Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-01-06
News Summary.
ExrESsIve FlRE-A P0LasM Ex.
LIES DEATM-PLRURO- PNEU.
MONIA-BODY FOUND. r.
THE MEXICAN R0UGHS.

The factory OF the Reck, Brausford
q Elkdale Furniture Company, in
Nashville. was burned on Tuesday.
Loss, $50, ,O00 insurance, $40, 500.
The planning mill of Poitereute Il
Farrar, at Pearlington, Mississi ooi, was
burned on Monday night, with 900, 900
feet OF lumber. Loss, So. 900.
The Potomac river excursion steamer
America was burned on Tuesday morn
ing at the wharf at Alexsudria. vir-
giBis. rhe vessel was valu ID at 81, 900.
Rev. Arthur o. Brickmau died on
Tuesday at Baltimore, aged 81 years.
He was An native of Prussia, and was
exiled by his couu ection with the trou-
bles Of 1848. After arriving in the
U United States he became Swed en- bor-
gian minister. He had for thirty ears
published semi.monthly devoted to
Swedenborgianism, 8 and was the author
Of many catechisms and hymn books.
DIR. Bridges, State Veterinary Sur.
geoa. on Friday morning killed five
cattle sffi icted with pleuro pneumonia,
on the farm OF A. 8. Frey, in Manor
township, Lancaster County, Penna.
In few days more fifteen other ami
mails will probably be killed. The dis
ease has appeared among the cattle of
Henry Bender, In the same township.
At Jersy City, Yesterday. th . jnry in
the case Of Am Ende, the druggist, ON
trial for causing the death of Msrguer-
ite Holtz by pntting up morphia
instead Of quinine In filing o prescrip-
tion, returned q verdict of "not guilty."
There is another indictment agsinss
him also for causing che death OF Miss
Ella Holtz.
Colonel John A. Sloan, q wsll. known
resident Of Baltimore, disappeared on
the 9th of November last. Last night
his body was found In Gwynp's falls,
about six miles west of the city limits.
He is supposed to have wandered of
while insane, and fallen into the creek.
1t 10 reported that on Sunday last
several Mexicans, headed by a notori-
GUS rough, named 2 slon Chico, went to
the store of Charles SchRmir, in Hidal-
go county, Texas, ten miles north Of the
Rio Grande, murdered 6chumtr and
carried off several thousand dollars
worth of goods.
Colonel Irvine, of the northwest
mounted police. reports that the Indi-
ans in that region are behaving better
than they have done for the lsst two
years His interviews with the Bloods
and Pigeons were particularly satis-
factory"
After q suspension of seven months
the green glass bottle works OF Cum
Iningham & Co., ut Plttsburg, have
resumed in full blast at the old wages.
The Massillon, Ohio, green glass factory
started on Monday after having been
closed since June 30th.
The Senate spent an hour aud half
lin executive session considering nomt.
nations Of minor postm asters, chiefly
lin Kentucky aud Tennessee, bat did
not reach action on any OF them.
The Pension Agent at Plttsburg on
Monday issued to AL exauder Gilchrist,
Il Of Indiana, Penna, back pay aggre-
Il eating 612, 157. Gilchrist Is q blind, de-
crepit old man, and had been in the
/ poorhouse for twelve years.
The glove manu- factursrs OF Glovers-
vile and Johnstown, NewYork, have
refused to accept the new scale of wages
adopted by the Knights of Labor,
and their employees have struck.
]. B. Quimst, his son and two brothers
in law were drowned yesterday while
crossing the ice on small laks in Arg
enteuil county, Quebec.
The Preeluent mas WltnuSAWn Cn6
nomination Of DR.. John G. Lse,of Phila-
delphia, to be Secretary Of Legation at
ConstantinoRle. The withdrawal is at DR.
Lee srequest.
The Mississippi Legislature met and
organized yesterday. In the House
| colored man was elected doorkeeper.
The police of Victoria, Brltieh Coll
umbia, report that one Thousand.
Chinese are suffering for bread in that
city.
Mrs. Lucht died of hydrophobia In
Milwaukee ON Monday night.