Daily Republican., 1886-11-23
NEWS SUMMARY.
application for Injunction Denisd-13
PERSONS Poisoned-A sick Captain
landed st Turks Island

application for Injunction Denisd-I
PERSONS Poisoned-A sick Captai
landed st Turks Island.
At Springfield, Illinois, yesterday, Ii
ne case Of the Convict Labor COnstitu
tional Amendment, Judge Creighton
denied an application for an injupctioI
20 restrain the State Can vassing Boar
from canvassing the vote cast for th,
amendment ct the late election. II,
held that the bill did not contain suffi.
cient reasons to warrant the granting Of
. restraining writ at this time; In otheI
words, he was Of the opinion that The
bill Was premature; that, II the amend.
ment was unconstitutional, the facl
could be ascertained later on and BY
other methods. No petitioners gave
notice OF an appeal.
Thirteen persons of the family OF L.
a.. Perkins, superintendent OF the
Springfield silk Mills, in Springfield
Massachusetts, were poisoned yesterday
by drinking poisoned tea. The tea was
left on the piazza of the house where
the family lived. Saturday night, In q
small tin box, with the advertising card
Of local tea store. The tea was
stepped for dinner noon, and thirteen Of
the fourteen persons who sat at the
table drank Of 1t. All are expected to
recover. 1t Is thought the crime was
committed by some discharged EN-.
plOye of the silk mill.
The BritiEh schooner Carrie EasleI
arrived at the Delaware Break water on
Monday. She reported that the schoonel
Kate Wentworth landed her captain al
Turks Island, rs he was sick, and pro-
ceeded on her voy age to the Break wstel
in charge OF the mate. During o gale
the mate was washed overheard and
drowned. leaving no navigator on board.
The Wentworth followed the Easier ai
far as Cape Lookout, when she was lost
sight Of.
81. Catharine's, Ontario, is agitated
over o Sunday work meeting" held
recently, at which 1t was decided to pc
tition the Government against opening
the Welland canal on Sunday. On
Monday summonses were issued fol
the arrest Of twenty lock tenders em,
ployed OH the canal for working and
passing vessels through on Sunday.
A telegram from Boston says that G..
E. McNeill, chairman of Distrio. AS.
senbly No. 80, of the Knig hts of Labor,
will be a candidate OF the Labor party
for mayor In that city, IL 1000 siRners
are obtained to pledge to vote for him.
Should McNeill be nominated Henry
Gsorge will tnke the stump for him.
The Committee on Appropriations Of
the U, s. House Of Representatives met
on Monday in WashiD ston, pursuant
to the call Of the chairman, Mr.. Ran
dali. The various appropriation bills
were assigned to the same sub-commit'
tees which had charge Of them last sos.
sion.
Customs officers Monday seized $685.
600 worth of opium ut the residence Of
Charles Il. Bronson at Alameda, Cal.
1t 10 believed the drug was brought to
San Francisco from China on the
steamer City Of Sydney, and removed
to Alameda to facilitate its disposal.
Owing to the prevalence Of diphtheria
the schools in IshpenRing, Michigan,
have been closed by order OF the Board
of Health, all dances and public meet
ings have been prohibited, and even
services in the churches on Sunday
were forbidden.
A tornado struck Girard, Kar sas, on
Monday morning, and demolished al
the wooden buildings in q path 80 to rs
feet wide, going through the town from
southwest to northeast. A number II
persons we're injured, one perhaps IA
tally.
Part Of the scsffolding in a new oy-
clorama building at Detroit gave way
yesterday morning throwing four men
10 the ground, fifty feet below. Michael
Gugler and j. Austin were killed, and
the others were dangerously injured.
John T. Oliver, an old man, who shot
and killed his wife in Buffalo some
time age, yesterday pleaded guilty of
murder In tae second degree, and was
sentenced to imprison nent for life.
Neither borrower nor lender bel"
but take your own twenty five cents,
and SO round to your own druggist. and
buy yourself bottle OF Salvation Oil
for your sprains, aches and pains.
The lamps within the torch of the
Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
were relighted last night, and will be
kept burning hereafter by the Light
house Board.
The British steamer Benevolent, from
Savannah for Amsterdam, sprang a
leak on Monday while going to sea and
had to be beached opposite Fort Ogle.
thorpe.
Elias Simmons, law.abiding and
peaceful colored man, was murdered
in his bed near Minden, Louisiana, on
Saturday night, by u gang Of masked
ruffians.
William Fl. Chesney, prominent
citizen of Hartford County, Mary land
was killed on Monday at Aberdeen by
being run over by railroad train.
Four men were killed and . fifth one
fatally injured by q collision between
two freight trains at Savoy, Illinois, on
Monday night.
At Trenton, New jersey, on Monday,
Judge Parker refused recount in the
First Assembly District of Burlington
County.
George Gibson, q slater, was killed
by falling from the roof of the Eagle
Hotel, at Lebanon, Pa, on Monday
evening.
A case of smallpox, the first Of the
present year, was reported in Pittsburg
on Monday evening.
It's all very we'll to talk about build
ing new railroads and new steam ships
but how could men, women and chill
dren travel on them without DIR. Bulls
Couch Syrup2 Think of 1t. Ponder 1t