Daily Republican., 1885-07-06
News Summary.
ANOrB Err HEAVY RAIN AND L.
OO0.O BUSHELS OF wheat
IN STA CHS DESTROYED.
ANOTHER BOAT RACE.

Another heavy rain fell during Sat
urday night and yesterday throughout
Eastern Kansas and Western Missouri.
Yesterday was the sixth day Of almost
con tin uous cold rain at Paola, Kansas.
It Is estimated that in X ansas alone
], ,OOO, 900 bushels of wheat in stacks
have been ruined besides that damaged
In the fields. Corn is probably little in.
jured, but it Is about twenty days
back ward, compared with the latest
season for twenty years."
The intercolle legiate boat race on Lake
Quinsigamond on Saturday resulted
rather unsatisfactorily. Cornell's crew
came in first, Brown second, Bowdoin
third and the Pennsylvania last. There
were fouls, however, at the upper end
of the course between Bowdoin and
Cornell and between Pennsylvania IL and
Bowdoin, and the referee threw Cor
nell out Of the race, gave Pennsylva-
| mia third place, and ordered ,Bowdoin
and Brown to row over again on July
18th.
Three colored men were arrested on
Friday on the charge Of having murder
ed two children and then fred the
house they occupied, at Citra, near
Jacksonville, Florida. One Of the men
was lynched on Saturday night and the
others escaped.
The strikers of the Cleveland Rolling
Mill, at Cleveland Ohio, held meeting
yesterday afternoon, and q committee
Of twelve was appointed to present their
grievances to the managers to-day.
Shou Id the managers refuse to treat
with the men troubled is expected.
The Fourth of July celebration of
Henry G. Bowen, at Woodstock, Con-
necticut, was attended by about three
thousand grangers. The speakers were
Senator Sherman, Senator Logan, Gov
ernor Harrison, Rev. D. McCosh, John
T. Wait and Waldo Hutchins.
The Dominion Government on Satur-
day decided to suspend the duty on fish
imported from Newfoundland until some
treaty can be arranged between the
countries. Fish imported from the
United States will still be subject to
duty.
While number of young men were
firing off a cannon at Fultonville, New
York, on Saturday evening, it went off
prematurely, killing William Van Morst
and Charles Maxwell.
Rev. Charles n. Stonestreet, q we'll.
known Jesuit Father, died OF heart dis.
ease in Holy Cross College at Worcester,
Massachusetts, on Saturday. He was
a native of Maryland and 70 years of
age.
Jameson Harvey, the first large
operator and shipper of coal in the
anthracite region, died in Wilkesbarre,
on Saturday, at the age of SO years. He
| retired from active business with
large fortune, in 1868.
Minnie Kelly and Frederick Gilbert,
of Brooklyn, were drowned yesterday
VIII lie bathing at Clinton Point, near
Poughkeepsie.
| Three Italian laborers were DANCE
ously, If not fatally, injured yesterday
by the Premature explosion of blast
on the new railroad at Schuylkill Rav-
en-.
7. The Swedish ship Cleaver, from Pen
sacola with timber for Greens borough,
England, was wrecked on Tortugas
Reef on the night of the 1st instant
The great stallion race be1veen
Phallas and Maxey Cobb, at Cleveland,
on Saturday. was won by the former.
Time, 204.
Five new cases of smallpox were re-
ported in Montreal Oh Friday and four
on Saturday.