Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-03-18
News summary.
In HIGH LIFE

GAMBLING In HIGH LIFE
The Rhode Island Legislature yester.
day proposed a constitutional amend
ment prohibiting the manufacture and
sale OF Intoxicating liquors to be used as
beverage. The Senate passed reso-
luton proposing an amendment to the
Constitution which shall give to every
woman the right to vote under the same
condition as men.
William Hayes, alias Farrell former
ly a Wholesale liquor dealer of Peabody.
massachusetts,, where he was convicted
of having attempted to blow up dwell.
ing with dynamite. and 'jump:d" S15,-
OOO bail, has been arrested in New Or
leans. He opened a saloon and restau-
rant near the Exposition grounds.
Stewart Cumgardner, q deputy sher-
iii, was shot dead from an ambush, q
few miles from Morehead, Kentucky,
on Monday evening. 1T is said he
sided with the Martin faction in their
recent trouble with the Tullivers which
produced 30 much excitement in Rowan
county.
The schooner o. M. Marrett has arri-
we'd at New York with Captain Sterl-
ing and two seamen of the brig Havana
from Port Spain for PHILADELPHIA,
which was abandoned at SEA, in a leaky
condition, on the 10Th ult. The captain
and crew landed at Ponce on the 18th
ult.
A telegram from st. Mary's, West
virginia, reports that more than one
hundred persons there have been in
dicted for playing dominoes in pub
lic." Among the alleged offenders are
an attorney, a minister, two ply sicians
and several women.
The supreme Court of Iowa, yester.
day, by unanimous decision, affirmed
the constitu tionality of the prohibition
law of that State. The decision "sus-
tains the validity OF injunctions to
abate the nuisance which exists as
SO looms"
The assignee of the Rockingham Ten
Cent Bank, in Portsmouth, New Hamp-
ire, which failed seven years ago.
Will comence to pay.the final dividend
OF nine per cent. today. The total
dividends paid are GA per cent.
A barrel of gasoline exploded in the
cellar Of James McCullough's saloon
IN Braddock, Penna., last night. Mo-
Cullough was fatally, and three other
men, whose names conld not be ascer-
tained, were seriously burned.
Sellwood's block at Ishpenning.
Michigan, was burned early yesterday
morning. 1t contained the City Council
rooms the Odd Fellows and Masonic
ma lis, and several stores. LOSS, $6O,-
600. WV
w. ID. L. Reitz, 81 years old, for
number Of years a prominent grocer in
baltimore, hanged himself in the cellar
OF his residence yesterday. Depression
In business is supposed TO hsve affected
his mind.
The Chicago Farmers Review pub
fishes crop reports from 1900 CORE
spondents at different points in the
West and Northwest. showing that the
Indications are not favorable for an
average crop of winter wheat.
One vote for U. s. Senator was cast
in joint convention OF the Illinois
Legislature on Tuesday. 1t was given
by Mr. Streeter for A. L. Stevenson,
and after it had been announced the
adjourned.
The Michigan House of Representa-.
tives unanimously adopted resolution
on tuesday sympathiziDg with General
Grant in his present suffering, "and
" ishing for him many years of added
uhpplucSb.
In Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory,
On Monday, the Democrats elected their
candidate for Mayor by 1876 majority.
This is the first Democratic Mayor there
'ince 1877.
A counterfeit 500 gold piece of the
late OF 1880 was found in Boston on
Tuesday. 1t is made almost entirely
If lead from cast of the genuine coin
Ind is battery gided.
The Board of Health of New York
City ON Tuesday directed that a house
o house inspection be made forthwith.
u view of the probable advent of the
'holera this summer.
The rebels who attacked the Citv of
'anama have been driven away. Oar.
hagena has been besiegtd, and Colon
) in the hands of the rebels.
The weather throughout Canada was
cry cold on Tuesday, tha Temperature
angling from to 33 degrees below
ero.
A fire in Anderson, South Carolina.
n Monday night, destroyed four stores
nd two saloons, causing loss of 500.
90. SN~'
The store of McCracken & Brotbers
ROGERS aud liquor dealers OF Fredricks.
urg, virginia, was burned yesterday.
,oss, $50 900,