Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-02-10
News Summary.
FRAUDULENT USE OF THE
MAILS-AMERIOAN CIrIZENB
To BR RPB0REoTED.
ADVANCE OF WAGES.

Thomas g. Carlock, president Of the
Texas Oklahoma Homestead Colony %
was arrested in Denisop, Texas. on
Monday, on charge of using the mails
for fraudulent purposes, and WAS CON-
aitted in default Of bail. His plan
were ito induce parties who were solicit
ted to join the colony to send him two
dollars, which would eutitle them TO
membership and homestead of l0@ acres
of land"
In the Senate OF New Jersey on
Tuesday the nomination OF Allen L.
McDermott as Clerk in Chancery was
confirmed. The Local Option bill was
passed-yeas 10, nays 5. Bwth Senate
and House adopted resolutions express
siye of sorrow for the death of General
Hancock, and then adjourned.
The annual encampment OF the State
u. A. H., commenced In Scranton, Pa,,
to day. About 800 delegates were pres
ent aud zoe honored guests. A ine
parade was given with Z, 900 of the g.
A. r. men, the National Guards and
citizens In line. Last night the annual
campfire was held.
The Baptist ministers of Chicago. ON
Monday, adopted resolution, declar-
ing II impossible to raise $500 900 to
pay an insurance COMPANY Tor the
property OF the University of Chicago,
and recommending that "steps be
taken towards q new baildiDg."
A riot is reported to have occurred at
Ronald, Virginia, on Monday night,
growing out of An attempt by twenty
drnaken negroes to take the town."
Help was sent from Christianburg TO-
the villagers, and the rioters Were
quelled, Ave of them being lodged in
jail.
The U. 8. steamer Brooklyn has sail
ed from Key West for Aspin wall to
assist the U. 8. steamer Tennessee, nov
at that port, in protecting the in terests
OF American citizens In the event OF
further trouble on the Isthmus.
The Fischer murder trial at Wilkes.
barre resulted ON Tueeday in o verdict
of murder In the second degree against
Frederick Walter, Charles Sharpe and
Henry Close. They will be sentenced
on Saturday.
Mra. Benjamin Rule, aged so years,
wife OF q wealthy resident OF Belleville,
New Jersey, committed suicide ON
Tuesday by cutting her throat with a
razor. She was despondent on account
of sickness.
By the premature explosion of giant
powder In the quarry Of Charles Moore,
at franklin, Penna., on Monday, Moore
and man named Nilts were terribly
injured. Nilts is not expected to re-
cover.
A Chinese gambling house in st.
Louis, managed by All Shaw, was raid
. ed by the police on Monday night. Siz
Il man and q loP0o n ~ 10
were captured.
Robert Scott, clerk In the bondei
q warehouse OF Bode s. Earl, atSan Fran
: cisco, has been arrested on the charge o
embszzling nearly $40, 600 from his em
Iployers.
Henry l.. Sanders, q convict in tn
4 lpenitentiary at Chester, Illinois, com
= mitted suicide on Monday night b,
,.Ijumping from the top of the quarry
v ledge to the rock seventy feet below.
IS Notices of q general advance of tel
It per cent. in wages from March 1st hay
II been posted in nearly all the cottoi
/. mills of New Bedford, Concord, Man
9 chester and Lowell, Massachusetts,.
= The annual mpment of the Crane
q Army of the Republic of Pennsylvanii
: opened on Tuesday In Scranton, abou
800 delegates being present.
! A waUerspout, accompanied by ,
= shower of hailstones as large as dove
'. eggs, passed over the district OF Vega
y Cuba, ON Tuesday, destroying the crop
y In many Of the fields.
n Henry Duncan and Ellen MoCarth,
q were found suffocated to death by Goa
e gas in hovel ut Rochester, New York
"a on Monday afternoon.
vi William a. Crane, the comedian, VIII
II Is sick in Chicago, Is reported to be re-
b covering, though still confined to hi
k bed.
'sl 1t is expected that Mr.. Morrison
" Tariff bill will be laid before the Way
9 and Means Committee to-day.
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