Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-03-07
News Summary.
A YOUNG WIFE FOLSOM.
ING-KILLED ABOUT a DOG
SERIOUS GAS EXPLOSION.
NEWS FROM ABROAD.

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Willie Mersh0n, the fourteen year O Id
son Of q respected property owrer OF
Seaclif, Staten Island, was arrested on
Thursday night Oh the charge ofhaving
broken into boat house At that village
one day last summer, and robbed IL Of
several articles OF value. Tho accused
waived hearing, and was held in $40. :
VOO bail. There were number of mya-
! terious burglaries and fires at Seac!iff
last summer. and young Mershon la
believed TO be implicated In many of
them.
An explosion of illum mating gas 90
cured on Friday in the Bakeweii Law
Building in Pittsburg. Nine rooms
was wrecked, the damage reaching
several thousand dollars, but no person
was injured. The gas had been Leak
Ing for two days, and the explosion
was caused by young man searching
for the leak with an uncovered light.
The Denver Chamber OF Commerce on
Thursday evening unanimously adopt
cd resolution requesting the new Sec
rotary OF the Treasury " to pay out tho
silver coin now boarded In the vaults Of
the Treasury, in order 10 stop the con-
traction OF the currency and thus re-
lieve the business depression Of the
country"
u. X. Butz, respectable young
man, died yesterday in the County
Insane Asylum at Reading, after
having refused food for ten days. His
insanity was the result Of his impr isop-
ment becouse of the nor. payment of a
small bill for whic CHI he had made him
self responsible. He was about to be
married when arrested.
Twelva suspactod rt.Lro.,x... .
ed In Baltimore on the I'd and Sd insts.
were yesterday "placed on o train and
sent from the city," Nine more sus.
poets from Washington were arrested
last night and lodged in the Central
foiice Station. They will be
placed on trains to-day for other
The rear wall Of the large malt house
OF Wehr, Hobelmann &c Gottlieb, in
Baltimore, tumbled down last evening.
ana John Sauer, who was shovelling
grain on the third floor, was killed. Il
10 supposed the mortar in the wall was
loosened by the thawing out of the
frost.
Two trains on the Illinois Central
Railroad collided near Grenada. Mis-
sissippi, on Thursday night. The fire.
men OF both trains and man who was
stealing a ride were killed, and ten
persons were injured, one perhaps
fatally.
The ice in the Dss Moines river. in
Iowa, Is breaking up, and g,rges have
formed at various points bet ween
Keokuk and Des Moines. Tho wagon
and railroad bridges at Eddyville have
been damaged, and much destruction OF
property is feared.
The Methodist Episcopal ConfersnceI
/, AZ 81 Haitnc-s = = ra'ssd the cum IT $50.
900, to c0mplete w.. neaiad r.
the establishment OF . . Con nferenoe
Seminary for the higher education of
women.
At Burnett, Texas, on Friday, Au-
gust Schaeffer gave dose of poison to
his wife, waited until she died, and
Then committed suicide with the same
drug Domestic unbappiness was the
cause.
After twenty-four hours hard work
tne Philadelphia ice boat No. reached
bordentown on Friday, having OPEN
ed the Delaware channel to that
point.
The suit Of George Fl. Dean, grain
aeaier, against the Bos on Herald for
libel, has resulted In q verdict for
$4,000. A new trial has bsen moved
William Corbin and John Gaines
shot each other dead In quarrel about
dog, in Boone County, kentucky, on
afternoon.
A franchise bill making u liberal
ten sion OF the suffrage was Introduced
In the Legislature OF Ontario on Thurs
lay evening.
The Nova S Gotta Assembly has pass
"a resolution condemming the prone
'ed Increase of duty on flour.
me Legislature Of M ichiean has pass-
sd Pill forbiddipg The hunting of deer
with hounds. o-