Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-01-05
News Summary.
aAI y6E HAT FACTORY Destroy
ED BY FIRE-HEAvY RAINS
IN ACEOR PARALYZED.
MORE PLEURO-PNEUMONIA

Pennsyi Ivan, o, causing o rise In the Sus
ouehanna ri yer and Its tributar1 o.
sweooinu away bridges over the smalier
streafns and ca, ssing landsiides on the
PhiIadelphia an, l Erie Railroad, near
Williamsport. was decided to send
out NO freight trains from Williamsport
last night.
DIR. ID. Hamilton. Of New Orleans
was KILLED by falling FROM south
bound train on the Louisville and Nash
Vile Railroad, near Monrl ,omory, Ala
bama, lsst night. He WA on the way
home from Nashville WITH his daughter
and they had in charge tbs body OF her
/ son, who had been nocideA tally snot
dead near that city.
The Treasury Department. decides
| that lace shawls are duitabae In accor-
Idance with the material OF which they
are manufactured, IS, for instance, six
/ lace sha .gls are liable to n duty OF 90
per cent. ad vAlorem cotton lace, ~
psr cent. ad valorem, and linen lace,
Il 80 per cent. ad valorem.
Dunlsp's hat factory In Brooklyn,
New York, was destroyed by hre on
MONDAY morning. The loss iss estima-
ted at $3.50. 600. About 200 persons are
Thrown out Of employment. It 70 sup
posed that the fire was started by
Newfoundland dog overturning q can
of coal oil, which ignited from stove.
The Register and Receiver Of 9ubltc
LANDS at Pueplo, Colorado, reports that
he recently held hearing In twenty
four cases of illegal homestead entries,
which had been Investigated by special
Iagents of the department none OF the
claimants appearing, the entries were
; Cancelled.
The Warrior river has risen go feet at
Tuscaloosa, Alabama. At Greensboro,
in the same State, g inches Of rain have
fallen in eighteen hours. Nearly all
: 1.-The railroads in Alabama have been
damaged by washouts, but the inter
ruption has lasted only few hours.
The season OF 3" American Opera" in
New York opened in the Academy Of
Music last night. The audience was
: | large and enthusiastic. and the perfor-
nance Of the opening opera, the
. .. .."Taming Of the Shrew, appears 70 have
been pronounced success.
IL In the Superior Court at Atlanta
/, yesterday Judge Ozark dismissed the
' lpetition of the liquor men for .
e Imandamus to compel the Ordinary 70
n hear the contest over rhe prohibition
d election. The case will now 90 to the
/. supreme OOuEbs
New cases OF leuro-pneumonia have
been discovered on the farm OF A. b.
1t Fry, near Masonville, Lancaster county,
toI Penna. Twenty. Ave animals are At
he fected In o herd of one hundred. The
4 State authorities have been notified.
otI The re being some cases OF typhus
,lfI fever in the Albany Peniten tiary,
stl Judge Macarthur, holding the Criminal
e. Court in Washington, has been directed
es 10 temporarily suspend the sentencing
n of convicts to that penitentiary
er Thomas W. Keene, the actor, wai
1t, stricken with paralysis ct reception IL
IN Kansas City on Sunday night. 1t Y
no thought he will recover, but that 1t Will
er be some time before he can reappear or
In the stage.
'e' The President will probably nominat'
10 an Assistant Treasurer for New YORK 70
no day or tomorrow with the view OF hav.
ling him If confirmed by the Senate TAX
charge of the subtreasury on Monday
80 ,Inext.
~ The forge shops and rolling mill o
the K, ID. Clapp Company at Auburn
~ New York, were burned on Sunda,
,e' night. Loss, sac, 600; insurance, $2o,
on 900.
Inl 1t is believed in Washington that
,te General Miles will soon supersede Gen
at eral Crook in command Of the troop
ed operating against the Indians in AR
ie. zona.
to s. Rosenthal,a q furniture dealer of Mil
he waukee, has been arrested on the charR
Ily of libeliing rival merchants. he hs
nd been held in $4,000 bail.
III John e. Owens, the comedian, wa
'ty on Monday taken from his country sea
Ike to his house In Baltimore. There ts II
tie change in his condition.
The Lynn National Bank Of Lynn
Massachusetts,, has been authorized
"a begin business with capital OF $l0O, 90