Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-07-08
IN GEN6RAL,

| - 49, LYee, near quincy, ILL.,, which
mas peen broken by crevasse, protected ~
area OF country seventy miles long ana s VI
TO twenty miles wide. On Thursday il ,r,s
estimated one-third of this was under ia nss
The Cincinnati Landing crevasse Ia bsI,
mile wide. Friday night the water swa,, ~
through the embankment opposite HannIi''
bal, Mo-, and general alarm was soundad su,
that locality. Two hundred thousanJ so ,or
OF cultivated lands are submerged. crops has
been destroyed, houses and barns swept awsv
and cattle, horses and other stock drownsa
The State fish ponds, at Fall creek ara oS
liberated. Three men have been drowned
two while trying to save stock, and one oy tbs
upset,ng OF boat. The loss on property
already is roughly estimated at 81 ,O0O, 900
Another bill in equity has been filed in the
United States Circuit Court against the phiIa.
delphia and Reading Railroad Company. and
the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron
Company, by the Farmers and Mechanics
National Bank, praying that the mortgage NJ
the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Com
pany of July LIST, 1874 to secure the general
mortgage loan Of that year for 6O,6OOOOO
DC decreed to be a lien upon the railroad
its branches, etc. The appointment of A rs1
| ceiyer or receivers is asked "to protect tbs
| interests of all concerned" WV
The boiler Of threshing engine. at linn.
kirk, Ohio, exploded Tuesday, killing sevan
| persons and injuring eight others two n,
whom soon afterwards died. Three more ot
the injured are in precarious condition
The engine was made in Easton, N. Y, and
was used yesterday for the first time nv
following are the dead victims William
Frederick, Richard Case fireman, Washington
Poisel, George Poisel, Amasa Herman. Harry
Brown engineer, an unknown man. sent ont
with the engine from Easton, Robert Thrsh
and son of William Frederick.
In Tuesdays Cabinet meeting the recent
firing into an American schooner off fla
Cuban coast was discussed. The State Ia.
partment IL informed by the Spanish Govern
ment that 1t has no such vessel as the Nuncjo
and the Spanish authorities are inclined Ia
believe that the vessel which overhauled the
American schooner was pirate. Annie re-
paration il promised, however, should Il tnrn
out that the outrage was countenanced Inv
| Spanish officials.
The fishing schooner Ida Il. Freeman of
Wellheet, Mass, arrived at that port on Sat
| urday with 80 barrels of mackerel and
anchored in the harbor. The crew went Ia
their homes, except three swedes, who re.
manned on board. On Sunday night the
Swedes got the vessel under way and left
Tor parts unknown. They took besides
the vessel, cargo, boats and nets the CLOTH
ing OF the crew, and are proviaioned for eight
| weeks.
During a small fire in st. Louis Tuesday
|
OF the Fire Department, was killed by the
explosion of Holloway fire extinguisher
Iooie made himself famous years ago by gal
| lantly rescuing number of people from the
burning Southern Hotel, in the same city.
and his efficiency as a fireman was equal to
his humanity AZ man.
The masters to examine and report upop
the accounts OF the receivers of the Philadel-
phla and Reading Railroad Company and of
| Dlllndplnhi0 \
Company, report that the receipts from all
sources from the 25th of May TO the 22d of
June, inclusive foot up 52,719Ol4 "A.
telegram from Montreal ascribes the
failure OF American residents in Montreal to
celebrate Independence Day to the fact that
nearly all American residents have become
haturalized British subjects under the Law
promoted by Lord Dufrerin Many of them
hold public offices in the Province
Henry Athey, who, with his wife and Alex
ander Critters, has been in jail at New Phla
delphia, Ohio, since the 18th ultimo, for the
murder OF Mary Seneii, girl who was visit
ing the house, makes confession alleging
that his wife told him she committed th,.
murder in fit of jealousy
Il. Frank Northcotc, who shot Constable
Crabtree at Cedar Mills, Texas, few weeks
ago, was arrested and placed under guard al
CrabtreeH house a few nights ago He WIS
taken from the guard at night by a masked
mob, carried across the border to the Indian
Territory, and shot dead.
Patrick Carroll, q MINER elected from Il
meeting OF the Miners Union, in Bodie, Cal.
ON Friday night, attempted to re-enter the
hall, and was shot dead He was a native of
Virginia, and is said to have been great
grandson OF Charles Carroll, of Carrollton.
Part Of the coal pier of the Wilkesbarr,
Coal and Iron Company, at Providence. II. l.,
nt.I,
track and several coal cars went down with
the structure. The loss il estimated at from
hfty to seventy thousand dollars.
| SiN firemen We're buried under the falling
roof OF burning stable in San Francisco on
Monday night and severely injured. One OF
them,who remained half an hour under burn
ING hay, was taken out insensible, and hi.
recovery III doubtful.
The Court of Appeals of Kentucky deci,led
Thursday that the law of that State excluding
all except white persons from service az Juror
IL unconstitutional, and that no person can b.
lawfully excluded from any jury on account
of his race or color.
The fifth annual race between eight-oarcd
crews from Yale and Harvard Colleges, over 4
four mile course, was rowed at New London
Thursday afternoon Yale won in "a minntes
ana " seconds, Harvard's time being % min
utes seconds.
|
have delayed the wheat harvest and impeded
nay making and the cultivation of corn
Heavy rains in Central Illinois on Thursday
; night damaged the cut grain and deluged tho
ripening fields.
William French, who attempted to kill bb
eolored brother-in-law Skillman, in New
Orleans, on Tuesday for the second time, wa.
! released Thursday, in ~, 800 bail, physicians
| reporting that Skillmans wounds. were no
mortal.
W. W. Grant has been nominated for Repre-
sentative IN Congress by the Republicans OF
the Third Districtin Vermont. W. q. Thomp
son was Thursday renOmipated for Congress
trict. "" -'''
one million, two hundred aud ifty-fom
Thousand, four hundred and ninety-nin,
Dushels ot grain were exported from New
YORK on Thursday, the largest aggregate ship
ment for any single day on record.
The diplomas were distributed to The grad
at ts, 81 inc University Of Virginia, at Char
the alumni was delivered by Captain join
Hampton, of the Richmond State.
The centennial anniversary of tina found
ing OF the English Sunday schools was cele
Drated IN Toronto ON Wednesday night
About 1000 children took part in q muslca
FESTIVAL IN ~. James Cathedral
The British steamship Ganos, which arrive,
al Pailadelphia on Wednesday from England
reports having passed on the Goth and 2lst o
June thlrty,-eight large icebergs all of then
apparently floating coastward
susan Hanson, aged 90 years, died suddenl
at irinty Mission, in New York, Friday
and coroner's jury found that there wa
, reason TO believe her death WAS caused Ii,
tight laclng on the previous day.
W. X. Chamberlain, Il convict was killed b,
John Darling. another convict, in the peni
Tertiary at Carson, Nov., Thursday. Darlinl
was Chamberlam's aecomplice IN Il robber,
iour years ago
George W, Meserye, arrested m Boston la1t
week Qn the charge of forging zeal estat,
assignments, has been surrendered Ly hi
boiiusineli' His forgeries, il il said, amount
Ia 535,O0D
2 Another violent storm Of wind rail, an,
3 mani passed over Danville, Va, Thngsfjn
I AFTERNOON, leveling trees and fences, unl
g italy llnrooiing buildings, and damaging In,
crops.
Postmaster Hartranft, of PHILADELPHIA On
received official notification of his appointment
4 aH Collector of that Port. but M to N lst
hour Tuesday, had not decided to accept q
reject it.
G The clerk who disappeared some time ap,
Z with the Keys of the safe in Assistant Surreo,
: General Billi1'gs' Office, in Washington, ha
4 MOI yet ret"ned, but he has sent back tn,
keys ''''
l -, A. the dinner Of tho Harvard Alumni OF
wednesday night tho Chinese professor. h,
o Kun Hua, was present ''in full costume"
Z poem was read by Oliver Wendell Holmes.