Delaware State journal and statesman., 1869-08-31
TELEaRAPHIc SUMMARY.

The Baltimore Schuelzenfest closed on
Friday, alter successful season of five days.
Robert A. =. Moore, of PHILADELPHIA, was
fatally injured on Friday. while on visit
TO Hokendanqua, Pa.
Heavy rain storms have prevailed in Ore
gon recently, and il is feared the wheat crop
Is seriously injured.
The California Conference of the NTeiho-
dist Episcopal Church met IN Napa City on
Thursday The attendance was large
Leon Hydenr,icht, n wealthy German
chemist ol Schagticoke, N. Y, committed
suicide on Wednesday by taking morphine.
The losses by the fire at Baltimore on
Wednesday are estimated at $l27,000 in
surance, $40, 900.
The wife OF Rev. Mr.. Center of Biddt ford,
Me-, hung herself on Thursday. Cause, de
spondency.
The bark Bridgeport, which ran ashore
on Block Island, has arrived at Newport. -
She is not much injured.
The dwelling oil Peasley Folsome, at Lake
Village, N. H., was burned on Wednesday
night. The fire caught from defective fue.
A breech in the Genesec feeder has causcd
a suspension of navigation on the Erie Canal,
which will probably continue for day.
The South Side oil works of lowering &
Co., at Baltimore, were damaged by fire on
Friday. Two firemen were burned, but not
seriously.
Homans u Co, private bankers, at Gin
cinnati, suspended on Thursday Their Ii
abilities are about S1s5,OOO. Their assets
are unknown.
Gen. Sioneman has issued an order that
no more beei shall be furnished to the gar
rsou al Wilmington, Cal, because of disease
among the cattle there.
John Grady, an old employe of the IIud
son River Railroad Company, was struck by
locomotive on Thursday, near Fishkili.
and instantly killed, lie leaves a niie and
five children
One of the channel spans of the bridge
over the Ohio river, $40 feet long, was com
pletel on Thursday. This Is the longest
span of a truss bridge IN tie country. The
bridge will be flushed in November.
Stephen Murphy, carpenter of In Sale,
Ill.,, beat his wife TO death on Wednesday
night. He has long been druukard and
had often beaten her severely before lie is
now in custody.
The hosiery mill Of John Pepper, al Lake
Village, N. H., occupied by r. NJ. Apple
ton, was burned ON Wednesday; also the
dye-house of Appleton & IIojman. The
loss is unknown.
A young man named Stevens, aged 10
years, fell between two freight cars on the
North Western Railroad in Concord, ON
Thursday, and was killed The body was
horribly mangled.
The corner stone nl the new Pennsylvania
State LunalIc Hospital was laid at Danvlle
on Thursday. The building, when com
pleted, will have a front OF 900 feet, and
accommodate 400 patients.
From present appearances, the lorlhcom-
ing monthly debt statement will make a
favorable showing, notwithstanding the
heavy payments OF the government. II is
now thought the reductions will reach at
least Two millions.
Messrs. Knowson & Morgan, wool deal
ers, of Troy, suspended payment on We'd
nesday. Their liabilities are not yet known,
but il is generally understood that the sus-
pension is only temporary, and That they
can pay Sl.5O for every dollar they owe.
Philip Wareham, the supposed murderer
OF David Kirby, at the Cincinnati, Hamilton
and Dayton Railroad Depot, Cincinnl ltl, on
Wednesday night, and two men said to be
implicated, named Richard Heniz and New
ton ElsterbIook, were brought to Cincinnati
from Dayton on Thursday, and are now in
Jail. An excited crowd awaited them at the
depot. The officers with difficulty saved
their prisoners from being lypched
The captain of the ship Ak6ar, arrived at
San Francisco from Hong Kong, reports the
discovery oil a cluster of rocks not on his
chart, but on the direct route from San Fran
cisco to Hong Kong. The weather was
tmck, and no observation with instruments
could be taken; but by "dead reckoulng''
the position OF tue rocks was made In lat. 81
degrees so minutes N, long. 1879 degrees 90
minutes E., bearing N. N. w. half ". from
Smiths Island, distant 49 miles,