Daily Republican., 1888-04-07
NAMa hunInRrY.

Surveyor Beattio OF NeT York, hav.
Ing bsen in oFmsd from Chicago that O
boarding house keeper hamed Mrs
Frank DeGres, q passenger on the Bel
genlAnd, would attempt to smugele
somothing through the customs, had
her searched on Friday. In n stocking
10 her hat were o etring OF 36 pairs OF
gold earrings, aud In another stocking
In her pocket were ootagonAl stem
winding watches and other small artl.
cles Of jewelry.
While Mrs. Mary Sharp OF Wananie,
Pa, was engaged in the manufacture Of
whi1key on Friday afternoon the pot
toppled over. The liquid blased up,
setting Are TO her clothing, and she was
burned to death. Three OF her children.
who tried 70 save her, were also burned
and will probably die. The husband
and father, John Sharp. who was at
work ct The time, iB reported to have
become insane.
The engine OF passenger train on
tho Delaware, LackawRnna and Wes-
tern railroad left ths rails some dis
tance east OF Buffalo, New York, late
Thursday night. Fireman Goyt Bo.
2Art was killed and Engineer John
rhomp4on WAS badly hurt. No pas
4 'OhkNio VNtO LhO AUDAuChb
was caused By . wash. out.
The Lighthouse Board gives notice
hat on or about the 18th inst Q fog
ball struck by mAchiuery will be es.
ablished in the bell tower recently
q co ed 81 Turkey Point light station,
At the hen6 of Chesapeake bay. The
bell win be sounded during thick and
fJRsy westher. giving . single blow at
intervals OF 10 seconds.
John Cook WAS arrested In Detroit,
Michi gan, on Friday, charged with
IrobbinR tee poetoffice In Minneapolis in
1885. Cook is alleged to be one of Ave
men who robbed the office of over
Sl5. 900 In postage stamps. One Of the
gang now in jail gave the information
which led TO Cooks arrest.
On going to an unused barn ON his
farm, near Railway, New Jersey,
Thursday afternoon, William Willicks
found the body Of q we'll dressed man
with his throat cut. The inside Of the
barn ehowed Indications Of q struggle.
Nothing was found on or nesr the body
by which 1t could be identified.
A Mr.. Matheson and his 16.year-old
son, of Oil Springs, Oa.ario, started to
orncs tas river at Port Huron, MichI-
gnn,t) Varnn, In row boat when
about half way across a equall oapsized
their boat and they were both drowned.
The tank containing 80. 600 barrels Of
oil, fred by lightning at Parker, Pa,
on Tt ursday, WAS still burning ester
Iday, but IL was thought there was no
danger to the surrounding tanks. The
loss is Abou: S35. .0G0.
Charles Llcoar was arrested in
IAhraunnnrk TnnPsdaW nhRrdaH
With murder and arson, In having set
fire to house In which Alice Wise,
ooloTed, was sleep. The woman WAS
burned to death.
In New York, on Friday, Recorder
5myth sontsnoed Francis W. PittmAn
TO imprisonment for life. He was tried
for the murder OF his daughter, and was
convicted Of murder In the second de
gree.
Tho President on Friday approved
| the act granting @ pension to Nary g.
Logan, widow OF Gen. John A. Logan,
aud the sot - increase the pension oi
Mrs. A A. Blair.
The Navy Department has been in
formed that the dynamite cruiser Ant
the aunboat Yorktown. building o.
Cramps shlpyArd, Philadelphia, will
be launched on the 28.h inst,
Howard Dennis, q sWitohman, and al
unknown companion, were fatally stab
bed In q saloon row in Chicago early oil
Friday morning. Dennis says the cat
ting was done by Mark Eyans, another
switchmAn.
Four men were killed on Friday
morning By the explosion OF n dyna
mite mill at Milltr's Station, near Val
pAraiso, Indiana.