Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-09-27
IN GENERAL.

The New York, West Shore h Buffalo
Railroad Company has 10000 men at
work, a larger number than was ever be-
fore employed on similar work.
Under the new law in Maine a muir
derer who pleads ''gnilty" will be incar-
oerated in an insane asylum for period
OF time to inquire 81 to his sanity before
sentence is pronounced upon him.
Just before the close of performance
at the AlhAmbrs Variety Theatre in st.
Louie on Thursday night, Richard Whsl-
len, 20 years Of age, fired shot from
revolver al one of the actresses, and then
blew out his own brains.
The schooner Cork Borden reports that
when off Cape Lookout che experienced
heavy gales and passed All unknown
schooner apparently sinking. Owing to
the gale she could render no assistance.
Next day she passed wreckake aud parts
of q vessel deck load.
Secretary Folger, in letter to the
Civil Service Commissioners, expresses
the opinion that the new civil service
law, in the matter OF appointments, gives
the preferenoe-osher things being equal
TO honorably discharged soldiers aud
sailors OF the late war.
Owing to the prevalence Of the foot and
! mouth disease among cattle In England,
the Secretary Of the Treasury has written
letter to Collector Robertson setting
forth the Importance OF vigilance on the
part OF the customs officers in regard to
cattle which may be imported into this
country.
About $4,000 worth of smuggled laces
and Parisian fnery were found Friday
| in the baggage and OH the persons Of five
dressmakers, four OF whom we're passen-
| gers from Paris TO New York, on the Re-
public. Hollow bustles contained vAlu-
able point lace and 90 lily trimming WAS
| bAsted to old dresses.
The town of Ssranao, Mloh., waa taken
possession Of Friday, after frontier
style, by one Arihur, q saloon keeper,
| who ran pretty much every one out Of
| she village at the muzzle of a revolver
| and terrorized the citizens for hours a
number OF shots were were fired, aud one
| man who was run into the woods cannot
be found.
John Smith, oolorsd, who killed Josiah
Harding, white, at Elkins, on the line OF
the West Virginia Central & Pittsburg
railroad, last May, and then outraged his
wife, WAS convicted of murder in the first
degree, Friday afternoon, at Oakland,
Garrett county, Md. The case has been
OH trial since Tuesday. The verdict gives
general satisfaction. This was thu irst
murder ever committed IL Garre.. unity.
Advices from Professor Nordenskj old Is
expedition to Greenland, received a. Co.
penhagen, state that the expedition
started from Autleiksivick on the 4th Of
September, and reached distance OF 36G
Kilometres inland, attaining hight OF
1000 fest above the level OF the sea
This is the frat time that human beings
ever penetrated so far into Greenland
The whole region is an ice desert, proving
that there is no open water inland. Very
valuable scientific data have been OBJ,
tanned.
Henry Sader, who keeps saloon in
, | Newark, N. lad frequently q1erreled
, | with and beaten his wiie Friday
: m1rniug the nsis hbors were startled rs
cry of mnri"r aud upon breaking opet
! tie door ot tiH saloon and rushing M
stairs Mts Sad!.r ass found with he
1 ti'Apfb tNF ann u ptH1I nbuh't III iitl bdGh
SNdlar also lay itHensible with cash OF
| the right side Of his neck, Mrs. Sadie
| regained consciousness, but died shortl,
atterward. Sadler, 1t Is thought, viii
recover.
4 In New York Friday Detective Price
i who WAS looking for a man named ALDER
. Strittmatter, who was charged with forg
q iug endorsements on checks drawn b.
/ Thomas Herdmsnn, arrested youn,
a lilan who answered Strittmatter's desorip
o tlon and WAS surprised to find that h
had got the wrong man and had unex
. pectedly found 10 him another forger. Tn
a man arrested proved to BIS Henry Cotton
and as Henry had signed his father
: name to several checks recently, hs tool
a his arrest as matter OF course. No com
paint being made against Cotton he wa
Y discharged and the detective came III
y with Strittmatter later in the day.
3 few days ago, four bandits caught
g rancher at La Laxenna, Mexico, hurrie
r him off the woods and told him that tue
/ had orders from the band Tiger Eraoti
d Bernal to get from him certain sum
/, money, and II he did not pay to cut off hi
u foot. He declared that he had no money
80 with one blow OF hatchet his RICH
J. foot WAS cut of. He was then told tina
o Bernal's orders were IL he did not pro
Vt duoe the money to cut off the other foot
d 30 his left foot was cut of with fou
7 strokes. He was told that silence nigh
o save his life, but he refused, and his toi
y turers then calmly cut his throat and lei
i him to perish. Three of the bandits hap
y been captured and shot.
" On Thursday night the jail at Rocking
y ham, Richmond county, N c., was sur
rounded by a party OF mounted men, a.
" masked, who forced the jailer to give u
= tie seys and they took eolored boy
70 named Archie johnson, from one OF tn
y cells and rode off with him. Frds
70 morning JohDson's body was found dang
>. ling from tree In the wood. pen
:, :, Masen's cross roads, between Laurel Iii
70 and Lanrenhurg johnson had lre
hanged Tor brutal assault committed .
10 young white chtid, aged five yeart
u about ore week ago. Johnson, who W,
y about ~ years OF age, was captured aftt
), short chase, and, though the impuls
!, was strong upon his captors to string hi
II to the nearest tree, they finally decide
IS to take him to Rockingham Jail and |,
u the law take its course.
'e Friday afternoon, when Judge Va
= Astyne, at Albany, was about to senten,
Il John Kerwin, indicted for burglary,
: four years in the psnitentiary, the prison.
- suddenly shook his fist at the Judge an
= shouted, 81 will murder you yet, 70
:. hope you will rot in You
~ grave" AS he said this the prison.
N male lunge at the Judge. lie wa
~ seizsd by court officers, and the Jude
added another year to his sentence. The
- he ragged and cursed at the Judge, bs
y aud spectators, and for short time tn
y widest excitement prevailed. Kerwir
unable to reach the bench. assaulted til
court officers, who oornered him an
kaocked him down. He was then irone