Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-03-31
IN GENERAL.

at hot less IMAM I'VE MILLIONS.
The iourneymen house painters of New
York will strike on April 9TH for an
advance of wages to So per day.
Harlan Z. Hale has been arrested
New Haven for attempting to poison
whole family named Sanborn, by putin
strychnine in their tea kettle.
1t is reported that military expedition
in three columns is being organized in
Mexico for the determination of the hostile
Indians about Santa Rosa in the State of
Coahuila.
An Indian charged with killing stock
raiser named Kerstler, at mining-ca
in San Bernardino county, California, was
taken from Jail, few days ago, by a
masked mob and lynched.
The cotton compress of James l..
Ilanney on the Boston Steamship Com
pany's wharf, in Norfolk, Virginia, was
destroyed by fire Sunday night, with $50
bales of cotton, belonging to different
parties.
Benjamin Blanchard, of Philadelphia.
formerly clerk or book keeper for the
Permanent Exhibition, died in the
Maryland University Hospital, in Bati-
more, Tuesday night, under circumstances
indicating suicide.
A telegram from Ottawa says instruc-
tons have been sent to intercept the
steamer australian, at Sable Island, Nova
Scotia, it being supposed that she has on
board one or more of the Mansion House
conspirators.
Engine No. 10, the largest in the
United States, was put on the Pennsyl-
vania railroad Monday at New Bruins
wick. 1t will run between Philadelphia
and New York.
The manhead of a pudding furnace in
Youngstown, Ohio, blew out Monday
morning, and II men were injured, three
of them seriously, by flying debris and
escaping steam.
A contract has been made for the repair
ing of the ocean pier at Long Branch, and
its extension outward 1000 feet. The
work, it is expected, will be completed by
the 10th of May.
Albert C. Bogert, of Paterson, New
Jersey, celebrated, Monday, with his
children, grandchildren, great and great
great grandchildren, the one hundredth
anniversary of his birth. ...
Light House Inspector MacDougal and
two other persons Were drowned Mon
day morning while attempting to go
ashore from q steamer off Mendocino
Light, on the California coast.
While preparations were making for
the launching of II repaired schooner at
Jordan Run, Nova Scotia, Tuesday, the
vessel was blown over by the wind and
fell upon the men beneath, killing one
and injuring two others.
Ann Eliza Jones, an aged woman,
hanged herself in Bridgeport, Ohio, on
Friday night. A few hours before the
suicide She made will giving her body
to physician in payment of a debt of
81. It is said the physician will claim
the body.
Alonzo Bobb was fatally stabbed by
| Richard Osborne, in Il dance house, at
Walla Walla, Washington Territory, a
few nights ago. Osborne was arrested on
saturday afternoon, and on Saturday
night he was taken from the Jail by
mob and lynched.
| The First National Bank of Rome,
Georgia, which suspended on Saturday, is
reported to have liabilities, exclusive of
the capital stock, amounting to $l65, J62.
| lis assets are nominally 1921 800, All
amount which it is expected will be
| greatly reduced on correct valuation.
Alexander Rodanow, alias Dr. Nathan
GAM, was convicted in Boston, Tuesday,
of using the mails with intent to defraud-
| His method was ''to advertise valuable
watches at Il nominal price" He also
established Il Socialist paper called the
| Anrchid. His counsel has moved a new
trial.
Joseph and William McGadey, brothers,
aged respectively 10 and % years, We're
arrested in Norristown, on Thursday
night, on the charge of having committed
the murder at Valley Forge. Joseph was
released, there being no evidence against
him, but William is held for an eXami-
nation.
A skull was found by boys at Trading
Cove, near Norwich, Connecticut, on
Monday, which led to the discovery of
the entire body of a man. The body was
identified by Il woman named Barber as
that of her husband, who disappeared
more than three years ago, in fit OF
insanity.
The following bonds We're stolen from
John Conner by masked burglars at Cat
fish, Pcnna., on Wednesday night !;
Allegheny Valley railroad 1905, Nos.
27s2, 27s3, 27s4 and 27s5 of $1,000 each
income, Nos. 1872, 1878 and 3574 of 800
each Brady's Bend Bridge Company
bonds, Nos. IL, IA, Is, u, 100, 1O2, 1903
lOi of $3.50.
seth McKenney was shot dead by Ira
Miller in quarrel, at Gilman, Ind, on
Monday night. Timothy Kearney way
lald and assaulted Lawrence Pagan
at Ferryville, Connecticut, on Monday
night, and received shot from Pagan,
from the effects of which he died Tues
day morning.
tlree-story building, partly brick and
partly frame, in Jersey City, used form
erly as an iron foundry, but recently in
tended to he altered for tenement pur-
poses, tninbled down yesterday week
bnrying in its ruins three carpenters who
were at work within. George Hummell
was fatally injured and died in few
minutes after being taken out.
Monday evening the last spike was
driven at luray, completing the Shenan-
doah Valley railroad from Hagerstown,
Maryland, to Waynesboro' Virginia,
where it connects with the Chesapeake *
Ohio railroad. Through trains from
llagerstown to Waynesboro' will be run
| '''F7 y '"'h PioAlllb' lLlS Ibiu
| opens new and independent line for
business between the Atlantic coast and
the South and Southwest.
Seven masked rufiians Thursday entered
the house of John Conner, aged 81 years,
who lives alone with his wife at Catfish, a
place 80 miles from Pittsburg, bound and
gagged the couple, compelled the old gem
tleman to give up the combination of his
safe, and took from it $1,000 worth of
Government bonds, unregistered coupons,
and over $4,000 in cash. The people were
50 roughly handled that they may not
recover from the shock.
Sunday night James Little, healthy
young timer, died from the effects OF
drinking beer. While holding glass of
beer to his lips he suddenly began to
gasp for breath, his head hung down
upon his breast, and in few moments he
was corpse. The cold beer which he
drank partly paralyzed the stomach, and
before the beer became of proper tenn
perature to be absorbed into the system,
ii began to lerment, causing formation
OF earbonic acid gas. The gas gradually
overpowered the heart, lungs and brain,
and paralyzed the entire nervous system,