Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-06-04
News Sum mary
STRUCK A WHALE-GRANDL LAR
CENY- PROHIBITION-TH
HESSIAN FLY.
FOUND ON THE RAILROAD.

UN IHE KAlLkUAD.
Accord ing to a despatch from Provi-
dence, Captain Nathaniel B. Church, of
the Menhadeu fishing steamer George
w. Humphrey, has reported as follows:
" On Monday evening, while off Fire
Island, the steamer was running about
ten miles an hour with load of 1000
barrels of fish, when she struck a
whale. The shock was 30 great that
the engineer and firemen were knocked
down. An officer reports that the whale
appeared to him after the collision to
be nearly cut through"
The Grand Jury at New York has
found an Indictment against Ferdinand
Ward for grand larceny in the first
degree "in carrying away from the
Marine Bank short time before its
suspension . bag containing 81 100000
worth Of bonds and securities. A writ
of habeas corpus was obtained by the
District Attorney on Wednesday after
noon from the Court Of Oyer and Ter
minor requ iring the production of
Ward In Court to-day.
The United Presbyterian Assembly
at Topeka, has passed q resolution in
favor of prohibition, saying Its good
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The Assembly adjourned sine die yes
terday, after adopting report coun-
selling members of the q nited Presby-
terian Church to stand aloof from the
Grand Army of the Republic and other
secret organizations where an oath
and an obligation are taken"
The announcement is made that
Richard 8. Scott, paying-teller Of the
Manhattan Bank, of New York, has
isappeared with $l6e,0OO of the
banks funds. The President of the
bank says its capital ID S2,06O, 900, and
after deducting the loss 1925, 500. 1t is
believed that Scott stole the money in
q lump" and that he has fed to Cana
da.
The:Hessian fly Is reported to be
ravagi ing the wheat crop in Kansas.
In the great wheat valley of Kansas,
the gypsum, in Saline County, where
wheat never fails, entire fields are
being ploughed and millet sown. This
is reported in all parte of the State"
The Hessian fly has also appeared in
Frederick County, Maryland.
| G. A. johnson, colored, editor of the
British Lion, of Hamilton, Ontario,
says "he has notified the Government
that by Dominion Day he will be ready
|
colored men to fight the rebels in the
Northwest, he to pay for the uniforms
and ammunition"
The family of Samuel Bowman and
some visitors, at Circleville, Ohio, were
poisoned on Monday, IT is supposed by
, some substance In their coffee. Samuel
Bowman, aged 76, was dying at last
: accounts, and his wife was dead. The
others we're expected to recover.
A four year. old daughter of David
Schapp. in Manor township, Lancaster
! county, Penua., during her mothers alb
sence on Tuesday, gave her infant
sister a fatal dose from a liniment
bottle. The little victim died in a few
hours.
Two unknown men were found dead
OH ne Pennsylvania Railroad, at Tren.
ton, by a track walker about 2 o'clock
yesterday morning. They had been
Iun over. From paper found on him
one of them is supposed to be Thomas
DIllon, of Philadelphia.
A strange and fatal malady has at
tackled the cattle in the neigborhood OF
Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Those afflict.
I'd with it appear to be mad
and blind" A prominent physician
thinks the malady resem bles meningit-
/ is.
The boiler in Linstedes' phosphate
works, at Johns Island Ferry, near
Charleston, South Carolina, exploded on
, Tuesday, wrecking works and killing
two men. Another man was dangerously
injured.
4 The State Department yesterday re.
!, ceived from Minister Foster, at Madrid
a telegram saying that Government
a Comm issiol had declared Asiatic chol-
era to be ep idemic in the Spanish prov.
, ince of Valencia.
The Supreme Council of the Royal
8 Arcanum" is in session at Buffalo.
+; The financial report shows that since
i last meeting the receipts of the general
t fund were $34, ,947, the payments $780,
l 946.
The bark Abbottsford has Just arrived
8 at Quebec from Greenock after voyage
Of nearly two months. She was detain-
! ed in the ice "a days.
The Petersburg (Virginia) Guards, a
,, colored organization, arrived in Boston
on Wednesday on a visit to the colored
1, regiments of that city.
The last of the marine sent to the
, isthmus of Panama during the recent
: troubles there arrived at New York on
a Wednesday.
l Two more deaths from fever were re-
8 ported on Wednesday,, at Plymouth,
Pa, and several new case. were sent to
: the ospital.