Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-11-15
THE NEWS OF TPE WEEK.
THO MEN KILLED IN "A MINING
CAMP.

TWO MEN KILLED AN a mINlN0
CAMP.
rhree Notorious COunterfetters
Cnuuht-The skull of "a Giant-No
Foundation for The Approximations
of Trouble In virginia.
A thorough inyestigs CATION Of the reported
race trouble in Southampton county, Vir-
qinia, shows that there was no cause for
the scare.
Az Dell Rapids, Dakota, two grain
elevators, owned by Csrgill Brothers and
Bonner & Hyde, were burned last week
loss, 1000; insured.
The Southern exhibition at Louisville
was closed on Saturday night. During
its season of 102 days 1t was visited by
100000 persona, the last days atten-
dance being 10000.
The roof, inside walls, and iron and
stone columns of the new south wing of
the capitol at Madison, Wisconsin, fell
Thursday morning, killing four men and
injuripg Is others, several mortally.
The number of immigrants who arrived
in Canada during October was 81 ,1S1,
making q total of 175, 1913 since the lat of
January ihbts vi VIC uuio
u, ,U9l passed through the United States.
James Woodson, ,colored, was empaneled
as a juryman in CASE on trial before
Judge Brown, New York, Friday. Hs
is the first eolored man who has served
as juror in the United States courts in
that state.
The latest returns OF the cotton crop
made to the agricultural department
show slight Improvement since the last
report. The indicated product, consider
ing rate of yield and acreage, Is nearly
s6 per cent. of last years. crop.
The steamer City of Peking, which
arrived al San Francisco on Thursday,
brought 1877 Cinnamon with traders
certificates. Several of the Cinnamon
acknowledged that they had paid money
for the papers to the inspectors in
Canton.
George 8. Davis, confidential book
keeper of D. Appleton u Co., in New
York, was arrested on Saturday on the
charge Of having embezzled money from
the firm. 1t is said his thefts will reach
100000. He WAS remanded until
Monday.
At San Francisco Thursday, in the
case of Aggie Hill against Senator Sharon,
for divorce, the alleged marriage contract
was produced In court, at which the de-
fendspt became so dsmonstratively indig-
nant that he was ordered TO be removed
from the court.
W. "a. Morris, proprietor Of the hotel
at Wakefield, Virginia, who disappeared
In the election riot in that place on Tues
day night, has returned and given him
self up. He is charged with having par
tioipated In the riot and fired the shot
which wounded R. W. White.
Near Kansas City Thursday the children
Of II. Clay Magee, returning from school,
found the liteless bodies OF their father,
mother and older sister lying upon the
floor. 1t is thought Msgee shot and
killed his wife and daughter and then
committed suicide by swallowing NOR
phiLe
M. Degheest of the Mexican national
bal k, and M. Olivier, French merchant,
fought duslwith swords at Chapultepec,
Mexico, Thursday morning. Olivier was
killed and Degheest was badly wounded.
The encounter was the result of a dispute
about seats at the races on Sunday
morning.
Five thousand eight hundred and
eighty-six head OF cattle aud IL, 6S3 sheep
were shipped from Canada to Great
Britain during October. Under the rigor-
ous system of inspection adopted by the
Dominion Department of Agr culture, the
shipments were free from any "scheduled"
disease.
Charles MCCARTHY, James Leary and
John Oliver, boys, from Boston, have
been arrested in Savannah, Georgia, as
yagrsnts. They arrived at Savannah as
stowawavs on Boston steamer. Hav
ing read dime novels, they were "on
their way 10 find the retreat of Billy
Bowlegs, in Okeinokee swamp"
Near Kngwood, Preston county, West
Virginia, Saturday, men working on
road unearthed a human skull which
msssu ed 40 inches in circumference
around the forehead. No other bones
could be found in its vicinity. The
skeleton to which the skull belonged is
supposed to have been IA feet high.
ire in Walkerville, Ontario, on
Tuesday week, destroyed three cattle
barns belonging to Hiram Walker, with
400 head of cattle, 200 tons Of hay and
$500 tons of coal. A squad OF fremen
and an engine went from Detroit to assist
the local fremen, and four of the Detroit
men were injured, two dangerously, by
falling wall.
The Washington Evening Star says that
anan giving his name as Charles Clarke
OF West Sixteenth street, New York, who
arrived in Washington last Thursday,
asserts that he has positive inform alton
from one of Mosher's companions that
Charlie Ross was drowned in Newark
bay soon after his abduction by Mosher
and Douglas.
signor Tobis Bertini has brought suit
in New York for $4,000 damages against
Colonel James H. Mapleson tor alleged
was engaged for the present season al sole
first tenor at $4,000 per month, and pro.
duces a letter fIom Col. Mapleson as proof
that the impressarie does not intend to
Keep his contract.
A man giving the name OF kueimer
was arrested In Pittsburg on Saturday
while attempting to pawn an $500
diamond stud There was found upon
him So, 900 worth of diamonds, including
scroll shaped brooch, cluster ring and
stones whieh had once been mounted. IL
ia supp osed the vsluables were obtained
By robbery in New York.
The will OF Kate Townsend, killed in a
disreputable house in New Orleans by
Troisville Cor Treville) Skyes, Saturday
week ,bequt aths all her property real aud
personal, to her murderer. The estate is
valued at s243, 900. The crime of Skyes
disqualiies him from inheriting the
bequest, which, under the law of Louisi-
ana, ought to 60 to the state.
John Steflin, who was sentenced in
May, 1882, to 10 years. Imprisonment il
the Ohio penitsntisry for the German
town bank robbery, has just been proved
by the startling confessions of Georgt
Richards and John Tobias, two Of the
robbers, as it IL believed, innocent of th'
crime for which he was convicted, ant
Henry Tobias, prominent citizen o
Germantown, Ohio, is implicated in tn
crime.
Superintendent Maxwell OF the Cincin
natl Chamber of Commerce, reports tha
during the year past the manufacture G
malt liquors in Cincinnati, ,Covington an
Newport aggregated s75, 900 barrels. Tht
Ia $4,000 barrels more than in the pre-
vious year, and is equivalent to Do
glasses per annum for every man, woma
and child in the three cities.
DR.. Alexander Hill of No. 43 Mort
calvert street, Baltimore, says that Nose
dld call at his house and bargain wit