she died in q few hours, and the
| father aud two children were badly
wounded.
A letter has been published in St.
Louis from Samuel N. Brooks, of Sunny
Bank, 81 yde, Cheshire, England, dated
July 18th, asking for information of
shown ro Maxwell, and. 1t is said, he
recognized the signature as that of his
father. He said he rwould write to
his father and tell him that he was
innocent of the murder of Preller, and
that he had perfectly good defence"
The Coroner's inquest in the case of
the twelve miners suffocated by gas on
Tuesday last, in the colliery at Mocaua-
qua, Pennsylvania, was concluded yes
terdsy. The jury found that Christian
Conrad, the mine boss, was guilty of
men 10 enter the mine when the fan
was not working.
At meeting of boot and shoe manu-.
facturers in Montre on Tuesday the
spread of the smallpox was discussed.
A resolution was passed declaring that
levery man in their employ must be vac
cinated, as we'll as every member of his
family and he must produce certifi-
cate to that effect or be discharged
and that anv nAr1nn onr'iU'n" fnr am
Il fcate.
The workmen at the Boston Gas
/ ICompapy's works, on Commercial
i Point, Dorchester, Massachusetts,, ex-
lhumei the skeletons of nine adults and
u five children while making an excava-
} tion on Commercial street yesterday.
1t is thought they are the remains of
Indians. The bodies appear to have
been thrown In a trench together.
The State Department yesterday gent
to the Secretary of the Treasury a com
| municstion from the Governor of
Michigan, saying that smallpox is
at Montreal. The Governor suggests
that measures be taken Immediately to
prevent the introduction OF the disease
into the United States.
The Pacific Mail Steam ship Company
n refused TO receive mails on the steamer
City of Rio de Janeiro which sailed
} from San Francisco yesterday after
noon for Yokohama and Hong Kong.
The merchants, anticipating this ac-
. tion, sent their letters on board in Gov
ernment stamped envelopes.
/ The steamship Yantic has been quar-
I autined at New Orleans. She recently
been prevalent The vessel was on her
, way to New Orleans to take silver from
the Mint in that city to Washington.
An ordinance forbidding the dis
! turbance of garbage barrels or refuse
2 boxes by rag-pickers went into effect
in New York in June last. On Tuesday
twenty rag pickers were fined for the
violation of the ordinance.
Colonel DENLY, Minister to China,
sailed from San Francieco for his post
on Tuesday. He was escorted to the
steamer by Colonel Bee, the Chinese
Conul, and other attaches of the Chinese
Cousulate.
The general stores of a. Blumenthal
81 Bro, Bell Bros, aud Silas r Green,
and several other houses, at Golden,
Illinois, were burned on Tuesday. The
total loss Is 5000
Inflammation was received at the State
Department on Tuesday that the re
mains of ex Minister Phelps, who died
recently at Lima, Peru, we're sent tt
New York by steamer leaving Aspin
wall on Monday night.
In Montreal On Tuesday twenty two
houses in which there were cases o
small pox, were placarded, twelve being
for new cases. A relief fund has beer
started.
g. The contributions to the Grant Me
II mortal Fund in New York on Monday
. amounted to 81 ,233.77
N The national lawn tenui, tournament
ar opened at Newport, Rhode Island, OIL
O. Tuesday.