Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-07-28
NEWS SUMMARY.
A LARGE AMOUNT OF GRAIN DE,
STRONED By A HAIL STORM,
Disngured For Ltfe-suiphuric A cid not
Holy Water-ColIapse of a Build-
ing-Texas Cattle Fever.

hoiy yWater-ColIapse of a Build
ing-1exas Cattle Fever,
a telegram from Reading, Pa. SAYS
the recent heavy rains have wash ed a
large amount of refuse into q spring
| from which the employees of the g Ias.
gov Iron Company, at Potts,ovu, get
drinking water. In conseu uepce over
forty men are suffering with typhoid
fever, ana many OF them are in p criti-
cal condition. The works are 20 de-
pleted that the company is unable to
man two furnaces.
Texas fever has broken out among
lot of graded cattle taken to Be zeman.
Montana, from Kansas City. Twenty
one have already die d, and the rest
nave been quarantined. Stockmen
fear the disease will spread, as a drove
of 35, 900 head of cattle, from which
this lot caught the fever at Nilsson ri
Valley, Iowa, are now being driven
into the Territories.
A two-story brick building in st.
Louis, occupied on the first floor by
manufacturer of musical instruments.
and on the second by john Gam BILE and
family, collapsed at 10 80 O'Clock on
Monday night. The wife and three
children Of Gamble were badly bruised.
The bu ilding was old, and had been
notoriously unsafe for some time.
Mrs. John Prill, being greatly fright
ened by the thunder storm in Pitts
burg on Tuesday morning, ran D stairs
TO her room TO sprinkle herself with
holy water. In the semi darkness she
TOOK, Instead of the holy water bottle, a
vial containing sulphuric acid and
dashed its contents over her head and
face. She will probably be 6ishgured
Tor life and lose her eyesight.
The grain destroyed by Saturdays
hail storm in Minnesota is estimated at
10000 bushels in the country tribu.
tary to Argyll, and 100 600 bushels in
the oc untry about Wsrren, together
with as much oats and barley. A St.
Thomas despatch ssys 10, 600 aores of
wheat in that section WAS destroy ed in
the same storm.
Oa application Of the Governor of
Missouri, who furnishes evidence that
no disease is prevailing among the
stock in that State, the Governor of
wyoming Territory yesterday issued a
proclamation relieving live stock COM
Ing from Missouri from the provisions
and restrictions of tie quarantine re-
Gently in force.
A freight train on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad broke in two near Mount
Airy, Baltimore, on Tuesday, aud the
rear part ran down a steep grade, col
liding with another freight train. The
engine of the rear train and several
loaded cars were badly wrecked and the
tracks blockaded.
A fire In Barbour s. Hamllton's
wholesale grocery and liquor store on
Pennsylvania avenue, in Washington,
on Tuesday night, caused damage to
the extent Of 5000. Major Harris.
the new Chief of the Fire Department,
was severely injured by falling through
the roof of the burning building.
Monsignor O'Brien, the Papsl Able.
gate, was on Tuesday afternoon, in
Montreal, presented with an address
signed by the president of the Irish Ma
tional Society. He acknowledged the
address with brief speech, In which
he stated that he was an ardent advc-
cate OF Home Rule for Ireland,
Andrew Green, coiored, was hanged
yesterday at Denver, Colorado, in the
presence of 1000 people, for tie muir
der of Joseph G. Whitman, q street car
driver, committed in May last. kan
sas Withers, an accomplice, was gen.
fenced to the penitentiary for life.
Nathaniel Taylor, aged 12 years, was
accidentally shot dead by his 14-year-
old brother Ben jam in, while on dove
shooting expedition near Columbus.
South Carolina, yesterday.
A storm at Fort Assineboine, Da-
Bota, on Monday, blew down the
quartermaster's store, causing loss of
S50, 1000. "The buildings all rocked as
If in an earthquake.
An arch erected on jacques Cartier
Square, Montreal, in honor OF Cardinal
Taschereau, fell yesterday, killing an old
lady and morally wounding her
daughter.
The pallium was yesterday conferred
upon Archbishop Fabre, of sreal.
bv Cardinal Tasche-eau. There were
II 900 persons in and around the ca
thedral.
Prince Fushime, son of the Emperor
of Japan, was expected to arrive in
Washington late on Tuesday night.
and to be presented to the President
today.
The steamboat New Iberia Was
burned at Algiers, louisiana, on Tues-
day. A tow beat and a barge near bv
had their upper works burned eff.
Three hundred hos carriers in Louie-
vile struck on Tuesday for an advance
Of 20 cents per day.
Amandus Diefenderfer was kt led by
lightning near Maoungie, LehiRh
County, Pa, on Tuesday evening.
Temperance In Mill Creek.
Fairview Lodge, No. s, 1. o. o, g. T.,