Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-01-03
NEWS SUMMARY,
Iron BRIDGE ACROSS TIE MIS-.
s1SsIPPI-COMET LAST
RIGHT, ETC ETC.


Preliminary surveys have been IL; do
Tor the construction of . great iron
bridge across the Mississippi river he.
tween North McGregor and Prairie du
CHEN. The bridge, IL built, viii be
nearly a mile long, and will be q part
OF the st. Paul Railway system ali hough
1t will not be owned by that corpora
tion. 1t will he built BY . stock com-
pany, and will cost from 100000 to
u 100000. A pontoon bridge IL now in
use at that point.
A telegram from Nashville says that
the return OF Encke's comet WAS discov-
ered by Mr.. K. +. Barnard last night,
at the Vanderbilt University Ohserva-
tory, at As o'clock, Washington time.
The position at the tine when discOv.
cred was right ascension, twenty-five
hours and forty six minutes aud fifty.
four seconds declination, north four
degrees one minute and fifty-six sec.
onds.
| The Bristol tunnel, on the shawnee
division OF the Baltimore aud Ohio
Railroad near Newark, Ohio, wns fired
yesterday morning by mob, 9Lo drovs
out the guard Nearly 800 Ieet Of
the tunnel cavAd in d, ,oecessitating tran.
fer OF passengers. James O'Donnoll
was arrested at Newark while arrang-
Ing for transportation of arms to those
engaged in firing and destroying proper
Ity"
The Susquehanna river at Wilkes
barre rose rapidly during Thursday
night, and was on Friday morning 81
feet above low water mark. The ics
again gorged near Eanticoke, and
volumes Of water poured through the
lowlands on the west side of the river.
There ia no communication betw
Wilkesbarre and Kingston.
Three pickpockets got on street. car
in Chicago on Wednesday night, and
one OF them WAS detected in the act OF
stealing a gold watch from a passenger.
An attempt WAS made to arrest the
thief, but the gang "apened promis-
cuous fire, under caver of which they
escaped. One OF shem was capture /
} yesterday.
| At New Haven, yesterday, DIR. Car
yer, the marksman, "brOke a quarter
OF ton OF coal. piece by piece. firing
$50 shets in thirty minutes" IL WAS q
practice shoot, preparatory to his at
tempt ~ break sixty Thousand glass
balls in six days al the Lincoln Skating
Rink In that city next week,
The recent report of the abseondina Of
fau b: armstrong. Registrar of the
Land ofice at Huron, Dakota, with the
pubic money In the office, is denied in
the Interior Department. Mr.. Arm.
strong left the office several months ago
but took no public funds.
The funeral OF Russell Hancock ,opk
place yesterday in st Louis. The ser-
vices were held a, the church OF the
hRCG n
ted oy the Rev. DR.. Eliot, Chance llrr Of
Washington University. General Han.
Geek was the chief monrner.
| The local finance committee of the
Democratic National Com mittee. in
chicago, held final meeting on Friday,
and subscribed Sl,O0 10 defray III, I.-
naming Indebtedness The total ex-
penses of the Convention amounted 10
$4,000
The breaking mp of mill dam at
Medford, Ontario, on Thursday, con-
verted Front street iuto the bed OF q
river. swept away several dwellings.
destroyed bridge. wrecked a mill and
devastated orchards and garden
grounds No lives were lost.
DIR. James II. Harris, a physician Of
Indianapolis, who died on Friday, left
will directing that " no funeral be
held over his corpse, and that his body
be taken directly from his late resi-.
dence to the dissectipg table - His
wishes will be complied with.
The four boy burglars who nearly
erected their escape from the Jail At
Lebanon, and were sent to Reading for
safe keeping, have been returned to
Lebanon. there being doubts as TO the
Sheriff's right to remove them from
the county.
Two daughters of Mitchell Vanzant.
and son of Levi Debar, aged from
nine to eleven years, were drowned last
w ednesday while p lay ing OH the ice at
Sutton, Massachusetts.
Senator Malone was Yesterday At
lacked by severe chill similar to that
which preceded his serious illness last
winter. He was much improved. how
aver, last evening.
Andrew Campbell, postmaster at
Clemeth, Union county, Georgia, has
been arrested for robbing the mails,
Ind confesses his guilt
The corning mill of the Miami Pow
Ter Company, near Xenia, Ohio. blew
ap yesterday morning, killing John
Ginn.
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