Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-01-25
News Summary,
DEATH or q US.EX-sEw ATOk FAs'
LEY-RO8BED AND BUhh'
ED TO DEATH.
A FOOL SHOOTS HIMSELF.

James T Farley, ox.U. .. oou.
from California, died on Friday Isst,
aged So years. He was . nauve %
Virginia, but removed, with bis pafonss,
10 California, where he adoppe1 .ns
profess,on Of the law. He was s.eoscI
10 tho State Assembly In loos, AAo
be same Speaker the foliowins
a.. .~ss ATS IA senator from 1850 20 1865,
aud United States Senator irom io's 70
1885
Joseph Bates and wife, an aged
couple, were burDtd 10 death Ut was
suppoaed) } In their house, near Ehora 10,
Ontario, on Saturday morning An
examiIalion OF the wODau's body
afterw ards discovered three knife
wounds and q fracture of the skull.
Her husbands body will be examined
today. The couple recently received a
large sum Of money from sale OF iive
stock.
Joseph Rankin, Representative In
Congress from the htth District OF Wis
oonsin, died on Sunday Ia Washin gton.
He served three years In tbe Union
army during the war, was In the Wis-
eopain Legislature eleven years, was
a, member of the last and re.eIecteo 10
the present Congress. He had not occu'
MED his teat since the day he was
sworn in, illness preventing him from
appearing in the house.
John lawson, a member OF hose
compan and an industrious mechanic,
" AZ driving 10 Conshohooken, Pepna:,
on Saturday evening In the company q
| express wagon when he fell or was
knocked of by limb OF o tree and ni'
neck broken by the hind wheels OF ths
wagon. He leaves wife in poor heaitt
and Ave children.
The first suit By the Chicago Reform
IAlllauce to compel the saloons OF tha
lefty to close on Sundays, IN comp'i'
Iapce with the State law. was tried OF
Saturday before justice OF the poac'
and n jury. The fact OF saloon oeinl
Iopen wss conceded by the defendants
but the Jury returned verdict OF no
iguilty.
A telegram from Shonhone, Idahc
Isays tha. 18 car loads OF Idaho cattle
Ifattened on clover hay, were loAde
IBaturday at Cald we'll for the ChicAg
market. This In the hrst train load
winter fed cattle shipped this seAso
over the Oregon Short Line. Tho rui
ming time WAS made thirty miles =
D hour.
The Tax and O.der Leagus of Oh
I lcinnaii on Saturday obtained write
and oral agreement from all the thea
Q itical managers 10 give no more Sunna
performances, the League promising
gu Its part. TO turn Its attention 70 u
closing Of the saloons on Sundays.
George Il. Langbein, Jr., twenty. hN
years OF age, shot himself dead In No
York on Saturday night, because d
yorced woman for whom he had
4 passion evinced preference for anoth
fellow.
u Alice halter, aged fourteen year
] was arrested in Buffalo on Friday mig
for ArsoE. 1t is charged that the mig
before she desired 10 go TO @ party vi
her employ yer's family, and being J
Il fused, set fire 10 the house.
At Sherbourne, New York, on SAtu
n Iday morning, Russell Palmer, aged
years, and Charles Newton, aged
q were killed by the explosion OF boil
while baliug hay.
n Work was begun on Saturday
' Roach 3 shipyard at Chester on an ir
steamship for the Brazilian Nj
Steamship Line. II is the first ves
started there for more than year.
Jesse G. Wickersham and his "
were found murdered in their hoJ
n near Cloverdsle, California, on Frids
y Ah Ksi, their Chinese cook, who B
" disappeared, 10 suspected OF the erin
Joseph Leitner Was thrown inte
snowdrift from his sleigh near Joli
Illinois, on Friday night. When tou
I next morning he was frozen TO death
A Kerosene engine exploded ct Ma
a chester, New Hampshire, on Saturdi
dangerously injuring its inventor, II
othy Stevens, and two other persona.
About thirty cases OF smallpox
reported at San Antonio, Texas.