Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-11-29
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
WHoLEsALE MURDER UP IN
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
wandered by Hts WIFE and son-in-
I.aw-The Washington Monument
aIO Feet high.

4IO Feet High.
Al. Leo,a member OF the legislature o
Tara. died at Hidalgo, in that state, oil
saturday, after three days agony, oausec
bv the bite of fly In the face.
The President on Saturday issued
n.rdon to Sergeant Mason, who wa
sentenced to eight years imprisonment
for attempting to shoot auiteau.
Lewis Houston, oolored, charged will
attempting . felonious assault upon ,
widow, was taken from the Jail at Bir
mipRhsm, Alabama, and lynched by I
mob on saturday night.
The Consul OF the United States a
Cape Town, South Africa, reports to tbs
DEPARTMENT of State the shipment Of 24
ostriohss to New Orleans, destined fol
San Diego, California.
Work for the season on the Washington
monument, in Washington, WAS closed OF
Satarday,to be resumed in the spring. The
structure has reached hight Uf 4l0 feet,
TO which 140 feet will be added before ii
Ia finished.
The grand jury at San Francisco has
indicted Miss Hill, who claims to bs the
wife of ex-senator Sharon, and William
NJ. Nelson, her attorney, for ''forgery
perjury and conspiracy" The accused
have given bail.
The Howe machine company's works in
Bridgeport, Conn, were burned OH the
night OF July 26th, and ocoasioned loss
Of S500,000. Last week force of men
began the rebuilding of the main factory
and an adjoining foundry.
Five hundred track laborers on the
Pi.tsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago rail-
road between Pittsburg and Crestline,
Ohio, and 100 on the Pennsylvania rail
road, have been discharged during the
week, and other discharges will be made.
A freight train en- the Pennsylvania
railroad was run into by passenger
train at Monmouth junction, New Jersey,
Thursday. Five cars were thrown from
the track, an engine was telescoped, and
John Long, engineer, was scalded.
The cyclone on Wednesday week de-
stroyed the village OF Lacrosse, Arkan-
sas, only six houses being left standing.
Three persons were killed and several
injured. Seventeen persons were injured
at Melbourne, ore Of whom has since
died.
Governor Crosby OF Montana Territory
In his annual report to the Secretary OF
the Interior, urges that polygamous Nor
mons be not only impeaohed, but that
they be disbarrsd from entering Govern
ment lands, thereby preventing the
spread Of Mormonism in that territory.
George B. Willoook of Lancaster, Ohio,
described as prominent society 10 an, and
whose mother WAS daughter of ex-
Governor Tennent of Delaware, knocked
down dunning creditor pamed Lewis
Rchwine on Friday last the blow proving
fatal on Saturday, and was at once jailed.
At indianapolis, Ind, Thursday even
ing, the prisoners i'll the couI'y Jail
attempted to escape by the use of
dynamite. They succeeded in blowing a
hole through the walls large enough to
crawl through, but we're confronted by
the sheriff with cooked revolver aud
ordered to their cells.
The 16.years-old daughter of Collins
Burrell Of Newport, Rhode Island, WAS
suddenly seized from behind by strange
man in much frequented thoroug hfare
about p. IN. Friday and bereft OF her
long si.ken locks, her ssssilant throwing
the mass of hair upon the pavement and
making off with an oath.
the indian bureau has received a
report of one Of the newly organized
Indian courts at the Nez Peroe agency in
Idaho. Ten cases were heard during the
month, resulting nine convictions and
one aequittal. The revenue of the court
for that period was 1924. The court is
composed entirely of Indians.
Papers were signed yesterday week
in Pittshurg for the transfer to IL. G.
Friok & Co., Of the property Of the
Standard coke works, comprising l,6OO
acres Of coal and coke land, l25 houses,
interests in the Mount Pleasant and
Lstrobe railway, the Mount Pleasant
water works ard the Pennsylvania coke
crusher company. Theprice was $500, 600.
The Treasury Department, in regard
10 the duty on twine for gilling nets, has
made a decision "whioh is in effect that
there 10 we'll defined distinction be.
tween thread and gllling twine." 1t il
said the decision Was made necessary by
the fact that some importers were trying
to introduce an article under the name o.
gilling twine which is in reality thread
The liabilities of the suspended Missis
sippi Valley Bank of Vicksburg, are now
estimated at nearly 100000. 1t ii
said the cash on hand amounts to only
$4,000, although some creditors esti
mated the deposits at about 800 600. A
long list If preferred creditors ID pub
llshed, whose claims aggregate nearly
100000.
John W. Pangborn, while sitting al
supper with his family Friday evening a
his home, No. 81 Monticello avenue
Jersey City, heard footsteps in the uppel
hallway. He went up stairs, and hac
scarcely reached the upper step when hi
was confronted by a man who pointed {
revolver at him and said Snow, you &,
down again" Mr.. Pangborn obeyed ant
that the man had taken jewelry valued
at 81 200.
Two hundred men were discharged
from the Rogers locomotive works, Ney
York, Friday, chiefly from the depart
ments where the frat stages OF the worl
are done. 1t is expected that other dis
charges will follow from the other depart
ments as soon IS the work on hand Ii
completed in them. Those connected
with the establishment say that unles
there Is some improvement in the busi
ness before spring, half ths tcrce,or abou
1000 men, will be- thrown out of employ
ment.
Sunday afternoon two men wslkin
in a field near Edge Rock Avenue, Wef
Orange, New Jersey, found the dea
body OF Phoebe Paullin, II years old wiz
her throat cut in two places. A
examination showed she had her
teloniously assaulted, and there wei
evidences Of desperate struggle. Sh
had been sent to Orange on SatuIda
afternoon. 0.i the way back she was
stop at the house OF friend over nigh
aud her absence excited no alarm.
Andy Taylor, the train robber al
murderer who is to be hanged this ate
noon at London, Tenn, while b,ir
taken thither, from Knoxville, Thursda.
slipped a revolver out OF the pocket
oue the guards and, though heavi
manaolsd, managed to get the muzzie
his pistol within few inches OF Il
head OF the sheriff, but was knockt
down before he could discharge it. Aft
being disarmed he said to the sherif
N had not mistaken the pistol for
self-oocker you would have got to ht
several hours before me-"
Further particulars regarding Il
murder of the Crouch family, near Jao
son, Mich., reported Thursday, show th
Mr.. Crouch, Mr.. White and Mr.. Poll
aled without struggle, but Mrs. VIII
mad made hard struggle for life. 1t
supposed that the men were ohloroform