Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-02-18
NEWS SUMMARY.
haOrER@ SAHGED-MAHL WORKS
hURNED-TRAaNB RUMM.
ING ON Time.
THE BIG COTTON TRADE.

Through trains now ran between
Boston and Providence on achedule
time, bnt 1t 10 uncertain when they viii
run TO New York. The floods. however.
are subsiding throughout the greater
part OF New England. 1t IL estimated
that 5000 persons have bsen tenn porarilv
thrown o1t of employment by the
freshet In Lowell. There is great dis.
tress among the people of the flooded
district in Boston, and much sickness
Is expected.
HetEel, Bales, Gooding and Frazer.
leaders In the recent auti-Chinese rios
1t olympia. Washington Territory, have
been placed In the penitentiary TO await
the meeting of the United States Grand
Jury In june. A large number of
Ohinamen left Olympia on Tuesday for
Portland. Tho knights Of Labor of
lOlympia deny participation in the riot.
ana volunteer assistance to enforce the
laws.
| La st. Louis, on Tuesday, Thomas
Aubuschon, one of the riotous street
cor strikers, who is charged with hav-
ing participated In an attack ON q
union Line car, Smashing sHs Window
ana breaking open the mouey -box.-wnE
acquitted by the jury. His case was
regarded as one Of those most likely to
| result In o conviction.
The body Of Rev. Jesse B. Braly, of
Nortonville. Kentucky, was found in
tne river at Oarondelet, near st. Louis.
on Tuesday afternoon. Letters found
upon him indicated that he had COM
mitted suicide through fear of the result
OF an investigation Of his private hab-
| its.
By an accident on the Ohio Central
railroad, near Point Pleasant, West
Virginia, on Tuesday night, two pas
eengers, named Searlss and Humphreva.
were killed, and several others were
slightly injured. The passenger car
fell into stream and the passengers
were drenched.
Charles E. Sutton, Republican, was
elected Mayor Of Wilkesbarre, on Tues
day, by $50 majority. There were nine
candidates for Mayor In the field, the
principal rival Of Sutton being General
William Il. Mccartney, recently de-
feated ~ the Republican candidate for
District Attorney.
The dead body Of Peter Higgins of
Elcho Township, Antrim County, Micht.
gan, was found Wednesday under q
pile Of manure. There were deep
gashes in the back Of the head. The
dead mans widow Is under surveil-
lance, and his brother George has been
arrested.
A telegram from Augusta, Georgia.
says the cotton goods trade is looking
up. Stores are exhausted and factories
In and near Augusta are running to
their full capacity. The mills are
working At small margin of profit for
the first time in three years.
George 9. Cannon reached Salt Lake
Oity Wednesday, In custody Of the
United States Marshal. and waa IA.
leased in S45, 900 bail. He tempted
TO escape by jumping from the train ON
the way from Salt Lake and broke his
nose, besides suffering some severe
bruises.
A despatch from Palmer, Massa-
chusetts, says one OF the stone piers OF
the bridge at Three Rivers has been
washed away. If the river rises the
bridge may collapse. The bridge at
West Bromfield has been carried away
by the Ice.
The nail works at Crescent, Pa, ON
the Northern Central Railway, owned
by William WeiRhtmau, OF Philadel.
phia, and operated by the Standard
Nail Company, Of Philadelphia, were
burned yesterday morning. Loss $4O,-
600.
Mexican cavalry scouts captured q
portion of 1.100 rifles smuggled across
the Rio Grande from Texas into Tamau.
lipas. 1t is supposed they were intended
for revolutionists.
The crater of the volcano of Colima.
In Mexico, ts diminishing in size, but
the eruptions continue. The inhabitants
OF the surrounding country "Are fearful
of coming disaster
At the North Middleborough (Massa.
chusetls) Railroad bridge on Wednes--
day morning the road bed caved for q
distance Of $50 feet and four freight
cars were thrown into the stream.
st. Hedwig's Polish Church, in To-
ledo, Ohio, the scene of more or less re-
lisious trouble during the last three
years, was destroyed by an inceudiary
fire on Wednesday night.
A large portion of the business SEC
tion OF Augusta, Wis, WAS destroyed
by fire yesterday morning. Loss $4O.-
600
The cattle in Montana suffered very
little during the recent cold spell. It Is
not expected that the losses for the
season will average per cent.