Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-06-16
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boiler at the Grape Sugar Works, In Buff
talo, yesterday morning, severely soald-
ing three men.
Secretary Blaine, it is said, will leave
Washington next week Tor protracted
fishing tour OH the coast OF Maine, for the
benefit OF his health
Mrs. Cresswell, her two children, and
her brother was killed by the collision OF
II wagon with railroad train at Ray mond,
illinois, On Monday night.
William Buehler, a prominent citizen
of Harrisburg, was found dead i'll his bed
sunday morning. Heart disease is sup
posed 10 have been the cause.
A lire at the Asbestos Mines, in Thet-
ford township, Quebec, ON Monday,
destroyed 81 laUoreis' dwellings, two saw
mills and large quantity OF lumber.
Captain Charles q. Phillips, OF the
United States Engineers, having charge
OF the river and harbor Improvements at
Norfolk, Va, died Ill that city Tuesday.
AT Martville, Connecticut, on Monday
night, Miss Jennie Parker, aged 70 years.
died FROM swallowing, by mistake, u
throat Imminent containing cyanide OF
potash.
Smith Brothers. planning mill and sash
factory, at Sheboygan, Michigan, was
| burned ON Sunday, with several other
| buildings, and 800, 900 feet OF lumber
| Loss $1,000.
A hogshead oil lager beer exploded in
Charles kivinius' brewery, Third avenue,
New York, Tuesday, killing Jacob
Borer, aged II, Il brewer, VINO was at
| work near by.
Tit grain storehouses and elevator in
the Atlantic Dock, i'm Brooklyn,N. Y. ,were
burned Sunday afternoon, with their
contents. The total loss is estimated at
nearly $4,000.
ballast train, on the Credit Valley
railroad, was thrown from the track by q
broken wheel, at Milton, Ontario, Tues
day. One man was killed, and three
others We're njured. -..
boat, containing five young men, was
carried over a dam in the Iowa river, at
Marshalltown, Iowa, Tuesday, and two
OF them, named Samuel 5. Jones and Dell
kribbs, were drowned.
Messrs. Flanagan and McDermott, OF
White Mills, Were drowned by the UPSET
ting of row boat at kemble, Pa, OH
Saturday afternoon. They were going to
Lackawaxen on u pleasure trip.
Michael j. lioustin, aged &C, and his son,
Michael j., aged 80, both OF Waynesboto,
Pa, We're suliOcated at Frederick City,
Md, yesterday morning, by foul air from
a we'll while they were taking out u pump
stock.
A private cable dispatch, received in
| Chicago, reports the death, in Brighton,
England, Of George Armour, OF tLe
! Chicago lirm Of Armour, Dole X Co. lie
was prominent both IN business and
politics.
The Government House, at Toronto,
was entered by burglars ON sunday night,
but all they secured was Il tin box,
tanning private papers, and box and
) papers We're found yesterday Oh the
I grounds.
Mr.. Knapp, the present chief clerk of
the Post Once Department, will retire on
account OF Ill health, and he succeeded
d, uh the LIST of July by j. K. NanW orntr,
: the private secretary of Postmaster-Gen-
trai Jam y.
Lieutenant James b. Lockwood, U. S.
if A., with Is men, sailed tuesday from
!, Baltimore tor st. Johns, Newfoundland,
, where they viii join the steamer FTotsnS,
; OF the Greeley expedition TO Lady
Franklin Bay.
e Patrick Burke and John Hawkins were
d seriously injured in a mine OF the Della
= ware and lludson Company, 1t Plymouth,
e Pa, yesterday, in consequence of the
premature discharge ut Il blast.
y An election for members Of the National
: amt Grand Councils and tor dlsti let Off
u GERS in the Cherokee nation will be- held
u next August. a bitter canvass is already
Is going on between the factions; and one
n prominent candidate has been murdered.
In Marshal. Texas, year ago, r. i.
Y Jennings, editor Of the Messenger, shot
y and klllrl W. $. Coleman who had
- attacked hun on the street because of an
= editorial IN the Messenger. Tho trial Of
-, Jennings for the killtE resulted, on
- Friday night, in Il verdict of not guilty.
ID While tearing down the old court house
ia at Lafayette, lndiIna, On saturday morn
N ing, the root fen iu iniuring tour men,
~. three of them fatally, Peter Miller, a
is miner in the summit Branch Colliery at
IL. Nilliamstown, in Dauphu county, Pa,
u, was found dead on saturday morning
al under heavy fall of Slate.
A heavy thunder storm, with torrents
of rain, prevailed on Saturday evening
from ST. Paul to Omaha, and southwark
through Iowa. Telegraph wires were
- lrvelled and considerable damage done to
other property. at DesMones and Col
rs fax, Iowa, several houses We're demolished
- aud persons injured.
- Tuesday np1n, at the end of his sew,
10 enteenth day Of fasting, John Griscoul
I. weighed lI2f pounds, a loss Of \ of q
n pound during "A hours. His pulse was
-. "a, respiration Is, ami temperature rs
- %. 1t is sand that his fast has thus fan