Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-09-27
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
4 FUNNY DUELLIN6 SOENE IN
MARYLAND.

Four Miners Killed by IA Fall-Mur
dered by IA Circus Hand.
The New York Tribune last week an
nounoed reduction in it's price from
cents copy to 8 cents.
At Montreal the Court OF Appeals ha'
decided that divorce granted i'll Ns9
York was not valid in the Dominion.
Bradford Lewis 4 Son, cotton waste and
card board manufacturers Of Wslpole
Massachusetts,, have tailed for abou
$4,000.
G. c. Coates, master carpenter of tn,
Pennsylvania railroad, was fatally
crushed in Jersey City, Thursday, by {
falliog wall.
The annual parade of volunteer fire
men at scranton, Pa, Thursday, was s
success, 6, 200 men being In line and tht
spectators numbering $4,000.
Secretary Chandler has decided not Il
use the money appropriated for the pur'
chase of coaling station at Chirqui, hui
TO refer the matter to Congress-.
Jabez Payne, district land agent of the
Reading Coal and lion Company, was
beaten by gang OF masked highwaymen
near Ashland, Pa y, on haturday nigh,
and robbed of $500.
The Cirouit Court OF the United States,
by Justice Fields, will decide that China
men claiming to be- British citizens mus,
provide themselves with passports to la nd
in the United States.
Philip Sellers and his stepson, George
W. Brown, fought at the former's house
tn, Dali do
the fight Sellers was found dead on the
floor. Brown has been arrested.
Sanitary Superintendent Day reports
that typhoid fever is spreading in Nav
York, and the health commissioners have
issued a circular calling upon the public
to use all possible precautions against the
disease.
"Abe" Buzzsrd, lender of the Welsh
Monntain gang OF thieves, who escaped
from the Lancaster county Jail last year
while serving sentence of IA years, waa
captured Sunday near Ephrata.
The Guion steamer Alaska, from
Queenstown for New York, came in yes
terday ahead of her previous record,
having made the trip in days, q hours
and 40 minutes, the best time on record.
The contract for furnishing from 1000
to 15, 900 yards of tive-irsine body Brus.
sells carpet for public buildings in the
United States was awarded on Saturday
to Rowland A. Robbins, New York, at
$l,25 per yard.
Postmaster General Gresham has writ
ten letter to the postmaster at New
Orleans that no more registered letters be
delivered to the New Orleans National
Bank, which has received the letters oil
NJ. A. Dauphin of the Louisiana lottery.
Mrs. Elizabeth C. Morton has disap-
peared from her home in Brooklyn, aud
all efforts to trace her have been uuavail-
ing. When she disappeared she ia said
to have had $4,000 in her possession and
to have been wearing diamonds valued al
$1,000. -
In the Redemptorist College at Ilohestor
Mary land, on Saturday, the following
priests were ordained by Archbishop
Gibbons Revs. William Kessel, Aloysius
klauder, Frank Koch and Frederick Bait
Philadelphia; p. Ii. L1naghsn, Maryland
and William Tewes, Washington.
A large boiler in the fsng'ng depart
ment Of the Sligo iron works at Pitts
burg exploded Thursday, wrecking the
boiler house and setting fire to the LAKE
Erie railroad shops and number O.
dwellings in the city. Three men were
killed and nine persons were injured
three of whom have since died.
Professor Boss OF the Dudley 0bserv a
tory, says that the comet Just discovered
by Professor Brooks of the Warner
Observatory, is beyond doubt
Identical with the Pons comet of 1872, 81
long expected. The comet will beoorn,
visible to the naked eye in December, ,por
haps sooner, and will reach its perihelior
in January.
United States Consul Robertson iniorrn
the State Department, under date of til,
Sth inst, that although cholera hat
broken out at Beirout, Syria, ,cousiderabl,
quantities of rags were being shipped
from Syrian ports by way of Liverpoo
to America. The rags, having been col
lected from the poorer GLASSES, he though
likely to be infected.
The International 4 Northern Tele
graph Company" with capital q
S5,o0O,000, was incorporated Thursda,
in Albany, the stockholders being priuei
pally from Wstertown and New Yorl
City. The lines are to run from Ney
York to Albany, Buffalo, Chicago, Mon
treal, Halifax, Boston, New Orleans, Sa
Francisco and intermediate points.
The hearing in the Rose Clark -Amble
murder case was resumed at Strsttor
Saturday morning with closed doors. |
the afternoon Professor White of the Yal
Medical School, who has been maxim
microscopic exRmip ati0us of Che stomac
OF the deceased and the spots found o
the lap robe belonging to Lewis, wa
called and occupied the whole Afternoon
Six men were working on a platoon
90 feet from the bottom of a coal min
shaft, near WilResbarre, Pa, last Satu
day, when heavy peace Of timber whio
was heiug lowered fell sud wrecked til
platform, precpitating four OF the me
into the water at the bottom of the shat
whore they were drowned. The 9th,
two saved themselves by olinging to
beam.
A construction train on the West Shol
railroad struck hand car four miles ca
Of Syracuse, New York, yesterday weel
and l5 platform cars, carrying L!
workman, were "piled up in mass.
Two men and a boy were killed, aud
men were badly injured, four or five
them perhaps fatally. Tae collision W
caused by ths hand car not stopping
time,
Special Agent Evans, who was sent |
the Treasury Department to inquire in
the reported smuggling of Chinese in
Washington Territory from Briti
Columbia, states that iu his opinion II
reports are exaggerated. He admits tn
the lumbsrmen in that section employ
large number of Chiuemen, and a
willing to take all they can get witbo
wanting to know whence they come.
The Commissioner of Agriculture h
designated DIR. d. L. Salmon, Chief OF t
Veterinary Division of the Agrioultur
Department, and +. d. Curtis OF NJ
York, to represent the department in t
special commission suggested by /
State Department, and authorized by t
Nsw York Chamber of Commerce,
ascertain the facts with regard to the
ported prevalence of hog disease in IL
country.
IL. W. Goldman aud George Mossl
two young men of Milwaukee, went G
Sunday weekto fight dual with swort
II does not appear that they were exp
fencers, but for some reason they COT
do no execution with their swords, a
they at last threw them down in disgu
and finished the fight with Datur
weapon. At the close of the fsticr
bout Mossler had been pummeled to
satisfaction, and had to be carried bor
Charles Il. Houston of Trumbr
Conn, was forcibly taken from his no