Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1889-02-16
NEWS SUMMARY.
GisT OF THE NEWS FROM THE
MORNING PAPERS.
Death Of the Senior Bishop of tho sIesho-
dist Episcopal Church south--Ex-
piosion OF Locomotive.
Thief Sentenced.

Tue boiler of O locomotive attached to
freight train on the North Penn branch
of the Philsdelphia aud Reading railroad
exploded at Centre Valley, near Bethle-
hem, Friday morning, killing Fireman
Crockett and fatally injuring Engineer
Frank McGowan, both OF PhiladelphiS.
Brakeman Frederick Schrock, who was
10 the LOGON tive cab at the time, was
throw 100 feet, but escaped with slight
injuries.
Holland N. McTyiere, senior bishop of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South,
died In Nashville, Tenn, Friday. He
was born in 1924. He was elected bishop
In 1865. It was owing to Bishop Nc
Tyiere that Commodore Vanderbilt meds
tbs gift of 81. 900, 600 and William III.
Vanderbilt $500, ,00D and Cornelius Van.
derbilt $50, 900 to Vanderbilt university,
for lie.
Cornelius Vanderbilt Last night gave 4
dinner at his residence in New York to
E. j. Phelps, Minister 10 England.
Thirty guests were present, including
Vice President-elect Morton, Chaurcey
". Depew, ex-Mayor Hewitt, John
Hove, Colonel Elliott f. Shepard, VIM.
Astor and their wives and Madame
Stevens.
Henry Hardy, the bank thief, who os-
capped from prison In New York aud was
arrested in Philadelphia and taken ba,k,
yesterday pleaded guilty to assault and
grand larceny, and was sentenced to Is
years AMI months imprisonment.
-Four masked men entered the house OF
John Haas, at Bowers Station, near
Reading, Pp., on Thursday night, and.
sfter binding aud gagging Haas, his wife
ani henry Miller, the hired man, ram
sacked and robbed the house.
Jacob Waldner attempted suicide In
Hoboken, New Jersey, yesterday, BY
shooting himself in the head. A young
lady refused his offer of marriage and h6
became melancholy. 1t is Thought the
wound will prove fatal.
A train on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad ran into street car in Chester.
Pa, yesterday morning. The four pas-
sengers were injured, Mrs. J. Shaw, Of
Upland, 1t Is feared fatally. The driver
OF the car was also badly hurt
1t is said that there is q discrepancy OF
t5, 900 10 the books of Joseph 4. Hood,
Town Clerk and member of the Board Of
Overseers of the Poor in Danvers, Massa-
chusetts. Hood has been placed In an
insane hospital.
John Gray and a man named TIghe
endeayored to set fire to the shanty occu-
pied by Ambrose Augustine, at PittstoR,
Ps., on Thursday night They were dis
covered by Augustine, who shot and
killed Gray.
ouf total exports OF domestic bread
studs during the seven months which
ended January 81, 1880, amounted In
value to t73, ,S14, 700, against $50, ,5yi ,7e4
during the seven months which ended
January 81, 1883.
During the seven months which ended
January 3ist last, the United States ex-
ported mineral oils to the value of $780,
933, 40, against S27, 799, ,74l during the
seven months which ended January 31st,
1888.
George Hughes was shot and killed by
his nephew, Joshua +. Ross, IN Gl ucester
Court House, Virginia, on Thrgrsday
night. Ross confessed the shooting, but
is silent as to Its cause.
Dr. J. B. Taylor dropped dead in East
4 Nmbridge, Massachusetts, yesterday.
De was attending case, and, being
stricken down, fell across tho patient.
d ath followed Immediately.
The Kenny House and Bronson block,
In Pike, New YORK, were burned yester-
day morning. Jennie Mack, domestic,
and her little niece persisted In the
fiames.
Cornelius E. Demarest, for many years
the bookkeeper of the Passaic Ice Com
pany, In Paterson, New Jersey, was ar
rested yesterday charged with stealing
81, 500.
A bill was yesterday introduced In the
Illinois House of Representatives pro-
hibiting, under penalty of fine and i'm
prisonment, the playing Of bas, ball ON
Sunday.
Juliua Gsrder, ayoung man, committed
suicide in Chicago yesterday. BE placed
bis neck on the t,acks In front Of an ap.
preaching train and was decapil ated.
The pension payments made by tho
Treasury Department 30 far this month
amount to $50, 500, 900.
Why suffer with bad cold when ono
bottle of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup Will
cure cough of the worst kind. DIR.
Bulls Cough Syrup is sold for pa cents
per bottle by all druggists in the United