Milford chronicle., 1885-06-05
NEWS OF THE DAY
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been managing transforming companies in
the province Of Ontario, leaped from the new
Suspension bridge at Niagara Falls and was
killed.
-Four ocean steamships which arrived in
New York Sunday report that a stream Of ice
bergs is floating across the steamship lane from
America to the Continent
Passenger train No. on the Wabash, st.
Louis and Pacific Railroad arrived at Chicago
on Sunday an hour aud half late in charge Of
a mailman. The man was wild from liquor
and took possession OF car, holding it and
shooting occasionally from a window into
crowds. The police at Kansas City, Jackson
vile, and Peoria, which points the train passed,
were all afraid to take him. squad Of police
men left Chicago and met the train outside the
city. One Of the policemen was shot dead,
and It was found necessary to shoot and
severely wound the insane man before he could
be captured.
Two women lost their lives in Wheeling
W. Va, through attempting to use coal oil in
lighting fires.
in Maryland a victim OF delirium tremens
shot his two sons and bis brother-in-law, kill
ing the latter and one son.
in Boston, Gilman @. Parker, master OF
the brig Marie Celeste, was indicted for wreck
ing his vessel of Mystic in January last
"A party Of 800 Canadian troops met Big
Bear and were driven of by the Indians.
Gen. Strange was in command OF the troops.
On and after June / all vessels approach
ing Philadelphia from foreign ports or from
American ports south Of Cape Fear will be
subject to quarantine inspection at the Liar
cite.
The hostility which has long threatened
rupture between President Diaz and ex-tresl-
dent Gonzales Of Mexico has eliminated in an
order adopted in Congress providing for the
impeachment of the two Secretaries Of the
Treasury under the Gonzales Administration,
and also Of minor Treasury officials.
The Canadian Parliament voted sl,OOOOOO
to meet expenses in connection with the rebel
lion in the Northwest. This is in addition to
the 500, 600 already voted.
"A partial potato famine and sharp rise
IN prices is threatened in England, as 1t is es-
timated that one-haf Of the English potato
crop has been ruined by frost.
About 80, 900 persons in Corea are said to
be prepared to rise against tie Government
and overthrow it, and drive sll foreigners in
Guiding the Japanese, from the country. A |
notice has been posted in a prominent place in |
Seoul warning the people to leave the capital |
and disturbance is expected to occur May 81, |
when, the notice says, the castle will -be burned |
and its occupants killed.
Several Of the Berlin papers havo alarmist |
articles over the trouble between the Sultan of /
Zanzibar and the German East Africa Com
pany, They hint that Germany may be COM
PEELED 10 declare war against both England |
and Italy for melting the Sultan against peace
fnl German subjects.
Charles H. Swinl, in a state Of frenzy at
Fort Worth, Texas, fred and fatally wounded
two men. He then fed aud drowned himself.
Richard Hands. head clerk in the drug
store Of Richard V. Crawford in Hudson
street. New York city was found murdered,
sitting in his chair, in the back room Of the
store. His skull was crushed to pieces by
some blunt instrument and his throat cut
from ear TO ear. Revenge and robbery are I
said to be the motives.
Following in the wake Of the Northwest
rebellion comes intelligence Of another erup- c
ton brewing on the Pacific coast. Intense ex- q
eitement has been aroused lately in the prov C
ince OF British Columbia by the new Dominion I
land regulations and threats of secession from Il
the confederation have been raised v
The machine shops Of John Elliott & Son.
at London, Ont, were destroyed by fire. Loss, /
$1,000 il
"A cyclone in Union county, N. c., did 9
large amount Of damage.
The Salvation Army, "a strong, were ar
rested in Augusta, Me-, and lodged in jail for h
several days for disturbing the peace. .
in Philadelphia a sentence Of two months N
was imposed by Judge Mitchell on William j.
Gabig and James McDeyitt, who pleaded
guilty recently in engaging in pugilistic con- 4
test. Edward Hipkiss. who pleaded guilty to y
the same offence, was let off with thirty days. y
Gen. Grants physicians found no marked
change in his condition at the consultation nj
Sunday. Col Fred Grant said that the family p
had expected President Cleveland to call at 2 +
O'Clock Sunday afternoon but that he was y
prevented from so doing by important business =
which called him to Washington. p
Frank stahl, employed by the Pennsyl- a.
vania Railroad Company near Mt. Carmel, Pa, 4,
got his foot fast between the rails as a train a.
came along. He vainly endeavored to extri- Va
cate himself, and moment later he was nor IN
ribly mangled. ~
The Construction Department of the en-
Brooklyn Navy Yard has been closed, and ITO Of
employees including shipwrights, biacksmiths,
machinists and laborers discharged. in
During a severe thunderstorm at Hender- DO
son. Ky, several persons we're struck by light r,
ming, and two Of them killed. br
In Annapolis county. N. s., q tremendous ra
rainfall extended over an area Of three miles \.
in length by five or six in width Rain fell in IN
such torrents that, although the storm was Of
short duration, the brooks and larger streams Gu
we're swollen to dangerous dimensions. les
Charles Smith and Isaac Doyle, Of Read 70
ing, Pa, were suffocated to death in a well.
-Swarms Of locusts have made their ap-
pearance in several counties in Arkansas. ca
An extraordinary scene occurred at the Sa
rial Of John johnson, a noted criminal, at
LYONS N. Y, johnson leaped from the dock at
md ran to attack the District Attorney, who he
lad offended him. The Judge and Jury es- ial
overcome by the Sheriff officers, and received
3ntence Of ten years in State Prison. ~
The City Of Rome, on her trip from Liver m,
)oOl to New York, in a dense fog, cut down ~
he French fishing bark George Jeanne, at mi
nchOr on the Banks, and cut her in two a.
twenty-five men were drowned and only two "a,
rere saved. The lost men came from one dis M
riot in France, and nearly all left families be- fol
ind them. mn
Knott County, Kentucky has been the vei
Gene Of some Of the darkest crimes which hel
ave given Kentucky an unenviable name. by
here is in that county band of laWless des-
eradOes, always armed and seeking human | all
lood and it is known that they have COM FRI
lifted at least fifteen murders for money. is
"A party Of seventeen Bohemians en- route =
} Dundy Greek camped in Richman Canyon, lac
aft mile from the Republican River and cep
inc miles from Lincoln, Nebraska. At dark a bee
eavy rain set in. About ten O'Clock a water OF
Dout burst a short distance above, flooding r
ne heretofore dry canyon 10 depth Of fifteen lin
Jet, and sweeping to death eleven Of the dit
arty they lay asleep in their wagons. Those tins
no escaped were badly hurt. suf
Frederick A. Palmer, ex-Auditor of New re''
k, died in the State prison at Trenton, N. J.,
here he was sent three years ago to serve i t
'enty years for a confessed embez2lement Of the
%, 0oQ Of the city funds. HisVo to was MAJ
nseaby foplexy. MAJ
Ellen Peck the noted confidence chan{ RAM
New York, was convicted Of having fGssed
bond and mortgage upon the property other the
sband Richard H. Peck, by which she OBJ pen
ined S., 600 from the Mutual Life Insurance hea
'mpany, and sent to State prison. ,,,ro
More than thirty citizens are reported to Lon
We been killed by the hostile Apaches. Many hibi
the bodies were mangled. and
Reports from Texas say that the damage VIII
the late floods has been great, exceeding =
If million dollars. II is known that from that
int TO twelve lives were lost Their
ALFRED Hibbard the youth who swallowed ou''
rade dollar in Milwaukee, has taken a turn
the worse and is very low. At consulta- Ii
n of leading physicians it was thought nee Of ii
AIRY to cut out the trade dollar if it is ever unde
moved. II Is feared the operation will prove Cove