Daily Republican., 1886-09-25
News Snnmarx

There was o riot on Thursday between
section msn and cittzsns on the Chicago,
VipcenDes and Cairo railroad, Ut Edgar
station, III. II appears that the ailroa'
company had removed q section boss
and put in new man The old hand |,
rebelled, and when the new overseer
and his men went to sork o fght en-
sued. Citizens on both sides joined In
and four men were won 1ded, two Of
them fatally.
At the Jaysville iron mines, near
WatertowD, N. Y, ON Thursday, q
charge OF dynamite having been fred,
the foreman William Apple, and two
workmen, Felix Basse and Frank
blackburp, descended to obs erve the
result. They had scarcely entered
when mass OF rock fell, instantly
killing Basse and Blackburn. A de-
pression In the rock saved the life of
Apple, but he was badly injured.
A telegram from Lancaster, Wiscou.
sin, reports the formation OF co-opsra.
tive colony, which will emierate to
Topolobambo, Mexico, October 1st, on
grant Of 10, 900 acres of land from
the Mexican Govern ment. Ie will mum.
Der about 1000. and be cooperative
in every respect. Mexico grants the
vJ NANay SChOC15iOhos
Frank 8. Humphries was hanged
yesterday at Milledgevil!e, Georgia, tor
| murder and outrageous assault on
Carrie Bafnes and Ella Humphries-
his hinswomen-on the 4th of March
last. He confessed his guilt to the
Sheriff on Thursday night, but said
nothing upon the scafold.
Two sections OF an oil train on the
Allegheny Valley Railroad collided
near LoRansport, Penna, yesterday
morning, and both sections were de-
molished. The wrecked cars caught
nre and were consumed. Loss, $40 COO.
Failure to send back a fagman cauE ed
the disaster.
Mrs. O. II. Rudolph, aged %, COM
mittea suicide on Thursday In Balti
more, by shooting herself four times in
the breast. She was married few
weeks ago. Before her death she said
she was led bv an irrestible impulse
to shoot herself"
The clothing cutters strike in New
York having been declared "off," In
consequeDce OF the general lock out by
the employers, nnion and non. union
men are now working together in many
of the shops. TIE employers refuse to
discharge their DOE union hands.
A telegram from Burlington, Iowa,
say the Knights of Labor of that State
have decided not to name independent
Candid ates for Con 7ress, but to support
in each district the Republican or
Democratic nominee according as one
or tne other Is favorable to their cause.
The quadrennial session of the Metho.
dist General COME renee at Toronto, Just
closed, adopted resolutions for the ap.
tpointment of com mittee to watch any
legislation in regard to prohibition, and
to petition the Dominion Parliament
for better protection of young girls.
The British schooner Summerset ran
into and sank the schooner Mary Ann,
in the Bay Of St. Johns, Eewfound-
land, yesterday morning. Three me n
and woman were drowned in the
Mary Ann, ard one man was fatally
Injured by q falling spar.
i. P. f. Wallace, a railroad hand, was
arrested in st. Louis on Thursday night
on suspicion of having murdered The
Logan family, six In number, neal
ICuba, Missouri, last Wednesday even-
, ing. Wal ace is &c years of age.
d Ths Secretary of the Western Nail
Association says that at the meeting OF
} the association, in Pittsbur On Wed
nesday, the price Of nails was advanced
TO S2.20, card rate.
Right Rev. j. T. Shanaban, Bishop
jof the Roman Catholic Diocese Of Har.
risburg, died yesterday morning of
} acute congestion of the brain, after q
!, lew hours Illness.
> Wright Weldon, colored, was hanged
J yesterday at Ridgefeld, South Carolina,
for the murder of wealthy planter
named Lagrone, nearly two years ago.
Robbery was the motive of the crime.
A. 9. Strong, of Napierville, Illinois,
q Knight Tsmplar In attendance on the
con clave at ST. Louis, was killed neal
that city yesterday morning by being
run over by passenger train.
Boston's contribution to the Charles
s9n Relief Fund has reached the sum o
Sos. 124.