Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-12-21
NEWS SUMMARY.
Stabbed In the f3acs--Diod of Hydro
phobiR-K TX nights of Labor on Trial.


phobis-Kn nights of Labor on Trial.
Peter e. Kane, rs yaars old, proprfe.
tor OF q restaurant and drinking saloon
ct 2o22 Cailowhill street, Philadelphia,
was stabbed in the back early on Mon.
DAY morning, and died some hours
afterwards In the Go man Hospital.
James Monaghan, q years old, P.
Oxley, % years old and william Gill
fillsn, % years old, were arrested ON
the charge Of being principals In the
|stabbing, and Alexander Giboney or
Gibney was held as q witness.
Elizabeth Grund, aged is year,, q
daughter of Louis Grund, ex-ch air nan
OF the Republican City Central Com
mittee Of St Louis, died on Monday in
that city Of hydrophobia Some time
ago she was bitten by 2monthE-old
pup, with which she was play Ing, but
nothing was thought Of 1t until, about
eight days ago, she was taken sick With
the symptoms of the fearful d dieesas of
which she died.
Bernard Nordberg, employed as an
attendant In the male department at
the Pehnsylvania Hospital for the In
sane, In West Philad slphia, has been
placed under bail to answer the charge
of assault and battery on male patient
and fracturipg two of his ribs. The
prosecutor is DR.. j. B. Chaplin, sucerin-
tendsnt in-chief OF the hospital.
The trial Of the six Knights of Labor.
Lloyd, Vassin, Hamilton, Leary, Geers
and Newport, charged with wrecking a
freight train on the Missouri Pacific
Railroad during the strike last spring,
and thus numbering two men, was be.
gun In the District Court at WV andctte,
Kansas, on Monday.
By collision on the Louisville, New
Albany aud Chicago Railroad, at Wood
yard, Indiana, ON Sunday, an engine
and several cars were smashed, and
Daniel Heaphey, engineer, was killed,
Another train hand was seriously In
jured.
Work was resumed on Monday at the
North franklin Coiliery, at Shamokin.
Pa, most Of the striking slate pickers
having been granted a slight increase
In wages. ABOUT thirty who were not
granted the advance refused to return
to work.
The police on Saturday night s.opped
q glove fight which had been advertised
to take place in Holmesburg, Pa. The
principals were bound over for q hear.
ing, and the names of twenty ave par.
ticipants were taken.
John Lawrence Hamelin died sud
denly yesterday, aged 67 years, He was
at one time financial editor of the Phila-
delpbia Age and Times, and at the time
of his death was connected with :he
German Defocrat.
The dry goods store of Moses Jacobs
q Sons, at Lewiston, Maine, was burn
ed on Saturday night. Loss, $25, 600;
insurance, SlS. 900. Alexander Jacobs,
who slept in the store, was severely
burned.
Hulon Preston. the sixteen-year old
son of State Senator Preston, of Macop,
Georgia, was accidentally shot dead hy
his younger brother, Joseph, last
while they were out hua ting
together.
In the U. 8. Court at New Orleans
ON Monday, Jacob Golman, convicted
OF passing counterfeit money, was SEN
tenced to ten years. imprisonment at
hard labor in the peniten tiary.
Col. George Northrup, a weIl-known
railroad man aud drill-master of the
De Molay Commspdery Of Louisville.
was on Monday sdjudged lunatic in
the circuit Court in that city.
AlviDa Gsltzsr of Philadelphia, 8
years old, died on Sunday evening frum
concuesion OF ,he brain, the result OF,
injuries received on Thursday b. reing
shrown from sled.
Ex-Alderman nj Quade, convicted of
bri5e, was sentenced In
New York. on Monday, to seven years.
mo mprisonment and payment of fire Of
IS, 5,0o0.
The annual exhibition OF the Penn
'ylvania State Poultry Society will
,pon tomorrow In Horticultural Hall.
There will also be bench show of dogs.
The returns Of the recent election on
ibe liquor question in Clarke County,
Virginia, show that the Prohibitionists
we're defeated by 500 majority.
A banquet was given last evening by
,ltizens of philadelphia to Justin Mo
Jarthy at DooneI's Hotel. About 100.
persons were present.
frank" jackson, the reputed leader
of the Fort Worth train robbers, Is re-
ported to have been captured il the In
iian Territory, Monday,
Rsv. Silas Wiggin, aged 75 years.
committed suicide by hanging, ct Sat.
on, Vermont, on Satu-6 ay.
The knitting mills ct Amite.dara,
Nav York, are now running tall,
landed.