Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-06-08
News Summary.
RIRK AnD loss Or LfrE-rME
HOOnAC TUNNEL-CANAE1
WORMS AND FRUIT.
WITH INDIANS.

WVR1A9 ANIL EAO1x.
FIGHT WITH INDIANS.
The Secretary Of the Board Of Agri !
culture Of Missouri, in his monthly
crop report, estimates the yield Of win
ter wheat at 5000, 900 bushels, the con
dition being so per cent. The spring
wheat acreage and condition are placed
|at 9l per cent. Corn acreage, 90 o.;
condition, T.5 per cent. Live stock
are In good condition. The harvest of
wheat, according to their estimate, will
not be sufficient for homo needs.
The Governor of Massachusetts, has
signed the Hoosac Tunnel bill. By
this bill the State soils to new corpor.
alton the H0osac Tunnel and the Troy
and Greenfield Railroad, tho State TAX
ing pay in the stock andbonds of thenev
corporations. Thus 10 " laid the found.
dati0n for amsmmoth through route
from BoIton via the Hoosac Tunnel to
Chiago,"
A telegram from San Simon, Now
Mexico, says that on Thursday night
Twenty. six cattlenen had . fight with
Indians 1t the mouth Of Doubtful
Canyon. Two of the Indians were
killed, and an Indian baby, (whose
mother is supposed to have also been
killed in the fight, )and eighteen head Of
stock were captured.
While man named Nicholas Cook
and q boy named Philip Wise were
sailing on the Delaware near Trenton,
on Sunday, tho mast broke, knocking
the boy overheard. The man jumped
into the water to save him, but was
drowned by the boy winding his arms
about his would-be rescuer's neck, and
causing both 70 sink.
General Crook teleRraphs that citi-
zens have been killed by the hostile
Indians rs follows: Seven in the Blue
and around Olivia, i've near Silver
City, two near old Camp Vincent and
three near Crafton-a total Of seven
teen. There may have been others killed,
but there Ia no reliable data to be OBJ.
tAined.
There is still trouble in the potteries
ut Trenton, New Jersey. The kiln men
In Isaac Davis' pottery are not satisfied
with their wages and have carried the
matter to the knights Of Labor. They
have been ordered 70 remain away from
the pottery till the difficulty is settled.
The American Linen, Border City,
Barnard, Flint, Mechanics', Osborne,
Richard Borden, Robeson, Sycamore,
SeAc0nnet and Tecumseh cotton mills
at Fall River, Massachusetts, shut
down last Saturday night for one week
Myriads Of young grasshoppsrs have
suddenly appeared on the south side Of
the Kansas river. opposite Canyon City
colorado. Their appearance causel
little apprehension, as they are not like
ly to do much damage.
F. Reynard, notary public of Mon
ttreal, was sentenced by the Suprem,
Court In that city, on Saturday, to max,
good the damage caused to q widow b,
an illegal claute which he inserted in
will. A
The house off. wonch, at Barrie
Ontario, was burned on Friday night
and MIS-. Wonch and their four child
rem persisted. Wonch escaped by jump
ing from the window after vainly at
tempting to rescue others.
s. Bryan was killed by lightning q
Care en- Hill, Ontario, yesterday, aud
man standing beside him was stunned
. Bryan had been struck by lightning be
fore.
The corner stone of St. Mary's Epis
{ copal church for colored people II
Vicksburg, Mississippi, was laid yester
q day afternoon, with Masonic ceremo
nies.
A gun left in barn at Niagara Fall
to kill rats was fred off on Saturda,
by Charles Barge, who did not thini
, 1t was loaded, and killed another you'll
named John Roche.
oI The statue of the Pilgrim" pre-
8 sented by the New England Society t.
3 to the city of New york, was unveiled
3 In Central Park on Saturday afternoon
The liabilities of Ex-Governor Hale
3 OF New Hampshire, whose failure wa
. reported last Saturday, are estimate,
at nearly e1, ,00O, 900.
John Wambold, Albert Woeskill an,
; Peter Frankheiser were dangeronsl
4 injured by falling timhers while raisin
barn, near Bowmansville, Penna., o
: Saturday.
drowned by the upsetting ofa row boat
In the Allegheny river, at Pittsburg, O
saturday evening.
al Large numbers of canker worm
have appeared In the neiahborhood @
al Medway Massachusetts, and are threat
ming serious damage to fruit.
al 1uIoo u0W Chbo6 VI k0V0E were AZ
] mitted to the hospital at Plymoutl
8 Penna. on Saturday, and one dealt
81 was reported.
81 The disease known as glanders has be
i come alarmingly prevalent among tn
!, horses In Montreal.
The pleuro-pneunonia has appeared L
a herd Of short horn cattle at Dayton
lOhio.
The graves of the Confederate dea,
! lin Loudon Park Cemetery, at Baltimore
were decorated on Saturday.
The President on Saturday appointe,
John W. Nelms to be U. s. NJ Marsba
for Northern Georgia.
Senator Logan, of Illinois, arrivs
In Washington yesterd ay and will n
| main there two weeks.
~ A Rival for SchOf1eld.
ell VIM. .schofeld, up on DuPont's banh
|. who come time ago had q hen tha
9 Matched IA chickens from Is eggs, has
q trival little farther up the creek, q
RocklandNin James Dougherty. VIII