Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-05-30
News Summary.
THE FEW r ABATING.

One death from fever was Ieported
yesterday at Plymouth, Penna.. Three
patients were admitted to the hospital.
Yesterday morning return was pre-.
sented before the Grand Jury charging
the Town Council with maintaining
q nuisance and with criminal neglect
of their offici ial duties in not keeping
the town in good sanitary condition"
The Grand Jury returned an indict-
ment against the Council in the after
noon, and the trial will coms off in
june.
John Irwin, aged ~ years, was found
murdered on Thursday evening on the
road near Warriors Work. a village
twenty miles west of Huntington, Pa.
He was last seen with John Laporte, .
young man about the same age, with
whom he had got drunk during the
day. Laporte, who 10 q son of Judge
Laporte, was taken to Huntington BY
his father last evening, and was lodged
in jail.
| The Supreme Court of Louisiana yes
terday refused the application for q
e.hearing in the Ford case. This ends
the matter IN the Court. Petitions for
Communication of the sentences of Patrick
Ford and John Murphy from hanging,
to imprisonment for life are being cir
culated.
Captain Belhnap, President of the
Board appointed to examine the Dol
lphin, telegraphed yesterday to the Sec
retary of the flavy that the trial trip
on Thursday was satisfactory, and
that the requirements of the contract
for the vessel we're complied with"
John Motter, a wealthy farmer of
Hancock County, Ohio, killed his 12-
year old son on Thursday, in barn.
They boy was sent twice 10 find bolt,
and saying he could not see it, the
father, in fit OF passion, struck him
in such manner as to break his neck.
The " Commitsee of Safety" in Chi-
cago has decided that unless the City
/, Council completes the Canvass of the
, votes cast at the recent city election by
Monday next, to endeavor to compel it
( to do 30 by manttamus proceedings"
The sixty-fifth general convention of
, the New Jerusalem church 10 in session
, in Cincinnati, Rev. Chauncey Giles, of
Philadelphia, presiding. A new society
s at Topeka, Kansas. has been received
, into full embership.
Both Houses of the Michigan Legis-
= lature have passed a bill making ten
hours a days work. The measure,
>. which is "mainly directed toward
/ workmen in the lanber REGION" does
y not apply to farm labor.
A man named ,dcCourt, 81 years OF
:, age, from Welland, Ontario, committed
d suicide at Niagara Falls, on Friday
morning, by jumping over the preci-
d |pice Just below the new suspension
or bridge.
" All the personal property of Mrs
= Della I. S. Parnell, raother OF the Irish
o. leader, at Bordentown, New Jersey
or has been seized on q suit of creditors
and advertised for sale.
ty The large implement factory of JobI
% ,%.' Elliott & Son, al London, Ontario, wa
- destroyed by fire yesterday morning
- The loss is estimated at 5000, 900 insur
w. ance, about $4,000.
e. j. II. Swineha7:, son of wealth,
'a lumberman of Pottsro~n, Penna., com
9, mitted suicide by drinking laudanum
de- in freight car, Isar Shamokin, OF
al Thursday night.
r. VIM. G. Smith, Post. master at Hol
den, Missouri com m,ntred suicide oI
Friday by shooting himself. A short
age" of 5000 had just been discovered il
his books.
The NeZ Perce Indians from the In
dian Territory have arrived at SPOKANE
no Falls, Washington Territory, and beer
placed in charge of two agents.
G. r. Welles' dry goods store and the
Windsor Hotel, in Denver, Colorado
ad were burned yesterday morning. Loss
q $4,000 insurance, $4,000.
e, Governor Pattison on Friday sent Il
., ., the Senate, at Harrisburg, vetoes Of tn.
III Legislative and Congressional appor
~. u. tionment bills.
~ Eleven women graduated from th
r. -. Women's Medical College in New Yorl
a. last night. Among them was Japa
IN nese.
tie The public debt statement for tn,
present month is expected to show a re
,s. duction of about $1,000, 600.
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