Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-01-08
news SUMMARY.

Gabriel Baohtar and his son, Joseph,
eyed 10 years, were suffocated In Pitts
burg on IT. ursday night from q coke
stove, used in drying plaster in new
houses. The Bacbters were engaged In
plAstering row of tenements on the
South side, and went mp stairs to move
the stove. Not returning, four work
men went up to ascertain the cause.
The father was found lying by the door
and the son beside the stove. Both
were insensible, and all efforts to revive
them were without avail.
There was another violent demons
tration at Howell, Michigan, on Wed.
nesdny, by the Toledo, Ann Arbor and
Northern Railroad officials. "They had
heard that the Detroit, Lansing and
Northern people had several car loads
of stone ON the way down, with which
ii ey Intended to fillup the cut. About
. o'clock they went 10 work en- the
Detroit, Lansing and Northern track,
aad tore up long strip on each side OF
the crossing"
A red light was seen about midnight
OF Wednesday on the lake, nearly a
mile from the shore, at Chicago, and
cries OF distress were heard from the
same point. Between the light, which
shifted about, and the shore there was
a great field OF ice, and beyond the ice
the waves ran high. Tugs were sent
out to search for the supposed vessel in
distress, but found nothing.
A committee OF the Knights Of Labor
and proprietors of the Geneva Woolen
Mill at Providence, had a conference
Thursday and agreed that the strikers
should return To work this morning,
ION the promise that the case of Simms
the weaver discharged for profanity
and for whose reinstatement the weav
ers struck, will be inquired into
further"
The Tobacco Growers' Association
Inter State Conference, at Buffalo, has
decided TO aslS Congress "First, TO levy
| proper duty upon a whole bale of to
baoco, not exemptiDg any portion there
OF; second, to cause the duty on uu-
stem med tobacco To be fixed at 81 so
and stemmed. 81; third, that the stand
ard of taxation shall be upon wrapper.
j. Clinskill, merchant of Battle
ford, in the Northwest Territory, bai
gone to Ottawa, to impress upon tn,
authorities the necessity of taking
proper precautions TO prevent an la.
ldian uprising. He rays the Indian
are enraged because of the execution
Iof eight murderers In Novembe last
and are making all sorts o: threats
George Holford, ~ huckster, murdere'
his wife and then committed suicide II
Paterson, New jersey. Thursday morn
ling. He had been separated from be
for eighteen months, until Monday last
when they became recon ciled, sine
which time be had been drinking heav
lily.
The State Board of Agriculture Q
Illinois, on Wednesday, adcptd resC
luton asking Congress to legislate fC
the protection Of the people from tn
unwholesome adulteration of all foo
Iproducts," aud for the proper brandin
Of importations of dairy products.
ii A block OF houses at Boston RuI
} near MahAnoy City, Pennsylvania
"went down out OF sight on Thursday,
owing TO a cave in of the surface above
!. .imine. The lnmales had time to escap
Five more blocks are expected to di
, appear.
:. Allthe mules In the Preston No
colliery at Ashland, Pa, were browne
ION Thursday morning, the water gai
ing on the pumps SO rapidly that u
animals could not bs rescued. The
were thirty-s six of them, valued at 81:
leach.
q The city aud county offioers at d.
d Mnines, Iowa, are vigorously enforcir
t the Prohibition law. Sixty cases
= beer and a quantity of whisky wei
seized on Thursday, and it Is though
all the saloons will be closed this weel
] j. II. Meyers, teller of the Pullms
National Bank, of Pullman, Illinoi
: was arrested on Wednesday night Il
embezzlement. He was about "star
ing his vile and child to Canada" whe
A arrested.
Q BY the premature explosion Of
!. blast in n coal mine Mt Colfax, Iowa, G
Thursday, Louis Evans was killed aI
George Storms and Peter ArmstroI
y were fatally injured.