Daily Republican., 1886-02-24
NEWS SUMMARY.
THE GIsr OF THE NEWS FROM
THE MORNING rAPERs.
Attempted Suioide-A Novel Suicide
Thrown from the Traek-Confer-
enco In Session.

When the steamer Mariposa was
leaviog Honolulu for San Fran cisco on
the 14th inst. two tubes in the boiler
foom became disjointed and i've are
men we're struck by scalding water and
steam. John Whitemarsh and Richard
Carroll were killed and Thomas Han.
son fatally injured. The other two
escaped with slight injuries.
The East Pennsy lvania Conference Of
the Evangelical Church, comprising
levening. The con ference includes 200
churches and $1,000 mem bers. To-day
the regular business session will com
mence, with Bishsp Bowman, Of Allen.
town, presiding.
Solicitor General Goode said on Tues
day that nothing had yet been settled
In regard 10 the time and place of filing
the suit against the Bell Telephone
Company. 1t 10 expected however, that
the proceedings will be begun before
the close Of this week.
Wesley Elliott, n citizen of Shelby
Vile, ILL.,, WAS arrested on Monday
night for entering o saloon and turning
the faucets Of whiskey barrels, allowing
the liquor 70 run oat and causing loss
10 the owner OF $500. Elliott is total
abstinence fanatic.
James X. Winters, o young man was
found dead In his bed at Reading, Pa,
on Tuesday morning. He had COM
mitted suicide by fastening rubber
hose to the gas burner, firmly fixing
the other end in his mouth, and then
turning on the gas.
The old 6eventy-fourth Regiment
Armory in Buffalo, occupied as skat-
ing rink, was burned early Tuesday
morning. Loss, $50, 900; insurance,
Sl6, 900. Four firemrn were slightly
injured by falling wall.
Fritz Brar attem pted suicide beside
the body Of his dead wife, near Daven.
port, Iowa, on Monday. He gashed his
arms and wrists with razor, and had
nearly bled to death when discovered.
His recovery Is doubtful.
A passenger train on the Reading
railroad going from Pottsville to viii
Transport was thrown from the track at
'Tamaqua on Monday morning by q de.
fective switch. The cars tum bled dow n
an embankment and caught fire.
The New York Assembly last even
ing adopted resolution requesting the
Attorney General of the State 10 take
legal steps for the revocation of the
franchise OF the Broad way Surface
Railroad In New York CITY.
By the premature explosion Of blast
In the Bvansdale ooal mine at North
Industry, Ohio, on Monday evening,
Peter Miller and William Sollenthaler
were fatally injured. Sollenthaler died
In few hours.
At . mass meeting Of about 900 citi.
zsns OF Portland, Ore, held on Monday
night. 1t was resolve to appoint com.
mittee of nineteen to notify the Chinese
to oquit. No date for the quitting was
specified.
Arthur r. Barnes, aged eleven years.
and Ernest II. Stacey, aged thirteen,
were drowned In Boston ON Monday
night by breaking through the ice on
the Back Bay.
Two sections of a freight train collided
at Chattanooga on Tuesday morning,
and q train hand named Varnell was
killed.
Mannheimer's dry goods house, 9
marble building In st. Paul, Minnesota,
was destroyed BY Are Tuesday to the
extent of more than 500 900.
Mrs. Gsllivan, sged 20 years. was
burned to death at Frankford, Ont. on
Tuesday morning. while trying to light
q fire.
Minnie Rosenberg, aged 4 years, was
suffocated TO death in q fire In Divis-
ion street tenement In New York on
Tuesday morning.
The Senate ON Tuesday confirmed
Charles b. Harmon to be u. 8 Marshal
for Maine, and Alfred B. Judd to be
Pension Agent at Milwaukee.
The Ways and Means Committee on
Tuesday resolved to hear arguments on
the tariff question up to March 18th.
Henry Watterson was on Tuesday
pronounced out Of danger by his physi.
clans.