Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-11-01
IN GENERAL,
The coast governments Of Ecuador
have abolished the import duty on fencing
wire

uieu OF ulphsherla In Greensboro, N0rtl
Carolina, and its neighborhood
In the criminal court at 81. Loui
Friday, Judge Noonan decided tha
"poker" is game Of chance, and, urds
the johnson law" felony.
1t was reported in Titusv lie, Pa. ,Frida,
evening-possibly for speculative pur
poses-that thirty oil wells in the Allie
gheny field had stopped flowing.
1t is reported from Ottawa that the new
governor-genersl Of Canada declines Il
receive addresses from the English
Scotch and Irish societies there, beoaus,
she wants all to become Canadians"
Express Messenger Whistler WAS robbed
OF about $4,000 in money =: Atlantic
Iowa, on Friday evening. The robbel
out the strap and stole the entire pouch
from the messengers shoulder, escaping
in the darkness.
Up to the 9th inst. there had been 521
deaths from yellow fever at Mazatlan
Mexico. In the state Of Jalisco, at the
towns of Caraco and Oualian, 5000 per
sons fell victims to yellow fever, and the
mortality in 81 days reached 381.
Charles Augustus Pinkham, ths
Portland, Me-, boy who claims to b.
Charlie Ross, says he was stolen by JESSE
James and WAS taken in q piratioal orAf,
to a Southern port and thence to Brazil
Mr.. Ross puts no faith In the story.
The United States steamer Mononqa.
hela, now at San Francisco, will have
her boilers and engines removed and be
converted into a storeship. She will be
sent to Callao, Peru, to take the place Of
tie Onward, which is in bad condition.
Thompson H. Muroh, ex-Greenbaok
congressman from Maine, is reported to
be lifting up gorgeous drinking saloon
In Boston, which is expected to rival that
of the pugilist, John L. Sullivan. The
latter's place is around the corner from
Murch's.
At New Castle, Pa, on Saturday morn
ing, James Hogan, 18 years of age, placed
revolver at the head OF Willie Harris,
aged years, pulled the trigger and
inflicted a mortal wound. Hogan, being
arrested, said he did not know the pistol
WAS loaded.
Since the 1st Of September, the Post
Office Department has furnished to post
masters 29O, ,926, ,164 postage stamps,
86,359, 800 stamped envelopes, snd
74, 1886, $50 postal cards, or total of 49,
2l. .Ol4 pieces, Of an aggregate value OF
ss,520, $40.
Letters have been received in Washing
ton from Liberia, announcing the ar
rival at Monroyia on August 2lst Of the
bark Monrovia, with emigrants sent out
by the American Colonization Society.
ALI the emigants were we'll and pleased
with the country.
An unsuccessful attempt WAS made to
steal the body Of Mrs. Blanche Moses, the
fat woman, from her grave, in Mount
Olivet cemetery at Baltimore on Saturday
night. Attendants whs had been placed
to watch the grave fred several shots and
the body snatohers fled.
James Courtney, aged % years, and
Joseph Mcsteep, aged Is years, from
Danbury, Connecticut, blew out the
gas In their room in a lodging house in
New York, on Saturday night, and were
found unconscious Sunday morning.
Their recovery is doubtful.
The jswelry store of l.. 8. Stove & Co.,
in Springfield, Massachusetts, was robbed
Sunday morning of diamonds, gold
watches and bracelets valued at from
100000 to $4,000. The robbers broke
open safe in the rear part of the store,
and left their tools behind.
M. C. McCrea of South Bend, Ind.
oounterfeited the bottles, labels and cir
culars Of an established oatarrh cure.
filled the bottles with water oolored with
burnt sugar, and disposed of several
Thousand dollars worth of the bogus
remedy in few weeks. He has been
arrested.
A sharp earthquake shook the Bsr-
muda Islands on the afternoon of the
2Oth uls. The oscillation, which Was
accompanied by "roa1 and rambling, :"
lasted 10 seconds, iss direction being
from west to east. Many people ran out
of their honses in alright. No damage
Was done.
As q reward for long and faithful SER
vice in the quartermaster' department,
the Secretary of War has directed that
mule now stationed at Mount Vernon
barracks, Alabama, shall be we'll cared
for until he dies. There is tradition In
the army that this mule served under
General Jackson in 1920.
The factory of the Visduot Electrical
Company, Just across the viaduot at the
Relay House, Nd, was almost totally de-
stroyed by fire Friday night. The fire
originated in the paint shop, a little
frame building to the north OF the main
building. Its origin is unknown. The
loss ia estimated at 100000; insurance,
$500
A telegram from Halifax says: Sowing
to the precautions taken with respect to
Her Majesty's ship at this port, similar
precautions have been ordered at Char
lottetown with regard to Her Majesty's
steamer Griffin. Boats approaching the
ship will be hailed, and If no answer ia
returned after the third hail, will be
fired on"
The director general of the worlds in
dustrial cotton centennial exposition at
New Orleans has invited designs for the
main building, which is to embrace
1000, 900 square feet. The fl DOR space is
to cost $25J, 900. Plans will be received
until noon of November 25th. The pre-
miums offered are 81, 900 for the best
plan, $500 for the second and $3.50 for
the third,
Several packages containing over 5000
unstamped letters, brought in the
steamer City Of Toxic from Hong Kong,
by self appointed Chinese mail agents,
were seized Thursday by the postal
authorities of San Francisco. IT WAS
noticed that the Chinese correspondence
was decreasing and watch was set,
which resulted in the seizure.
Near Clinton Falls, Iowa, on Tuesday
week, man called at the house of James
Crawford, an old man who lives alone
with his wife, and asked for some supper.
While Mrs. Crawford WAS preparing II,
the man knocked her down with club,
and at the same time a companion of his
knocked Crawford senseless. The rutiisns
then left after stealing $l5.
Joseph &. Hurd, sewing 'mscAine
agent, late of St. Louis, who has been
held in Boston on an executive warrant
as fugitive from Justice from Missouri,
where he is charged with having entioed
away from her home young woman, was
on Saturday discharged upon habsas
corpus, on the ground that the warrant
WAS improperly based and issued. The
girl was taken home by her father.
The steamer City Of Rio Jsneiro, which
arrived at San Francisco on the 18th inst, i,
brought n Cinnamon. esoh holding a
traders certificate from the Chinese
government, which, under the treaty,
entities them to land in the United States.
The steamer City of Toxic, which arrived
Tuesday week brought Ill more Cinnamon
armed with similar certificates. 1t is
becoming evident that by this means
Chinese lsborers are evading the