Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-08-23
A. M. sydes, who says be lives in Pitt,

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adelphia, shot his father in Portsmouth
Virginia Tuesday. He says he had
sworn TO kill his father, d. Sydes, for de.
sorting and slandering his mother, and
had followed him to New York and thepca
to Norfolk. The father says the troubls
grew out of the dissipated habits of hla
son, and his unsatisfed demands for
money. The wounded man is danger.
ously hurt.
There was story in circulation in
Wall street Tuesday that John w.
Mackey, the California millionaire John
W. Garrett, the President of the Bslti-
more & Ohio railroad his son, Robert
Garrett and James Gordon Bennett had
pledged themseve to subscribe o., 900. 0OO
out of 100000 for laying two cables
across the ocean. 1t was said that thu
scheme of Alderman Hsdley of London.
might be adopted. Mr.. Mackey expressed
surprise at the news when 1t was re-
peated to him. 1t could not be learned
that any cable scheme had taken such
definite shape.
The eight libel suits pending against
the Chicago Herald and its publishers
were all dismissed Tuesday at defend.
ants cost by stipulation Of the parties.
There were five suits III the Circuit Court
and three In the SUP erior Court, inolud-
| ing the one in which Lehman recovered
q verdict for $25 600. The terms of the
compromise are the payment of $4,000,
| which is to be- turned over to Mayor Hsr.
| rison to be distributed among charitable
| institutions. The suits grew out of arti-
Giles published in the Herald libeling Mr.,
lehman, and the amount of damages
claimed was over 100000.
Tue United States Court at Boston has
decided that All Shong, the Chinese cal.
penter brought there by British bsrque
| and who refused to return to his shin.
thus involving his late captain in much
trouble for having brought him thither
is not subject of the Chinese govern
ment, and therefore not Chinese laborer
within the meaning OF the prohibitory
act Of Congress, although Chinsman by
race.
At Winchester, Kentucky, Friday
morning, freight train Of the Kentucky
Central railroad stood across the Chess.
peake x Ohio track, car containing 400
kegs of blasting powder being Immediately
upon the crossing. A Chesapeake 4
Ohio passenger train ran into the car
| cdubluk d tTtuuonuuUub txpiUblO0. COn.
ductors McMichael and Martin were fatally
injured and died soon after, while five
others were so badly injured.
Prof. S. j. Wilson, one of the ripest
scholars of the United Presbyterian
Church and senior professor in the theo-
logical seminary at Allegheny City, died
suddenly Friday morning. He was
born in 1928, and had been connected
with the seminary for rs years. He was
moderator Of the synod Of Pittsburg, of
its successor the synod of Pennsylvania,
aud of the general assembly at st. Louis
in 1874, and one of the most popular
platform orators in the United States.
News has been received of the death at
Port an Prince, on July 23d, OF the Prin-
cess Soulouque, daughter of the late
Emperor of Hayti. Her death was sad
den, the remote cause being an aboess OF
the breast. She had been living in re-
irement since the death Of her father, In
1867. Her husband, Gen. Antilles, died
few years ago. The Princess was very
popular in Port su Prince. She visited
this country about year ago, going as
Tar West as Chicago, and after " ards sp, mt
nae time in Europe. She was 40 years
old.
A telegram from Atlantic City, dated
Monday, says: The masthead of the
Mysterious schooner which sank OF
Beach Haven last Friday was Tuesday
plainly visible, where she lies in five
tathoms OF water. The flag is believed 10
have been a distress flag flying at halt
= mast, and not a black flag. 1t is possible
that the current has carried down the
. coast or out to sea the bodies OF the
sehooner's crew and such of her cargo as
, would float. This would account for
; nothing having yet been found at Beach
e Haven. The whole matter remains
u shrpuded in mystery.
DIR. Harrison Wagner of Mechanics
Y town, Md, who has won q local reputs-
y tiou as an irrepressible litigant, but has
it never made any money out OF the bust
q ness, had issued, on the 9th inst, 7OS
v summonses for sos each against the
:. Adams Express Company's agent al
/ Wolfsville, Md; 100 summonses for $l0t
each against Il. A. Shriner, a flour mer-
/, chsnt,as garnisbee for one Moses Anders;
,, so for 800 each against the same as gar.
d nishee for one James NJ. Smith SO for
"a SOS each against the same as gsrnishee
is for other parties, and $50 for $9S each
v against ID. C. Winebrenner OF Frederick
" Nd, as garnishee for various persons.
The third annual meeting Of the FEEDER
,g alton Of Organized Trades aud Labor
Ia Unions began yesterday in New York
A. Samuel dompers, Chairman Of the Execu
a tive Committee, called the meeting Il
u, order. The following officers were elected
a. Chairman, Samuel dompers Vice Chair
?. man, Richard Powers; Secretary, W. G
10 Palmer Clerk, W. II. Foster Sergeant
at Arms, John Ii. O'Brien. An addres
q. was made by Mrs. Charlotte Smith, thu
. only woman present. She said she in
E, tended to organize a Woman's Protectiv
H. Society. 1t was resolved that the chair
IT. man go before the Senate Committee o
ID Education and Labor, inform them Of tn
n. oath exaoted by the Western Union Tele
"a graph Company of its employees, "an
urge the adoption of law punishs1
such attempts to reduce working men