Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-03-13
NEWS SUMMARY.
sHohETARx BAXARD AND EXTRA
DITION-WIND AND RAIN.



Secretary Bayard on Friday tala
grsphed the District ATTORNEY IN Nav
York that the Consul in Havana "a"
ported the arrest of OK Sheriff Davidson
OF New York. and the Secretary 0avs
instructions as to extradition III Dsv n,
sons offences were such as to warrans
extradition- The District ATTORNEY "A.
pied that there are in his ofioe M
indictments or charges upon which
DAVIDSON might be extradited.o
| At Akron, Ohio, on Thursdav Holm
Wilson carelessly threw q ouantitv m
powder into stove in a grocery store !
lts Ignition eau sed the explosion of a
large quantity Of po owder, which W rech.
60 the building, and dangerously. IL
not fatally, injured Wilson and two
IN the Baptist Congress at Danville,
virginia, on Friday, Professor Wins
you, OF hicnmond, read q paper, in
winch he took the ground that estate
colleges fer males ought TO be onenad
to females desiring to push their s,sdise
beyond tbe curric1lum OF the average
female school, -.~--tsf- .i--ss0
A severe wind and snow storm nre-
vailed In Colorado from Wednesday
night until Thursday noon. SNOW feil
to the depth Of fifteen inches, drifting
In some places to a depth OF three or
four feet. Travel on the mountain rail.
roads Was interrupted.
A telegram from Buffalo says that ON
rrioay an unknown man walked from
tne lower suspension bridge, on the
canada side of the Niagara river, to
Cedar Island, beyond his depth, and
was carried over the Horseshoe Falls.
The fourteenth game Of the chess
match between Steinitz and Zukertort.
At New Orleans on Friday, resulted in
a.draw. OF the games thus far played.
Steinitz has won 6, Zukertort s, and
have been drawn.
The House Committee on Indian
Affairs yesterday agreed to report IA
vorably o bill to grant right of way
through the Indian Territory to the ST.
Louis and San Francisco Railroad Com.
pany.
The total amount of ice cut in the
Kennebec river, Maine, this season ia
estimated at 100000 tons, which is
400 900 tons less than last winter. There
remain 150. 600 tons of old ice on hand.
The two large mills of the Gambo
Powder Company, eleven miles from
Portland, Maine, blew up on Thursday
afternoon. Clarence Clary was killed
and Henry Hooper fatally injured.
A strange disease, called "brain fever
or jaundice," hss appeared among the
horses in Campbell county, Virginia.
Seventy 6ve animals have died of it
within q few weeks.
The schooner Anne Lord, from Car
denas for Philadelphia, put in yeeter-
day at Smithville, North Carolina, with
most OF her sails gone. Her mate was
washed overheard on the 9th inst.
The Committee on Ways and Means
on Friday heard representatives of the
Amalgamated Iron and Steel Workers
In opposition to any reduction Of tho
tariff.
Peter Bias, colored, shot and killed
Annie Blackus, also colored, and then
fatally wounded himself, in q drunken
quarrel, in Washington, on Friday
night.
Joseph Force, of Rosella, and Andrew
Corsa, of Milton, were killed at Linden,
N. j., on Thursday evening, while driv-
ing across the railroad track.
A fresh outbreak of hog cholera has
been discovered In East Middlesex,
Ont, and that section has been Quaran-
tined.
The Mrs. Hancock fund in New York
on Friday received So, 200, making the
total $40. .636.