Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-04-21
IN GENERAL.
Smallpox is reported in Aspinwall, and
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in Newport, Rhode Island, nre now ons
strike.
Hezekiah Mattox was shot dead by hi,
brother William in quarrel, near Lit
erty, Missouri, Monday morning.
colored man charged with o murder
was taken from the Jail al Quincy, Flor.
ida, OIL Saturday morning, and Hanged
by mob.
The latest accounts OF the tornado at
fernando, Miss, say that -four persons
are known to have been killed by it, and
four others are missing.
w. ]. Stanley, lawyer of Whlteville,
North Carolina, committed suicide on
Sunday, leaving wife and six children.
No cause for the act is assigned.
Two train hands and seventeen pas.
sengers were injured, all slightly, BY an
accident on the Chicago & Northwestern
railroad, seventeen miles south of Mil.
waukoe, on Saturday night.
The conductors and drivers on the
horse railroads in Boston have demanded
an increase of 70 per cent. in their wages.
The South Boston road has increased the
wages Of its drivers and conductors from
Sl.75 to 81.
A tornado in Drew county, Arkansas,
OH Friday, levelled trees and houses and
caused, as far as known, a loss of five
lives, besides injuring many perso ms. One
woman was found dead in tree top, with
her babe i'll her arms uninjured.
The Connecticut Legislature adjourned
Thursday after session of three months
and one week. Among the appropria.
tions during the session were $4,000 for
expenses OF military representation at the
Yorktown Centennial and &c. 900 for fsh
propagation.
planter named Harrison was bound
and robbed of $500 by three masked men,
| Ia his house in st. Francis county, Ark,
on Friday night. The robbers were pur-
sued by body of armed men, one Of them
was captured, another MORALLY wounded
and the third escaped.
| Edward L. Lockhart Chairman of the
Board OF City Water and Sewerage Com
missioners OF St. John, New Brunswick, is
charged with embezzling Sl0,0 from the
city and $4,000 from the Methodist
Church, the latter sum being legacy
from an estate of which he is executor.
The suit of Miss Mary A. Murray
against Postmaster Tyler, of Baltimore,
for $50, 900 damages, for alleged assaults
upon her while she was an employee in the
postollice, which had been on trial in the
Circuit Court OF Howard county, resulted
Thursday in verdict for the plaintiff of
| $4,000.
Redmond, the notorious outlaw, who
for years has delied the Government
authorities, was fatally shot while resist
ing arrest, in Swain county, North Caro-
lima, few days ago lie died the day
| nf,. t., tn D...l.
wounded several officers during his law
less career.
Serious floods are reported in Wiscon-
sin. At Fond du Lac the river is "a rag
ing torrent" and at o'clock Monday
afternoon it had flooded the western sec
ton of the city, compelling families in
three of the wards to quit their dwellings.
At WATERFOWL the river was rising
} rapidly, and two bridges had been swept
away.
Collector Thomas, OF Baltimore, has
written to the Secretary of the Treasury
requesting that q revenue cutter be sent
to cruise outside of Cape Henry in search
Of the British barque Hattobura and the
Argentine ship Dard .Sterart. Both yes-
sells sailed from Rio Janerio, the first oil
January 10th, and the second on January
!, 18th, and both are long overdue.
, Charles Smith, arrested in Baltimore 10
r answer tine charge of causing the death
of Mrs. Susan f. Boyd, boarding house
i keeper, who burst a blood vessel in fit
OF Mysteries brought by Smiths strange
, conduct at her house OH Thursday night,
- last, has been released, the states
:. attorney seeing nothing to connect Smith
;. criminally with Mrs. Boyd's death.
. Mr. French the Commissioner of Rail
# roads, contradicts the report that the
t Government is about to take proceedings
+. at San Francisco against the Central
d Pacific Railroad Company. 1T is not
known if any proceedings will be taken
: further than those already going oil in
e the United States Court for Southern New
il York until matters are examined into in
l. San Francisco"
The appeal of Thomas A. Edison in the
u interference case of Maxim vs.. Edison has
d been decided by the EXaminers-in-C Chief
k Of the Patent Office in favor of the owners
d Of the Maxim patents. The Examiner of
r lDterfeTences decided last February in
;. favor of Maxim, and the Board OF
e Examiners-in-Chief affirm his decision.
s. A final appeal may be taken to the
3, Commissioner of Patents.
10 Information has just been received that
Ann Cowau, colored woman, was
lynched u day or two since at Martins
" depot, Laurens county, South Carolina
- The w0mah was under arrest, charged
y with attempting to fire the premises OF Il
~, planter named ]. 5. Blolock, having sue
W ceeded in burning the barn. She was
- taken from the officer by mob and
, hanged TO u tree. The community disap'
-, proves the hanging.
q. Agent Berry writes from Los Pinos
=. Agency, under date of the LIST lust, that
j; there is 10 foundation for the report OF
w indications of hostile feeling among the
q" Indians. 1t is not unlikely however,
that large numbers OF the whites may
tv trespass upon the reservation this spring,
,y and cause serious trouble. He is, there
a, fore, OF the opinion that, as a precau-
IS. tionary measure, the military force in the
I'd Valley of the uncompahgre should be
largely increased.
ld A. b. Lindernan and the surveying
NJ party who left Jacksonville, Florida, on
is the 9TH inst, to explore the kissimwee
river, Lake Okeechohee and Caloosa
hatchIe river, for the purpose of determ
ming the practicability Of draining the
Lake and the everglades, reached Fort
Myers, on the Caloosahatchie, ON sunday
They a,certained that the Meigs survey
W determining the altitude OF the LAX,
~ above the sea level and its fall into the
We Caloosahatchto, was correct. The part!
i'll az. all we'll.
40 Rev. Ii. W. fleming, of the Statt
Board of Kansas, having in charge tn.
rare OF cplored immigrants from til,
.... southern States, reports that the board
np has received, cared for and distributed
"a more than loo 900 of those people, an,
hu has been the means of turning 10, 600 o
them into other States. The board hai
done all in its power, without avail, to checl
IA. the influx of colored people, and nov
la- "the exodus has begun again, and larg,
an numbers of these people are moving OF
preparing to move.
4. Three men were seriously wounded il
nT q fight between circus men, near Ennis
of Texas, on Sunday. In Dodge City
he Kansas, on Sunday, three men, nance
III, Masterson, Peacock and Updegraif, meet
1h ing in the street, which was full Of people
ne drew revulvers and blazrd away at cacl
IL. other UpdrSraf was killed and Z
in passer-hy, named Anderson, wounded
it Masterson was captured hy the Mayor
to aud sheriff atler u display Of shot-guns
oi What became OF Peacock ia not reported
ate
he a riot occurred among Italian laborer'
III, on the Pennsylvania New England rail