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Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-07-03

ENOR SALE lands SPRINd DEARBORN
a wagons, good stock, fair prices. Also
null line Of repairs for the cham pion mako OF
h3rseeting machines. W. HAMMOND,
SECOND and French streets. mi BIN
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-07-03

ENUR SALE OK EXOhANtfE FURCITY
IL property, a few good FIRMS Particu.
,ars on application to GkEGH 4 WALTER
7lB Market street. ie26-l0t
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-07-03

IHOR SALE-A Lot OF NEW AND
T. second hand dearberns, suitable for
any kind Of business, 81 COLES, Los Mar.
kot street. mhl3-tf
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-07-03

NOR SALE AT A BARBAIN-LUT or
e l00xllo feet. N. W. corner Fifth and
Franklin streets. This lot contains . valuable
spring, making 1t valuable FOR manufacturing
purposes. Apply to PEIROEh LUBDELL
D W. Seventh street, city. jelklmo tn thu. cat
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13
THE EAST.

REPORTS to BrddStreetS on the 9th indi-
Gated hopeful feeling respecting the out
lock for an Improvement in general trade
at all distributing points throughout the
Northwest. In the East trade was gener-
ally dull.
OWING to ten per cent reduction in
wages nearly five hundred employees of the
Lowell (Mass.) Manufacturing Company
struck on the 9th.
A CLERK named Glenmore Todd was ar
rested on the 9th at Philadelphia for en-
bezzling about $4,000 from the Provincial
Life and Trust Company.
n AT the port of New York the imports of
dry goods for the seven days ended on the
9th were 81 1886, 900, and the amount mar.
keted 81 ,92S,000.
ANNIE and Ella Miller, aged seventeen
and thirteen respectively, were ST uck by
the mail express at Mapleton, Pa, few
nights ago, and Ella was instantly killed
and Annie was fatally injured.
The death of Joseph Grinnell, who Sc
cured reduction of letter postage to FIVE
cents while in Congress a generation ago,
occurred at New Bedford, Mass, on the
7th.
THE banlsin New York on the 7th held
$54, 9S5,0OO in excess of their real require
ments.
On the Sth the telephone was successfully
used by the Mayors of New York and Chi
cago, who held q prolonged conversation
over the wires
FREIGHT trains collided on the 7th on
the bridge spanning the Raritan River at
New Brunswick, N. j., and an oil tank ex-
ploded the flaming oil and cars being
thrown to the streets beneath, whence the
burning fluid flowed into the ice covered
canal, enveloping and causing the destruc-
ton by fire of two manufactures, several
dwellings and stable filled with horses.
Four persons were believed to have per-
ished i'll the flames, and the total loss
would reach probably 100000.
THE Nashua IN. H steel-works suffered
n loss of 100000 by the recent burning of
It's plate and bar mill
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13
A RIVER OF FLAME.

The Wrecking of an Oil Train at New
Brunswick, N. j., Causes Loss of Two
Lives and ST. 10000 Worth of Property.
New BRUNSWICK, n. j., Feb. 9.-TWo
lives were lost and property valued at over
$1,000, 600 was destroyed through an acct
dent on the Pennsylvania Railroad at this
place early Saturday morning. An oil train,
bound for Jersey City, stopped on the bridge
crossing the Raritan River when a mixed
train came up behind at al high rate Of speed.
The engineer of the mixed train was una
ware that the oil train was on the bridge
until he rounded the curve AS soon as he
saw his danger he reversed his engine ard,
with his fireman, leaped from the lOc0mO-
tive. Both men escaped with Slight inju-
RES. The crew of the oil train escaped
without injury. The caboose Of the oil
train was telescoped, and one of the
four oil tanks exploded, the blazing liquid
spreading along the street. Twelve cars of
the freight train were thrown from the
track. In two of these cars were twenty
two horses and all were either killed or
burned to death. Brakeman Dumas, of
the freight. was thrown to the street,
and his badly-burned body was found
there some time afterward The other
on the frozen river, scorched several build
ings and finally took fast hold on Janeway &
Co. large wallpaper factory By this time
the whole river front was in blaze, and soon
the wallpaper factory was Quilted. Two
brothers named Dougherty entered the burn
ing building for the purpose OF securing the
tools of one of them who was employed
there The flames spread so rapidly that
one of the brothers was overcome and per-
ished, the other barely escaping with his
life, The efforts Of the firemen succeeded
in staying the further progress Of the
flames, which burned themselves out in
Janeway & Co.'S building. The CONSOLE
dated Fruit-Jar Company's works were also
destroyed. The accident was the result of
carelessness on the part of telegraph
operator, who tailed to give proper signals
informing the engineer of the freight train
of the danger ahead.
Fire engines were sent to the aid of the
burning city from Elizabeth and Jersey City.
Only one span of the bridge was damaged.
The bridge was the finest ON the Pennsyl-
vania Road All travel OIL that road will
be greatly delayed, as long detours have to
no made
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13
WEST AND SOUTH.

THE residence of Philip Glass, near DAY.
ton, o., was entered by masked burglars a
few nights ago, who bound and gagged
Glass and his sister and demanded 81 ,00C
which was in the house. The robbers tor
tured Glass in horrible manner for three
hours, but departed without the money.
On the evening of the 9th Henry Strait
man killed his father-in-law and fatally
injured his wife at Vincennes, Ind. The
murderer had four children very I'll of ty-
rhoid fever and was probably driven in
sane by grief.
The other night Stephen Barclay, a
country storekeeper in the vicinity of New
Albany, Ind, fired at a, man who was try
ing to break into his store, and after light
ing lamp Barclay found his own son
dangerously wounded.
On the Burlington Road a passenger
train was wrecked on the evening of the
Sth on bridge near Creston, La. Three
persons were killed aud eight others were
injured.
EARLY the other morning Thomas Nor
ris (colored), who assaulted white girl of
thirteen years, was hanged by mob al
Schulenburg, Tex.
A FEW days ago, Frank Abner, aged if
teen years, living with his grandmother
near Rock Creek, ILL.,, became angry with
the old lady because she reprimanded him
for playing truant, and entered her room
at night while she was sleeping and killed
her with an axe. The lad was in jail
IN a recent interview Judge Dusenberry
of Utah, stated that the enforcement of the
Edmunds bill had unsettled all business in
the Territory. Many of the Mormon leaders
had been forced to flee-among them Zeph
Sears, at the head of the Zion Co operative
store.
ADvIcEs Of the 9TH report numerous en-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

On the 9th a courier from Che British
camp near Metemneh arrived at Korti and
reported that the rebels at Metemneh had
become defiant since hearing of the fall of
Khartoum. An attack an Gubat was ex-
pected at any moment. General Woisley
had been given full power by the British
Cabinet to take measures for the rescue of
General Gordon or to regain the ground
lost in the Soudan by the capture of Khar.
toum.
SPEAKING of the shooting of O'Donovan
Rosa the United Ireland, of Dublin, says:
Rosa can not, with any show of reason,
squeal over the occurrence"
THE Powder-works near. Canton, China.
exploded recently, killing 25O employees.
In France the labor crisis is the cause of
the utmost alarm. All efforts for relief by
the Government seems to be futile. On the
It'll there were three hundred thousand
workmen idle in Paris, and at least mill
ion in the provinces.
The two Anarchists, ReindorffI and
Kuechler, were beheaded on the 7th by thu
sword of the executioner at Halle, for at
tempting to take the life of the German
celebration.
IN the Bow Street Police Station at Lon
don the charge of high treason and felony
was on the 9th brought against j. G. Cum
ningam and Harry Burton. The Crown
Solicitor alleged that they carried dyna-
mite from New York to Liverpool and said
it would be proved that the headquarters
of the conspiracy were in America.
The Marquis of Waterford at con-
sentative meeting in Dublin on the 9th de-
nounced the dynamiters as the worst enc
mics of Ireland.
ADvICEs of the 9th from Lord Wolseley
stated that squadron of British cavalry
from General Earle's column charged a
tribe encamped at Sholcoob Wells and
killed thirty men and captured six. The
Khedive believed that the Mehdi was too
wise to kill General Gordon, and that Eu-
gland would not dare to abandon the Sou
dan. Eight thousand troops had beer or
dered to Egypt, most of which would at-
tempt to open the route between Suakim
and Berber
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13
AN UNDUTIFUL GRANDSON

He Brains His Sleeping Grandmother Be
cause She Reprimanded Him for Playing
Truant.
CAIRO, ILL.,, Feb. "a boy named Frank
Abner, fifteen years old, charged with muir
dering his grandmother, Mrs. Ross, near
Rock Creek, Hardin County, was lodged
in Metropolis Jail late Friday night.
The depraved little wretch confesses
the deed and tells his horrible tale
with sang-froid making ones blood run
cold. In substance it is as follows; Mon
day evening he was chopping wood for his
grandmother, with whom he lived, when an
older boy named Trumbull Watson came
along and induced Abner to go into an adj
iacent wood and play, saying in reply to
the prisoners objections that his grand
mother would whip him: s'If she says
anything to you just knock her in the
head" Mrs. Ross administered a sound
reprimand, but did not whip the truant,
who went to bed surly and with muttered
threats. About midnight the young fend's
rage could no longer be restrained, and inn
PEELED as much by the advice of his friend
as by the natural deprayity of his nature,
he arose from his bed, took an axe
from the shed, stealthily approached
the sleeping lady, and buried the terrible
weapon in her. brain, killing her instantly.
The boy is calm and eats well, and does not
seem to realize the enormity of the crime
Hardin County is on the Ohio River, one
hundred miles above here, EliZabethtown
being the county seat
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13
DEATH ON The RAIL.

Passenger Train the Burlington
Road Wrecked Near Creston, Ia.-Three
Persons Killed and Eight Badly Injured.
CREsToN, Ia, Feb. 9.-An appalling ac-
,ident occurred ON the Burlington Railroad
1t a small stream ten miles west of here yes
;erday afternoon. As the New York fast
nail approached the bridge a rail broke be-
heath the forward cars of the train. The
ear coaches were thrown from the track by
he detection. They toppled along on the ties
until they were ON the bridge, when the
3wo rear coaches and the sleeper careened
md fell from the bridge into an icy abyss
below, carrying down about twenty-five
passengers, many of whom were women
md children. The escape from gem
eral destruction was marvellous, as the
'ars are badly wrecked and the
TALL desperate one. The coaches
Tell bottom upward into the stream, crushed
through the ice, and, wedged into the chilly
water, were held until the front end of the
rain could be pulled out and relief-crew
returned. The scene at the return of the
front cars was distressing in the eX-
IRENE. A number of gentlemen whose
families were in he coaches, being forward
in the smoker at the time of the accident
were dDpIlS6Il OIL Tile UlSIT6SS blldI dGlclu6u
their wives and children by the agonizing
appeals for aid and screams of pain that
came from the battered mass of debris. A
force Of rescue was hastily organized, and
armed with axes strong men heWed their
way in to the imprisoned dead and wounded
The scene on the inside of the cars was
appalling. Many who were not killed were
knocked unconscious by dismantled seats
and debris, and lay limp and helpless. 1t
was at first thought that the number
of dead was very large, but
on recovery from the wreck, and on
the arrival of medical aid, which was
hastily procured by the company,
Aany revived and were able to be trans
ferred to this city, where every attention is
being shown them. The accident was due
to the change in the weather the last few
days.
The following is list of the killed and
wounded:
Killed-Robert Brown Mount Pleasant, Ia. !;
Mrs. Powell, New Albany, Ind; Mrs. w. G..
Carroll. San Cache, Col
Injured-A. r. Cole, Grand Rapids, Mich. {;
G. H. Howell sleeping.car conductor; g. r.
Hawkins conductor; S. j. Lindsey, Creston,
Ia; w. j. Davenport, Burlington Ia; DR.. w.
c. Carroll, San Cache Col. Mrs NJ. Farrell,
Prescott, Ia; IZaiah Waterman, Corning, la.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13
FROM WASHINGTON

In the United States and Canada the
loss by fire during January was $500, 600
more than 100000 above the average
January loss in nine years.
DURING the Iyear 1884 the number of
post offices robbed was 467, while 287 others
were destroyed by fire.
X THERE were 36S business failures in the
United States and Canada during the seven
days ended on the 9th, against 800 the
previous seven days. The distribution
was as follows: Middle States, 70; New
England States, 49,; Western, 100; South
ern, "a; Pacific States and Territories, SO:
Canada, 3S.
FORTY FOUR National banks invarious
parts of the country have renewed their
charters.
THE exchanges at twenty six leading
clearing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 7th aggregated
1922, 781 ,O13, against 1921 ,913,469 the previ-
GUS week. AS compared with the CORE
spending period of 1884, the falling off
amounts to 1924, O16,S6O.
In a section of the Signal Service office
at Washington a recent fire destroyed a
number of valuable instruments, charts
and records.
THE Democratic National Committee
will meet at the Arlington Hotel, Wash
ington, Monday, March 2.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13
LATER.

ADvICES were received at London on the
10th that on the day of the capture of
Khartoum (January 27) by the False
Prophet General Gordon was stabbed to
death and a fearful massacre of the garri-
son followed. The panic stricken Egyp-
tians were captured in their flight, and put
to death with the most fiendish tortures.
Eyes were gouged out, noses were slit and
tongues were pulled out by the roots. In
many cases the mutilated parts of the
victims bodies were thrust into their
mouths while, they were still living. The
women were also subjected to shameful i'm
dignities.
FOUR men were killed outright and
twenty others were wounded at Brazil,
Ind, on the 10th by the explosion of
boiler in the Central Iron & Steel Works.
Two of the wounded men died soon after,
and several others were not expected to
live.
GoRGEs and high water in the Raritan,
Delaware and Brandywine Rivers, Chester
Creek, and other streams had on the 10th
caused serious damage. At New Bruins
wick, N. j., several manufactures and
dwellings were irsnndated, and at Trenton
boats were in use in the streets, the gorge
in the river being forty feet high and
mile long. In the Chester (Pa.) district
many bridges had been wrecked, and man.
ufactories and houses were flooded, At
Wilmington, Del, dwellings and mills
were submerged. A gorge of forty miles
was reported above Pomeroy, o., sweeping
everything before it.
ADvICEs of the 10th from Lake Simon,
Quebec, report that camp situated six
miles from that place was burned, and
four men persisted in the flames.
WEATHER reports on the 10th show in
tense cold prevailing in the region swept
by the recent snow Storm the mercury
ranging from 10 to % degrees below zero.
Snow was still falling in Michigan dis
tricts, and huge drifts were reported, COM
pletely blocking railway travel. Through
out Iowa and Illinois and portions of
Indiana little progress had been made in
| raising the blockade, with the result that
business was almost paralyzed.
In the United States Senate on the 10th a
memorial was presented from the Dakota
Legislature urging the admission of South
ein DaKOIa as state. MI. SnefnanS
joint resolution providing for striking
medals commemorative of the dedication of
the Washington Monument was passed.
After prolonged discussion the Pension
Appropriation bill was passed. In the
House consideration of the Post Office APP
preparation bill was resumed, and the ac-
ton of the committee in cutting down the
appropriation for the letter carrier service
was criticised. Messrs. Clay and Keller
were appointed tellers to count the cleo
toral vote.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13

counters between Mexican cattle thieves
and Americans near Carrie Springs, Tex.
In one attack twelve Mexicans were killed.
s. S. MERRILL, of Milwaukee, manager
of Vie st. Paul Road, died early on the
morning of the sth, aged sixty seven
years.
The blizzard which ragged in Iowa, Wis
consin, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois dur
ing the twenty-four hours ended on the
evening of the 9th was one of the
widest storms experienced for years. The
railroads were blocked everywhere and
many trains had been abandoned in the
snowdrifts. Business at many places was
at standstin. At points in Illinois and
Indiana the snow was ushered in by light
ming and thunder.
On the 9th Frank Bonham was arrested
for killing his mother, brother and. sister
at Radical City, Kan, the other night.
LOUISVILLE, KY, was enveloped by q
dark cloud for several minutes on the
morning of the 9th. The gas was lighted
in all the business houses and residences
and the streets were shrouded in almost
impenetrable gloom. The darkness was
followed by a drenching rain which lasted
twenty minutes, and a number of minnows
were scattered in some localities
The Laporte Ind.) Savings Bank after a
Suspension of several weeks resumed bust
ness on the 9th.
LATER advices on the 9th from Creston.
Ia, show the casualties resulting from the
recent railroad accident near that place to
have been more numerous than was at first
thought. Six of the injured had died and
others were not likely to recover.
On the 9th five Of the largest iron works
in San Francisco ordered a reduction of
fifteen per cent. in wages, and fifteen hun.
dred workmen promptly struck.
THR four Staner brothers, who were con.
victed of making spurious coin in Wayne
County, ILL.,, were on the 9th sentenced by
the Federal Judge at Springfield to terms
in the penitentiary ranging from two to
five years.
A FEW weeks ago Mrs. Richard Trump,
who lives near Terre Haute, Ind, gave out
that her husband had committed suicide.
On the 9th she was arrested and confessed
that she killed him.
A sCAFFoLD fell on the 9th on the Sus-
quehanna bridge at Havre de Grace, Nd,
rrecipitating five workmen through the
ice into the river, and two of them were
drowned.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13
THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches.
XLVIIIth CONGRESS.
second Session.

Second Session
|. In the United States Senate on the 9Th Mr..
Sherman introduced bill for the striking of
medals to commemorate the completion Of
the Washington monument, ten Thousand of
them to be sold to the public at cost Con-
sideration of the bill to retire the trade
dollar was resumed. . In the House, in
Committee Of the Whole, the River and
Harbor bill was further considered.
Mr.. Holman reported the Legislative,
Executive and judicial Appropriation bill,
which recommends an appropriation of $2I
2l3,70l being $l,0SS, 463 less than the estimates
and $272,9O2 less than the appropriations for
the present fiscal year. President Arthur an
nounced the offer by the Japanese Govern
ment OF Invaluable piece of land in Toxic for
legation purposes, and recommended its ac-
ceptance with suitable expression of thanks
In the Senate ON the 9th the Diplomatic Ap-
preparation bill, the bill to regulate fees of
pension agents and attorneys and the Con-
sular and Diplomatic bill were passed. Mr.
Palmer, of Michigan, delivered a speech favor
ing woman suffrage. In the House nearly
the entire session was occupied in discussing
the River and Harbor bill. At the evening
session twonty-siX pension bills were passed.
In the Senate on the 18th a joint resoIu-
ton was agreed to accepting with thanks
the swords, medals, paintings and other
articles of value and interest presented
to General Grant by the various Govern
ments of the world. They would be placed
in the Congressional Library. The bill
authorizing a retired list for prvates
and non-commissioned officers of the army
who have served thirty years or more was
passed-37 to s. Messrs. Hoar and Pendleton
were named by the Chair to count the
Electoral vote on the 18th. The District of
Columbia Appropriation bill was passed go In
the House discussion of the River and Harbor
bill occupied the greater part of the day. No
action was taken.
CONSIDERATION of the Anti-Silver Cainage
bill was resumed in the Senate on the 9th. Mr.
Beck, i'll long argument, advocated the re-
demption of the trade dollar but opposed the
suspension of the coinage of the standard
dollar. The Pension Appropriation bill was
also discussed. In the House the River
and Harbor and Post-office Appropriation
bills were considered, but no action was
taken. Mr. Ryan called attention TO the fact
that but nineteen Legislative days of the ses-
sion remain, and that only one of the thirteen
general appropriation bills had gone to the
President for his approval.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13
Values of Farm Animals.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE returns OF
the comparative number of farm animals to
the Department of Agriculture show an in
crease Of four per cent. in horses, three in
mules, and three in cattle, two per cent in
swine, with small decrease in sheep.
There has been decline in values of two
per cent. in horses and mules, five per cent
in cows, two in other cattle, and ten in
sheep and swine. The average values are:
Horses, $73.70; mules, SS2.3S; COWS, $780,
10; other cattle, $23 OF; sheep, S2.14;
swine, $500. The value of cattle aggre-
gates 81, 1O7, OoO, OOOs of the domestic ami
mails Of farms and ranches, S2,456, 0oO, 600.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13
The Worlds Fair.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-The committee
of United States Commissioners for the
New Orleans Exposition, which called upon
the President Saturday, left with him a
statement of the financial affairs of the ex-
position, showing the debts to amount to
$780, 900. The committee also delivered to
him a memorial setting forth the I'M
toward circumstances which have operated
against the successful conduct of the expo
sition, and praying for further aid from the
Government to the extent of $500 O00 The
committee is hopeful of favorable action by
the President, and will remain here to urge
the matter upon Congress
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13
Resigned.

PORTLAND, Ore, Feb. Cat meeting
OF the Oregon q California Railroad yester-
day the following designations took place
Henry Willard, President; r. Koehler, Sec
ond Vice-President; George Fl. Andrews,
Secretary. The following were elected to
fill the vacancies: George H. Hopkinson, OF
London, President; George II. Andrews, Of
Portland, Second Viee-President and W.
w. Bretherton, Of Portland, Secretary
Hopkinson represents the London stock
holders. This change lets Willard out az
the last railroad enterprise wit which his
name has been connected.