Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1889-08-07

The horses attached to street car on
the down grade of the Cincinnati and
Newport bridge, on the Newport sile, ran
away on TUES sday, and III, car jumped
the track and smashed Itself to pieces
against one OF the stone pillars OF the
railway approaches. The driver and
three passengers wers very seriously In
u ed.
The Topeka Sugar Works, four miles
from Tooeka, Kansas, the largest iu the
State, were almost totally d stroyed on
Tuesday by a fire, which is supposed to
have been Of incendiary origin. LOSS,
$4,000; insurance, $4,000. Hundreds
OF acres of sorghum cane In the vicinity
had be, planted for this seasons sup
ply, and almost ready tor the mill.
A despatch from Salt Lake City, Utah,
says that the el, ction on Monday resulted
in q majority OF Al for the Gentiles, which
1t Is claimed insures Gentile city gov
ernment next February. Six Genlies
were elected to the House OF Representa-
tives aud two to the Council, giving them
eight out OF SO members.
A staging, on which were four men at
work on building on Fremont street,
Boston, fell 40 feet to the ground yester-
day afternoon. Patrick E. White and
Steve Wallace were killed, and Patrick
Connolly and Michael Wallace severely
injured. The accident was caused by the
breaking OF a rope.
A special correspondent of the New
York World says tha. secretary Noble
has been decided upon for Justice of the
supreme Court Of the United States, to
succeed Matthews. deceased. First As
s!stant Postmaster Geusral .Clarkson lis
to take Mob e's place In the Cabinet.
A heavy storm of wipd, rain, hall and
Sbunder passed over the northern s, ,ction
Rockbridge county, Virginia, on Mon-
dsy night, doing great damage. The
l twheAtRnd grass crops have been almost
sstsisy 6e(faayed by thecontlnuous raiLs.
PnASH bugheriy an engineer, was
ssssslda in iGen,s, shs 5s,iiaa, Pa,
|And drawn bcee fo massive rollers.
Thomas A. Ed!s6ll1 hew invention. an
iron eip,separator, wasbeing tested.
The latest t1sturns of lhe State election
In kentuckyph ,Mp.sIny, indicate the
reelection ofShsfb, liiocrat, tor State
Treasurer, by about ekuO majority. The
Democrats also gain eight seats In the
Legislature.
IL htcame known in Newport yester-
day that the cruiser Atlanta met with an
accident to her machinery while making
her trials on Monday, and that this ne
ce'sitated her going 10 New York ior re-
pairs.
A desputch from Utica. N. Y, says
that hop vines OF that vicinity have been
seriously injured by the blight, and that
In many OF the late varieties the crop will
not pay for picking.
Ollie Martin and Maud Saylore, a be-
trotted couple, Of Brownsville, Ind,
were drown,d on Sunday night while
trying to ford the Whitewater river With
horse and buggy.
john Steele and George Kemly, OF
Conshohccken, fell from the Pennsylya-
nia bridge at Stickler, Pa, early yes-
terday morning and sustained fatal iu-
juries.
Mary +. Rooney, aged IL years, of
Weymouth, oied az Haudolph, Mass, on
Monday Ot hydrophodii. She was bit
ten in the wrist by dog on June IL.
>, Mrs. Chrlstiana Wariel, of Jefferson.
Vile, Ind, was fatally burned on Mon
day night by an explosion OF coal oil
'vteh which she was start ng fire.
Prohibition was defeated yesterday In
Flood county, Ga., by q majority of 600
In total vote OF 1000.
The Sun newspaper yesterday sant
Mayor Grant check for S10, 600 for tbs
1892 Exposition Fund.