Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-01-06
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The City Council Of Keokuk, Iowa,
last night adopted a resolution declaring
the prohibitory liquor law q failure.
The resolution says that "moral
suasion, with a rigid license law, is the
only remedy" The City Clerk was
instructed to forward the resolution to
Governor Sherman, asking that q
special session of the Legislature be
called and repeal the prohibitory law.
There are floods in the Wabash and
White rivers, In Indiana. The Wabash
was twenty feet at vincennes on Mon
day. and still rising. By the flood in
the White river scores of families in
Daviess and Pike counties have been
driven from their homes, and large
losses OF grain and lumber are reported.
The Navy Department has ordered
the U. q. ships Lancaster and Kear-
sage, OF the European squadron, to
| cruise along the west coast of Africa
for the protection of American interests.
1t Is said at the Navy Department that
these orders have NO particular signifi-
cance."
Mayor Low, of Brooklyn, In his mes
sage yesterday, reported the debt of that
city to be $2s 1905, $50, an increase of$1,-
757, ,481 since 1888. He says the Brook
lyn Bridge does not pay, and must earn
$225, 600 year in order to provide the
sinking fund required by law for the
bonds issued by the two cities.
Hugh O'Brien, the new Mayor of
Boston, was installed yesterday. In his
message he says the total debt of the
city is $42 1881 1884, an increase of S437,-
$40 since 1888. He does not believe
that any sweeping changes should be
made in the city charter.
At San Francisco yesterday, 1875
Chinese, who claimed prior residences,
but who nevertheless were being held
for trial were under late decision of
the U. 8. Supreme Court granted by
Judge Hoffman of the U. s. District
Court, permission to land.
u The steamer Accomac, of the Old
Dominion line, was sunk on Monday
morning by collision with the steamer
Leway, of the same line, off Raney
Island, near Norfolk, Virginia. There
was thick fog at the time. No lives
were lost
il Cephas M. Woodruff was killed in
, the Parker's Creek disaster ON the New
; j ersey Central Railroad two years ago.
On Trial his administrator got verdict
os $4,000 damages. The New jersey
Court of Appeals on Monday affirmed
that verdict.
A quantity of natural gas escaped
into the ce liar of L. Rosters house, at
Erie, Pa, on Monday morning. When
he went into the cellar with a light an
explosion occurred which wrecked the
house and dangerously If not fatally
injured Roster.
An ice gorge in the Grand river has
caused flood at Grand rapids, Michi-
gan. A large number of Easements in
the business part of the city have been
flooded, and it is feared that the bridges
will be swept away.
Two colored roughs, one Of whom
was accused of robbery and murder
GUS assault upon a woman, were shot
dead by a band of citizens near
Reauregard, Mississippi, on Sunday
night.
A misplaced switch on the Little
Schuylkill Railroad at Malino yester-
day derailed fourteen cars and smashed
them into splinters. The train hands
escaped by jumping off.
| John G. Francis, a well-known citi.
zen of Augusta, Georgia, committed
suicide on Monday by cutting his
throat. He had suffered from neuralgia
| and taken morphine freely to relieve
the pain.
jacob Mlcheals, "a prominent church
member, in Hardenburg, Indiana, on
Monday shot himse If dead in the pres
ence of a constable who was about to
arrest him on charge of forgery.
Dexter Van Nostrand, Superinten
dent of the Great North western Tele-
graph lines in Northern New York,
died yesterday in Watertown aged 35.
An earthquake shock, or someth ing
very like it, was felt.at Tarrytown, New
York, at about 6 o'clock on Sunday
morning.
A fire in Nos. Sc and 80 Franklin
street, New York, yesterday morning,
caused loss estimated at about $70,-
600.
The Colorado Carriage Works of L.
A. Melburn & Co., at Denver, were
burned on Sunday night. Loss $40, 600;
insurance $12,Ot0.