Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-07-19

Samuel Burger OF mAlysFilei men
lucky, who Tuesday pleaded guilty to
outraging little girl, WAS sentenced to
death.
The bArque Monrovis sailed from New
York Monday with Is negro colonists
from the South who intend to settle in |
Liberia.
The Spragus mansion and estates, in |
Providence, Rhode Island, we're sold at |
auction Tuesday. The prices obtained |
were low.
The Pennsylvania Senate Monday re.
solved to adjourn finally on the oath inst.
The resolution In the House was referred
to committee.
Commissioner Evans Tuesday ap.
pointed Ishsm Young of Knoxville, to be |
revenue agent, in place Of C. NJ. Horton |
Of Boston removed.
About COO coal miners in the Pittsburg
district struck Monday for 81 cents per
bush-l, the rate awarded by the umpire
Of the late trade tribunal.
In the Senate of Massachusetts, Tues
day, the bill to increase the compenss-
ton OF members OF the Legislature to
s7u0 WAS defeated by vote OF Is to 4.
Three hundred journeymen horse
shoers in Cleveland, Ohio, struck Mon
day for an increase OF SO cents per day.
L. is believed the increase will be granted.
A strict enforcement Of quarantine
regulations has been ordered at San
Francisco against all vessels from ports
infected with cholera, small. pox or yellow
fever.
The ss0, 900 worth of securities taken
to Boston, by Canon Bernard, who ali
seconded from Brussels, were Tuesday
turned over to NJ. Bourgeois, Minister of
Police at Brussels.
The telepl one climbers, repsirers and
instrument men in Chicago Monday
made demand for an increase of IS per
cent. in their wages, giving the company
Is honrs To reach decision.
The President Tuesday appointed
Henry C. Stafford to be collector OF Gus
toms at Brie, Pa, in place Of Matthew A.
Barr, resigned. 1t is understood that
Barr will receive place In the Indian
Bureau.
Early Monday morning the bsnk led
| ger of ex-Treasurer Polk OF Tennessee, re-
Gently stolen from the state Treasurer's
| Office, vas found lying at the Office door
OF the editor of the Artisan, in Nashville.
| There is no clue Is the thief.
The sentence Of the court-mnrtial In
the case of Lieutenant Samuel Holmes of
the Thirteenth Infantry, at Fort Bliss,
Texas, Diminishing him from the service
for duplicating pay amounts, has been
approved by the President.
The fires in the gas house at the Beth
lehem (penn.) Iron Works were started
Tuesday morning, to keep the furnaces
heated. 1t is believed an effort will be
made next to start the works, and give
employment to large number Of men.
A freight train on the Reading railroad
was thrown from the track by COW,
near Shamokin, Tuesday afternoon.
William Thomas, a travelling salesman,
who was taking ride on the train, was
killed, and James Hoffman, a brakeman,
was severely injured.
Amos Bronson was arrested Tuesday
in Waterbury, Connecticut, on suspicion
of having caused the death Of his sister
Caroline, who expired on Sunday night
from the effects of malpractice. bronson
is described as a "peddler, with turn
for medical reading"
Roland o. Swayne, ex-Deputy Clerk OF
the Supreme Court OF Tennessee, was
, arrested in Nashville, on Monday morn.
, ing, on the charge of having stolen Polk 4
balanced ledger from the State Treas
, urer's office. Swayne occupied room in
: the State Capitol Building.
The North Chicago Rolling Mill Com
: pany's works, which shut down week
, ago for repairs, will be ready to resume OIL
4 Monday next. 1t is said that on the re-
r opening OF the mills 2 900 men will strik,
9 Tor higher wages and that the strike will
be under the sanction OF the Amalga.
3 mated Association.
The boiler in the Glen's Falls paper
4 mill, at Glen's Falls, New York, burs
. Monday afternoon, wreoking the build
1 ing and severely injuring twelve persons
+. one or two OF them perhaps mortslly
l The ruins caught fire and were consumed
r together with buildings used for the stor
age of soda and fuel.
Notice OF contest over the will OF III,
: late Louis C. Hsmmersly of New Yorl
was filed Tuesday. He died on the 81
of last May, leaving an estate valued a
/, about S7,000,000. Tue contestants ar,
! his amt, Mrs. Mary Mason Jones, Henry
a Mason, the only surviving brother of tn,
!. testator's mother, and six children o
!, James Mason, deceased.
The first arrest in Boston, Mass, undei
> the new Chinese Law was made Tuesds,
!, by United States marshal. On the 1911
= |. OF June the British barque Erne brough
from Manila, as ships carpenter,
Chinaman named All Chung, who wa!
discharged and allowed to 20 ashore
e The captain was arrested and held to an
-, swer, and the Chinaman was held as
u witness.
i Reed Alexander, IS years OF age, wa.
killed by Samuel Longwel, Monday
. near Milroy, Nilllin county, Pa. Alex
shder had received permission from Long
!, Wells father to pick berries on the latter,
farm. Samuel, who did not know this
ordered oil the supposed trespssser, aud
q When he refused TO go struck him on tn,
head with a fence rail, with fatal effect.
Edward Hyland, who ownes farm o
: about 10 Sores in the reighborlood O
:, forrestvilie, Conn was arrested Mon
day, charged with beating his wife Il
death IN drunken quarrel. The woman
. was terribly mutilated, every rib in h-i
body with the eXceptian Of threa b-iu.
> broken. Hylaud Is shout 80 years of Az
his wife was about a. lie d-nie, lii,
. charge against him.
i. The report has been circulated on Wal
street Tor several days and carried fsl
West that the Vanderbilt interest i,
arranging for the construction OF road
from st. Louis to Kansas City, SO As /,
3 obVlate the necessity of using the present
n routes between those two cities, and ais,
/ to connect with the Atchison, Topeka 4
santa Fe, thus securing an entrance II
he Pa'iht coast for all the Vanderbilt
> roads.
4 About O'Clock Tuesday morning a
Q white man gained admission to the ho1se
i family named Spein, near the Capitol
at Washington, on the declaration that
lie was a water Inspector and assaulted a
a young woman, who was the only persou
IN the house at the time. He choked her
, anu stiil-d her cries. His victim Ia
seriously injured and suffering from
severe nervous prostrstion. There is No
t clue to her assailant.
, IL is announced that the operation nj
, Tue civil Service rnles has made il i'm.
possible for any appointments to be made
IRON the last plumber of applications for
positions in the Executive Departments
now on lie with the appointment clerks.
These applications cannot be turned over
10 the Civil Service Commission because
lhey are not made III the rpnuirad for,,