Daily Republican., 1886-04-13
NEWS SUMMARY.
10 sErrLE IN MEXICO
.-MURDER AND sUlCIDE.
rae Bardwsii's Ferry Disastsr-Deatrue
tive Fires-Death Of . Victim of
the Pemberton MIL Fire.

II 10 reported from Portland, Oregon, ,
that "letters were received by the last
Chinese mail by agents OF the Six Com
panies stating that an English, German
and Chinese syndicate had entered into
n contract with the Mexican Govern.
ment, whereby the syndicate agreed TO
send SOC, 900 Chinese to Mexico within
the next twelve months. The Mexican
Governments agrees TO give each China.
man twenty acres of land" Sixty
Ohinamen left Portland last week for
Mexico, and others are now preparing
TO leave.
The Railrosd Commissioners Of Mas
sachusstts on Monday began an inves.
tiRation of the cause Of the recent dis.
aster near Bardwell's Ferry. A. W.
Locke, General Manager OF the Troy
and Greeniiel Railroad, testified that
at tho point where the disaster occurred
the rails were 100 feet above the water
level, and the slope was 175 feet long.
"From o change In the position Of q
large boulder he believed that the
whole bank hpd moved" t~
The Evangelical Coafersnce OF Iili-
nois, In session &c Fraepeft, on Monday
adopted resolutions endorsinR absoluts
prohibition OF the liquor traffic, oppoe-
ing the enactment Of any In ws that force
protection or continuance Of that trAffic,
and iavoring every national measure
contributing toward the suppression OF
the manufacture and sale Of intoxicat-
ing liquor ~ q beverage.
John Miller, injured ct the Pember
ton Mill Ere, in Lawrence, Mass, died
on Sunday. Florence Mccarthy, q
brakeman on the Boston and Lowell
railroad, hearing false report that his
brother In Law had been killed at the
fire, tainted and fell under his train.
Both his legs were cut of, and he also
died on Sunday.
The Boston block, In Minneapolis.
MINI, was burned Monday. The loss
|is estimated mt about $226. 900, divided
rs follows: Building, $60. 1000; post
office, $500; Miller Brothers, hard ware.
500, 600; tenants In offices, S76, 900. The
total insurance approximates S4e0. 900,
OF which S52, 900 is on the building.
A telegram from Panama reports
that on the 20th ult. an explosion oc-
CURED on board the small iron steamer
Columbia, ut. the island OF Tumaco.
Fifteen persons were killed and twenty.
two seriously Injured. The steamer
was completely, destroyed.
Captain Croweil, Of the steamer Nor
mAn, at Boston, on Monday, reports:
April 10, at 8 .. m, passed eunken
wreck with spars six feet ont OF water.
The wreck bears n. 4. three quarters
e. 4 8 miles from Barnegat, and south
35 miles from Fire Island.
At Mahanoy City, PennA-, on Mon
40 svanRnNnn Il W pROzn q natneaP
shot and mortally wounded his wife
and then attempted suicide, but oAly
slightly wounded himself. Jealousy
was the cause.
John Wagner, . farmer, Of Lincoln
Wisconsin, on Monday morning killed
James Moe, with whom he Quarrelet
about some land. A mob surrounded
WaRner's house and threatened TO lyncl
him, whereupon he committed suicide
A freight train on this Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad was wrecked by q land
slide thirty miles east OF Oonnellsville
Pa, ON Sunday night. John CofmaD
tngineer, was killed, and the fireman
was badly Injured.
The steamer Europa, which grounded
off Quogue, Long Island, on the 4tl
inst, was hauled of on Monday, patched
up and sent to New York.
Ellis Eagle, aged 81 years, AID Ernes
Hooker, aged 20. were drowned on Sun
day morning by the capsizing Of n boa
In the Mohawk river, near Schenectady
N. Y.
Miles Andrews and Jarret Thoma
were drowned by the upsetting Of n skif
In the Kanawha river, at Brighton, w
Va, on Monday.