Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-08-28
FOURTH edition


1 NeWe summary.
The steamer Robert Knapp and the
tug. boat Washington came In collision
81 He'll Gate on Friday. Charles King,
George Il. Ellison and George W hite
were knocked overheard nom the tug
and drowned.
Constant Benoit, o Swede, "a years OF
age, who had just arrived In America,
was torn TO pieces by o ferocious boar
At Dickipson's Island Hog Fam, two
miles above Knoxville, Temp, ON Thurs
day.
j. III. Somers, an old soldier, fell
through the railroad bridge ct Bridge
port. Pa, on Friday night, and was
killed.
The slaugh,ering and cremation of
ell the infecl ed and suspected cattle ut
be completed to-day, but, rs an add
tional measure of precautton, the
County OF Levir, within . radius of
half . mile from the quarantine station,
has been placed under quarantine for
three months. Each trsnsgression OF
the quarantine will be punished by Q
fine Of $500.
A despatch from Madison, Indiana,
says hog cholera in that and nd AGENT
counties will entail loss to farmers OF
many thousand dollars. No remedy
prescribed appears TO have any tfiect In
checking the disease. Numerous indi.
vidual Losses of more than one hundred
dead are reported.
A despatch from Galveston, Texas.
says that Captain William Moore and
party, who were supposed TO have been
lost IN the recent storm off Indianola,
reached their destination In rafety. TIL.
discovery Of their boat bottom upward
In Mattagorda bay gave rise to the be
lief that they were lost. Captain
Bailey, who WAS also reported az lost,
managed TO save himtelf by clinging To
. plank.
Patrick Reddington, charged with
murder. WAS placid in o cell in the Jail
at Mt. Carroll, Illinois, with Francis Il.
Mayer, An insane man. Mayors hands
had been bound with shackles, but be
slipped them in some manner and frac
tured Rsddingtop's skull and broke
several of his ribs and one arm with y
club.
The special examiners In Pittsbura
have completed the investigation Of ex.
Chief Pension Clerk Gray's accounts
They found that the shortage amounts
to S11 1877. Each account OF the 1900
pensioners OF the district had to be gone
over separately and compared.
The Comptroller OF the Currency has
declared a dividend OF 100 per cent. and
interest in full in favor Of the credi tors
OF the Arlington National Bank of Alb
iDgton, Macs. The bank closed its doors
on July /.
Capt. William Cook, who served
creditably in the war aud suffered In
Libby prison, and who since has been q
profe 81 or at Harvard College and the
Institute of Technology In Boston, acct
dentally shot himself at Chatham,
Mass, Friday and died last night.
Rev. Alexander j. Dry sdale, of New
Orleans, was on Thursday elected
Bishop OF the Episcopal Diocese of
Easton by the Diocesan Convention In
session In Salisbury, Maryland. This
makes the fourth election, those hereto
fore elected having declined.
Advices from St. Domingo of the 18th
instant report tina. the revolution il |
now limited to the districts Of VeeaI
and Monte Cristo, and that encounters
were few In number, and little blood
was shed, the revolutionists being al
ways defeated.
The case Of Mrs. Sarah j. Robinson,
charged with poisoning her son, and
Thomas r Smith, held as her accom-.
plice, were heard by the Court in Bos-
ton on Friday. The prisoners were held
in $40, 600 bail each to await the action
of the Grand Jury.
A skiff containing six young men
upset In the Ohio river, at Cincinnati,
on Friday night, and Frank WIlson,
George Glover and two brothers named
Guy were drJwned.
A farmer named Wells, living at
Willis Station, Mich, killed his wife
on Thursday by cutting her throat.
They had quarreled over a piece Of
property.
The business failures occurring In the
United States during the past sevenl
days numbe III, and in Canada 30; al
total of 29l as against 1876 last week.
President Cleveland did not 20 fish.
irR on Friday on account of the heat
He played whist as substitute.