Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-07-05


frosts have greatly injured the fruit crop.
The temperature at st. Paul, Minnesota,
Sunday reached l0l degrees in the
shade.
During a ii : hit hotween colored men at
Trenton, n. J Sunday, one OF them
was shot and fatally wounded.
Reed Il Blossoms shoe factory In South
Abingdon, Massachusetts,, was burned
Sunday. Loss $l75,O 900.
Ono thousand, six hundred and thirty
nine new post Offices were established in
the United States during the fiscal year
Just closed.
The public debt statement for June
shows decrease of $lS,O98,2O The
decrease for the fiscal year just closed
was $l37, S23, 253.
The steamship Nevada arrived at New
York Sunday morning with $50 Nor
mon converts from Sweden, Denmark,
Wales, England and Norway.
1t Ia said that the Bethlehem Steel
Mill will bs started next Monday, and
only workmen will bs employed who will
sever their connection with the Amalga-
mated Association.
The citizens of Bismarck, d. T., In a
lew hours subsoribed sS0, 900 to make up
the sum required ~ a deposit by the
commissioners appointed to locate the
capital Of that Territory.
Sanders, who was convicted OF murder.
ing his wife, was ON Saturday sentenced,
at Brazil, lud, to Imprisonment for life.
After the sentence he attempted, hut
failed, to kill himself by taking poison.
Judge Freedman, New York has decided
that trust to pay money to priest to
say masses for the repose OF the soul of a
deceased person il void, because for every
trust there must be a beneficiary in exist
ence.
During the trial of monster engine
over the summit Of the Sierra Nevada, at
| Truckee, Cal, an accident occurred in
which the engineer and number Of
train m"n we're injured, but none of them
fatally. .-.-.=..
| The auditorium of the Ocean Grove,
New Jersey, Camp Meeting Association
was formally opened Sunday for the
season. There waH very larggs attend
anCs. The Rev. DR.. John IL. Vincent OF
New Haven, preached.
Otis Pryor, about ~ years OF age was
was fonnd dead in house OF i'll repute in
Whitehall, New York, on Saturday even
ing. 1t is supposed that he was killed
by a man who was Jealous of him ON
account of one of the inmates.
William X. Seaman, mining engineer
of Scranton, Pa, shot aud killed hia
demeuted sister at Throgg's Neck, Mon
day, and then killed himself In heI
bedroom. lie had unexpectedly returned
to the family mansion to spend short
vacation.
A FIRE In Pawtucket, Rhode leland
Sunday morning, destroyed the Old
Arcade, an. unooeupied building, the
Dexter Yarn Company's mill, oilioe and
s,orehouae, and damaged some smaller
buildings. The lcss is estimated a
$4,000.
The National line steamer The Queen,
which arrived at New York Monday
brought 235 assisted immigrants from
Ireland. They are of better class than
others who preceded them. None o
them will acknowledge to having com,
from workhouse.
Mrs. Grover was dangerously II no
fatally shot by some boys who we're Mon
day playing with u toy cannon in al
alley way i'll the rear of her house il
Newark, New Jersey. A minnie bal
entered her back below the left shoulder
and came out IN frou. near the breast.
AT meeting OF the Central Labo
Union of New York, held Sunday, /
WAS moved to invite Governor Butler t,
act either az grand marshal or orator o
the day on the 18TH OF September next
when the union is to have q parade and
picnic. Alter a warm discussion til,
matter was laid on the table.
Mrs. Agnes l.. Wynne was fatally sho
by her husband, James II. Wynne, il
Brooklyn, Sunday morning. She is l!
years Of age, and her husband ID Is. The,
were married Is months ago and have ON
child, an infant Of three months. The,
had lived uuhsppily for several month";
and Wynne had taken To drinking.
The Receiver OF Mclie0oh, Eyeringhap
II Co., the broken ah firm of Chicago
submitted Btstement TO the creditor,
Monday showing that tho sum du,
hsmbers OF the Chicago Board of Trade !,
VI, l9l,O 900, all OF which Is unsecur ed
The hrm owes the Chicago bank,
1921. 600, secured by lard as uollatera al
The new child labor law, pruhibitip,
, The employment Of children under /.
years OF age in any industrial establish
nent IN New Jersey, has gone into .ir,ot
The principal object OF the law is to pre-
veut tue employment OF children in III,
Allk aud llaS mllln OF Paterson, where. 1
| a All ri 4
II is believed that If the condition o
The Treasury wall pdi init, call Of bond,
Nill be made during the present month
t IL VIII depend, however, On the domau,
male ny pension agents and other dis
: bursting officers, aud the effect produces
= upon the revenue by the operation OF Tia,
, new tar'D act. Saturdays Treasury re
serve amounted to $l45, OO0,OOO.
Violent thunder storms, accompanies
ny high winds aud, III some cases, hail
Muna"y afternoon visited many portion
oi New York and New England. Mucl
damage was done to property at Por
Jery's, Binghanton aud Hancock, il
, Nsw York; Hartford aud Waterbury, il
Connecticut, md the Williamson W,
valley, In Massachusetts.
Abram Coppernoll, farmer of tn,
town of Victory, N. Y, was shot thre
Times with large navy revolver Sun
hay, 10y Lew French, young farm
laborer suspected Of intimacy will
oopp-rnolls wife. The wife was presen
~ The shooting and ordered French t
, hte' Both French and Mrs. Coppsrnol
are under arrest. The victim will die.
a seotion of coal train on the Rocheste
Plttshnrg railroad, to which wa
attached q passenger car, brok. in two q,
heaVy grade at Rasselas station, q
miles east of bradford, Psnpa.. ina
"e.ole daylight Sunday morning
nevsh oil The cars rushing back down tin
sr"te ran into the second section, wreck
lug IL elk PerSnns Were killed, and
,, injured, two or thr dangerously.
Professor Brooks of the Red Hons
observatory, at Phelps, New York. re
ports selesoopic observation Sunda,
morning Of an enormous group Of snot
ehtral upon the SUMS disc. The Diane
Ter OF the group ia SO, 900 miles. and IN,
sppts ere Visiple to the naked eye. The,
! e eAniol' violent cyclonic action, electrical
asulns ana aurora accompanying thi
E suiar outbreak. brilliant aurora wa
3 Witnessed at Phelps all Saturday night
The conflict in Oshkosh, Wis. betwee,
'he CITY authorities and the telepbon,
, Iohpahy was brought to close Mopda,
ny mayor fratt, who ordered the Chief a
a poiioe 70 cut down the cOmpsny's poles
one pole was chopped down and tn,
wires cut and removed from two or tbra
| poles in the presenca ~ a -, - !,