Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-08-09
IN GENERAL.

bail.
Mary Joyce, member of the Salvation
Army, was arrested In Trenton. Nav
Jersey, on Saturday night for singing ia
the streets.
Brown, Brothers & Co., lumber deslers
and insurance agents of Detroit, Fmade
an assignment Monday. Liabilities.
$l00, 600; assets, 5 900.
A bale of new Gotten, weighing 4e5
pounds, swas lreceived Monday in Mont.
gomery, Alabama. 1t WAS sold for 10 cents
pound, and shipped to Mobile.
Thomas Mcdonald killed himself In
Newark, New Jersey, on Saturday morn
ing by swallowing Paris green. He. was
suffering from prolonged spree.
Mrs. Mary +. Hughes of st. Louis com.
mitted suicide, in Baltimore on Saturday
by taking laudspum. 1t ia said thai
separation from her husband caused the
deed.
Christian Cordes and George Meyer, 10.
year. old boys, quarreled Sunday in
Brooklyn, and Cordes stabbed Meyer in
the side with knife, intlicting serious
wound.
Emanuel Fox was shot dead by Deputy
Sheriff Mannix, in Fort Wayne, Indiana,
on Saturday afternoon, because on being
captured after escaping from jail he tried
to escape again.
Sixty eight workhouse prisoners at
tempted to escape from Blackwell's Island
last night. and all but two were CAP.
tured by the keepers. These two swan to
the New York shore.
Felioitos Mejis, a famous bull fighter,
was fatally gored by a bull in the arena
near the City of Mexico, on Sunday
morning. There was great excitement
among the spectators.
The Wright Braid Manufacturing Com
| pany's mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts,
was burned Monday. LOIS, $4,000
The fire will throw about 165 operators
out of work for about month.
| In an election riot at Bryantsvills
Kentucky, Monday, two colored men
were killed and two others mortally
wounded. Several others were severely
wounded, among them two whites.
The United States ship Pensacola sailed
from Callao July 18th for the United
States by way Of Japan and the Cape of
Good Hope. On the same day Rear Ad.
miral Hughes transferred his flag to the
| Hartford.
A meeting Of the creditors of G. II,
Ward, the suspended boot and shoe man.
ufacturer, was held Monday In Boston,
at which Ward made a statement Of his
affairs. His liabilities are about $745. OOO
assets about 1882, 900.
The War Department recently trsns-
ferred to the abandoned property division
of the Treasury several millions of Con-
federate scrip, bonds, &C., and II is said
these "securities' will be reduced to
pulp by order of Secretary Folger.
Mayor Vroom of Trenton, New jersey.
Monday issued an order forbidding the
Salvation Army to parade hereafter with
any kind of music. The order is issued
in consequence OF many complaints made
by citizens against members of the Army.
The first bale of hops of the season
arrived in New York City Friday, four
days earlier than last year. The hops
are from Oneida county, and are said to
be Every fine for the first pick" They
were sold to brewer for so cents pound
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union
OF America, in session at Brooklyn, has
elected the following officers: President, the
Rev. j. M. Cleary, of Wisconsin; Treas
urer, the Rev. D. Bowles, of Ohio; Score.
tary, James C. Nolan, of st. Paul, Min.
nesota.
Andrew C. Smith, for many years a
, doorkeeper at the White House in Wash
ington, shot himself on Saturday morn
ing, and WAS not expected to recover. lie
, was discharged from the Post Office
Department over month ago and took
) to drinking.
German named Albert Voss, who had
succeeded In inducing the wife OF fellow
countryman at Troy, N. Y, to leave her
) husband, was taken out of his home by a
+ gang of Germans last Thursday night,
! treated to coat of tar and feathers and
/ then drummed out of town and ordered
: never to return.
Sixty nine persons were poisoned by
] eating ice cream at a church festival in
=. Camden, South Carolina, last Friday
. night, and one of them, a girl, died on Sun
o day evening. At last accounts IL Others
a were not expected to recover. The
: symptoms OF the patients resemble those
following arsenical poisoning.
a Judge Cullen of the New York Supreme
a Court Monday refused stay of pro
4 ceedings pending an appeal in sui
A brought by Eliphalet Mott against Henry
Clews, Frederick d. Grant and othe
y trustees OF Mexican gold and silver
mining company to compel an accounting
tor S24 ,0O0, 900 of the company's stock.
!. The Surgeon General of the Marin
Hospital Service has been advised that
:, vessel loaded with rags from Egypt will
l. be due in Portland, Maine, in few days
% The Collector of Customs at Portland ha
been instructed by the Acting Seoretar
OF the Treasury not to allow the cargo I
y be discharged until it has been inspeote
Of by the local health authorities.
t, The Maryland Board of Public Work
k Friday visited Port Deposit to examin
. the site Of the proposed Baltimore & Obi
/, railroad bridge across the Susquehann
Ie at that point. Arguments were hear
for and against the oompsny's plan, bu
t. no fntimation vas given by the board a
g to what its decision might be. The de
n oision is expected to BIZ given to-day a
II Annapolis.
1t The family of Andrew Daniel, a plan
Ii ter OF Spartanburg, s. c., while break
t fasting Monday, found ''somethin
wrong in the taste of the Coffee" and i
was emptisd into slop bucket. Twt
n dogs which drank from the bucket wer
If thrown into commissions. search wa
a made, which resulted in the discover
h that a bottle of strychnine, bought Il
n poison rats, WAS missing. Two eolored
o men and a colored house-girl have beer
a arrested on suspicion.
Tue Grand Commandery of the Sons @
Veterans met at Columbus, Ohio, Nor
, day, all the rs divisions being repre-
1snted, including the Northern states an
q Kentucky. Officers were selected as fol
u lows: Commander n-Chief, Frank A
u Merrill, Auburn, Me-; Lieutenant Com
= mander-in-Chief, Augustus Saltzman, 81
= Joseph Mo-; Vice Lieutenant Commander
= in-Chief, Charles C. Morton, Philsdel
Il phis; Chief of staff, Horace L. Wright
Auburn, Me.
n at Easton, Pa, on Saturday A.. J
s Lynn aud his wife, being drunk, quar-
% relied with the family of August Poycl
n aud were committed for breach of tn
: peace. Monday morning they wer
u served with warrant charging ther
l. With having put nearly pound Of Psri
p green in cistern which held the drink
y ing water of the Poyck family, oonsistin.
q OF himself, wife and eight children. Tn
warrant was upon information given b,
g neighbnr.
Norden, wsll.educated younl
If Swede, WAS found dead in the swedisl
}, h u! Church at Englewood, nea
! chicago, on Thursday, having committed
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