Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-10-11
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
pEDDLTNG muck ETS or WATER IN
NEW ORLEANS.
Big Fire at Dallas, Texas-An Ac-
eommo,iatIng Husband kiIis His
wife - A Kansas lawyer In the
Way of IA Bullet.

.srenos aooredt that Church with l27 294
members il Utah and 2, ,264 in Arizona.
Fifty-six cases OF opium, alleged to
have been fraudulently imported on the
ateamer Ooeanic, were libeled Thursday
in San Il Francisco.
Three and half blocks OF buildings
were burned in Dallas, Texas, on Satur
day. The loss was at first stated at
81, 900. 600, but later reports place 1T at
$l25, 900.
Mrs. Shaw, Of Waco, Texas, committed
suicide by lashing herself to stone fence,
first saturatiug hsr head and clothes with
kerosene, and then applied a lighted
match to her clothing.
Francis r. Paris, aged 43, First Ser
s.ant OF Battery -, Second Artillery,
committed suioide Friday, by shooting
himself through the heart at Fortress
Monroe. lie was insane.
At the sale OF the library OF the late
Joseph ]. Cooke, Providenos, r. L., Fri
day, four volumes of Shakespegrs's
comedies printed in 1923, 1852, 1864 and
1856, were sold at $725 per volume.
riot occurred among party of colored
men on the Admission q Atlantic rsili Dad +,
near Tsllade. 3, Georgia, ON Saturday
Three were shot ana killed, and uuiaber
was wounded, some of whom will die.
The Secretary OF War has directed an
officer of the engineer corps to run the
boundary line between Maryland ard
Virginia. The detail is made at tho re-
quest of the governors OF both States.
At the general conference OF the E7sn-
gelioal church at Allentown, Pa, Fri
day, reports are read showing the growth
of the Church during the past four years
There was an increase of membership OF
45,953.
The snt-liquor selling people of Wash
iugton, ID. C are making an aggressive
fight against the saloon keepers, with the
object of preventing .he issuanca of
licenses for the coming year il as many
oases as possible.
In the Executive Council OF Massaohu-
setts, Friday, the nomination OF +. G..
Walker, colored, to be judge Of the
municipal court, failed of continuation by
a vote of 4 to 4. Walker was Immediately
renominated by Governor Butler.
special from Regina, Northwest Ter
ritory, announces that Joseph N. Steven
son and George Stevenson, half-breed
dering an aged squatter near Troy in June
last and sentenced to be- hanged Novem-
bsr 2Sth.
The water famine at New Orleans con-
times. On Saturday the Mayor, by
direction of the Council, employed 3
number of carts to carry casks OF water
to those who were without supply.
Water was sold readily at five anc ten
eents bucketful
Charles f. Ritchel of Bridgeport, Conn,
h.s invtn sn "4ir ship" whici he
expects to kesp in horizontal. oaition
III the air by the use OF canvas pro-
pellor. He is going TO take his machine
to Europe aud exhibi, it TO various eoS ern.
ment officers there
On Saturday morniug Albert Fist, man
killed his wife in Milwaukee,, Wisconsin
A letter found by the police stated that
the wife often expressed desire 10 b.
killed, and at last the husband oonseuted
to crafty her wish A small iron bar
was used to crush her Li,iad.
Lnuis Lakers, who five years ago mar
ried l5'yAsr old girl at Alliance, Ohio
and afterward served three years in tn,
psnitentiary fer shooting her paralmour
Thursday found his wife wreck in
levelaud den, aud took her back upOl
professions Of repentance aud promise o
reform. .-"". 49,.
The courl house building. iust 2oru
pleted in the new county of Dickinson
Virginia, tell down on Saturday and dan
gsrously injured three of the painter
who were finishing it. The supervisor
were in session at the time and about Il
receive the building from the contra jt0r
The fifteenth animal reunion OF tn
Army of the Cumberland will take ylsc
iu Cincinnati on the oath and 18th insta
Generals Sheridan, Rosecrans, Pope isr
rison, Reynolds, Hazeu, Kimbsll Granger
Negisy, Coburn, McCook, Boynton an
Manderson, have promised to attend
General Smith d. Atkins viii deliver til
oratior.,
In Provdence,R l., Thursday night
tiremen were exercising with the Skinne
truck and the ladders were thrown mp t
height of 80 feet When two frIa
were within about five feet of the top tn
ladders oaree ned and fiually broke. On
man was killed, the other escaped wit
slight injuries The truck had ono
before collapsed.
During difficulty on Saturday bitEee
j. w. May, a colored stable boy, an
Wesley MeDanisls, q farm hand, at Foi
Scott Kansas, the latter phot and kille
Nav. One Of the shots fired by MGDauie
after passing through Mays hauI eatere
the hack OF Judge Brinkerhoif, prom
nent lawyer of Fort Scott, inilicting
mortal wound.
The trustees OF the Peabody Educ
tional Fund, in session in New iorl
Thursday elected William Aiken, Villa
M. Evsrts, A. II. II. Stuart, Ii. jacl
son and James d. Porter the Exeoutiy
Commtttee. William NJ. Evarts, Hanilto
Fish, Theodore Lyman Anthony
Drexel and Chief Justice Waite a
oho5en the Finsnos C, mmittee.
dispatch f.om Tuoson, Arizona, 90,
thst Jacob Elmer and G aides Hip9le
stage rohhtrs belonging 20 the gang til
kilt.d I-s-en er Collins II A gust lot
were ove7take hv a sharif's posse ne
Tucson, wheu Il mrT as Ii led 81
lltnsley wounded. The latter - lp,
iuto the nj uutains but as pursued 81
Friday was found and S;lled.
Iu Drsfoit, on Saturday, night, whi
Miss CLAIR s iGars wss on her way to
public library, She was stopped ny
unknown mau who then aiIued revulv
at her head and fired. Miss Sanders f.
in faint just as tho weapon weit
and the bullet passed over her head. u
would be murderer escaped, TheIe ia
known motive for the attempted ass a.
nation. ~.
In Troy, N Y, Thursday, while
fireman was putting away uniforms az
parBde, he dropped a cigar stump
tho lay lntt of the Volunteer Steau