Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-08-26

and II has not yet been decided to call fnr
outside help. Several parties have begun IN
rebuild.
A serious "cave" is reported at Planes. p.ar
Wilkesbarre over the surface of the Delaware
4 Hudson Canal Company's mines. Ahnn,
inches to five feet, several buildings have
been damaged at the mine, and five house.
are threatened with demolition
When Charles Austin was sailing ON fin,
bay, near Babylon, L.. L., on Sunday aftrr.
noon two strangers boarded his boaf. thrc,
him overheard and sailed away with th'.
vessel. Austin managed to reach the sho,,.
IN an exhausted condition, and the boat WA.
afterwards found at Amityville.
Michael Lynch, seaman serving ON M,
United States steamer Pensacola, has been
found guilty, by court martial, of disobpl,
ence and mutinous conduct, and sentenced ia
one years Imprisonment, partial loss of pay
and to be discharged from the service nj tG,
end of his confinement
The Democratic conferees of the Twelfth,
Congressional district, of PENNSYLVANIA, me-,
TUESDAY. in littston, and split. One faciio,
nominated for Congressman Asa Il. Braun.
dage, of l.uzerne county, the other "
Connolly, of I.ackawanna. Connolly il the
Grccnback candidate.
Edwin c. Mix, Jr., aged 49, was killed nj
New Orleans, La, last week by the three
Derance brothers, Ferdinand, Armand and
Henri. The Derances, after being imprisoned
declared That Mix had firted with their Young
sister, and. although warned, he had con-
tinued to follow her.
In connection with the census an nycstipa-
ton ia being made in Washington to ascertain
the owners of the registered bonds of the
United States, which aggregate Il, 49, OOOOlO,
II II expected the result will show that the
bulk of the debt il not held by the argc
bundholders.
Freeman II. Gross, of Chicago, ILL.,, shot
and killed Mike Fleming Wednesday morning
He had entered the latters house to prevent
him beating Mrs. Fleming and breaking the
furniture and, being pursued by Fleming
with an uplifted chair, he shot him in self
defense.
The twin children of John Farley in
Lowell Ohio, We're drowned in tub of water
on Saturday night. Their parents were
arrested yesterday. They deny the crime but
Farley says he believed his wife did the deed
They are very poor. and Farley is addicted to
drink.
A number of men overpowered the shcriI
OF Spauldlng county, Ga, Thursday and took
from his custody young man named
Waldron, who had eloped two weeks prp.
viously with his wife's sister, aged II years
They cut his head OFF and then disappeared.
A telegram from Montreal saws that all
passengers baggage from the United States
Will be examined at the depot there hy
American customs officers, instead of at Island
Pond, and will be taken through in bond
without further examination.
The Postmaster-G General has ordered that
the second annual count of mail matter
originating in the United States shall be made
III the first seven days of December next.
The count last year was made in the first
seven days of November.
The coal circular of theI Delaware and
Hudson Canal Company, issued yesterday
llXcd the prices for September AZ follows
pcrto of 2,2iO pounds furnace lump. steamer
lump and CRATE, each -; egg, SI.2O stove
FAB, and chestnut, 5i.l0
The Indian agent at Poplar river, u. T.,
has abandoned the agency, and SAYS that the
country IL full of Indians, and there il much
danger. Sitting Bull il only 20 miles away
and in clamorous to be fed Troops have
been sent to Poplar river.
During the year which ended Juno 3Otli
last, l5I, 2i3 immigrants arrived in the United
States, or 279,i17 more than during the pre-
cedlng year, and only 1910 less than during
the fiscal year 1873, when the number WAS
the highest recorded
United States Consul Saunders reports 1,
that for -four weeks, ending August It'll, there
We're 53 cases and IL deaths from malignant
hemorrhage fever at Nassau, from New
Providence Island.
Colonel Miles tclegraphH that 800 hostile
Sioux have surrendered at Fort keogh, NJ. r..
and that ] 900 more are on their way to do ~.
The others are north of Missouri sending out
war parties and otherwise annoying the
agency Indians.
Albert Huxley, an aged farmer of Clayton
Wis, was shot, Friday morning, by his
son-ill-law' North Emmons, who then shot
himself, both dying with an hour. The
tragedy was the result of family and business
difficulties.
Mrs. Elizabeth Benson, of Norfolk, Va, an
| aged lady, and mother Chief of Police Benson.
| who committed suicide last January, cut her
| throat Thursday morning with table-knifc
and then drowned herself in II hogshcad of
| water.
Thomas Smith aud Wesley Thomas, negroes
quarrcled, i'll Burlingame, Kan., on Sunday
night, and Thomas was killed. A second shot
tired by Smith, passed through,tho window Of
n saloon and MORALLY wounded man named
Baker.
Frank Stilwell was shot dead by Georp,
Glass on Saturday night while attempting /,
| force an entrance into the latter's house n
disreputable place, iii urbana, Ill. Stillwell
had been drinking. He leaves % wife and
child.
| a jury investigating the causes of tn,
mysterious fires i'll Btoominggrove, N. y.
| supposed to have been the work of Free
| Wise, boy, after being kept for 10 hour
without food or water, failed TO agree.
A circnar letter has been sent to the mara
time powers fixing January /, 1881, az tn,
date of the meeting Of the Internationa
SANITARY Congress, provided by Joint reso
| luton Mt the last session of Congress.
dispatch from Eureka, New, giving .
list of the losses by various insurance com
| panies through the fire, shows that no ont
company suffers to the extent of over SlhO0l
to s2OOOO and few more than $4,000.
The Customs authorities AZ Baltimore, Md
have seized the sloop PdS$yunk, engaged il
| the bay trade, believing that she Is til,
| pleasure yacht JOlm Crdnip, said to hay,
been stolen from Philadelphia, Pa.
William I.angville attempted to stab hi
daughter i'll a fit of passion. in Baltimur,
| tuesday. His wife interfering, received
| stab III the lung, which il expected to result
fatally. Lnngvillc was arrested.
horse belonging to butcher of Montrca
trottcd 50 miles IN the blue Bonnet rae,
course, ON saturday, in hours and 80 min
utcs. 1t was wngored that he would moi
| hNNbilllllNll lllt ltut Ill % hours.
A call has been issued for convention o
| persons Interested in the promotion of th,
| sheep and wool industry TO meet in the Per
mancnt Exhibition, Philadelphia, on Wctln,s
day, September 22d.
Postmastcr-Gcncral Key has returned 1,
Washington, to await the arrival of his SUE
| cessor, Minister Maynard, who. il il expected
| VIII shortly enter upon the discharge Of hi
| duties.
The body found in the Narrows by the New
York street Cleaning Departments tug, wa,
| identified, "Wednesday, AZ that of Bcrnar,
| Morgan, the murdered Staten island trurl
driver
Thursday was the hottest day in st. Loui,
| Mo-, since August, 1874. The mercury. a
II o'clock n. m, registered ~ degrees, an,
roSc to lOl degrees between 1 and O'cluc
| p. m.
A jewclry store in Danbliry, Conn. wa
robbed of about s5,OOO worth of property by
three burglars few nights ago and search /
being made for the burglars in New York.
Joseph Wilmer, aged IS years. committc,
suicide in Troy, N. Y. on Sunday morning
lie had been suffering from sickness, which
it was supposed, had affected his mind.
The Prohibition Reform party OF New
Jersey viii hold a State convention in Trenton
| On September list, to nominate a candidate
for Governor and Presidential electors.
Mrs. MylcS, aged 80 years, was found hang
| lnS to tree near Wheeling w. Va, ON Satur.
day night. 1t is supposed she committed sui
eide to escape family jars"
Felix Campbell of Pittsburg, Ia, has sske,
the assistance of Secretary Eyarts for the
release of his two SONS who are held M
| prisoners of war in Peru.
Mr. L. Lorillard's horses, including Parole