Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-02-16
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The Exchange Bank Of the village of
Belleville, near Mansfield, Ohio, failed
on Friday, and IL is reported that the
cashier has absccndso with $4,000 be-
longing TO The depositors. The bank, .
private concern, managed by David
and John ZeDt and Harrison Alexander.
recently suffered lal &c losses in financial
ventures.
A teles ram from Ottawa says that
Captain Houston, Of the Royal Grena-
diers, has exhibited 70 the Dom inion
Minister of Militia rifle of his own
invention, which he claims "will
shoot as well as the Martini, last longer,
never get out Of order and cost 81 less.
The new rife IL to be tested.
A telegram from Wilmington, Illinois,
reports the death there Of Mrs. Nancy
Cass Wilmore, . widow OF local cele-
brit-, at the alleged age Of 116 years.
The deerctch adds: "She was undoubt-
edly the oldest .,erson in this State, IL
not In the Uuitei States" She was
native of North Caronna.
Notice Of q reduction of ten per cent.
In wages was posted on Saturday at
one OF the blast furnaces of the Cleve-
land Rolling Mill Company ut Clsve-
land, Ohio, to take effect at once. The
filters struck against the reduction, and
the fires were banked, throwing ont Of
employment 220 men.
1t was yesterday announced to the
strikers in all parts of the Hooking
Valley that the commiesiary had
given out " and was no longer coming
in, and 1t would be advisable for the
men to get work. This, it is believed,
ends the strike, which began last
lApril.
The greater portion of the mining viii
lage of Alta, in Utah, was destroyed by
q snow slide ON Friday night. Twenty
eight persons were buried by the avail
anche. Twelve OF these were dug out
alive on Saturday morning; the re.
mainder are believed to be dead.
The Illinois Legislature met again in
joint session on Saturday, and the roll
was called for vote for United States
Senator. The only vote cast was one
by the Speaker, for Morrison. Twenty
two Republicans and nine Democrats
were absent.
A freight train on the Pennsylvani1
Railroad was thrown from the track by
q broken fiange near Spruce Greek,
Penna., on Saturday night. Sixteen
cars were demolished and 200 sheep,
80 hogs and several horses were killed.
Edward Smith, a young man from
Brooklyn, who was caught picking
pockets in the CrimiOal Court room at
Baltimore, pleaded guilty on Saturday,
and was sentenced to eighteen months
in the peniten tiary.
G. L. Levi & Co., Wholesale clothiers,
of Minneapolis, have made an assign
TAsax 80 ~ ~x<.<H<
is placed at $4,000. The principal
lcreditors are in New York, St. Louis
and Philadelphia.
Senator, was held in $1,000 bail in
Washington on Saturday, for attempt.
ing to shoot an employe in Vicker's
Hotel. Malone was drunk at the time.
A heavy snow storm prevailed on
Sunday in Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois
and Indiana. Railroad travel in the
sections visited by the storm was again
iBter rupted, ard in some cases entirely
stopped.
Senator Voorhees, and Representative
lCobo, of Indiana, had an interview
with President- elect Clevsiand on Sat-
urday, and urged ex Senator Mcdonald
for Cabinet position.
The body of Mrs. Peter Woodcock,
aged nearly ntnety-tive years, was
stolen from n cemetery in Toronto q
few nights ago, and no trace of IL has
yet been discovered.
Il The new flint glass factory Of King,
Son & Co., at Pittsburg, will s art to-
day, giving employment TO $50 men.
The factory will use natural glass ex-
clusively.
Eight cases OF dynamite have been
stolen from the magazine ct the
American Dynamite Company in West
Chester County, New York.
The Union Iron Mills of Carnegie,
Bros. & Co., at PittsburR, employing
over four hundred men, will resume
operations in all departments to-day.
The Mayor CT CollinGwood, Ontario,
has volunteered to laise colored resi.
ment for active service in the Soudan.
j. J. Sullivan, n witness in the
Mackin election frauds suit, at Chicago,
was arrested on Sunday on the charge
of perjury.
r. A. Bacon, druggist of Washing
ton, hanged himself on Sunday with q
window cord. He was supposed to be
lderanged.
There is another dynamite scare in
Quebec, and a double guard has been
lplaced around tho public buildings.