Daily Republican., 1885-07-07
News Summary.
INTO.-PREMATU DIS.
CHARGE OF DYNAMITE.
1.-THE YELLOW FEVER.

The New York Daily Commercial Bul
lotin publishes "a complication from it
own files" of 155 fires that occurred dur
ing June In the United States and Cana
da, where the repottsd loss was from
$40 900 to 500. .0O0.i It estimates tn,
aggregate fre wast4 Of the country dur
ing June, at %. 700, 200, which is e25, ,OOt
more than the average normal loss ir
June for ten years past There were thir
teen fires the reported aggregate loss Of
which was more one-fourth of the
entire loss of the month. The tota
loss for the first six months of the veal
Is 800, ,7sO, 900.
A case of yellow fever has been dis
covered in New Orleans, but the Board
of Health of that city I" considers there
is no justification for ALARM" The
President of the Heath Board has sent
pondine boards ~ sanitary % as.
sociAtions;-A sporadic case Of yellow.
fever In suburban lower part Of New
Orleans. Every precaution of disin fec.
tiOn and isolation taken. No trace OF
importation"
A despatch from Salisbury Cove.
Maine, says {: Reports from the
oOOhkco DHuh OotntO tuat tnO AbuluB TX
schooner Mary Jane Lee, Of Hancock, !,
bark and sunk also that the schooner
men In the recent gale, and that other
vessels lost dor les and deck fittings.
The sloop yacht. Priscilla, built to
compete with the English yacht Genita
for the Queen 3 cup, won by this yacht
America many years ago, arrived at
New London, Connecticut, yesterday.
In going up the hartor she had q
scrub" with the schooner yacht
Grayling and sloop M ischief, and passed
them easily.
In the suit of H. E. Collins, at Pitts.
burg, against the Pittsburg and West.
ern Railroad Company, the arbitrators
have decided in favor of the defend
ants. The suit involves $100, 900, the
claim being based on stock transactions.
There was no appeal from the award OF
the arbitrators.
A dwelling near Woodbridge, Virgil
mia, was burned early on Saturday
morning. The infant of Mrs. Bailey
WAS burned to death. Joseph Harrison
and two Of his children were 80 badly
injured by fire and smoke that they
have since died, and Mrs. Harrison q
recovery is doubtful.
By the premature discharge OF a
dynamite blast at one end of the Sidel-
ing Hill tunnel at McConnellsburg,
Penna., yesterday morning, three men
were killed and six others injured, two
dangerously. The killed we're John
|O'Brien, Christ )pher Mccormick and
John White.
Mr.. Mason, the L. S. Consul at Mar.
seilles, has informed the State Depart.
ment that the cholera has re.appeared
in that city and Toulon, and general
exodus from Marseilles mas begun.
The apparent death rate is below the
average"
Twenty-nine murderers from the
Ind ian Territory are confined in the
United States Jail st Fort Smith, Ar
kansas, awaiting trial. The court con.
veRed yesterday with criminal docket
of 192 cases. Over 400 Indian witnesses
are in attendance.
The foods in the country around
Parsons, Kansas, have proved very de
structive to the crops and cattle, and
later reports show loss of human life.
Nine bodies of drowned persons have
been found and several others are miss.
ing.
Edward Finch, aged 70 years, his
sister, aged 80, and their colored ser
| want boy, about 10, were murdered In
their house, near Moucure, North Caro-
lima, last Saturday night. The object of
the murder is supposed to have been
robbery.
A large nugget labelled " Australian
gold, valued at Si5,000," was stolen
from the geological musuem in Ottawa
by burglars few days ago. IL was
merely a plaster Paris fac-simile of q
celebrated nugget found few year.
ago.
Elizabeth Hincks. 20 years OF age,
was fatally burned in one OF the streets
of Boston on Saturday by Ler dress
catching fire from a tirecracker. she
died on sunday. She was the daughter
of General E. W. Hincks.
Captain Henry youngest, Of the North
German Lloyd steamship Rhein, which
sailed from New York on Sunday for
Bremen, is under $1,000 in bonds to
answer the charge OF overcrowding his
ship.
Lieutenant Commander Gorringe,
formerly of the United States Navy
died yesterday afternoon in New York.
He had been sick for long time and
his death was not unexpected.
A meeting called for Sunday after
noon in Quebec to organize a subscrip
tion for the defence of Riel WAS pre-
vented by rain. and another meeting
was called for Wednesday evening.
Brown and Bowdoin have decided
upon the 10th inst. as the time for row
ing off the college race at Worcester
Massachusetts.
Labor ana strikers.
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