Daily Republican., 1886-06-24
NEWS SUMMARY.
THE PIRACY OASE-RET TALIATI0N
BY SALOON KEEPERS.
Poisoned by Drinking Water From q
Barrei-214 PeOp'e Poisoned
at Picnic.

A telegram from Milwaukee Gays:
"The case against Charles Reed, John
Moloney and Curtis Reed, who stole
the yacht Mamie from Kenotha while
on spree, and were overhauled by the
revenue cutter johnson, at Grand
Haven, Is exciting Considerable atten-
tion In court circles. AS the punish
ment for piracy is death, tbe District
Attorney wants to prosecute the prison.
ers under tbs State law for larceny, but
the owner Of the yacht objects, as he
thinks the punishment for the latter
crime is not severe enough"
At Eau Claire, Wis as o retslia,ory
measure against the Law and Order
League, which has caused the saloons
to be closed on Sundays, forty three
warrants. were issued on Wednesday for
the arrest Of employees of the Dells I'm
provement Company, on the charge Of
sorting logs on Sunday. The secretary
OF the company is included. The lead
ing mem bsrs Of the company are active
Law and Order Lsaguers. The Dells
Company sllege that Sunday work ID
necessary in order to protect it's vast
lumber interests"
The works Of the American Forcite
Company at Lake Hopatcong, Morris
County, New jersey, were destroyed by
nre and anexp]osion last Monday after.
noon. All the buildings used in the
manufacture of dynamite and other
explosives were destroyed and the loss
is estimated at $780, 900. One man was
slightly injured.
Sanford Bryan, col0red, and his wife
and three children have been poisoned
in Paris, Missouri, by drinking water
from q barrel in which poison was
dropped. Bryan and his wife ara in a
critical condition. A colored youth
with whom they had quArrelled is sus-
pected Of the poisoning.
Reinbold Wilhelm, a young baker
from New York, shot and mortally
wounded himself in Canton, Ohio,
Wednesday morning, becsuse his suit
for Mary Mock, aged 10 years, was for
hidden by her parents. The fellow is a
bisamist, having two wives and one
child living.
The number of persons poisoned at
last Thursday Is picnic in Hunterdon
County, New Jersey, was 214. Six Of
them are expected TO die and twenty
others are in . precArious position. 1t
Is now believed thAt arsenic was put in
the ice cream used by the picknicksrs.
Josu Hood, colored, WAS shot dead by
Policeman George Powell, while resist
ing arrest At York, Pa, Wednesday.
Hood had been beAting his wife, and
when the offiCar tried to arrest him he
seized she policeman's revolver, but
was himself shot II the scuffls that en-
sued.
Andrew Wiart, ESle, arrived in
Detroit on Tuesday from Toledo, and
met two men who undertook to show
him the city" They took him to the
him, with his skull fraotured, for lead.
His recovery is doubtful.
4 Maurice Joyce, Mayor of East st.
Louis, failed to appear as q witness In
Igambling cases AZ Belleville. last Mon
Iday, for which he was subp9uaed. The
Court attached him for contem pt and
fined him S5, which he paid.
New Brunswick is suffering from ex-
treme drought and large forest fires are
reported along the line of the Inter
Colonial Railway. The house of Judge
| Fischer, at Fredericton, was reached
and consumed on Tuesday.
The storm of Tuesday night and
Wednesday morning was very severe
at Atlantic City. A gale from the
| lGJutuO&bb uLbW III Uulh WluuOWbp up-
rooted trees and unroofed several
houses.
J. L. Bsrkey, aged 35 years. COM
mitted suicide In hotel in ST. Louis
yesterday because he had lost heavily
in speculations. He was for some years
a director of the Baltimore and Ohio
4 Railroad.
! A boat containing young people re-
turning from circus was upset in the
4 Rio Grande, at Brownsville, Texas, on
Tuesday night, and two young women
and young man were drowned.
Eleven men in Watorville, Maine,
were taken violently sick, with sYmp-
toms OF poisoning, after eating hashed
eat for break fast on Tuesday morn
ing. Their recovery is doubtful.
unprecedented" wheat aLG fruit
crops are reported in Southwest Viz
ginia. The harvest has begun.
Herbert Meaton, an English light
weight jockey, injured in race at
Sheepshead Bay on Tuesday, died yes
terday.
Hand made hammocks to order, at
Cos w. 9th street.