Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-08-02
IN GENER1L.

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Ivy a rumbling sound, were felt in GllrOy,
California, on Monday evening.
II is said at the Treasury Department
that the reduction of the puhlio debt for
July, If there be any, ia very small.
Sabato Alexander, convicted OF murder
at Esstou, Pa, is trying to starve him.
self to death. He has refused food since
Thursday last.
The death warrant of John Mednnis.
OF Philadelphia, was issued Tuesday by
Governor Pattson. The execution will
take place ON October 4th.
A telegram from Denver, Colorado.
says "The report that Grand Army
of the Republic excursion train had been
wrecked and many lives lost, i'd absolutely
without foundation. Nothing has oG-
Cured to mar the pleasure of tho exeur-
siou.'
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
TUESDAY suspended $50 wOrkmeu nom
its machine shops in Fort Wayne,
Indiana, owing to the lightuess of freight
business during the last month. IL ia
thought the men will be re.enploysd Ia
six or eight wegits.
The Estate Department Tuesday re-
ue-Ntu u 1TOu vera cruz
announcing that the steamers Merida.
Capri and British Empire and the sailing
vessels Orion, Perrin, Triumph, Swallow
and White Sea have cleared from that
iever-infected port.
News has reached Grand Forks, Oak.
OF the murder OF George lnkster widely
known farmer. lls was herding his cattle
when they became mixed with passing
herd. In trying TO separate them he got
in trouble with the owners of the passing
herd, who riddled his body with bullets.
Two men Monday escaped in boat
from vessel quarantined at Ship Island,
and made their way to Pass Christian.
| They were arrested by the direction of
thepresident OF the Health Board of Louis
lana and handed over to the United States
authorities to answer the charge OF steal
ing the boat.
| The barn of HoratiO Perry, at Danver's
Plains, Mass, containing Is COWS, yoke
of oxen, five horses, Is to II pigs, a
quantity of hay and produce, together
with wagons, harness, &c, was burned
yesterday morning. Loss $40, 900; partially
insured. The canse of the fire was the
spontaneous combustion Of damp hay.
George Rowley while engaged in saw
ing in his mill at Carbondale, Pa, yes
terday was instantly killed by the saw
bursting, large piece of which struck
him in the neck nearly sevsripg his head
from his body. His father, who was
standing close beside him, was sprinkled
with his sons blood but escaped injury.
In an interview Governor Butler of
Massachusetts, gives at some length his
, views on the London syndicate scheme to
realize upon Confederate bonds, which he
deems altogether futile and illusory.. Ex-
Attorney Jere S. Black, in an
interview, expressed his disbelief that
ANY such syndicate exists, saying that
he gave English capitalists credit for
J possessing common sense.
Charles II. dogel, the ice company
! president had hearing Monday in
Baltimore, on the charge of having OBJ
tanned $4,000 from the the National
l Union Bank of that city on forged paper.
He waived an examination aud was COM
l mitted to await the action OF the grand
. jury. 1t Is said that besides the Union
q Bank, the Manufacturers and Howard
A Banks, and the banking house of Nichol-
. son Y Sons, hold discounted notes, the
y endorsements on which are alleged to be
. forged, amounting to 5000
o meeting of prominent Israelites was
5 held Tuesday night in Baltimore to con-
: slider the expedienoy OF giving further
y aid to the colony of Russian refugees in
d Middlesex, Virginia. After hearing the
!. report OF committee who had visited
e the colony, it was decided to make
n further efforts in behalf of the colonists.
g Contributions will be asked to enabte the
n committee to pay 5000 per month for the
d relief OF pressing wants and the pur-
W chase of farm implements. The colony
!. numbers about 60 persons.
= Cadet hsrtigap, of the fret class at
i West Point and one OF the best students
> in the class, has been dismissed for hazing
% new student, and the summary action
1, taken in his cas9 will give other cadets
Ie to understand that Secretary Lincoln will
n not tolerate snch prauKs. Hgrtigan and
u others. after annoying the new student,
al who was on sentinel duty, in many ways,
II seized him from behind, covered his iace,
If and threw him into deep ditch, bruising
Of lin considerably. The new cadet recog-
ID MID two others OF the party, hut, gs it
"a vas rot clear thet they took an active
10 part III the assault, their punishment ia
or LETT TO the authorities Of the academy.
II post mortem examination of the
u body of Captain Webb was made
- on Sunday at Lockport, New York
~ by three physicians. 1t showed that
none of the injuries on the body were
~ capable OF causing death, except the
" Uranium wound, and that, the doctors
=" decided, was proiuced after death. None
81 the characteristic symptoms of drown
ing were apparaut, and it was therefore
concluded that death RESULTED from the
shock from the reaotionary force of the
p water in ths Whirlpool Rapids coming il
% contact with the submerged body with
81 such force as to instantly destroy the
=, respiratory power, and in fact all vital
Gil action, by direct pressure from the force
OF contact. The shock was of sufficient
d intensity to paralyze the nerve centres,
y partially desicoate the muscular tissues,
n and forestall death by drowning
il The suspension of Copeland & Co. oil
Boston announced Monday, pIecipitated
h. the failure OF +. Shaw & Brothers of that
!, city, the largest tanners in the world
- Copeland y Co, owed the Shaw Brothers
a $4G0,uUo, but the failure OF the latter
/, oau lie traced to the suspension OF the
-, Pacific Bauk a year ago. The Shaw
n Brothers, al the time the bank collapsed
a held a number OF shoe and leather firms
i, ahove water. They have been carrying
j.. these firms ever since the Pacific Bank "a
=. 'siiure, and the firms will probably be
i. heard from within lew days. The cred
i, itof9 of ShEw 4 Co. are chiefly Maine,
:. Boston and New York banks and some OF
N. the largest hide and leather houses in
Ne@ YORK. The tanneries of the firm
wlli be kept running to work up the stock,
"h!ch u ak months behind in orders.
fho ltatllties of the firm are stated, by
e, the authority of their counsel, to be
10 $500, 900, and the nominal assests
$4,000, 200. The assets include tanneries
i'll northern Maine, New York state, New
bruus@ick srd Quebec, and 1900, 900
acres OF land in Maine. There we're from
10000 to Is 0J0 people employed by the
GunUsTn.
10 The d'a h of Horace B. Shepard and
le wife, whose bodies were found in room
Il on West Twenty second street, yesterday
morning., has caused quite a SEN
ls sation. 1t is supposed that they agreed
a to die together and that Shepard fret
shot his wits aud then himself. The
= %onan has been identified as Mrs. A. C.
N-llyi WHO waa also known az Mrs. You'll
teire Sac WAS AZ years old and the
mother OF five children, four OF them
grow up Shepard was about Is, md
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