The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-03-04
BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS.
The Principal Events Of q Day
Boiled Down.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT IN NEW YORK

Five Children suTocated to Death in
Tencmsnt-Four of Them Belonged t,
One Family-Smith Defeats Goddard a
New orIeans-other Items Of Interest
A serious outbreak of typhus fever hal
occurred at Titusville, Pa
Sir John Thompson, Canada's premier
!, sails for England on the 10th inst.
:. Colonel William B. Hayes, convicted O
perjury In New York, was sentenced te
!. eight years In Sing Sing prison.
y AT hmberstburg, in the province of On
T. tario, Canada. an annexation club has beer
t formed, starting with u membership oil
i. over 300
1t is reported at Meridian, Miss, that q
i. cyclone struck Marion, Miss, last evening
: doing great damage. Several lives are re
: ported lost.
President Harrison last evening affixed
his signature to the immigration bill,
known as the Chandler immigration and
contract labor bill
Vice President Stevenson was today pre-.
sented with a gavel made from an oak
grown on the farm upon which braham
4 Lincoln was born.
u Ex-President Harrison's ex-secretary.
Major Hallord, detailed for duty with the
Bering sea commission, left New York for
Europe this morning.
Father Glennon, Of Kansas City, has
asked Mgr Satolli for ruling on the q,les.
ton of admitting Knights of Pythias In
l rcgalia to Catholic churches.
! The baltimore conference Of the Meth
odlst church, in session at Hagerstown,
Nd, passed resolutions denouncing any
alliance between church and state.
! John c, Humphrey offers to back George
dawson, the Australian, against any man
In the world at 140 pounds for $4,000 a
side and the largest purse offered
The Arkansas state senate passed, with
only one dissenting vote, the house bill
abolishing the convict lease system It ia
expected the governor will sign the bill.
\ A hundred leading society ladies and
4 gentlemen Of Columbus, Ind, have been
indicted by the grand jury under the anti
gambling law for playing progressive
euchre.
I The legislative committee Investigate ng
the Nebraska state instane asylum claims
I that the state has been robbed to the
amount to the amount of S25, 900 year by
contractors.
! In Andalusia, Covington county, Ala,
hundred armed men broke into the Jail
and fired volley of thirteen shots into the
cell OF Jim Barron, killing him instantly,
Barron had murdered Picket Gault.
There will be mass meeting in almost
every town In Monmouth county, N j.,
on Sunday afternoon to protest against
the race track laws, and 1t is proposed to
have resolutions passed at each meeting
I In the application for the appointment of
receiver for the Economic society judge
nj Iba Al.
ton, ruling that Duss had shown himself
competent TO manage the affairs of the
society.
John Perry Treadwell, a green goods
swindler, was arrested yesterday In New
York and taken before United States Conn
missioner Shields, who remanded him to
jail on charge of sending green goods
circulars through the mails.
The Washington flyer" on the Lehish
and Hudson River railroad crashed into q
freight train near Buttsville, N. j., yester-
day afternoon. Fireman Cullen was seri-
ously If not fatally injured The sudden
stoppage of the cars threw many of the
passengers from their seats, but none Of
them were injured.
Joe Goddard, the Barrier giant, - and Ed
Smith, the Denver pugilst, met last night
in the arena of the Olympic club, New Or.
leans, for purse of $4,000, the loser to
take bnrely enough from the purse to de-
Fray his training expenses There was a
large crowd in Attendance Smith won in
the eighteenth round.
Horace Owens and H. H Black vera
arranged before United States Commits
sioner CASTOR, at Atlanta, Ga, upon a
Charge of aiding and abetting Redwiue in
embezzlement of funds of the Gate City
National bank. They were bound over to
court in the sum of 5000 They failed to
give bond and were sent to jail.
The officials of the New York custom
house are very much exercised over short
age which has been discovered in tho
cashiers department., and which a. vet
cannot be accounted for. Some one has
been defrauding Uncle Sam of his duties
on imports by means of forgery The
thefts will probably figure up to SIS, o0o or
SEQ, 600
Late yesterday afternoon President Har-
rison returned unsigned TO the interior de
partment the corrected deeds by which the
Choctaw and Chiekasaw Indians convey to
the government their equity title 10 the
Cheyenne aud Arapahoe lands In Okla
homa, for which the last congress appro.
priated 100000. The matter goes over to
the Cleveland administration as unfin-
ished business.
The annual festivities in Linares, Mexico,
closed with a most unfortunate catas.
trophe There was n bull fight In progress,
and the temporary tiers of seats were filled
with spectators The back wall was loosely
made, and back of this crowd of men,
women and children were peeping through
the oregices TO witness the bull fight, when
the weight of the seats forced the wall
hnf Il and H. fall ha haa ,,,Ptl n.
spectators, killing eight and weunding
thirty of them.
Five children were suffocated In rear
room on the top floor of a tenement on
Henry street, New York. The names of
the victims are: Altman Bernstein. IL
years of age; Rebecca Bernstein, 10 years.
Hayman Bernstein, years: Rachel Bern
stein, years, and Fanny Rosen, years.
The children were alone in the room at
the time, their parents having left short
time previous and locking the children in. t
The cause of the tragedy was the explosion
of kerosene stove, which belonged 10
Niger Membert, who occupies the apart. I
ments adjoining those of the Bernstins, |
with his family.
The national senate yesterday agreed to
conference reports on the Legislative the
postotiice, the agricultural and the general
appropriation bills, and also passed all the +
house bills unobiocted to- Early this
morning the Indian bill, the sundry civil +
and the deficiency appropriation bills.
AT lsi5 a. NJ. the McGarrahan bill was
passed again by a vote of 81 to "a In the
house the senate Worlds fair amendments
to the sundry civil bill were disagreed to,
and the bill was returned to conference
The naval, agricultural and postofiiee APP
preparation bills were concurred In Both
houses adjourned at O'Clock this morning
INoR SAIL EuEAp--nn aud ..nus.