Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-08-30
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
TENS OF THO UsANDS ATATLANTIC
CRY.
A Religious 4uarreI fin IL aConnecfIcut
TOwn-OiI Excitement in Ohio-A
Druggtsi's Mistake saiiis Two Chill
drcn-Suicides, Murders, tSc.

Sitting Bnll and four other Indians
have been given leave TO attend the iair
at Des Mones, Iowa.
The Indications are that the winter
apple crop of the Northwest will bs q
total failure this yea..
Professor Swift announces that what
he thought was a comet, "in the ankle
of Andromeda,' is not comet but a
nebula.
"a rich vein IF lubriosting oil'' was
struck at the d. pth of 80 feet, Ii miles
from Zanesville, Ohio, on Friday. II is
reported to be flowing rapidly.
At Provo, Utah, Wednesday night week,
Silas Alfred "a watchmap, shot AZ tramp,
but missed him, ard killed Miss Ellen
Lewis, "a bride of three weeks"
Representatives of l25 wholesale houses
formed an association in Chicago on
Thursday "to prevent discrimination by
railroads in favor of other cities"
Halt the town OF Dollarville, Michigan,
with the American Lumber Company's
shed. WAS burned on Thursday. Loss,
$l25, ,OC0. Two children perished.
Advices from Mexico repor. an earth
quake at Patohuoa, which leveled 30
houses and caused loss OF 20 lives
also, a shower of thousands OF fish at
Montemorelas.
Mrs. Fowler aud her daughter were
killed by lightning yesterday morning
week near Athens, Alabama, while taking
shelter under tres. An infant in Mrs
Fowler's arms escaped injury.
All the life saving stations on the New
Jersey coast, Al In number, with a iUrce
of 40 keepers and Isl patroimen, will
open on the 1st of September and remain
open until the LIST of May next.
Major Ashton, oolored, was shot and
killed by George Gordam, also colored at
bradford, Pennsylvania, Thursday norm
ing, in a quarrel caused by Gordam
teasing pet bear owned by Ashton.
Surgeon Owen died Thursday at the
Pensacola navy yard OF yellow fever.
One death from the fever occurred in the
village OF Woolsey and two suspicious
cases" were reported in Worcester.
A large oonilagration broke ont at Port
au Prince, Hayti, on the 9Th instant,
beginning in an educational institution
of the Christian Brothers. Four blocks
were destroyed. The loss is $250,ooo.
There was an unprecedented rush to
Atlantic City on Saturday and Sunday.
No less than 435 car loads OF excuraonists
were taken thitEer by the several rail
roads running from Philadelphia and
Camden.
A telegram from Cincinnati says the
liabilities OF Captain Vincent 5linkle,
which, at the time of his failure, were
estimated at 900, ars now stated by
the assiguees at $lSo,Ooo, his assets
being S1l5.00o,
hurricane passed over the Ottawa
district of Ontario Wednesday night week,
doing great damage to fences, barns and
the crops. In Nepean two barns were
fired by lightning, and a man named Hen.
shaw was killed.
While the brig Flerepee J, Huison,
from Norfolk for Demarara, was being
towed out from Norfolk, Vivgiaie, Thnrs-
day, the second mate, named Boyd, and
a seaman jumped overheard. The mate
was drowned, the seaman saved.
Ex-Judge Small, proprietor of an ex-
tensive hop farm in Wisconsin, says that
his plants have heeu effected by the hot
southwest wind CT the past week, and
that he thinks the crop of the whole
State will beserioualy reduced in quantity.
Tho Postmaster General has demanded
the resignation OF Postmaster Rue OF Nor
folk, Va, who is one OF MIR. Mahone's
senators, on the ground that he violates
the Executive order by holding both
Federal and State position at the same
time.
The steamer Maid of tho Mist, which
has been building on the docks for S0me
time at Niagara Falls, at the old Maid OF
the Mist landing, is nearly completed and
will be sent through the whirlpool rapids
on Thursday, September 9TH, 81 an ex-
pertinent.
Two children Of Thomas Frair of Mt.
Brydges, Ontario, aged and s years,
died Sunday from the effects OF Btryoh-
nine administered instead Of ssutonin.
Criminal proceedings, it is thought, will
taken against the druggist who sup
piled the poison.
Mr.. Langston, our Minister to Hayti,
informs the State Department that the
port of Jacmel was bloekaded by Presi-
dental decree of the Oath ulto. Mr..
Langston, in acknowledging the notifca-
tion of the blookake, reserved the rights
OF all American citizens in the city or
port Of Jacmel.
telegram was received in Norfolk,
Virginia, Thursday, from Philadelphia,
asking the authorities to hold A. NJ
Sykes, who shot his father on Tuesday
evening. 1t ia said Sykes is wanted in
Chicago to answer a charge of burglary.
He had considerable amount of money
and jewelry when arrested.
Elizabeth Cameron, % years otsge, was
shot dead in her rooms, in New Gark,
Thursday morning, by George Beattie,
aged "A, who then committed suicide.
Sne was the wife OF NoTemac, the
pedestrian, and Beattie was his trainer
and bartender, but had been recently dis
missed for drunkenness.
The Treasury Department has awarded
gold medals TO Joseph Cardran ana
Alfred Cardran for heroism in having
saved from drowning William Marshall,
Edward Chambers and Edward Lasley,
keeper and assistant keepers of the
Spectacle Reef Lighthouse station on
Lake Huron, on the 18th of April last.
The American Bar Association, in SEES
sion at Saratoga, on Friday elected the
following officers: President, Cortlandt
Parker of New Jersey. Vice Presidents,
b. A. Tray, Alabama G.. b. Clark, Ar
kansas A. p. Hyde, Connectieut T. +.
Bayard, Delaware; Ii. Ii. Wells, District
of Columbia L. M. Randall, Florida, and
others.
Littleton Hatchett and Oliver Hatchett,
father and son, charged with the murder
of Moses Young in Brunswick county,
Virginia, have been discharged from
custody. They had been tried, con
victed, and sentenced to be hanged, but
were granted new trial, which resulted
in their scquittal. For some unknown
reason they were rearrested and remanded