Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-08-03
NEWS SUMMARY.
AN ANTI-SALOON CONFERENCE
DENOUNOED-TYPHoID rkVER

AAfdOlD FEtEk
Ia Pittsburg-suffocated In a wcli--shos
Dy olioeman-Biowing out OF q
Pocket on an Engine.
The Prohibition State Comm ittee oi
MASSACHUSETTS met yesterday in Boston.
A resolution was adopted dienouncipQ
the recent anti-saloon Republican con.
ference aS an attempt to Risleed the
Prohtbitionists of the State, and de.
claring that the work of extinRuishina
saloons requires the CO oporatton of d
political party in full sympathy with
the efforts making to that end. Ut was
resolved to hold q State Convention Al
Worcester on Septem Der 9Th.
In Baltimore yesterday. Henry Mar
tin, aged 10 years. and John Connell.
aged ", were suffocated in o we'll.
Ihey were at work On the well on Sat-
urday, and yesterday made q bet al "a
the depth of the water. They got in the
bucket and went dowu, when q arown
caused those above TO haul mn the
bucket. When they reached the sur
face both we're dead. No test had bt an
made before they went down as to Che
foul air below.
There Is serious epidemic of typhoid
fever In Pittsburg. In the Twen ty- q fth
ward are III cases, many OF them of O
dangerous type. Five new cases and
three deaths were reported yesterday.
Five new cases of fever have been de-
veloped in West Elizabeth, and two or
three cases are said to be quite critical,
Doctors McCrew and Welsh were re
ported III.
The State election in Alabama was
held yesterday. Leary, Democrat, was
elected Governor, by about the usual
majority over the Republican and Pro-
hibition candidates. There are splits
In the Democratic county tickets, how
ever, In many instances, which have
led TO the choice of several Independent
candidates for Probate udgeship.
The Treasury Department has refused,
as contrary to law, permission to re-
move from a bonded store to Q ad Joining
store certain wheat and rye. there TO be
subjected under tho supervision of an
oNcer OF the Customs to screening and
blowing necessary for the preser vation
OF the grain.
A sham battle was fought In a camp
at Lafay cite, Indiana, on SATURDAY..
which attracted 10000 spectators.
John SchIeyer, Of Andrews, Indiana,
q private of Company ID, was so badly
hurt in the fight that he died Sunday
Twenty live other soldiers were pros
trated by heat"
Alexander Connaughton, o young
farmer, visiting Cincinnati, became
drunk On Sunday night, and, being ao-
RnsfAd n U
ran away. Haines pursued, and Coz
naughton showing fight the policeman
shot him IN the neck, making fatal
wound.
Yesterday morning pocket blew out
OF an engine of coal train near Clyde,
New York, and forced hot water, steam
and fire II TO the cab. John Ereese, en-.
gineer, was so badly injured that he
died. A fireman and brakeman were
also injured, but not dangerously.
Great damage was done to property
throughout the Wyoming Valley by q
storm on Sunday night and yesterday
morning. Many buildings and bridges
we're swept away, and roads were
washed ont James Harris Was drowned
near Plymouth.
james A. L, Whittier, q lawyer OF
Boston, was yesterday arrested on q
charge OF embezzliDg bonds, stocks and
other eeourities TO the amount of $125, :
900, which he hold In trust for Mrs,
Harriet ID. Reed.
According to a telegram from Char
lesion, South Carolina, slater reports
show that only small part OF the rice
crop in Georgetown County is lost, and
the accounts of distress are believed t.
be exaggerations."
John Sipple, engineer, and Bruff
Williams, fireman, injured in the rail-
road disaster at Blnffton, Indiana, on
Friday morning, have since died.
Fankboner, the other man injured, is
not expected TO recover.
Captain Gabriel Berger of Mama
roneck, New York, com mitted suicide
yesterday. He had trouble with his
wife about q woman two years ago and
since that time has been drinking
heavily.
Among the clerks dismissed from the
Patent Office on Saturday, owing to re
duction of appropriations, was Miss
Alice X. Meikleham, granddaughter OF
Thomas Jefferson.
George W. Coleman, yardmaster for
the Cumberland Valley Railroad at
Bridgeport, opposite Harrisburg, was
killed yesterday while polling cars
through the yard.
The Senate yesterday confirmed Fitz.
John Porter to be q colonel in the army
by vote of 33 TO 10
The public debt statement issued yes
terday shows reduction of So, ,O49, ,1O3
during July.