Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-10-05
News Summary.
SEVERE RAIN sTORMs-BOILER
ON-sUICIDEI
IFIED-FEARFUL WRECK.
VETERANS RE-INSTATED.


A mass meeting of Prohibitionists
was held in New York on Saturday
night, at which speeches were made by
Rev. Dr.. Deems and w. JenniupsI
Demorest, the Prohibition candidate
Tor Lieutenant Governor. The latter
referred to Ira Davenport, the Republi-
can candidate for Governor, As " one of
the largest wholesale liquor dea lers in
the country" and as Interested in
three liquor saloons in this city" (New
York;.
The baggage section of train on the
Fergus Falls branch OF the Northern
Pacific Railroad broke In two near
Fergus Falls, Minnesota, yesterday
morning, while ascending a heavy
grade. Ten or twelve cars rushed back
and crushed into the other section of the
train, c1using fearfal wreck.
Robinson's circus occupied the train,
ana hve OF the men were killed and
over thirty injured.
A number of discharges were made
in the Brooklyn Navy Yard last spring,
owing to the smallness of the appro-
priations. Among those discharged
were seven veterans. These have lust
been re- instated by direction of Secre.
tary Whitney at the intercession of
their comrades
The trial of Mrs. Druce for the mur-
der OF her husband, at Herkimer, New
York resulted at half. past twelve o'clock
on Sunday morning in a verdic of m ar.
der in the fret degree. She killed her
husband in Warren on the 18th of De.
cember last, and cut up his body and
burned 1t in stove.
A mass meeting in support of the
Irish Parliamentary Fund was held in
Chicago on Saturday night, about
| 10, 900 persons being present. Alexander
Sullivan, ex.President Of the Irish
National League Of America, was the
principal speaker. Atout $4,000 was
added to the Fund.
| About 80 survivors of the One Hun.
dred and Nineteenth Regiment Pensyl-
vania Volunteers (the Gray Reser YES =,
dedicated their monument at Round
Top, Gettysburg, on Saturday morning.
General James w. Latta de elivered the
address.
The Longfellow Statue Association of
Portland, Maine, has contracted with
franklin Simmons, sculptor, for bronze
lone OF the public squares of that city.
The statue will be of heroic size and
cost $50 600.
The boiler of locomotive drawing
the Long Branch express train, which
LETT Camden on Saturday after noon, ex =
Iploded near Browns Mills, fatally
scalding the engineer. John Curtis, OF
Point Pleasant. The fireman was also
injured.
The body of the man who committed
4 t..s.N a.. -
night after registering as "Geors e
Edm unds, Philadelphia, has been
Identified az that of William I'll. Daven.
port, of New York, designer fol
Tiffany IL Go.
A severe rain storm prevailed in
Salem and Lynn, Massac usetts, on
Saturday afternoon, causing damage to
the extent of many thousands of dol.
lars. The damage in Lynn alone is es.
timated at $4,000.
Excessive rains in Northern Georgia
Alabama and West Tennessee have
causing the grain to rot in the husks.
considerable damage has also been
done to cotton.
In the Circuit Court at Independence
. Missouri, on Saturday, Miss Edith
l 6TuOu WAS aWAfucu 3lO,OOU III sui
for breach of promise against David
) Hughes, Of Kansas City. She sued fo
S25, 900.
"a bull in o china shop" is out O
place, but q bottle Of DR.. Bulls Csugl
!. Syrup in the china closet is in place
J., For Group, bronchitis, sore chests ant
3 colds 1t is prompt AID efficaciou
4 remedy.
A train on the Canadian Pacific Raj
road was wrecked near Kamloop,
british Columb bia, few days ago b
running over COW. Five men weI
killed and q number injured.
q NJ. j. Rutledge, corporal in th
,s Marine Corps. committed suicide .
l Annapolis on Saturday, by takip
st laud anum. He was from Wilmington
10 Delaware
John Nicholson, Alfred Best an
= Emil Olsen were convicted of polygam
10 In Salt Lake City on Saturday Mich
=, olson Is editor of the Deseret News, IL
a Mormon church organ.
a Forty deaths from smallpox in MOI
r. treal and fourteen in the suburbs wei
a reported on Saturday. This makes 8.
AZ eaths in the city and so in the sui
D urban municipalities during the weel
4. Returns of the State census of Massi
ss ohusetts, just taken, give Boston
8. population of 800, ,406-188, 101 male
80 and 2O4 ,3O5 females. The total shows
c. gain of q, $40 in five years.
George Bancroft. the historian, cele
brated his eighty fifth birthday o
Saturday. He received many testim'
X mails from friends and kilograms frol
%, all sections of the country.
q. At st. Petersburg, Pa, on Frida
night, six masked men tied Elias Riti
N and his wife, an aged couple, and tw
other person to chairs, and robbed Il
l. house of one thousand dollars.
he The prairie fires in McPherso
ct County, Dakota, burned over an art
r. of one hundred square miles, max In
y. hundreds of families destitute. II
,y loss is estimated at $3.50, 200.
OF The Commercial house and sever
% stores in Marinette, Wisconsin, we
" :, burned on Sunday morning. Lo
~ about $25 GOO.
OIL Ten persons were n ade violently si'
v. by eating canned lobster at tea par
be in Albany on Friday night.
in Four new cases of smallpox were I
it ported In New York City on Saturda
an Interesting 10 Both Sexes.
nc Any man or woman making less thi
IN $40 weekly should try our easy none
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