Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-09-07
NEWS SUMMARY.
Ran Ofr TnE ERACK-rAHFsgp sen
AND FEATHLRED.
NO .hain for Fourteen Months-secre,
conference OF Labor Organizations
Explosion of Natural Gas.

| Simon Dolph, farmer, of Mansfield
Olio, was ses upon q week ago by com,
OF ms neighbors, strung up until b,
was insenstble and then tarred. feather
cd and ordered to leavs town within
ten days, on penalty Of death. Yester
day he began suit for t2O, 600 DANA ge,
against twelve persons, including twt
women, for theoutrage. The neiphbor
charged Dolph with "talkipg scauda
lously about all the women in the
neiahoorh9 but be denies this
several OF his perseo ators have fad
from the county.
The National Ctnyenti n of tho p ;.
man Catholic Central Verein of tn,
United States opened on MONDAY in
Toledo, Ohio. One hundred and 6ftv
delegates were present. represen tin q
societies in eightetn different States
fhe AFTERNOON WAS devoted TO a GRAND
parade in connection with the STAT
Convention OF Catholic Knights OF Ohio
which body also met on Monday. Over
(2,509 men were In lins.
A mob of one hundred persons drove
In wagons to the county jail at Lake
City, Michigan, on Sunday night, for
the purpose of lynching Craft and Mrs.
BRASS, In prison for the murder of the
latter's husb band. The would be lynch
ers were armed with revolvers, rifles,
6attering rams and ropes" but the
Sheriff persuaded them to desist.
An excursion train, carving mem.
Ders Ct the Brotherhood of LOGON olive
engineers, from Elstop, Penna to
Scranton, on Sunday night ran to the
rear or Q train at Glendon, and engine
and several cars wrecked. G.. W. Dye.
nreman, was killed, and Frederick Yec
man, engineer, dangerously injured.
There has been no rain 10 Jones and
stonewall counter, Texas, for fourteen
months. and most of tie settlers have
ieft. Thcse who remain, about 400
families, are in state of extreme des-
tltutlon. 1t Is believed that through
out the drought-affected section perhaps
8 goo families are destitute.
a number Of delegates from labor or
ganizations In Connecticut held a se-
to cor slider the expediency OF senarats
political action. In the afternoon a
State ticket was nominated, headed by
Herbert G Baker for Governor,
General Miles arrived at Fort Bowie
on sunday night last with Geronimo.
Natch.z and several other prisoners
captain Lawton, with the rest OF the
hostiies, mum bering thirty-fve, is ex.
pected to arrive at Fort Bowie to.mot-
row.
Il. 2. Hammond, a "Professor" In
Cernwallis, Oregon. "foretells terrific
cyclones, earthquakes aud tornadoes for
Septem Der 26. " and 49," He also
makes the safer pred iction that "cyclo.
NC disturbances may be expected Sep.
tember IA and 49,"
Thomas F. Plunke:t, President OF the
Hartford Silk Company, of Hartford
connecticut, and Treasurer Of the Union
Manufacturing Company of Manches-
Ter, disappeared a week ago, and re.
ceiver was appointed for the SILK Com.
pany yesterday.
A railroad train ran off tha trsck
near Mi ford, Kansas, on Sunday, fs-
tally 1nJuring w. W. Walton, proplie.
tor of the Clay Centre "Dispatch" and
sx Speaker of the Kansas House. The
hreman and engineer were severely
scalded.
A lighted lantern was taken into a
well IN course OF excavation near War
W AhotSi JNeboAuoy hDu AL eXplC-
sion of natural gas followed. Henry
Miller was killed, JoLn Hope probsb
fatally injured, and two Others were
terribly burned.
Special Agent Sedgw;ck has finished
his investigation of The Cutting matter
In the City of Mexico and gone to Chi
huahua, "having obtained permission
from the Mexican Government to look
at all the records in the case.'
The New York Commercial Bulletin
estimates that the fire loss in the United
States and Canada in August at Sl3 ,O0O, Il
o00 or 80 per cent. above the usual Au
gust average. Included in the above is
an estimate OF $4,000, 900 for forest fires.
Norah Engart, a good looking girl oil
l8 has brought suit in Waba3h, Iudi-
ana, against Marshall Kid-io. sic, al
Miami Indian, for breach of promise OIL
She demands $4,000 damages
Jshn Ross, James Hurley and William
Martin were seriously injured by the
fall OF an elevator in Armour g Co. 81
house at the Chicago stock
ards on Sunday.
There was light snow in Helena,
Montana, on Sunday night, with the
temperature at 81 degrees.
Base Bail,