Daily Republican., 1885-05-28
NewsSumnary.
BOLD ROBBERY-POSrAL CLERK
MISUNDERSTANDING ACCI.
DENT-TMH GkABSMOPPERs.
A CURE FOR DIPHTHERIA,

la CURE FOR DlPHTHERIA
i The Evangelical Lutheran Ministe
rium of Pennsylvania and adjacen
Estates will open its 13Sth annual session
in Allentown to day. Among the i'm
portant business that will claim the at
tention of the Syno4 is the Lutheran
Seminary project i Philadelphia. i,
being proposed TO s4pend $3.50, 900 il
the erection OF q axcluster of build
Hill. "
A telegram fromf Charleston, Wesl
Virginia, reports that yesterday morn
ing the brake band Of the Kanawh hs
Mining Company's incline, eight hun
dred feet long, up q steep mountain
broke, and two carloads of miners were
carried up the mountain at frightful
speed. Mine jumped out, four remain.
Ing In the oars. Three were killed, one
fatally injured, and most of the others
were slightly hurt.
Four masked rufians went to the
house Of Theodore VsndeVer, q farmer
In Butler County, Missouri, last Sunday
night, seized his two hired men, and
forced Vandever to give up $4,000 in
silver and currency which was con.
with the plunder. This Is the third
time Vandever has been robbed, losing
In all $4,000.
Millions Of young graashoppers have
appeared on the south side of the
Arkansas river, near Pueblo, Colorado,
and are devouring the early vegetation.
Il n rs Ila . kA yt.stn I.
of 1872, when they were swept east by
the winds, and did vast havoc among
the growing crops in Kansas.
Tornadoes visited Nortonsville, Goffs
and Frankfort, in northeastern Kansas,
between ten and twelve o'clock on
Wednesday morning, doing great dam
age to property. Several dwellings
were blown to pieces and other build
jured, four 1t Is feared fatally.
Colonel l.. d. Polk, of the Polk Chem
ical Works, New York, who owns a
remedy for diphtheria," has gone to
Paris Roads, Penna., where the disease,
in q malignant form, 10 epidemic. He
does not charge for the prescription, and
| says he can cure any case if his direc.
tions are followed.
Rev. Oscar F. Brown, Rector of the
Reformed Episcopal Church of the he.
deemer, in New York, disappeared last
Thursday. 1t is feared he wandered
away in fit of insanity caused by over
work.
The General Synod of the Lutheran
Church of the United States met yes
terday in Harrisburg. Rev. DIR. NJ
Rhodes, Of st. Louis, was elected Presi
dent.
The Goth anniversary of the Brook
lyn Sunday School Union was celebra
ted yesterday. About 10000 children
marched through the streets, bearing
banners and flags.
| u. w. kaufman, postal clerk between
Washington and Baltimore, was arrest
cd on Wednesday morning ON the charg'
of stealing letters.
! The semi-decennial census of Chatta
nooga, just finished, gives that city i;
popu la lion of 5,101, an increase O
more than 100 per cent. since 1880.
Two tramps, who temporarily cap
tured Grand Trunk freight train las
Monday night, were arrested in Detroi
yesterday morning.
| Thomas Edd ings, an American loco
| hotiVe euB lnter, louseu IN jail at Mon
clara, Mexico, for running over ant
killing Mexican, has been released.
| Four more deaths from fever wer,
reported yesterday at Plymouth. Pa
Several new cases were admitted int,
the hospital.
| The convention of the Protestant Epis
copa. Diocese of Mary land opened yes
terday i'll Baltimore. Bishop Pare
presided.
There was no foundation for the re
port that two cases of cholera haC
beea quarantined at Crosse Isle, Que
bee.
d. L. Catterville, city clerk of Eufa
Ia, Alabama, committed suicide OF
Tuesday night by shooting himself IL
the head.
The United States steamer Hartford
arrived at San Francisco yesterday
from Honolulu.
The steamer A lert sailed from Hail
fax yesterday on a scientific expedition
to Hudson's bay.
/ Her Majestys war ship Tenedo'
sailed from Halifax on Tuesday even
ing for New foundland.