Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-02-03
N ews n SUNNI ary.

ooau III Doo at 1ullIOTu, new damp-
shire, on Monday morning. He was
, ~ years Of age, served in the Florida
and Mexican wars, and was an officer of
the war for the Union. For his ser
vices in the latter GAUGE he was brevet.
ted Brigadier General, but resigned be-
fore the close of the struggle, in conse
quence of an unpleasantDess resulting
from the issuance by him of an emanci-
patton proclamation while he was COM
mandant at Ship Island.
The First National Bank Building in
Marquette, Michigan, was burned on
Monday morning. 1t contained be-
! sides the bank, several stores and offices
and three valuable law libraries, which
| were destroyed. The total Losses are
estimated at S2t0,0OO The insuran ces
amount to Sl25, 900 on the building and
| S45, 100 on the contents. Among the
iDsurances on the building is one of
$4,000 In the Fire Association of Phi!a.
delphia.
At Newark, New Jersey, ye.terday,
Mary McGse, convicted of throwing
vitriOl upon William Clark few
| weeks ago, was sentenced to ten years
i'm prisonmeDt. The Judge, in passing
sentence, said that "persous who threw
vitriol were as dangerous as those who
1
punished to the full extent Of the law"
A reporter OF the Chicago Tribune
| says there are 900, 600 head of cattle
ON the Cherokee strip of land in the
Indian Territory. More than 800, ,0O0
have already y persisted from the cold, and
another week of inc iement weather will
~ il feared, cause 200, 900 more to perish.
| Nearly all the Indian Territory Is
covered with five inches of snow.
William Beitler, James DAILY, JO-
seph Lamb and Charles Henry, arrested
on suspicion of having caused the ex-
plcsion in Garry Brothers store, New
York, had hearing yesterday. There
was no evidence against them, as seve.
raj witnesses testified to their good
character, SO they were discharged.
An explosion of gas-artihcial this
ttme-occurred yesterday morning in
the cellar of Walker Il Son y paper box
mandatory in Pittsburg. All The
windows were smashed, and the build.
Ing was otherwise damaged to the ex-
tent of several hundred dollars, but nc
} person was injured.
The Stanton coal mine at Wilkes
barre, owned and operated by the Lee
high and Wilkesharre Coal Company
; is reported to be again inundated. The
water is eight eet deep. 1t will be
, several days before work can be re-
, sumed meantime 600 men and boyt
will be idle.
81 Mrs. Laura DeForce Gordon, OF Cali
fornia, was yesterday admitted to prac.
tice at the bar OF the Sui IRENE Court of
: the United States. She Is the second
woman thus admitted. Mrs. Belva
( Lockwood, the first, has argued but
| | one case since her admission.
= dynamite was the theme of de
nunciation from three pulpits in Chica
r 60 on Sunday nightly Professor
David Swing, a: the Central church;
Rev. DIR. Thomas, in the People,
). Ichurch, and Rsv. T. E. Green, in tn,
p Eighth Presbyterian church.
Two freight trains On the Erie Rail
a way coliided near Kent, Ohio, on Sun
day afternoon. Both engines were de.
molished, a mum ber of cars were tele
scoped and burned, and a number o
cattle were killed. Disobedieuce of or
. ders caused the coll ision.
The temperature throughout tn,
}, Canadian Province ofOBtario yesterday
!. morning ranged from zero 10 30 degree,
t below. temperature of "a degree,
!. below zero was experienced in Water
=. town, New York.
The schedule of John j. Sisco 4
Son, of New York, filed yesterday
shows liabilities amounting TO 81, 9S7,
446, actual assets amounting TO 81, ,467 ;.
D 730.
The furniture factory of Keck, Buh
man ~ Hanson, in Chicago, was damag-
ed by fire on Monday morning. Dis
charged employees are suspected of hav.
ing started the fire.
Edward f. Hall Il Son, general gro
GERS, of New Haven, who have been in
business for nearly half century,
made an assignment yesterday