Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-10-22
NEWS SUMMARY.
a LARGE FzRE AT TEE COLUMBUS
PENITENTIAKY.
Another Jefferson ian-Coopers Resume
Work at S3 Day-Elsctio Judges
to be Arrested.

Minister Cox was last night waited
upon by comm ittees OF the Tammany
County Democracy and German-Amer sri
can Conve ntions of the Ninth New
York District and offered the nom ina.
tion Of the United Democracy for Cor.
eress. In his speech of acceptance Mr..
Cox said "his creed was q simple one,
honesty, and that he followed Del
cratic principles unflincbingly by the
beacon lights set by Thomas efferson. -
The ooopers as the Chicago stock
yards on Wednesday night resolved 10
resume work on the ten-hour system.
accepting the wages offered, 50 per day.
The employees Of the Union Stock
Yards Company's blacksmith sbop
have resumed work at the n.hour
system, while section hands have also
gone back, "the decision of the lockout.
1t is said, having satisfied them that
| they could net win"
The schooner George L. Smith, which
sailed from Gloucester, Massach usetts,
with crew OF IA men, for the Grapd
Banks, ON August 14th, is given up for
lost. This makes q vessels of the
g oucester feet lost, OF the total value
OF 900, and 116 lives SO far this
year, by which 90 wives were ade
widows and 56 children rendered fat her
less.
A State Cenven tion of the Missouri
"Anti-Horse Thief A Association" met on
Wednesday In Chilicothe, two hundred
members being present. Re orts
ehowed the order TO be increasing in
mum bers and influence, and horse stt al
Ing decreasing as the means ofdetection
and capture become more cartain.
The schooner E. W. Rathbun, laden
with coal, went ashore near Goderick,
Ont, In gale on Wednesday night.
The captain and crew olung to the rig.
ging until daylight, when they were
rescued by Governnf mt lifeboat. The
vessel went to pieces soon afterward.
While David Evans, aged 30 years
and his son William, aged IA, were
crossing a tunnel at Slstington, Pa,
Thursday morning, 1t caved in. They
went down one hundred feet, and theiI
bodies were covered with q nuRe mass
Of earth.
At Chicago yesterday morning Judge
Prendergast issued an order TOR the ar
rest of over forty election judges and
clerks charged with not returning the
registry books to the Election Com
missioners within the time prescribed
oy law.
The Grand Ju:y at Hartford, Conn.
Thursday, brought in true bills agains
George M. Bartholomew and 1homa
II. Plunkett, for embezzlsment, but die
not find true bill on the charge o
forgery against Bartholomew.
| A fire at Grand Ledge, Mich, Thurs
lday morning, destroyed curtain role
factory. saw mill, planning mill, chat
factory and other buildings. Los
$780, 900. Forty men are thrown out o
work.
While firing salute during the pas
sage of President Cleveland through
Fredericksburg, Virginia, ON Thursday
! the cannon was premsturely discharged
: aad james Wheeler, q young man, wa
. fatally injured.
4 The wheel and chair shops iu th
Ohio Penitentiary at Columb bus weI
r burned early Thursday morning. Lot
SAC. 900, of which about half falls upo
the State.
ii Lieutenant William M. Metcalfe an
an ordnance sold Ter were killed O
;, Thursday at Sandy Hook by the explt
sion of shell, which burst while bein
Q loaded.
Sutton's saw mill and lumber yard 9
Aurora, Ohio, were burned Thursday
Loss, $4,000.