Daily Republican., 1885-06-05
HIRD EDITION
News Summary.

News Summary.
Employees In the Patent Office hav,
been N ach disturbed by reports of con
templaied Wholesale removals in thai
Office. Commissioner Montgomery said
yesterday that he did not intend to
make indiscriminate removals, because
such action would be gross violation
of the civil service law, and for the ad
ditional reason that the business OF the
office would be completely checked by
an attempt to replace the skilled en-
ployees now in the service"
A terrible thunder storm passed over
Atchison, Kansas, OH Wednesday, de-
stroying public and private property to
the extent OF about $4,000. All the
creeks overhowed their banks, and
culverts, bridges and crossings were
swept away or seriously damaged. The
cutters and sewers could not carry Oft
the water, and the streets on the lower
levels became rivers. Cellars were
flooded, mills stopped and business
greatly interrupted.
The Beaver Park Reservoir, in South
St. Ursin Canon, Colorado, burst on
Wednesday. The torrent, which is es-
Jimated to have reached a height of
100 feet, rushed down the canon with
terrific force, carrying away bridges,
houses barns, and everything which
obstructed its path, and flooded the ad-
jacent country. So far as learned no
lives were lost. The damage to crops
and meadows along the low lands is
very great.
The shanties on the section of Thomas
Kearns, on the new Pottsville and Ma.
honey Railroad, above st. Clair, Pa,
were blown up with dynamite on We'd
nesday night. The outrage is believed
to have been the work of the Italian
strikers from Drake and STATIONS sec
ton, who made an unsuccessful attempt
to stampede Kearns' men. Nobody was
seriously hurt
Under promise that he should provide
her home, Mary Lllley was married
TO John Mcmahon, in Galena, Illinois,
in April, 1888. Immediately after the
ceremony he confessed that he had not
provided home, and she refused to 90
to q boarding house. They did not live
together, and on Wednesday Judge
Brown granted her a divorce and the
right to resume her maiden name.
At Boston, in the case of George j.
Raymond vs. Edward Russell and
others, to restrain the defendants from
giving the plaintiffs firm o financial
rating, Judge Allen has sustained the
defendants demurrer and dismissed
the suit. 1t will probably be appealed
to the full court.
Mrs. Nellie johnson, of Franklin
Grove, Iowa, was arrested on Wednes.
day evening, on the charge of cruelty
to her child, a six.year-oid girl. The
girl was disobedient, and it is charged
that the mother held her hands on a
hot stove until they were burned to o
crisp"
The recent rains in Southwest Viz
ginia and East Tennessee have greatly
improved the crop prospects, especially
30 as TO oats, corn, clover and grass. In
lew sections wheat has improved, and
the yield will be increased over that
heretofore predicted.
The sh set mill men of the Amalga-
mated Association had a secret MEETING
IN Pittsburg on Thursday, to consider
the ten per cent. reduction offered nv
the manufacturers. After long dis.
cussion, the reduction was unanimous.
ly rejected
The planning mill and single factory
OF me North Buffalo Planning Mills, in
Bunaio, New York, were burned on
thursday morning, with large guam.
1lty OF lum Der. The loss is esti-
mated at $50, 600. The insurance is S13..
GOO. 40 VIZ
The peach crop in Delaware is said
70 De threatened by the great fall Of
young fruit from the trees, in advap CT
OF what is known as the June drop. -
Tor which allowance is always made
in estimates
By the explosion of .eas in slope No.
+, OF the susquehanua Coal Com pany's
mines at Nanticoke, Penna., on Thurs
DAY, i've men were burned, two of
them fatally. The gas caught fire from
naked lamps.
During thunder storm at Plano.
Iowa, on Tuesday night, the house Of
Francis True was destro yed by hight.
ming. Trne was killed and his sister
severely injured.
The strike of the beam hands in the
tauner:es Of Allegheny City, Penna..
ended yesterday, the strikers resuming
work on the employers terms.
Henry j. Mclaughlin, charged with
presenting false vouchers at the Navy
Depar tment at Washington, was &C.
quilted yesterday.
A man named Mckinley and his son
were killed by lightning while stand.
ing in doorway at Mandota, Illinois.
on Wednesday.
The Chicago Fire Underwriters
association was organized on Wednes.
day.
Nudge & Co.'S shoe factory, at Dan
vers Centre, Massachusetts, was burned
on Thursday morning. Loss, $4,000.
There was one death from fever at
Plymouth, Penna., yesterday.
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