Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-12-24
NEWS SUMMARY.
Explosion ON British stesmer-Death
Of an Old Colored Woman who WAS
Turning White.

o Explosion ON a British steamer-peasI
Of an Old Colored Womsn who w..
Turning White.
At New Orleans, yesterday, Second
I, Engineer Thomas Hunter and si,
Chinese hremeE of the Bri ish steamer
ISuez went TO the coal bunkers for th,
purpote OF thinning the coal. The
engineer carried lamp. As soon o,
> occurred, caused by the accumulsted
gas coming IN contact with the fame q,
the lamp. All the men were badlv :
burned about the face, hsnds and body.
Hunter and three Of the Cinnamon fa,
tally, 1t 10 believed.
Il Mrs. Jacob Eidridee. an old colored
woman, who for several years had been
gradually turning white, died on Wed.
nesday, at Howell, Mich. YeaYs aro
she neticed spot of white about the
size OF q silver dollar upon her right
leg Ip the course of a few months
Iothers appeared upon various parts OF
her Dody. In time these grew together
until most OF her body became white,
The farm house of Caleb Russell. near
Say brook, Ohio, was burned early
inursday mornisg. When the neigh
DORIS arrived at the scene, RUSSELL, who
was 20 years old, and his wife, aged 10.
had escaped from the house, but tbev
were Sd much overcome by the heat
and smoke that they died shortly after.
ward. A demented SOD, who slept a N
stairs, was burned to death.
| In Carnegia's Steel Works. at Home.
stead. Pa, on Thursday, while a IadIe
containing six tons of molten steeI was
being swung from the smelling fur
mace to the iRgot mould, the crane
DroKe ami the metal was thrown into
the pit below. An exI losion followed.
severely burning four men. All are
expected to recover.
While dynamite cartridges were
being warmed at q railroad cut, near
Elizabethtown. Pa, yesterday morn.
ing, oO OF them were exploded BY a
spark. William Cahill WAS killed and
| three other men were injured, one Of
them, named John McManus Of Lam
caster, perhaps fatally.
A passenger train ON the Asheville
and Spartsnburg Railroad was thrown
from the track near Fletchers, North
Caroina, yesterday morning, By the
spreading or the rails. Ten or twelve
passengers were severely injured; ono
VI them, q woman, is not ex xoected to
recover.
In Newtown, Con Hectieut, ON Wed.
nesday night, Mrs. Mary Lynch, .
young married woman, was shot dead
uy William Warner, with whom sbe
had been intimate. Warner went back
TO the house on Thursday morning and
committed suicide. He left q note saw
ing that he was Jealous.
A telegram from Havana savs the
value Of the fresh fruits exported from
that port to the United States during
the year which ended on the Both ult..
is estimated ct $500, 600 in gold. OF this
amount $50 600 was for pineapples.
and Sl4O. 900 for oranges.
An Associated Press despatoh from
Long Branch says that George W.
Childs, of Philadelphia, has sent a
Christmas present to the First Presby-
terian church there in the shape of a
check for $500, to enable the society TO
cancel its floating debt.
Mrs. Minerva Hill, six weeks mar
risd, took q dose of strychnine, In
Mason City, Iowa, on Wednesday, and
was not expected 10 recover. latter
she had taken the poison 'e told her
husband what she had done, but as
signed no reason for the act"
AT Wortendy ke, New Jersey, on
Wednesday night, Daniel Lewis, his
WE four children and son-in law and
vile we've made violently sick by eat
ing canned corned beef. All were pro-
nounced out of danger yesterday.
Robert j. Calladine, II years Of age.
employed as q stamper in the city dis
tribution department of the Chicago
Postofhce, was arrested on Wedne sday
night for robbing the mails. He was
caught by decoy letter.
When the ticket agent of Albaueh's
Theatre in Washington opened his Office
yesterday morning he found that the
safe had been blown open and robbed
OF $A70 In money and $500 worth of
jewelry
Higgins, Of tGermantown,
brakeman on the Chester Greek,
Penna. Railroad, was killed yesterday
by falling under his train.
Mrs. Rice Gould, 43 years of age.
committed suicide in Rutland, New
York, yesterday morning, by hanging
herself. She is said to have been In
sane.
The Directors of the Canal National
Bank of Portland, Maine, report that
the loss to the bank by the stealings OF
Blackstone Is 500, 500.
Briggs & Co., butter dealers in New
YORK, were yesterday convicted of sell.
Ing oleomargarine, representing 1t to be
butter.
It's al very well to talk about
building new railroads and new steam.
shlps-but how could men, women and