Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-04-17
NEWS SUMMARY.
DECORATION FOR GRANT,s
GRAVE ON MEnORIAL DAY.
s25 900 for q Memorial ColIege-vot
ing Lists All TO be Examined in
Rhode Isiand-G -Gladstone's
Bili Approved.

IA meeting of the citizens of st. John,
New Brunswick, was held ON Thursday
evening, to consider the propriety Of
sending o decoration for the grave Of
General Grant on Memorial Day. A
committee was appointed TO carry ont
the plan. It 10 proposed that the me-
mortal shall take the form Of an eveI-
green shaft, seven feet In height,
decor ated with immortelles, and bear
ing suitable Inscriptions.
Cornelius, william K, Frederick W.
and George W. Vanderbilt have given
to the College Of Physicians and Sur
geons In New York $3.50 600 for the
erection, as memorial of their father,
of o building on the college land ai
Sixteenth street and Tenth avenue, to
be known AZ 1.-THE Vanderbilt Clinic Of
tho College of Physicians and Sur
geons." The erection of the building
win begin 1t orce.
A telegram from Newport says it Ia
Understood that "the voting lists In
every city and town in Rhode Island
are to be examined to ascertain when
each voter registered and By whom hil
tax was paid, with q view to obtaining
n decision Of the Supreme Court as e
the legality Of votes cast by person.
whose regis cry taxes have been paid by
others" The object is TO overthrow thu
prohibition vote II possible.
At q public meeting in Montreal OF
Thursday night, which was attended by
the Mayor, Aldermen, members Of Par
lament and leading citizens, resolution
were passed approving Mr.. GiadstoneIi
Home Rule bill
DR.. 7. 8. Taylor, q wealthy residen
lof Norwood, Long Island, shot ant
killed his coachman on Thursday
while giving an exhibition Of his skill
as marksman by shooting bottles OF
the coachman's head.
The First National Bank of Angelica
New York, suspended yesterday, be
cause, 1t 10 alleged, of a defalcation O
1850, 900 on the part Of its cashier, j. 4
Robinson, who had been speculating Il
wheat
The Governor Of Tennessee on Fri
Iday appointed W. @. Whitthorn U. s
ISenator from that State, To succee
Howell K. jackson, appointed U. s
Circuit Judge.
Michael Eagan, 10 years Of agt
hanged himself In Chicago on Thursda
Ievenipg. His mother IL dead, and b
had "for some time been deeply en-
grossed in reading lurid literature"
| A great ice "shove" in the St. Law
renee river caused lnuch damage I
property in Montreal on Friday, hoot
a ling the low lying streets and cellars.
Q The mills of the WaycrGss Lumb'
? Company, at Waltertown, GeorRii
e were burned on Friday. The loss is est
i. mated at $50. 900, insurance $4,000.
Robert Hamilton's tobacco factory, I
I Covington, Kentucky, was burned G
FRIDAY morning. Loss $4,000, covert
y by insurance.
~ The President on Friday nominate
. q John O. Kelley to be Postmaster at U
= cinnati, and MrL Virginia 9. Thorn
Ison TO be Postmistress at Louisville.
nj News has reached San Francisco th
, French feet is at Papeiti, one Of t
Society Islands It Is believed {
Ie French are about to annex the group.
Of The steamer Africa was burned to I
waters edge at Owen Sound, Ontar
Q on Thursday night Loss $4,000.
OF The local option election in Botetot
o. County, Virginia, has resulted in
majority of 357 for license.