The Delaware farmer., 1883-08-31
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

AT Macon city, Mo-, one wealthy
: citizen murdered another, who it is
alleged had betrayed his sister and then,
after being forced to marry her, had be-
gun suit to set the marriage aside.
The loss to farmers in Olmsted Co.,
Minn., by the recent cyclone, is estimated
at 100000 Two more deaths of in
jured persons have occurred at Rochester.
Fire broke out in tenement house
at Boston, Mass, by which five lives
were lost and two persons severely in
iured The origin of the fire is not
known.
"A dispatch from Utah startled the
country on Sunday that there was a plot
on foot among the cowboys of the West
to kidnap President Arthur and party.
carry them off to the mountains and
demand heavy ransom out of the secret
service fund.
The immense raft from the province
of New Brunswick has arrived safely
and been towed to the Erie Basin in New
York harbor.
Six or seven naval cadets on the !
practice ships are under charges of \
hazing
Two young men were instantly |,
killed in tunnel near Peekskill while
stealing a ride on top Of train on the h
Hudson River Railroad.
Claims ag9regating about So, 800,
600 have been filed at the Treasury De
partment for rebate of tax on tobacco
General Crook forcibly argues in 4
favor Of strictly keeping faith with the
Chiricahua prisoners. who surrendered !
under the condition that they are not to
be held responsible for their warlike /
acts while in hostility.
"A grain elevator fire in Madison.
Ind, caused loss Of 1926, 900.
In the destruction of large lumber +
establishment at Dollarsville, Mich, two i
children lost their lives f
"A party of four, while bathing at {
Wells Beach, Me-, ventured too far and \
We're carried out by the undertow and
drowned. The accident was witnessed
by many people, but no help could be G
rendered them. b,
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge and
oarty from England arrived in New W
York on the Celtic. The Chief Justice st
will make an extended visit to this coun-
ry. ~
The body washed ashore at West na
falmouth, Mass, has been identified as al
hat Of one of the crew of the missing fe
acht Mystery, and it is now generally of
elleved that the craft must have fOun Cl
cred and that all on board were lost.
sunken yacht was discovered near the tri
ntrance to Buzzard's Bay. de
Five Cinnamon, who we're recently ab
to the New Jersey State
rlsOn, threaten to bring suit for the in
ss of their queues, under that clause
the constitution which prohibits anv dr..
reference with freedom of religion. No,
Mrs. Elizabeth Cameron, wife of
NOremac, the pedestrian, was shot and av,
stantly killed in New York city, by
Gorge Beattie, bartender employed by D.
r husband. The murderer committed ~
lcide Immediately afterward Oei
AT Rochester On. ~ observatory An
is believed that a new comet has been Ha
icovered in the constellation Andro- ite
ida. tba
"A yellow fever scare ut Pensacola and
s quieted to some extent by the re- -
rt of physicians that the suspected nm
cs were not yellow fever. mar
"A shower of fish is reported to have
len at Monte Morelos, Mexico An
'thquake at Pachuca caused the death On
twenty people. was ,
Tho cases of yellow fever have been 5-,t br+'
covered iu Pensacola. oss, o,.
"A Ohinaman legally hanged at Mis-
la, Montana, protested his innocence t,,5
he last. IaHu
The New Jersey Democratic State carc
lventlOn will be held in Trenton on She
,tember 18th.
Portions of Southeastern Minnesota
e visited by a terrific cyclone, which retu
we'd appallingly destructive to human Cou
A passenger train was lifted by the =
m and hurled almost into fragments. to /
rly every person on board being either ceivC
ed or injured. The city of Roches- -
in Olmstead county, was struck bv that
wind and partially destroyed. Fully men
y lives were lost in the city.
In Greenfield, Pa, four assassins and
cked young man with knives after chec
)ting at him, and left him for dead. racy
The northwestern portion of Ontario
,A01o00 ~ " U99Il u0lFo Ialn sUorm. been
Indications point to strike of glass Oran
ufacturers about Pittsburg. -,
Over sixty thousand people have at Scot
ed the camp meeting at Lancaster, men.
;. y
District Master Workman Mitchell
announced that the Telegraphers' ernoT
herhood will disband, and that a near
organization will be formed. He
that the Knights of Labor will be e. Z
led in the future, as that organiza- i've : :
was drawback in the strike. Il
A negro camp meeting near Nash e'Acu y