Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-04-29
NEWS SUMMARY.
A VERDICT OF $4,000 FOR IN
JURIES ON A RAILROAD.
Discovery of n New Comet-A Notorious
Negro Lynched-Buried Beneath
Stone and Dirt.

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Stone and Dirt.
At Newburgh, N. Y, Wednesday, in
the suit OF William Alberti against the
New York, Lake Erie and Western
Railroad Company, to recover $50, 600
damages for injuries received in July
last In an accident near Oxford depot,
the jury gave Alberti verdict for
$26, 600. The plaintiff, at the time of
the accident, was sitting up in a berth
box car In passing freight train, which
the plaintiff In the back aud side and
breaking several of his ribs.
Mr.. Brooks of Phelps, N. z, on Tues.
day night announced to DR.. Swift, di-
rector of the Warner Observatory, his
discovery Of new comet in Cassiopeia,
In the field with Kappa, right ascen.
sien, 0 hours 10 minutes, and declina-
tion north 60 degrees. II was examined
with the great telescope of the Warner
Observatory. Tits pretty large, faint,
nebnlous object, having neither nucleus
nor tail. Its motion Ia slow and near
east.
Merudy Jones, ga notorious negro"
women near Auburn, KENTUCKY, last
Monday night and tried to chloroform
them, was taken from officers by o mob
on Tuesday night and shot dead, while
he was trying to escape lynching. A.
j. Gooch, citizen, who demonstrated
with the mob, was shot and severely
wounded.
The funeral Of Rev. Bernard A. Ma
Onira 81 II tuhO dIah In A.
last Monday, took place on Wednesday
morning In Washington, from the
Church of St. Aloysius. A Requiem
Mass was celebrated by Rev. Father
Fulton, g. j., and Archbishop Gibbons
performed the absolution. The inter-
ment took place at Georgetown College.
While nine laborers were at work ON
the railroad track in Black Canon,
near Gunnisop, Colorado, on Tuesday, "a
large landslide buried them beneath q
mass Of stone and dirt. All were ex-
tricated as soon rs possible, and last
night all were alive, but most Of them,
1t is expected, will die from their ia
juries.
A tremendous storm of rain and hail
visited Rockdale, Texas, on Tuesday
afternoon. The interiors of many
houses were deluged, and hailstones Of
tradordinary size fell With such force
as to penetrate shingle roofs. VIM
dows and shutters were smashed,
orchards and gardens ruined, and some
live stock killed.
Geronimo's Indians have reappeared
near Calabarses, Arizona, and ten per-
Sons are reported to have been killed
on ranches near that place. 1t is said
that over thirty persons have been
killed on ranches near Casita, Mexico.
Troops have been sent from both sides
| Of the border alter the savages.
At Erie, Penna., on Tuesday even-
ing, Mrs. Ephriam Lawson, before
going out shopping, locked her three
children in room. The house caught
fire and enc of the children were burn.
Il ed to death. The others were fatally
burned, and several firemen suffered
severe inj uries.
II A Chicago and Alton passenger train
was stoned by some villains at Lemont,
Illinois, on Tuesday night. Nearly
Ievery window in one side of the tralu
was smashed, but no one was il jured
beyond slight bruises and cuts from
broken glass.
Secretary Manning has so far recov-
cred that he was on Wednesday able to
take long drive about Waship gton
without apparent fatigue. He expects
to be able to leave the city early next
month.
1t is now reported that "the servant
girls of Milwaukee are organizing a
union for the purpose of advancing
wages. An adm ission fee is charged at
81 and monthly dues 80 cents"
By the explosion of an iron lard tank
in Tobey & Booths packing house in
Chicago, on Wednesday afternoon, Jas.
Sanford was killed and eight other men
were injured, two dangerously.
George f. Beetle, Of the firm OF
Macksy s. Beetle, electricians, OF
Brooklyn, shot himself fatally while
visiting friends near Paterson, N. j.,
on Wednesday.
Bills providing for cheaper gas in
cities were passed by the New York
Assembly on Wednesday.
An election was held on Wednesday
in Charlottesville, Va, on the liquor
question. License received several hRn-
dred majority.
Senior Elmore, the Peruvian Minister,
took official leave of the President on
Wednesday.
George D. Emmons, Chief Eogineer
in the Navy, died on Wednesday in
Baltimore.
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