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Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-02-23
MayOrS Court.

Hugh Swan was before the Mayor
last evening to answer charge of az
sallt and battery, preferred by hi'
wife. When the case was called, the
woman said that SHE did not wish I,
testify against Kim, and he was alloweG
to plead guilty. The Mayor imposed =
fine of50 rentsand costs, which, as ther,
were number of witnesses summoned
amounted to quite a sum.
Frank Cr,nnlish was d.judged guilty
Of corner loungillg and dsorderly con
duet AT Chestnut and NanBurrn streets
The Mayor imposed tine of 80 cents
and costs, but upon his mother inter,
crding in his behalf, the fine was re-
mitted.
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-02-23
s,ate OF the Thermometer.

at the REPUBLICAN Office In the shadb
this morning:
7 o'clock 10 o'clock IL O'Clock
800 $50 $50
Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-02-23

White loaf drips, u cents per quart
cranberries, 10 cents; 4 lbs. Jersey
peach sauce, % cents. L. M. Weir, 100
East Sixth street.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-08
Wrecked at Sea.

CAPE May, n j., June6.
The schooner Fannie A. Bailey, Captain
Manson Hume, Jr., came ashore In thick
fog on the north bar of Hereford Inlet at
4:30 o'clock on Tuesday morning The yes
sci left Windsor, n S., fifteen days ago,
with cargo of three hundred and seventy
tons of rock plaster consigned to Phil
adelphia The thick weather and south
winds were encountered during the passage
down the coast, the land being hidden
entirely the greater part of the time. Some
time on Monday evening Barnegat light was
sighted, after which the fog settled and OBJ
structed the coast At 4:3O the next morn
ing the lookout reported breakers ahead.
In another minute the afterpart of the vessel
thumped upon the sand and Immediately she
bulged and commenced to show signs of
going to pieces. The weather was so thick
that the Captain could not tell where she
was and consequently could not decide as to
What course to pursue.
Hastily gathering in the ships papers,
which he afterward lost in his struggle with
the waves, the Captain ordered boat low
cred. Into this were lowered all but the
Captain and one sailor, and the boat was
dropped astern to wait the lifting of the fog.
Ere many minutes the heavy sea capsized
the boat, and all, including the Captains
wife and only son, a boy Of three years,
were thrown into the sea. The now
almost distracted husband and father
lowered the only remaining boat and
succeed in getting the unconscious wife and
child into it, at the same time throwing a
line to the unfortunate steward, who was
struggling with the waves. The poor fell
low, however, was too much exhausted to
use it. The next wave capsized this boat
and the only means of succor remaining
was the line in the hands Of the man who had
not left the vessel. With this the Captain
reached the schooner, bearing in his arms
the almost lifeless form of his wife.
At eleven o'clock Captain Holmes, of Life
Saving Station 35, and Captain Ludlam, of
Station SO, manned the surf-boat and brought
the saved to the beach. The crew consisted
of Captain Hume, F. Bruce (mate), Thomas
Shields and Harry Huling (steward), Harry
Worden and Charles Daley, who were
drowned. Harold, the Captains son, was
also lost, but the mother was saved. The
vessel was nineteen years old, and hailed
from Portland, Me.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-08
A Story Of james Gordon Bennett.

One New-Year's Day Bennett arrived
at the Union Club toward night, having
made many calls. He sat down in
chair, and, observing that some MEM
bers of the club were presenting Peter,
the venerable porter of the club, with
five-dollar bills as New-Year's presents,
he called him over, and fishing down
into one of his pockets brought up
bill.
"Peter, my friend" he said, without
looking at the bill, stake that
"Thank you, sir" said Peter, his
eyes glistening at the sight of twenty
dollar bill.
Bennett gazed at him for a second,
said sleepily: "Wait, Peter and div
ing down into another pocket brought
up another bill.
stake that, Peter"
This performance went On for fully
five minutes. Every time that the as
tonished Peter attempted to retire he
was called back, and the presentation
of every kind of bill from one to fifty
dollars went ON to the amusement of
the spectators. When no more bills
came forth Bennett stopped and went
away. Peter asked some of the mem
bers what he had best do with his hatful
of money. He was advised to ask Mr..
Bennett the next time he came whether
he had not given him by mistake more
than he intended. So the next day
when Bennett appeared Peter said to
him:
"Mr. Bennett, 1 think you gave me
more of New-Year's present than you
intended last night"
Bennett looked at him for few sec
onds, not having the glimmer of an idea
of how much he had given, or whether
he had given anything at all.
"How much did | give you, Peter?"
eight hundred dollars, sir. !"
The position was a delicate one, but
not 80 much so to man with an in-
come of million year as to an ordi-
nary mortal. ''That was the amount /
intended for you, Peter" said Bennett
without sign of annoyance.-Ne
York Cor. Charleston NeUs md Courier.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-08
Production of Gold and SILVER in the
United States for the Year 1882.

The yield of the mines of the United
States for the year 1882 was 1872, 500, 900 in
gold and SAC, 900 in silver Compared
with the previous year, this shows decline
of So, 100000 gold and an increase of $780,,
600 in silver. The comparative decline in
the production of gold was greater in Cali
fornia than in any other State or Territory,
the yield being 81, 400, 900 less than in 1881.
This resulted from the interruption of hy-
draulic mining in some northern and middle
countless owing to litigation, and from the
falling off in the production of the quartz
mines at Bodie. In Oregon, Nevada, Idaho,
and Dakota there was also falling off. In
silver the principal increase was in Idaho,
Montana and New Mexico. OF the bull
lion production of the country, $50, 964, 1858
in gold and $31, 400, 792 in silver were de-
posted at minis and assay offices for coin
age or return in bars to the depositors.
Of the gold deposits, $4,000, 900
were paid in bars fer manufacturing
purposes, and the remainder went into
coinage. Of the total silver production,
$15, $50, 900 was exported, IS, 1894 900 fur
nished by minis and assay offices to manu-
facturers, $3.50, 600 by private refineries for
the same purpose, and S24, roo, 900 used in
coinage. During the year there was
greater decline in the amount deposited at
the minis and assay offices than the differ
ence between gold production Of 1881 and
1882, but there was larger amount Of gold
consumed by the mechanical industries of
the country. The amount Of silver deposit
ed at the minis and assay offices increased
about $500, 900, which corresponds close
" to the increased production of the year.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-08
Terrible Deed of an Insane Mother,
PHILADELPHIA. June Q.

PHILADELPHIA, June 2.
A special to the Press from Carlisle saws
that the people of the little village OF Hunts
vile, III Penn Township, Luzerne County,
were Mortified Friday morning by the infor-
nation that Mrs. Martin Douglas and her
three children were lying dead in their house
with their Threats cut from ear to ear, Mar
tin Douglas is young laboring man, and
works at Pine Grove Furnace, probably five
miles or so from his home. His custom has
been to go to work Sunday evenings, work
all the week, and return to his family on
Saturdays.
His children were all small, the oldest
being five years and the youngest but six
months old, and they and their mother were
the only occupants of the house, but, as Mrs.
Douglas parents lived near, and her mother
was frequently back and forth, it was
thought entirely safe for the husband to re-
main away all the week. Some months ago,
however, the family physician thought he
noticed symptoms Of insanity in Mrs. Doug.
las, and SO informed the Woman's husband
and also her parents, but they saw nothing
wrong in the woman's conduct, and paid
little heed to what the doctor said.
Thursday evening Mrs. Douglas mother
was to see her, remaining until about nine
o'clock, the children having been put to bed
before she left. Report says she saw moth
ing in her daughters actions to cause any
suspicion that she was not in herright mind,
or entirely safe to leave alone with her little
children. Friday morning no one appearing
outside the Douglas house for so long the
neighbors became suspicious that there was
something wrong and Mrs. Douglas mother
went to inquire. Upon entering the house
a most horrible sight met her gaze. There
lay the three small children in the bed
where she had seen them put to their slum-
bers the evening before, but their Threats
were cut and their innocent lives were gone.
On tho floor lay her daughter, the mother of
the three lifeless children, with her throat
cut and gashed in manner that is sickning
to relate, and near her lay the razor with
which the bloody work was done.
The most plausible theory is that the
mother, in an overpoNering fit of insanity,
committed the shocking deed, though some
persons are half inclined to think some one
else might have done it. Justice of-the-
Peace Null held an inquest aid verdict
was rendered that the mother had killed the
children and then taken he / own life.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-08
The Free Traders.

DETR OFT, June 1.
At yesterdays session of the National
Free Trade Conference there was adopted
resolution that the free-trade work of this
country be under the direction of the Amer
lean Free Trade League; that the latter APP
point National Committee of one delegate
from each State League to have general
direction of the work in his own State and
be held responsible therefor; that the Elk
ecutiye Committee of the National Commit
tee appoint and have the power to remove
member and appoint one to represent it on
the National Committees from each of those
States which have no State League, and
that the National Committee appoint Gen
elal Secretary, with headquarters in the city
of New York.
An address to the people of the United
States was adopted, which, after declaring
the tariff question to be the paramount issue
in National politics, sets forth the benefits
that might be expected oresult to the coun-
try from the adoption of the free-trade pol
icy. David A. Wells was elected perma-
nent President, with an imposing list Of
Vice. Presidents. In the evening the confer
ence was addressed by Thomas G. Shear
man, of Brooklyn, N. Y, and Congressman
Springer, of illinois.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-08
Taken From Life.

About forty years ago a handsome
young Frenchma9 was at the head of
an aristocratice French school on the
Staten Island flights, just back of New
Brighton. Among his pupils was the
daughter of the naughty Bigelow FAM
lily, then prominent in New York soci-
ETY.. To reduce two-volume romance
to paragraph, can only say that the
French professor fell in love with Miss
Bigelow, and she vowed she would
rather die and take her chances in the
other world than to live without him.
Her parents opposed and threatened,
and there were terrible times in the
social circles of New York and Staten
Island. Finally the lovers settled the
difficulty by getting married. Miss
Bigelow was disinherited. Two lovely
Observation-Disclosures and sister-were the
result of the marriage, and for once
love ran smoothly after marriage. Moth
ing, however, is certain in this Elusive
life; both father and mother fell i'll and
died very suddenly. The two little or
phans were taken to Boston and educat-
ed by wealthy relations of the family.
The girl grew up to independence and
struck out for herself. She became q
teacher, and for several years was Pro-
lessor of elocution in Vassar College.
Her brother also disliked to be burden
to his relatives, and when the war broke
out he enlisted in the artillery service
and went away to fight for glory and
twenty-dollars a month Not getting
killed he was able to return and
participate in the ways of peace.
In due time he found himself atthe head
of big manufacturing business in the
enterprising City of Chicago. He was
also engaged to an accomplished young
lady, and Cupid sharpened his arrows
at her door. Prosperity seemed to have
mortgage on their future, and all was
going wen until the great fire reduced
everything to ashes. The flames were
bursting from the roof when the young
man reached his house. He saved but
one thing; it was a large painting of his
mother. He buried it in the garden
amid showers of cinders. Then extin-
gushing his clothes which were on fire,
he drove to another house a mile away,
reaching it in time to rescue his sweet
heart. Their marriage soon followed.
have long been interested in the ca
reer of this young man. First he was
an engineer; then a journalist; then
miner in the lofty mountains in the San
Juan country; then an expert in Mexico
for Wall street syndicate, and at last
he found a responsible position in
wealthy powder company. He was
very successful, and he went out to SUI
perintend the blasting of some iron
mines in Pennsylvania. To show the
superiority of his own powder over dy-
Mantle he used both compounds. The
dynamite exploded prematurely, and
when we stood by his coffin in Column
bus avenue, Boston, it seemed pitiful
that among all the people in this great
world life so young and full of prom
Use should be snufed out like candle.
This death of William A. LIE Row-so
sudden, so unnecessary-is another
proof of the treacherous, terrible power
IF dynamite Washington Capital.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-08
Hanged bg Vigilants.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June 8.
a special from Hermann, Mo-, says that
the city was thrown into state Of intense
excitement, shortly after midnight Tuesday
morning, by the lynching Of Whitney, the
murderer Of young Burchard. The mob
Numbered about two hundred. They sur
rounded the jail, guards being stationed
with drawn reYolyers to keep back the curl
GUS crowd which was attracted BY the
noise made in breaking the jail doors
The Jailer refused to surrender the keys,
when axes were brought. Whitney sup
posed the purpose of the assault, and
crouched upon his cell floor and prayed
fervently. His voice could be heard ont
side. The Jailer was forced to lead the
way to Whitney's cell, which was
then forced open, and a long rope which
the mob had brought with them was put
around his waist. Half fainting, the
doomed man fell on his knees. When
once in the open air he asked leave to pray
again. This was granted, but as he con-
tinued his appeals to Heaven too long he was
jerked to his feet and dragged through the
town into dense woods that covers the
bluffs, a dozen Of the lynching party warn
ing the crowd not to follow, and intimidat-
ing them by displaying reVolyers.
When the woods were reached, the prison.
er was handed over to dozen masked men.
He said his real name was Fisher, and not
Whitney; that his parents lived in Virginia;
he did not know whether he killed Burchard
or not, as he and his partner, whose name
was Collier, fired five shots each. He then
shook hands with part of the mob, bidding
them good-by, after which he was strung to
a tree The mob then dispersed.
1t was expected that the Court would hold
a special session to try the accused, but
when it was announced yesterday that the
trial would go over to the fall term the in
dignation was general, and threats of lynch
ing were made. The mob was quite order
ly in its behavior. There was an absence of
conventional masks, and many of the lynch
ers were recognized.
Whitney was a desperate of the James
stripe He and another outlaw named Col
lier, after robbing several stores in Gascon-
ade County on the 10Th of last month, at
tempted to burglarize the store of Burchard
& Lakes, in the little town of Bein, during
which they shot and killed young Burchard,
a son Of one of the proprietors.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-08
West and South.

THE Free Trade National Conference met
at Detroit ON the 31st ult. David A. Wells,
OF Connecticut, Yves elected President, and
in his opening speech said they had come
together to affirm the right to sell and buy
without restriction. He referred to the de-
preston in business, the prevalence of
labor strikes, and said that the pressure of
events would compel an answer to the
question why, in this land of plenty, there
was such stagnation and distress. 1t was
only question of time when the element
of liberty involved in this free-trade ques-
tion would assert itself.
On the 31st III. thirty-four of the miners
engaged in the recent riot at the Collins.
vile (Ill.) mines were arraigned in court
and fined twenty-five dollars, but stay of
execution was granted during good be-
havior. The Coroner's Jury in the case of
Henderson, killed by the militia, returned
a verdict declaring the shooting uniusti-
fable, but they were unable to determine
whether the militia or miners fred the first
shot.
WHILE resisting arrest Robert Smith,
one of the brothers who killed the two Cecil
brothers at Helenwood, Tenn, was killed
on the 31st nit. by the Sheriff.
In Western North Carolina Mormon mis-,
eiouaries have recently made many prose
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-08
A Stubborn Time Lock.

CLEVELAND, May 81.
The City National Bank at Cleveland has
had world of trouble with its safe, which
has been taken out of the building, charged
three times with dynamite, and burst in the
approved way of the highwaymen. The
trouble was caused by refractory
time-lock, which refused to act under
any circumstances. Last Thursday the
time-lock stopped and no persuasion would
induce it to behave. The safe was of
Damon make. of Boston, and three Boston
experts were brought TO work on it in con-
nection with a pair Of local safemen. No
good N the way of getting at the
100000 stored therein came out of
their work Strange to say, good
burglar was never thought OF. In the mean
time, at ten o'clock Tuesday morning the
ten tons Of iron and steel were hauled by a
string of horses and hugh vain into big
lot, and, in the presence of a crowd of peo-
pie and an escort Of police, given three good
doses of zaT-eyterminator. On the third
it opened in sections. The money was car
ried away and the bank will have new
safe that is guaranteed to behave itself on
all occasions
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-08
LATER.

SEVEN cases of sunstroke, two fatal, oc-
Cured in New York on the 9th.
THE coasting schooner Fannie A. Bailey
went ashore at Cape May on the 9th, and
three men and q child persisted.
JAMES FISK, father of the noted finan-
cier slain by Stokes in New York, died
few evenings ago at Brattleboro, VT, aged
seventy-one years.
DURING circus performance at Suspen-
sion Bridge, N. Y, on the evening of the
9Th, gale of wind Frustrated the tent, Gre
ating panic among the audience, in which
great many were severely hurt, though
none were killed.
In the Sherbro district Of West Africa
fifty persons were recently roasted alive
for witchcraft.
QUEEN VICTORIA was on the 9th reported
to have developed dropsical symptoms,
and her health was said to be precarious.
Her journey to Balmoral from Windsor
was undertaken in opposition toIthe wishes
of her physicians.
THE Congregational General Council met
at Saratoga Springs, N. Y, on the 9th.
The boiler of an engine on the Memphis
& Charleston Railroad exploded near La
grange on the 9th, killing Engineer Harry
Roberts and Fireman Lee Transcomb, and
badly injuring two other persons.
The Mayor of Moscow has been banished
to his estates for expressing the hope at
recent banquet that the Gear would insti-
tute constitutional regime.
A DESPERATE named Whitney, who oper-
ated on the plan of the late James Gang,
was taken from Jail by mob at Hermann,
Mo-, the other night, and hanged.
GERMAN soldiers to the number of one
hundred and fifty three, stationed at Posen,
were accidentally and dangerously poi
soned few days ago.
An old lady named Maxon was crushed
to death by team that was running away
in Troy, N. Y, on the 9th, and four other
persons were seriously, if not fatally, in
jured.
NEAR Laqura, Mexico, a few days ago
Eradia Bernal, noted bandit, tortured
Senior Yela for money concealed. He cut
off Yela's arms singly, and then cut off his
head.
FIVE little girls were burned to death in
fire at Santa Clara, Mex, on the 9th.
IN Hgn6 at lover, ~. d.s bne otAeI HlgHt,
between striking lasters and men who had
taken their places, one of the former was
fatally snot.
AT the inquest on the 9th into the Brook
lyn bridge diaster, the acting President Of
the trustees deposed that all the policemen
in New York could not have Stoned the
panic-stricken tide of humanity at the time
Of the accident. The jury found that the
"ofacers and trustees were reprehensible,o
and recommended improvements in the
road for foot passengers,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-06-08
THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches.
From Washingtons

SSSA@AA&hn
TIE new Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue, Henry Walter Evans, was installed
In Office on the 31st ult.
The public debt statement for May
shows the following: Total debt (includ-
ing interest), 81 1881, O57,471. Cash in Treas
ury, $317 ,S6S, O62. Debt, less amount in
Treasury, 81 ,569, 1S9,408. Decrease during
the month, $4,S00,476. Decrease since June
30, 1882, $119, 725,O51.
DURING the seven days ended on the 1st
the business failures numbered l51, against
1853 for the seven previous days. They
were distributed as follows: New England
States, 81; Middle States, IS; Western, Az:
Southern, 20; Pacific States and Territories,
Is; New York City, s; Canada and Pro-
vinces, %.
AN order has been issued by Postmaster
General Gresham that postmasters Of first
and second-class offices must personally at
tend to their duties, and must not absent
themselves without permission from Wash
ington. Violation of this rule renders them
liable to removal.
HE President returned to Washington
ON the ID.
NAh' bUHCHARDS director or the Mint, is.
sued a special report on the I'd, which
shows that the production of the gold
mines Of the United States last year was
$S2,5O6,OoO and of silver $46,8OO,00O AS
compared with the previous year the gold
product declined S2,2OO,OOO, but silver in
creased 100000. About $25,OO0,O0O Of the
gold went into coinage.
AT twenty-six leading clearing houses in
the United States the exchanges for the
week ended on the I'd were $846, 335, 1923,
against $685., 9s6, 926 for the week previous.
1T was stated on the 4th by Chief-Justice
Waite that the United States Supreme
Court was about three years behind in its
work. 1t was impossible for the court to
consider more than four hundred cases an.
nnally, while very many more were filed.