Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-11-13
News Summary.
A APROHIBITtOMC CBANK--A MUIR.
DEHER's CONFESSION zee
MEN AND ONE WOMAN
INDICTED FOR MURDER

Tho Prohibition Committee of Onon-
daga county, New York, on Thursday,
expelled from its membership q. A.
Hammond, q lawyer of Syracuse, on
the alleged ground that he was a
"crank." Mr.. Hammond was dele
gate to the Plttsburg Convention that
nominated st. John. He has twice been
q candidate ON the Prohibition ticket
for Justice of the Supreme Court, and
was once q candidate on the same
ticket for Chief Judge Of the Court of
Appeals.
Ex Recorder Ford, now in the peni
tsntiary at New Orleaps, said on Thurs
day that 1t was he and not his brother
"Pat" Ford that killed Police Captain
Murphy. He said 'I fired two shots
before he fell, and he was not exactly
down after the first two shots were fired
As reached him fired the last shots,
but how many, l was 30 excited, that I
cannot tell"
Thirteen knights OF Labor "and
their coadjutors," were indicted by the
Grsnd Jury at Seattle, Wash ington
Territory, for the murder of q China
man at Squak. Four of them-one a
woman named Mrs. Kenworthy-were
arrested on Wednesday. Mrs. Ken
worthy Is about So years of age, a
prominent agitatress in labor and poll
tics. She became hysterical when ar
rested, and was allowed to 90 home for
day.
Giessle Evenson, an inmate Of the
Insane Asylum at Jefferson, Illinois,
was found dead in bed on Wednesday
morning, with his face covered with
blood. John Stitz, a patient occupy ing
the sane Q room, con fessed that he killed
Evenson, saying that IL was "by order
OF the Almighty. The asylum is over
| crowded. 1t has accom- "a odations fol
800 patients and contains 600.
A freight train on the Erie Railroad
was derailed near Middleton, New
York, yesterday morning, by the loss ot
a wheel while the train was crossing
the Hampton bridge, which ppans 8
gorge ffty feet deep. The cars piled
over one another in the gorge, and TIVE
brakemen-James Cannaford aud K. L
Gerst injured, 1T is belieYed fatal
lly.
| Ten deaths from smallpox were re
ported In Montreal on Wednesday, aud
Thirteen In tho suburbs. Fort y three
new cases were reported, of which
Twenty seven were verified.
Theodore Hines, Harry Forbes and
| Albert Chickering,ag respectively IA
16 and ~ years, were arrested in Louis.
vile last night for arson and horse steal
ing.
The strike of the workers in the
Union Glass Works at Somerville, Mas
sachusetts, begun Ave weeks ago, is a,
an end, tho men having agreed to re-
sume as soon as the glass can be made
ready for working.
The total value of our imports of
bread stuffs during the ten months
which ended on October 31st was Sl12,
569, 1876 against 1922, 46S, ,039 during the
corresponding period of last year.
The hog cholera is still raging IL
Essex county. Ontario, all attempts to
stamp it out having failed. More thar
100 farmsiare quarantined.
John Weiss was killed by a kich
from his horse, at Basking Ridge, New
Jersey, on Wednesday night. The
lanimal's heofs struck him In the chest
The property of the Greene Manu-
featuring Company at River Point
Long Island, was sold yesterday q,
auction for Sl37, coo.
Dispatches to the ST. Paul Pioneer
Press reports blizzards in Montana and
Dakota, but no blockade of rail
roads yet.
The furniture factory of Weakley 8
Warren, In Nashville, was burned yes
terday. Loss, ,S35, 900; insurance, SIG, 900