Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-09-02


Treasury for decision.
Northern Pacific railroad west of the Missouri
river will be completed to the Yellowstone
early in October The chief engineer of the
road has been directed to transfer the work
ing force directly across to the located line Of
the Yellowstone division, with view of
reaching and passing Miles City and Fort
keogh in July next.
Major Walsh, of the Dominion Mounted
Police, has arrived in Ottawa. He says that
when he left Wood Mountain, on the 18th of
June, Sitting Bull was peaceable and promised
to place no obstacle in the way of any of his
tribe who desired to return to the United
States. Walsh was, therefore, surprised to
see the telegram from Gen. Miles, published
on Tuesday.
During n thunder storm on Saturday even
ing 25,000-barrel oil tank at State Line, near
Bradford, Pa, was fired by lightning The
spread of the fire beyond the tank was pre-
vented by firing solid shot into its bottom
and drawing OH the burning OIL During the
storm other property in the oil field was
destroyed, and the losses are estimated at
Si0,0OO.
John Delaney, of Beekman, and G.. Losse
and Cyrus Perkins, of Union Vale Duchess
county, NJ Y, recently signed what they sup
posed to be contract, to soil moving machine
grinders, but which prove to be s400 notes
made payable to Orr n Co., of Syracuse, i'll
May last. The victims refuse to pay the
notes and lawsuits are expected.
The Treasury Department has ordered
:2O. QUO in gold CON III the New York sub
treasury to be placed to the credit of the
Superintendent of the Assay office in that
city, to pay for foreign bullion AZ it arrives.
1t Is officially estimated that about si,O00,000
in foreign gold will arrive in New York each
week until November LIST.
Ill, IA.
Mich, was shot dead by his nephew William
II. Mckennoy, on Monday night. McKenney
is from Brooklyn, N. Y, and IN only IL years
of age The murder arose from u quarrel
caused by II demand of Mckinney for the
payment of small sum of money due him by
Hamton's son.
The examination of DIR. George Ben. John
ston, in Richmond. Va, ON the charge of in
| tending to fight duel with Captain John =.
| Wise took place i'll the police court on Satnr-
| day Johnston was held in $4,000 to keep the
| peace for ~ months Wise has not been
arrested, but it ia said he will surrender
| to-day.
| Mary Boyle and Nellie lInlbut were drowned
by the npsettng of rowboat in the lake at
| Buffalo, on Sunday afternoon. A fve-yeal-
old brother of Mary Boyle was saved by
clinging to the npturned boat As the lake
| was perfectly calm, il il supposed the boat
waS capsized by the romping of the girls.
Two soldiers of the One Hundred and First
| regiment, undergoing sentences at Melville
| Island, N. ~, for military offences, undertook
| last week, TO stone the chief warden of the
| prison. They were convicted of the oiiense
| and received 80 lashus each, one being pun
lshed on Friday and the other on Saturday.
An Indian outbreak, in which Southern and
| White River Utes, Piutes and Navajos are
concerned, is reported in Grand Valley, in
southwestern Colorado and northeastern
Utah. Two boys We're killed by the Indians
near the Utah line, on the 26th instant, and
the settlers have been warned of danger.
The three negroes, Bedford. Pinn and
Qnecnan, sentenced to he hanged on Septem-
Der 10th, for the murder of George +. 1irth,
have been respited by the President until
November 18th. The respite ia to allow an
opportunity for the production Of new
evidence in their favor
| The Democrats Of Lowell, Mass, have
ing, chose delegates TO their State Conyen
| ton favorable to Gen. Buffers nomination
for Governor. Butler however, was chosen
III nus own ward, ut his own request, with the
| Understood purpose of declining Il nomina-
ton i'll the convention.
Harriet Merrihcw, on trial at Iowvillc n
y, for poisoning her brother-in-law, Dawn
Merrlhcw, i'll the spring of last ycar was CON
ylcted' on Saturday of murder in the first
| degree, and sentenced to Imprisonment for
life. Winthrop Merrihew, indicted as access
sorry, was discharged
telegram from Pueblo. Col, saws that
Hugh Mooney, recently stabbed to death by
tramp named Jerry Crowley, was n peaceablc
nau. The tramp interfered with the section
men, and when ordered away by Mooney
plunged knife into the lattcr's body. The
murderer was arrested.
News has been received in New York of the
death, at Fayal. ON July 10th, of W. y. DE
Hans, the artist lie was well known IN II
Pointer of coast and river scenes, prominent
among them being the "Sunrise on the Sus-
lnchannn and "Narragausctt lpicr,' the
latter painted in 1877.
In the suit of lIodman NJ. Price against s.
i. Dewey, at San Francisco, for the recovery
of about Sl,00O,00n, the Court has sustained
inc demurrer OF defendant that no new facts
nave been discovered since the trial of the
suit in New York in 1857.
Mrs. Catherine Schcifcr, Il widow Of sixty
years, has brought suit for breach of promise
| against Young Italian named Fcrsarierc,
III Brooklyn, N. Y. She claims $1,000 dam
} ages, She also charges that the youth
I obtained fromhcr mortgage of II 800 under
false prctcnses.
James Bennett, fireman of an engine on
/ | the Denver Rio trande railroad, was shot
/ dead by party of drunken men while stand
+ Ilig ~ cab at San Antonio Station, Colorado,
+ | on Monday evening. Three men named
! l
4 the crime.
: Eleven attaches of Boyd 4 Peters circus
! were placed on trial at Somerset, Pa, Friday
! | day, for the assault upon Miss Salome
q Bnrkett in July last They were allowed
separate trials, and after hearing the
/ evidence IN their eases, the jury acquitted
them all.
Judge Page was shot and slightly wounded
y | III MS house. at Austin, Mimi, by an unknown
person, on Tuesday week. 1t appears that
: Page 'has for years been the principal mover
= m the great political, social and religious feud
I that has agitated Southern Minnesota
Michael lioylson was shot dead by his step
, | son, Charles III. lleischman, in Chicago. On
Saturday night. Boylson had gone home
drunk, and begun To abusc his wife, when the
! step-son fired the fatal shot, IIeischman, who
! IL only ~ years of ngr, was arrested.
dispatch from Fort Moiave, Arizona dated
tho I'D INST, reports furious storm. The
company quarters were blown down, three
men Killed and several injured. The officers
!, quarters were destroyed the hospital and
store-houRc much damaged
+ \ convention of "lhe Deaf NTutcS of Amer
lca' the first of the kind was held in
n Cincinnati last week. Delegates were present
v from all sections of the United States and
~ Canada, and Robert McGrogOr, of Cincinnati
J. was elected president,
The wheat crop along the line of the North
r. | erh racine railroad was not in danger from
q | wet weather, as reported. 1t is now harvested
= and i'll fine condition, though three weeks
later than last year, and will begin moving
i. eastward this week.
While descending the Shaft of new sewer
Il IN Boston, Friday, James CLARK, foreman
+, OF gang of labnrors. fell ont Of the cage To
/, the bottom, distance of 80 feet, and was
= Killed. He leaves a wife and seven children
Il i'll Maryland.
n II is understood that General Schotied
p does not wish to be relieved from duty at
e West Point. The present status there will
o probably he maintained ut least until
Il after the Presidents return from the Pacific
coast.
is The engagement of Jessie, youngest son of
= Gen. Grant, to Lizzie, daughter of N. s.
e Chapman, a large landowner, of California, IL
o announced i'll San Francisco. The wedding is
a to take place next month.
u The Ohio State Fair opened Monday at
Z Columbus. The entries in all departments
!. are large, especially those of machinery and
horses, while the display of cattle il finer than
at any previous fair.
u Edward Mikesell shot and killed his mother
l. near Wauseca, o, on Tuesday week. He testi-
y, ned before cOruners jury that the killing
: was accidental; lie was trying to shoot
l. chicken at the time. .... 49,
r Taylor Case shot and killed his brother,
:. Harrison Case, at Washington. Ind ON last
4 thursday. They were drunk ut the time and
ma had long cherished grudge against each
other.
q The funeral of Gen. Albert J. NIycr took