Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-02-08
News Summary.
DROWNED, NOT MUkG-CRILD
BURNED To DEATH-BURNED
To DEATH WHILE DRUNK.
GARFIELD'S REMAIN s.

The body of a man was yesterday
found in Pleasant Run, near Indians
polls. "He had attempted to commit
suicide by hanging himself from n tree
overhanging the stream. The rope
broke and he was precipitated to the
bed Of the creek" He was about as
years old, and his name is supposed,
from papers found on his person, to be
Johannes Abe.
Mrs. Frederick Lippert was found by
her husband on Saturday night at o
village seven miles from Belleville.
Illinois, in an unconscious condition.
An examination showed that she had
been struck in the temple with q stone,
which fractured her skull. She died
on Sunday morning. Her asssilant
and the cause Of the assault are un-
known.
A cssket containing the remains of
President Garfield was on Saturday
morning placed in the heavy bronze
sarcophsgus in which it is to ress final.
ly, at Cleveland, Ohio. When the new
monument in Lake View cemetery is
completed, the sarcophagus will be
placed in the base of that structure.
The Mayor of Cincinnati ON Saturday
appointed new Superintendent Of
Police. The Police Commissioners re-
fused to recognize the appointment, but
suggested that the Mayor apply to the
Supreme Court for settlement Of tho
matter.
An accom- mediation train on the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railroad ran off the track
and tumbled down an .embankment
near Kansas City on Saturday. Many
passengers were severely injured, while
others were bruised and cut by broken
glass.
A telegram from Mt. Carmel, Penna..
says that Jacob Sharp, employed for
Twenty years as q miner there, received
Information on Saturday that by the
death of Benjamin Sharp, relative, in
lPhiladelphia, he had fallen heir to .
property of $780, 900.
Wallace Raynor and j. W. Tulley, OF
.Riveyhead, Long Island, started out
last Wednesday in q boat to set Goldfish
travis mile and half out at sen,
They have not been heard Of since.
The British schooner Miller and
! woodman, from Vineyard Haven on
) the 9th ult. for st John, has been given
up for lost. Three Of her crew leave
, large families.
al The boiler OF pile driving engine al
: Cason, Texas, burst on Saturday, kill
q ling the engineer and injuring sever
q lother men. 1t Is feared most of the in
liured cannot recover,
A Ave months old child Of George
mclaughlin, of Scranton, Penna., wsi
:lburned to death In its cradle on Satur-
Iday morning while its mother wa
? visiting a neighbor.
}. Sarah Howard, aged 40 years, wa
G burned tc death while lysng IN bas ara-l
2 land smoking, at New Bedford, Massa
10 chusetts, on Saturday.
10 During December the number {
u deaths in Lima, Peru, was shown by th
2, returns to be 66 per cent. In excess o
y the births.
n A rabid dog made the circuit OF th
n town of Crete, Nebraska, on Friday
N land bit twenty-five other dogs an
,e three children before 1t was killed.
The will of the late Henry P. Kiddel
" OF Boston, leaves $4,000 each to th
10 Harvard College and theBoston MuseuI
N Of Fine Arts.
lei Frank Bouler was killed by the &C
leI cideptal discharge of his gun Will
t. hunting rabbits near indianapolis o
d Saturday.
o' Geronimo and nine other Indian car
o Itives were reported in camp on Frida
= night, errouJe for Bowie, Arizona.