Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-06-05

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Express from ths Union National Bank
of Cincinnati q package purporting to
contain $40 600, but which when opened
was fUupd to be filed with cotton +,
pasteboard and raj road Advertising
bills The package should have reached
Van Vert on Wednesday. The money
clerk. who received 1t In Cincinnati says
It was sealed with green wax. The way
bill for the run OF Tuesday night had
the package marked short" When re-
ceived the package was sealed with red
WAX.
Secretary Manning, on May Goth,
wrote letter TO the President resLgning
his Office. The President, on June 1sl,
wrote reply asking him to accept a
| leave OF absence until Octobbr LIST,
when, If Ee desires 1T, the question OF
hia resignation tmsy be resumed " The
Secretary has accepted the President q
suggestion, aud will allow his resig-
oation to lie over until his leave of alb
sence shall have expired.
The deadlock In the Borough Council
OF Shenandoah, Psnna., which had
| lasted for three months, was broken on
Thursday night by casting lots fpr tbe
vacant seat for which John Watson
Republican, and John Titman, Demo-
crat, received q tie vote at the spring
election. Tittoan won in the lottery,
and TIE Democrats obtained control
| and organiz I'd tho Council.
Several properly owners and residents
Ior Long Branch brought suit several
mouths ago to set aside the assessment t
made last year by the town assessor, ON
the ground that their property WAS un-
fairly assessed. Tho State Supreme
Court has decided In favor Of the plain
tiffs, and ordered a new assessment OF
the property unjustly taxed under this
decision.
At LogAnsport, Indiana, on Wednes.
day night, Miss Hattie Powell, of re.
spectacle family, tried to hang herself,
but was cut down. Her recovery ia
doubtful. ''She made the attempt be-
cause her brother told her that 3 report
had reached hts ears OF her having i'm.
proper relations with q young man who
was retailing the story to his friends. "
While playing in his fathers yard at
Brockport, New York, on Thursday
afternoon, Leo 1ard ConKlin's siz year.
old SOD, Roscoe, picked up a small
shotgun, and one of his companions
called out jokingly to him to sh opt. He
presented the gun at Jimmy Curry,
aged four years, and fired, killing him
almost instantly.
Some train wreckers were recently
arrested at Windfall, Indiana, apd on
the night after an incendiary FIRE
started in j. p. Hurchinson's dry goods
store and caused q loss of $50, 900, on
an insurance of $40, 900. Mr.. HuEohin-
son had boen prominent in scratching
for the wreckers "..5
T;ouhls w&s renewed on the Third
Avenue Railway in New York OH Fri
day, several Of the new drivers leaving
their cars aad come OF the strikers stop
ping others. Thres strikers, named
Casey, Delaney and Patterson, charged
With intemperAnce, were arrested and
held each IN 500 bail.
AT Reading, Pa, on Friday evening,
Frank aud Charles liable, brothers,
sRed 19 aud 81 years respectively, had D
quarrel at their home, when Frank fred
three shots into his brothers. stbm ach
and lungs, and then sho2himselflin the
head. Both are unconscious and not
expected to live.
The entire class of naval cadets of
At it's final examination in the Naval
Academy. Nearly 80 will be retained
in the navy; the rest will be honbrably
discharged, with one years pay.
A fire was reported at Scottdald, Pa. +,
on Friday night, threatening the de.
struetion of the whole town. 1t is about
forty miles this side of Pitteburg, and
has population of nearly 1000.
Oscar Hoffman, a prominent chemist
Of Baltimore, committed suicide On Fri.
day by taking hydrooyanic acid. Pc
cunlary embarrassment Is alleged as
the cause.
Two sections of q work train cbllidsd
at gravel pit near Kankakee, Illinois,
on Thursday night, killing onb man
and dangerously wonnding several
others.
Smith, Mitchell 81 Co.'S plauing and
saw mill, at Oatlettsburg, Kentucky,
was burned on Thursday night. LOSS
Sac. 0a0.