Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-04-14
IN GENERAL.

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We're decorated yesterday week, the Grand
Army of the Republic contributing aow-
era for the purpose.
a stone in Jobnston's flour mill, in
Monroe county, Arkansas, burst on Tues
day week, killing two men and fatally in.
juring several others, among them John
ston, the proprietor of the mill.
The Tennessee Legislature adjourned
Thursday having passed all the necessary
laws to provide for the payment of interest
on the State debt.
The cattle disease at WATERFOWL. New
York, is pronounced murrain sat present
in mild form" The fatal cases have
been confined to one herd.
The Indiana House of Representatives.
Thursday, by vote Of 62 TO "a, passed
resolution proposing constitutional
amendment giving women the right to
vote at State elections.
A letter was received at the Treasury
Department, Thursday, calling attention
TO the Loan law of 1880, and asking
whether the Secretary cannot now, nego-
tiate q foreign loan under the authority Of
that act.
The members of Life Saving Crew No.
4, on the New Jersey coast, who resigned
on account of the patrol check order have
reconsidered their designations and ore
again on duty.
Hattie Duell, the fasting girl Of Iowa
City, is reported to have yesterday
reached the 47th day of her abstinence
from food. She was hardly able to swal.
low any water her pulse was very feeble,
and she was barely alive.
The Indian Commission OF the Orthodox
Friends, comprising James E. Rhoades, of
Philadelphia Benz amin Latham, of New
York Francis 4. King and John Butler.
Ohio; Charles F. Coffin and Barnabas c.
Hobbs, Of Indiana; Cyrus Beder, Of Iowa,
and Thomas Stanley, of Kansas, called
upon the President on Saturday and
conferred with him regarding Indian
affairs.
The furniture factory of Metzner, Schell.
haus & Co., in Wheeling, West Virginia,
| was destroyed Tuesday morning by fire.
Loss, SIS, 900. About 70 men are thrown
out OF employment by its destruction.
Bids were accepted by the authorities
of Baltimore Tuesday for 5000, 900 per
cent. city bonds for the Improvement Of
Harbor Run, at an average of l07.2st.
The premium to the city aggregated
sl4, 565,
! The Tradesmen's National Bank of New
| Haven, Connecticut, has accepted the
terms Of Secretary Windows circular,
| and forwarded bonds to the amount of
$3.50, 600 in Gs Of 1881 to the Treasury, to
be renewed at 81 per cent.
| NJ. w. Lonergan, clerk in drug store
| Of do I'D dna Nd
"probably guilty of manslaughter," after
hearing before justice, for putting up
belladonna instead of extract of butter
nut, and thereby causing the death of a
patient.
In Cleveland, Ohio, Tuesday, it was
decided, at meeting of the employers, to
advance the pay of machinery moulders
10 per cent :, instead of the Is asked. The
men are not satisfied, and only the Union
Foundry is running, where voluntary
advance of 10 per cent. was made on the
LIST inst.
David Downey was killed and Michael
Broderick fatally injured, Tuesday, by
the explosion of a nitro-glycerine cart
ridge, which the former was trying tC
draw from blast hole in the tunnel al
West Point, New York. Broderick has
since died. Another man was severely
injured.
On Monday W. s. Millar's cotton store all,
packing room in Charleston. 5. c., was de-
stroNed by fire, the loss being $1,000. A
colOred man and woman are supposed TO hayi
persisted III the flames.
Serious trouble is brewing between thi
Chickisaw Indians and the stock rasers. Tn,
latter have been ordered from tho terrtor,
H. l,,t have
armed bands and are preparing to resis
arrest
Monday morning the partially decom
posed body OF Emery Bassett WAS found ii
Luke Whitney, from which the water suppl,
Of New Haven, Connectlcut,is drawn. Basset
was drowned i'll the lake on December gath
While cutting ice.
A passenger train on the Oregon railroat
was wrecked, Monday, by falling from
trestle bridge. at China Gulch, near Redding
California, The engineer and fremen wer
killed, and two others were badly injured
The disaster WAS caused by ''cloud burst,
The schooner Teresa, from Para, at Ne
: York Monday afternoon brought the crew
seven i'll number, of the schooner Mary I
Bryan OF Philadelphia, abandoned at sea o.
y the 9th instant. The Bryan was from Pascs
goulR for Philadelphia with u cargo OF lunl
Der; when abandoned she was full Of water
i and had lost sails and rudder.
i The steamboat Erdstus Corning WAS dan
aged by fire IN Long Island Sound, betwee
and O'Clock Monday morning. The pas
= senger-, about 100 in number, includin
Il HascrlY'a Mastadon Minstrel troupe, wer
Y awakened from their sleep by the sudde
n bursting of smoke and flame from the wood
If work around the Bmokestacks, but all behave
with great GOODNESS and courage, and the fir
was soon extingrished by the efforts of til
Y passengers aud crew.
l. In the New Jersey Court of Errors and Al