Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-11-16
News Summary.
TEl 8RIRLE CAvEBN-EXPLOs
AND LOSE OF LIFE-DEATH
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D. L. MO0DY'S REVIVAL.

A great cave-in took place on SatuI
day morning over The old workings [
the Laurel Hill mine, at Hazieton
Penna. The hole made in the earth II
right beside the Lehigh Valley Rail
road tracks, nad is 800 teet in diameter
Two railroad sidings and q dozen Goa
cars. together with q large dwelling
house, went dawn. The occupants oil
the house moyed away several days
ago, fearing a save-in. The damage te
tue railroad tracks has been repaired
and trains are running ~ usual.
A. g. Bod, Of Worcester, Massachu
setts, ran W catch a train on the lii.
nois Central Railroad, In Chicago, on
Saturday night, and striking a wire
ness, was throwa violently backward
to the ground. Hs picked himself up
and boarded the train, but had nc
sooner done 10 than he fall desd. He
w.s about 20 yeHIs OF Sge, and weighed
nearly 200 pouncs.
At Silver Cliff, Colorado, OH Friday
evening, an explosion OF glaut powder
occurred in the boiler room of the Buil
Domingo mine. The building caught
fire and the flames extended TO The
shaft house and the tim bers at the en-.
trance to the mine, cutting off the o.
cape of the men in. the lower levels
Ten men lost thsir lives, and their
bodies were fonnd after IL became pos
sible TO descend the mine.
In Warsaw, Belmont County, Ohio, q
few days ago, yenng woman, suffer
Ing from eye affection, WAS ch.oro-
formed, and one Of her eyes was sue
ceesfujiy removed. When she recovered
consciousness 1t was found that the
good eye had been removed, and the
physician was no overcome that he fled
from the house." Ee will be- sued fol
malpractice.
At Reading, Pennsylvania, on Sa.ur
day, the Coroner's jGry in the case Ol
Augustus Salinoyer. of Philadelphia
who was found dead IN Coooosing creeh
under suspicious circumstances, decided
that death had been caused by falling
from the railroad bridge, half a mile
from where the body WAS found, ano
that there was no foul play, as sus
pected.
ID. l.. Moody on Sunday opened re-
ligious revival In a large skating rink
at Williamsport, Pa Three services
were held, attended by nearly four
Thousand people, and In the evening,
after sermon by MIR. Moody, "nearly
one hundred persons declared thelr
purpose to embrace Isligion."
The officers and stt ekholders of the
Chicago Exposition Company met on
Saturday and resolved In favor of che
holding of great worlds fair In
Chicago in 1892, the S00th anniversary
of the landing OF Columbus in America.
The Supreme Court Of nlioois on
Saturday rendered q decision in the
case of Josech Mackin, charged with
completely In the election frauds q;
Chicago. The sentence of the lower
Court was affirmed and Mackin Will GO
10 the penitentiary-
Forty-one deaths from small pox
were reported in Mon treal and its
suburbs on Friday. There were 235
deaths from the disesse In Montreal and
the adjacent municipalities during the
week which ended on Friday, against
304 during the week preceding.
1t was stared In San Francisco on
Saturday that the late William, sharon
left objections to bis trustees to give
$50. 600 to the improvement of Golden
Gate Park, that city, aud another $50,
VOO, 10 puDllc cnArltleS.
As ? result OF the Investigations by q
committee of the Senate OF New Yock,
Mayor Grace on Saturday preferred
charges TO The Governor against ths
Excise Commissioners OF granting Il
censes to low resorts.
Colonel Joseph Buff, sixty two years
of age, committed suicide at Youngs
town, Ohio, on Friday night, pJ
shooting himself upon the grave of hi,
son. He was prominent local poll
lician.
An express traip on the Chicago and
Atlantic Railroad ran off the track al
Chicago on Sunday morning, and two
ladies on their way TO Denver wers
severely bruised.
Horace B. Clafiin, the we'll known
dry goods merchant OF New York, died
OF apoplexy at his residence in Fordhan
on Saturday, at the age Of seventy TOUR