Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-08-09

Illegal.
The Boston Journal reports the suspen-
zion Thursday Of +. I. & j. d. Phinney,
boot and shoe manufacturers of Summer
street, with liabilities of 100000. They
are on Shaw & Brothers. paper to that
amount.
At a meeting of the New York Third
Assembly District Republican Association
Thursday, one member called another a
another ''burglsr and murderer" A
lively fight ensued which broke up the
meeting.
John Phillips, colored hosiler In st.
Louis, was stabbed to death by white
man whom he caught stealing chickens
on Wednesday week. Roger Woods,
notorious cock fighter, was arrested on
suspicion.
A salute of 80 guns was fired in
Hanover Square, Syracuse, N. Y, last
evening, in rejoicing over the killing of
the informer Carey. Two gunners were
badly wounded by the premature explo-
sion OF a charge.
There has been no rain at Victoria,
British Columbia, for two months, and
forest fires are raging in the vicinity. On
Wednesday week a powder mill near
Yale was blown up by the heat from these
fires. All the window glass in Yale WAS
smashed by the shock.
W. $. Patteson and A. s. Jones, two
members of the Consolidated Petroleum
Exchange of Nav York, got into tritiing
quarrel over the tossing of q coin and
Patteson offered ones 800 never to speak
to him again. jones' accepted the offer
aud the mouar aud turned the latter over
to st Johns Guild
A rigid iuveatisaticn of the origin of
Tuesdays Grand Army disaster canard
develops the fact that it was started by
the telegraph operator at Silver CLIFFS,
Col, tor what reason Is not apparent.
George A. Cook, superintendent of the
Denver & Rio GraDde at that point,
authorizes the announcement that the
operator in question has been discharged.
The Republican State Executive Com
mittee of New Jersey, at meeting at
Taylor's Hotel in Jersey City Thursday,
fixed upon September 10th as the date for
the State convention to nominate can
didate for governor. The Republicans
have no hope Of carrying the State unless
the Democrats make some tremendous
blunder at their convention on September
18th. Republicans generally believe
that the Democratic nominee will be
either Joel Parker, G., g. Hardenbergh, ,or
Leon Albeit.
There is possibility OF another railroad
rate war at Chicago, the management of
The Wabash road having Thursday re-
duced the price of limited tickets between
Chicago and st. Louis, either way, to
s6 so. The Wabash officials assert that
for some time scalpers have bsen selling
large numbers of Illinois Central and
Chicago 4 Alton tickets between Chicago
aud St. Louis at So SO each, which is
$l.50 below the regula- rate. The
Wabash people claim that "this c,uld
not be done by scalpers unless they were
given facilities for getting the tickets at
about So" The other roads,i is expected,
will meet the reduction.
Alleged miracles are reported from the
shrine of St. Anne de Beauprs. Miss
Lsvinia Driver of Aylmer, who was Car
ried to the shrine on litter by four men,
arose after an hours prayer and walked.
She had several years ago injured her
knee cap, and for the past three years
has been carried on litter from place to
place. She says that recently she has
been praying to st. Anne, and became
filled with the desire that if she could
reach the saints shrine below Quebec
she would be curad. Father Labelle re-
ports the cure of little girl of 4 named
Burn and boy of the same age, both OF
whom had been parslyzed in the lower
limbs and who left their couches behind
them at the shrine.
Daniel Conroy, who became insane
over the fifteen puzzle two years ago and
was committed to Dixmont Asylum for
the Insane, was released on his supposed
recovery. Thursday John Bowden
| alleged that while working on the tower
| of the new cathedral, at Erie, Pa, 1856
feet from the ground, Conroy became furi-
GUS over trivial matter, and, after
| threatening to throw him down from the
tower, proceeded to put his threat into
execution. A terrible struggle ensued,
and the men rolled and tumbled about on
the narrow scaffold until Conroy was
overpowered by other workmen who
came to the rescue. Bowden was seriously
injured in his struggle for liberty and
caused Conroy's arrest and incarceration.
A telegram from Wstrace, Te-n., says
that on Wednesday week party OF q
dozen or more disguised men went to the
house of man named Clinton, white
woodchopper, living four miles out on
Shelbyville farm. They broke the dooI
down and carried him and his wife out in
different directions about four hundred
yards from the house. They them made
Clinton bare his back and kneel down
when four of the men gave him four blows
each with seasoned blackberry brush
Before going away they warned him Il
leave the neighborhood in "a hours
Clinton says they also beat his wife
Clinton had been accused of keeping dis
orderly women about his house. A party
of masked men also visited the cabin of
negro sbout mile from Watrsce yester
day morning before day break, made hin
take his things out and burned the cabin
The negro's sick wife was carried out, ant
laid on pallet under tree.
A special to the New York Herald from
Wheeling, West Virginia, narrstes tn
deathbed confession of James West
whose position was improved in 1864 il
a manner mysterious at the time. In tha
year New York syndicate sent a man
whose name can not now be recalled, ou
into that vicinity to prospect for oil land
The New Yorker came there with fin
! team and $4,000. He stopped with
man named Ward, and he and War
prospected about the country for time
when suddenly the New Yorker disaI
, peared. Ward reported that the missin
, man had absconded with the funds wit
which he had been entrusted. 500
after Ward, who was a poor man, pul
chased hotel property and began I
; live we'll. Three years ago he died sud
, denly. The confession Of West was I
t the effect that Ward induced himse
and a butcher named Kirkbride to 70
? and murder the stranger. The thre
waylaid the New Yorker and Ward an
West held him while Kirkbride cut hi
throat with butcher knife. They the
robbed the body Of jewelry and abor
4 $50, 900 in money, threw it into wei
j, and filed up the we'll. On OIL
g finger was a gold ring that fitte
7 too tightly to be removed. The well hs
: been found and reopened and the skeleto
: exhumed with the gold ring still upo
: the bony finger. Kirkbride, the surviviI
assassin, has been arrested.