Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-12-30
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itentlary. He was afterwards sent TO Anbny,,
and later TO the insane asylum at Utica s,J,'
| sequently his death was reported and h.
lleving the report, his wife did not a,s,oe,
that the murderer Lammens was IT,
husband, but she was induced by A Jr,on'a
to make the visit Monday.
The weather was very cold in the Nor,,,
west, Monday and the frigid wave iscom
this way. At y o'clock, Monday morm,,'ib
temperatures were reported at 400 below ,..
ut tort Garry, Manitoba, "a below at Pe,nl,nn
u below ut Duluth, l6 below at st. pnul T.
below ut lacrosse below ut Omaha. gcrn a.,
| Milwaukee, above zero AT Cheron,o
above at st. Louis. and II above at Cmcn,,
Later in the day the temperature in Chicarn
sank to above zero, and remained nj liz,
point until after sunset when 1t began TO sirt
lower by midnight it was - below zero.
boiler in the shoe factory of L. =, Dod,,.
Mt Newbnrypou, Massachusetts, cynlnJni
Monday ut noon, killing james lIuntnpdo,,
the engineer, Daniel Bridges stock filter
and John X. Bailey, hccler. and dance
onsly injTing William Calkns, a boy. fb,
boiler house, the Chase heeling estahlisbrn,,,
and Smiths factory Were demolished. nnJ
thousands of panes of glass In the vcinity
were smashed Had 1t not been the dinner
hour, the loss of life might have been ternIi,
Six hundred persons are thrown out ~
temploymcnt by the disaster.
passenger tram anda freight train an ,l..
Cincinnati, Sandusky ~ Cleveland rniIrnod
ran INTO each other near 'Iifin, Ohio In"s'
day. Both engines were wrecked and IN.
mail express aud baggage cars were bIrnoJ
but most OF the baggage was saved. William
Nondberry, fireman, was killed. He Ind hr.,,
recently married, and his wife was IN tI,
tram Three Of the train hands were severely
injured, aud lady passenger was slightly rnt
by broken glass The engineer of tLe frei,G,
train is missing. II is said he was drunk md
running against orders.
| At n festival in Socorro, New Mexico an
| Christmas eve a disturbance arose nn,nn,,
some MeAlcails winch was quelled by A. NJ
| Conkllng, editor Of the Sun. Soon nftrr
wards, while Conkling and his wife were leav.
ing church. two Mcxicans seized him by the
arms, while third shot HIM dead. Ihe
assaHsins fled to Il neighboring village. wLer,
hey. are reported to be guarded by 2,Oo1
MexicanS, large posse of Americans. well
armed, Will endeavor to capture the mur
| derers.
George Martin was shot dead bv n yopnp
married woman named Hester. in Robertson
/ county, Texas, few DAYS ago. becnuse ba
made testing reference 10 suit for divorce
begun by her husband. The murderess Is
only " years old il very handsome, and has
! been married only a year. Her husband ya.
standing by when she shot Martin. Acolurei
boy was killed by white youth Of II, in 4
| quarrel about the possession of an axe. in
Halifax county, Va, last Friday.
There are indications that Paynes "colo.
hists, now encampod at Caldwo Kansas,
| mediate another descent upon the Indian
Territory. Tor II new point as soon az the
weather Will permit. Not more than 100 OF
! them remain IN the camp. Their leaders arc
IN correspondence with leading colored men
with view to induce tho colored emigrants
rom the south 10 JOIN the Oklahoma scheme
IL. ID. Cunningham, editor of the Tti,grdia
| "l lroy, New York, was arrested Tnc-day
AFTERNOON on the charge of having crininsliy
lhelled the Mayor. Edward Murphy. Jl
AFTER spending some time III II station hOnse
ecu, Cunningham was released in 81, 900 bail
he lotgrdn. Yesterday, reported that th
Mayor attended Il dog fight on Monday ana
mat he was sad to own one OF the dogs.
Travel has been resumed on all the rail
i0ads III New Jersey which had been block
AIDED by the snow, but many of the towns NOT
reached hy railroads remain isolated the
roads being impossible for stages The
damage done to property along the northern
shore OF New Jersey by the late storm, eape-
clnlly at Long Branch and its vicinity Is est.
mated ut more than 5i25,0OD.
According to the official census the p0pula.
ton OF some New Jersey cities il rs follows
Jersey city, 12O,72s: Hoboken, 10000
I ''N4't'Ai' @'f'lNf l4llEuItlll. E1.EZf New
Brunswick, l7l67; Paniield. s,l2G; Railway,
t,i5l Princeton 1913. The total popuia-
tion OF New Jersey is l,l30, s92 of Delaware.
l4d65i; of New York State, 5,Os2,si
The ten chiefs Of the Ponca delegation. at
an interview with Secretary Schurz Monday.
signed II paper which they had requested 10
he drawn up, expressing their desire To remain
N the Indian Territory. and relinquishing nil
rights to their lands i'll Nebraska and Dakota
N consideration of the sum of Si4s,O00 to be
appropriated by Congress.
Two cOl0red men were shot dead by Il
policeman named Dunn, in an ARRAY at
! Smthyilc, on the Virginia peninsula. last
FRIDAY night, and several others were stabbed,
one fatally, by the same policeman, while get
ting away from an Infatuated crowd. Dunn
gave himself mp to the authorities, and Ii ~
JAM ut Williamsburg.
The totul grain storage capacity of Chicago.
u reported to be %, 702, 600 bushels. of which
l3,l11 Is elevator, and the remainder vessel
room. There are now in store at the port
lf,oohOOO bushels against l2,OGO,000 at the
tha OF December last year A grain glut
-itllllaI 10 That oil last sprlngls considered not
improbable
he ship charlotte n. U'aue sailed from
st. John, New brunswick, for I.ivcrpool. ~
DAYS ago, and has not been heard OF since
he schooner DdphHe 10 days out from St
John, Newfoundland, for Sydney Cape
| breton, and the schooner Gdirin from New
York Tor Halifax, are also missing.
A national convention or deln,,otos rro,,
the branches of tho Iri.L Nnt1n,,a1 io,,, ,,,J
Industrial Leagues of the Tinted Stntn. Vii
he held IN Buffalo ON January 18th and 18TH.
Each branch of 80 members is entitled TO one
delegate, and each branch of 300 members to
two delegates.
he steamship Hichmund. of the Old
noi'hiii"li Line, arrived ut Richmond, Va,
yesterday lfom New York. She dnitcd part
" hvr GaiSo and reports that on Monday
i.,Iutl' M,lut under SAL. she passed the Della
ne supreme Court at New Orleans har
reused = wit Of cerfiOr0r in the cusc OF
mtlitH' President OF the New Orleans CITY
halIr"ad Company. committed to jail for
tLt"H,s 20 anr"'r certain questions asked by
''. h'""" jury
IN st, Louis Monday Thaddeus Baber,
Tor Mllns Lizzie Schuender and her mother,
ani 1o'GPh BankS' for killing hir wife, were
,I,,tT ~, y "uuEc l'"uShln 10 be hanged on
',S,.'ni i' " i''luatE next. Inc cases Will be
"fP'"''"'
Mr. LIE Due, Commissioner of Agriculture,
mas arrived III Charleston, South Carolina,
ana completed arrangements for the estub-
llnhncut Of an experimental farm near som
ii ~ On the zine OF the South Carolina
.t,0"u'
lhe Canada Guarantee Company has
brought SUIT IN Montreal against the Citizeus'
lH5 6h'ds Company and It's manager, for
.".,t," uahlastS' Tor alleged libellous state
'o.''N concerning The Guarantee Company.
Neyicn M I'M, t'irtaten.E at So'orro,He