Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-11-08
IN GENERAL.


carolina, during the absence Of their
parents on Sunday night.
The coal miners strike at La sslls
ILL.,, begun on July lst, ended Tuesday
The strikers demand Tor the discharge Of
non union men was refused.
The whaling season in the Arctic ocssp
is regarded as failure. Up to the 2Oth
ult. SO whales had been taken by a tie.t
of ~ vessels. Ten vessels had not re.
ported.
By the fall of an elevator at the nav
capitol building in Bismarck, Dakota
Tuesday morning, four laborers were
seriously, and one, William Buxton,
fatally injured.
Frank Wilkes OF GAINESVILLE, Obio
grandson of Commodore Wilkes, was Loaf
recently while tending sheep near the
Pleasant Valley station in Utah, and died
Of starvation and exposure.
A tornado visited Springfield, Missouri.
Monday afternoon, damaging or destroy.
ing about 100 houses in the northern par,
OF the city. 1t is reported that five per.
sous were killed and over 80 injured.
The gas works at Mauoh Chunk. Pa.
were destroyed by fire Tuesday, and an
adjacent dwelling was damaged. Two fire.
men were badly injured, and an inmate
of the dwelling, who WAS sick of typhoid
lever, died soon after being removed.
The Secretary OF War decides that in
future promotions in the army "shall be
governed strictly by paragraph 36 of the
regulations, which provides that pro
motions to the rank Of colonel shall be- Nv
seniority, except in case OF disability or
other inoompetency.
Miss Bertha Crowley Of Deposit, N. Y,
dreamed three nights in succession OF her
uncle's death in Texas. Impressed with
her dreams, she addressed u letter to
him. The letter fell iuto the hands of
lawyers, who have notified her that she
has fallen heir to 5000 10y her unce's
death.
In a special court held at Gallstin.
Missouri, on Monday, one Of the cases
against Frank James was dismissed, the
others were continued, and the prisoner
was remanded to Jackson county. He
was taken to Kansas City on Monday
night for trial at the term of court which
begins on the 18th instant.
the anticipation that steel rails would
drop to $35 per ton Cat the workr) has been
realized, one company having disposed
of some 30, 900 tons at that fl, ure within
the few days past, VIII Oh is said to Just
about cover the cost Of production.
Another company, at or near Troy, N. Y,
has decided to close its rail works rather
than accept contracts on these terms.
| The river coal miners convention
called to established a uniform rate for
mining and 70 get out the miners who are
working for less than the tribunals price
met Tuesday in Pittshurg. 1t was
lightly attended. In his opening address
President Costello said that 1000 miners
in the fourth pool were working for one
fourth cent per busbel less than tn,
established rates.
The window glass manufacturers al
Bellefonte, Pa, Monday notified tn,
Pittsburg manufacturers that they could
not ill an order for glass, as their mel
threatened to strike If more shipments
are made, This is due to an order iron
the headquarters of the workmen. Til,
bottle glass blowers have issued oircula
to druggists aud patent medicine dealeri
threatening to boycOtt them II they bu,
bottles made by non nuion men.
John Seldom Chapman Of Portland
Me f, has often declared that he womb
never be arrested alive. He ia a des
psrate character, weighs 100 pounds. 4
80 years old, and single. He was wante,
for passing counterfeit coin, and was cap
tured in bed at his house by two officers
who threw themselves across his breas
as he lay asleep. Powerful as the tw
men were, Chapman threw them off, all,
1t was only alter desperate struggle
that they haudouf.ed him.
Missisquoi railroad traiu, due at st
Adams, Vermont, at ]0.25 Monda,
morning, was thrown from the track
near North Enosburg, by misplaced
switch, and the engine tumbled into the
river. Frederick Hsnver, fren an, wa
killed, and Thomas Flood, engineer, hat
both legs broken and his skull fractured
Edward Ellis, brakeman Oh the South
eastern railroad, is accused OF havin,
tempered with the switch In revenge 70
being forbidden to ride on the train with
out pass. ......
Mrs. Ellen Long, widow, and L. s
WhittemOre, father of the murdered DO,
found il the river at Princeton, WiscOn
sin, have been arrested for the murder
Blood staiued clothes, bloody club anr
butcher knife and two razors, stainet
with blood, we're found 10 her house
Suspicion was drawn to the woman from
the fact that she had been charged will
having attempted to poison Whittemore'
wife. 1t is supposed the boy was muir
dered to prevent him from divulging tia
relations existing between his father anC
Mrs. Long.
At Scranton, Pa, "a che of $50 voice
among the Welsh miners and their FAM
lies has been organized TO efoss the At
lantio ana compete iu the musical fvstivs
at Liverpool next August. Az soon a
the choir is selected it will enter upon it
rehearsals. The singers will be bscke,
by the coal companies and the business
men of northeastern Pennsylvania witt
all the money needed TO carry uut tn
enterprise. The choir and those who viii
accompany 1t to Liverpool will probabl,
number 400 persons.
Alexander Fulk of Lafayette, Ind.
purchased tickets for himself and family
TO Columbus, Tenn, Sunday night. Thi
took nearly all the money he had. AL
the baggage tue family had was done nj
i'll basket, which also contained sup
ply Of provisions for the trip, including
bottle Of milk for the BABY. A few
moments before thu train arrived q con
table FROM across the river levied on tn
basket and contents for debt, and de
| spite the riireaties OF the mother, carried
away, mNk and all, The family wen
on.
The arrest Of Miss jennie Jackson, a
Utica, N. v, charged with larceny, wa
made sensational Monday, by the ex
traordinary statement that she left he
good home a.d respectable parental roo
because of her love for a negro waiter a
Erie, Pa, ramed Joseph Lawrence. Sh,
came to Erie few weeks ago and is tn
heroine of halt a dozen big larcenie
committed, az is believed, while unde
strong mental disturbance. Lswreuo
denies completely in the girls fight or re
clprocating her affection, but admits form
ing her acquaintance in Utica and t,
writing letters urging her to stitie hel
unnatural love.
In 1857 Henry Schsllar, then living II
Germauy, married young girl who's
pareats moved in the highest German
society. For come years the young pail
lived happily, when the husband emf
graf d to America, leaving his wife money
To cIo the water, She did not come al
expected, Ten years later he learned sh,
was III Detroit, where he hastened. 50 Be
fore hu reached there she had gone I,
O'!umbu4, He again followed bat was