Daily Republican., 1885-08-06
N eWS Summary.
THE GRAND RE-eEION-PLEgRO'
PNEIMONIA--CAR wR GCkED
AND CONDUCTOR KILLED.
MURDER AND SUICIDE E,

The grand annual TO union of ex-
Confederate soldiers began yesterday al
Fort Worth Texas, and will continue
until tomorrow evening. Fifteen
thousand persons were psesent.. Re-
representative Reagan made an address,
| in which he paid high trioute to the
memory of General Grant, and also
eulogiz zsd Jefferson Davis. A. commit
tee was appointed to draft suitable reso.
lutions in regard to General Grants
death.
| The Comm issioaer of Agriculture
was yesterday inforsOed OF an outbreak
Iof pleuro- pneumonia in a herd of
sixty thoroughbred Holstein cattle at
Port Richmond, Staten Island. Seve-
raj valuable animals have died. The
Commissioner has written to the Cover
nor of New York asking whether he
will co operate with the Department In
Iauarantininz said affected herds and
thus prevent the spreading of the dis
ease.
The village of Porter Station, near
Valparaiso, Indiana, has been afflicted
with disease ressmb bling cholera, but
which has defied medical skill. Five
persons have died and forty are sick,
fifteen dangerously. The village IL
Inhabited chiefly by Swedes, and the
epidemic Is said to have been caused
by the eating of decomposed meat.
i An attempt was made at l 'clock on
"Wednesday morning to blow up the
camp of George and Charles McGhee,
railroad contractors, near McOonnells.
burg, Pa. The Hungarian boarding house
were sleeping, were wrecked by explo-
sions Of dynamite. Two Hungarians
were severely Injured.
Al At Palmyra, Ohio, on Wednesday,
John Jones shot Mrs. Charles Merwin
. five times and then killed himself.
Jones was q farm hand on the Mer irwin
: farm. He stated that he intended to
. kill himself, and shot Mrs. Merwin
because she tried to take the revolver
from him. She died in about two
hours.
4 The crop report Of the Department
Iof Agriculture in Alabama, covering
t tho whole of the State up to August 1st,
shows the condition of the cotton to be
j., ninety. five, or ten per cent. better than
! last year. In all sections of the State a
full crop of corn is reported.
el A despatch from Toronto says two
s freight trains collided on the Credit
e VALLEY Railway at Streetsville on
. Wednesday. Conductor Murtz was
y killed, and Engineer Date and his fire.
,,rr man was seriously injured. Three
other persons were injured
a. William Fehr, aged 30 years, conduc-
c. tor of Reading Railroad freight train,
L. on Wednesday fell under the WHEELS Of
a moving train near Read ing and was
y INSTANTLY killed. His remains wero
y sent to Philadelphia, where he lived.
Three cars of passenger train on
n the Air Line road tumbled down an
g EN- baHkment near Spartansburg, South
! Carolina, on " ednesday. The eonduc-
!, tor was killed and seven passengers
dangerously injured.
= The State Department on Wednesday
received q cable telegram saying that
unofficial figures show the number Of
. recentdeaths from cholera at Marseil les
to be as follows: Saturday, 10; Sunday,
: 26; Monday, 20; Tuesday, 2S.
The International cricket match was
concluded in Toronto on Wednesday.
In the second inning the Canadians
made 81 and the Americans 81. Total
score: United States, 106; Canadians,
144.
: The village of Milford Wisconsin,
q was destroyed by fre on Monday night,
only cheese factory and q saloon
being left. 1t was the fourth fre at
, the village within q short time, and
incendiarism is suspected.
. A telegram from Chicago reports that
John Wentworth, the millionaire, "ha,,
bought ten Thousand dollar lot in Rose
Hill cemetery, on which he is to erect a
sixty thousand dollar monument of
himself
A man named Vance, who recently
killed his wife and attempted suicide,
was lynched by q mob at Oakland, Mis-
sissippi, on Tuesday night.
Mrs. Helen jackson, the well-known
writer and contributor to the Century
magazine, is dying In San Francisco.