Daily Republican., 1885-04-23
News Summary.
YOUNG BxIDEs AND GROOMs-
FRAUD UI.ENT USE OF THE
MAIL-FATAL ACCIDENT.
BLOWN UP BY DYNAMITE

BLOWN UP BY DYNAMITE.
Much excitement was caused on
"Wednesday in certain circles" in
Brook lyn, New York, by the announce
ment that Maud McAllister, aged 10,
had been married to VIM. E. Darling,
10 years Of age, and Ella Jones, II years
of age, to Charles II. Peckham, aged 10.
The girls, who were married without
their parents consent, gave fictitious
ages to the clergyman who performed
the ceremony. They were cases OF
skating rink acquaintanceship.
Joseph L. Yoder aud his hired man,
the formers farm, near Bethlehem,
Penna. yesterday. The fire spread
and In their efforts to control 1t both
men were overcome by the heat and
fell to the ground unconscious. Assist
ance arrived and they were removed.
Yoder died and Roth Is In o critical
condition.
A FIRE in vicksburg, Mississippi, on
Tuesday night, destroyed Myer & Co. 4
dry goods house and several other
stores, the Herald and Western Union
Offices and several dwellings. The loss ID
estimated at $500, 900 insurance, $685..
1000. Thirteen persons, one of them q
fireman, are missing, and supposed to
have periehed In the flames.
Charles II. Unverzagt, who was ar.
rested and convicted In Baltimore more
| than year ago and sentenced to twelve
| months Imprisonment for using the
mails to promote fraud lent insurance
company, was arrested again on Wed.
| nesday fer like offence aud held for
trial. His brother was also arrested and
held for trial.
The Office of the Weekly Signal, at
Old Yakima, Washington Territory,
was destroyed by a charge of dynamite
placed under 1t on Monday night. 1t
had been raised on jack-screws, ready
for removal, and, 1t is presumed, the
act was done to deter others from NOV.
ing buildings from the old 10 the new
town.
Captain Thomas Phelan has been re.
appointed Superintendent of the Work
house in Kansas City, Missouri. He
started for New York last night to ap-
pear ss a witness against Richard Short,
at the latter's trial for murderous as
sault upon him in that city.
A man and woman registered at q
hotel in Cohoes, New York, on Tuesday
night, and yesterday morning were
found unconscious. They had blown
out the gas. Their names are 30 badly
written on the register rs to be illegible.
Both are In critical condition.
A telegram from Maiden, Massachu-
sets, gives a report that the rubber
factories at the Fells, and the one at
Edgeworth, employing 2300 hands, will
start up about May l, and are expected
to run on full time the rest of the Sum-
mer.
The Louis Cook Manufacturing Com.
pany Of Cincinnati, engaged in the
manufacture OF carriages and buRgies,
made an assignment yesterday. The
liabilities are estimated at $500, 600, the
assets at about S297 200.
The wife OF William knight, Trea'
surer of the Mechanics Savings Bank
of Providence, Rhode Island, died on
Tuesday, and, it is reported, by heI
own hand. She was fifty-fve years
Of age.
Mrs. Barrios, widow of the late
President of Guatemala, and her seven
children, arrived at San Francisco from
Panama yesterday. 1t is reported that
President Barrios had 50, ,000, 900 invest
ed in the United States.
Sadie Wslmer, 18 years of age, wa
fatally burned at Lebanon, Pennsyl
vania, yesterday, by her clothes
catching fire from q basket of no
lime, which she was carrying on he
shoulder.
The southwestern building of Johl
Walters' oil cloth factory in Albany
New York, was burned yesterday.
/, measured 100 by 30 feet and was thre
stories high. The loss Is estimated a
l$25, 900; insurance Sl2, 800.
At Fort Worth, Texas, on Tuesday
levening, two men were killed an
another was badly injured by the Gavin
in OF an embankment while they we.
digging q trench.
| The temperature at Lancaster, New
Hampshire, yesterday, reached
degrees in the shade. The Connection
river has already reached point aboy
the average of spring freshets.
The town of Perryville, in Decatu
county, Tennessee, was destroyed O
5 Tuesday night by an incendiary fir
The fire was started by person seel
Il The steamer Wisconsin. which ar
! rived at New York on Wednesday, ha
i, among her passengers ABOUT 200 Eni
lish, Welsh and Scotch converts
r Mormorism.
The heaviest rain ever known |
:. Austin, Texas, was falling there Q
Wednesday. Many buildings wei
Inundated, and the water was thr,
feet deep in the streets.
A tornado struck Deunison, Texas
on Tuesday evening, doing damage I
property estimated at $40, 200. A W
! man was severely injured by the breal
ing In Of a roof.
At the joint session of the Illino
Legislature on Wednesday, only or
vote was cast for United States Sen,
tor. The Convention then adjourned.
The Legislature Of Ohio has passe
an act requiring all executions in thu
State to take place within the walls
a penitentiary.
A fire at Wheaton, Illinois, yesterda
( morning, destroyed seven stores, eau
ing loss Of $4,000.
!. No change is reported in the cond
RI tion of ex.Secretary Frelinghuysen. .
Social Circle.
;. The program for tomorrow (Friday
evening, at the II. 4. Church of Il
Redeemer, will consist of select reat
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