Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-04-22
NEWS SUMMARY.
THE sHAKY COURT HOUSE AT CHI.
CAG0-LICENsE Or NO LICENSE.
Bar mill Destroyed by Fire-e1, ,ee5. .OOO
Damage by Wster-The Destitute at
East Leo Being Cared For.

Another huge stone fell from the
upper part Of the Court House building
In Chicago on Wednesday morning. and
caused Q panic among the passers By.
high fence has been built around the
shaky structure, preventing the flying
pieces from ipjuring any one. "It 10
hoped by the authorities that various
loose stones which are ON the ragged
edge can be induced TO keep their posi-.
tions until the men who are at work
attempting TO repair the building can
remove them BY means Of derricks."
Local elections were held In many
towns of Illinois on Tuesday, and In
the majority of cases where the contest
was between license and NO license the
former was victorious. At Joliet, Pax.
ton, Urbana. Belvidere, Rockford, Mon
mouth, Warren, Mount Sterling and
Lincolp the license and high license
aldermen are now in the majority. At
Henneptn, Dwight, Anna, Monticello,
Plano and other smaller towns the Pro-
hibitions were victorious.
A late estimate of the damage by
the food st Montreal, places the aRere-
gaze at ii, 7S6. 900, TO VIII ich should be
sdded $40 900 for repairs of streets and
$4,000 for losses by the gas and electric
light companies. The water is receding
steadily and the river is clear of ice at
several points. "All along the st..
Lam bert shore In the city and extend.
ing far back into the fields, the coun-
try s white with the ice deposited
there"
A detailed list of the losses at East
Lee, Massachusetts,, caused by the
oreaking OF the dam, shows a total of
Sl66, $50. Of which $100, 900 is on Harri-
son Garfieid's paper mills. A commit
tee has been chosen for the relief of the
destitute, and Cyrus W. Field has tele-
graphed the Selectmen to draw upon
him for $1,000. The bodies of Ave of the
victims will be inferred to-day.
Eddie and Charley Kipsmeyer. AGED
twelve and seven years. and Charley
Kallerbach, aged ten, disappeared in
Quincy, Illinois, last September, aHd
it was thought they had been kid
mapped. On Tuesday their bodies were
found In sand bank on the river side.
They were probably killed by the
falling In OF the bank while digging q
cave.
All hope OF recovering the bodies Of
the 26 miners entombed at Nanticoke,
Penna has been finally given up. A
second bore hole was driven from the
tunnel to the main gangway, and it
was discovered on Wednesday that the
latter was Allied with quicksand and
water. This at once put stop to all
further operations.
The merchant bar mill at the PENN
sylvAnia steel works, at Harrisburg.
was yesterday destroyed by q are
caused by the explosion OF q lamp In
the oil rooD. Much Of the machinery
escaped material damage, and It Is be.
lieved that an insurance Of $40, 900 will
cover the loss.
James Harvey Towr send, Hiram
Davis and q boy named Jones were ON
Wednesday drowned while crossing the
river at Hadley, New York. Their
boat was forced over dam by floating
logs.
Gustav Mendelssohn, general sales
man for the wholesale dry goods house
OF Marshall. Field & Co, of Chicago,
committed suicide in O house of vile
repute in Milwaukee ON Wednesday
morning.
The New Yerk Assembly on Wednes-
day passed the bill repeating the char
ter of the Broadway Surface Railway
yeas 100, nays Is. The bill now goes
TO the Governor for his signature.
| The Patterson Dying and Fishing
Company's works at Riverside, New
Jersey, were burned yesterday morn
ing. Loss $1,000, nearly covered by
Insurance.
| The dead body of Laura Stern, aged
lS years, was found in the public school
grounds at Brunswick, Missouri, on
Tuesday morning. Foul play is feared.
The Governor of Louisiana has issued
| q proclamation esta ablishing q quaran-
| tine against vessels from South Ameri-
Can and West Indian ports after May
10th.
William Snedeker, charged with
completely in the lynching of Mingo
Jack at Eatontown, New Jersey, was
OF Wednesday released in $4,000 bail.
The town hall at Cornwall, Ontario,
which contains the jail, was partially
burned on Wednesday morning. Two
prisoners were burned to death.
John Welsh and William Stokes were
dangerously injured on Wednesday by
fall of slate at the Crabtree coal mines,
near Latrobe, Penna.