Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-02-21
News Summary.
HUSBAND AND WIFE MURDERED
DEADLY AssAULT-FROZE
TO DEATH. ETC.
ALL OVER THE WORLD.

Don Miguel Montana, q wea lthy
Mexican and leading politician, was
murdered with his wife at Las Vegas.
New Mexico, last Tuesday night.
Jose Trugello, the murderer, escaped To
the mountains. 1t Is said the double
murder was committed by Trugello be-
cause Mrs. Montana, with whom he
was in love, had repelled his advau
ces.
! At Chester, Penna., on Thursda y
night, Policemen James McDade and
Robert Mellon attempted to arrest
two burglars who were try ing to break
into coal office. The burglars struck
Mellon on the head with bar of iron
and shot McDade, AMI then escaped.
both policemen are dangerously injured.
Calvin Pierce, who had murdered q
young miner named Newcomb, was
lynched by vigilants On the Palouse
river, in Washington Territory, last
wednesday. Pierce killed a man
named Curtis. without apparent pro.
vocation, In Oregon last April, but was
acquitted by jury.
A telegram from Washington saws
that " shortages" have been discovered,
10 the accounts OF Postmaster John w.
| Babcock, of New Brunswick. N. i
1 "a.
| or Aurora, Ill, and their suspension
Las been recommended by the In
| spectors.
A telegram from Pittsburg says that
on and after Monday next the Pennsvl-
vaDia Railroad Company will rnn
through Car betwe gu that CITY and De.
troit. This, ii ID stated, will be the q st
time through accommodations were
ever furnished travellers from Detroit
to Pittsburg and further East.
Mrs. Annie Snyder, wife of tele-
graph operator in Jamaica, Long
Island, was fatally burned at / O'Clock
on Friday morning by her clothes
catching fire from stove She was
waiting up for her husband, and fell
asleep while reading q paper near tho
fire,
An alarming epidemic is reported
among the horses and cattle in Sharon
Township, Noble County, Ohio. Three.
fourths Of the horses attacked bava
died, and the loss is estimated at
S2O,OO0. The disease first affects the
kidneys and usually proves fatal in
thirty-six hours.
The Niagara river at Niagara, Onta-
rio, was blocked with ice on Thursday
night and persons began to cross on
Friday morning. The ice bridge ex-
tends from Queenstown to a point two
miles out in the lake, making its entire
length nine miles.
The Washington Monument. in
Washington, will be dedicated TO-DAY.
according to the program, with mill
tary and civic ceremonies. Military
organizations viii! be present from Con
necticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania
and other States.
G. Westley Brown, while walking to
his home near Gorham, Maine, in the
storm OF last Monday night, lost his
way, and was frozen to death. His
body was found on Friday morning,
not far from his house, where he lived
alone.
DIR. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau of
Animal Industry, says the report of
the appearance of rinderpest among
the cattle near Pougbkeepsie, New
York, has proved upon investigation to
be unfounded.
President-elect Cleveland has de.
cllned an invitation to stop in Balti-
more on bis way to Washington TO be
inaugurated, on the ground that it will
not be practicable for him to do so.
While Miss Fanny Spang was driving
with gentleman at Reading on Friday
evening last the horses ran away. Miss
Spang jumped from the vehicle and re-
ceived injuries which may prove fatal.
James Graham, an old man, who
had been on a drunken spree, was
found frozen to death in the street in
Dayton, Ohio. on Friday morning.