Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-02-07
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
COUNTERPART COIN CIRCULATING
IN CLEYELAND, OBIO.
OranKemen In Jail for completely In
the Harbor Grace RiOts-The Q Statue
or chief Justice Marshall-Dropped
Dead at The Plano.

OrauKemcu III j a1l Tor completely In
the Harbor Grace Riots-The Statue
or CHIEF ] Justice MarshaIl-Dropped
Dead at The Piano.
1t is reported that a valuable deposit
OF tin has been discovered in Cleveland
county, North Carolina.
Mrs. John W. Staten, widow O.
Jersey vile, Illinois, dropped ad OIL
Saturday while playing the piano in he,
parlor.
Governor Pattis0n last week signed the
Jones of Allegheny county. They will be
hanged on the Sd of April.
The COMMITTEES appointed to rsige fundR
to pay II the debt OIL 100000 on the
Round Lake camp meeting grounds, near
Troy, N. T., reports success.
Head Constable Doyle and five other
0fsngemen were committed IN st. Johns,
Newfoundland, on Saturday, on q charge
of murder in connection with the Har Dor
Grace riots.
Advioes from Australia are TO the effect
that the crops are in splendid condition,
1t is estimated that South Australia will
have IS, ,000, 100 bushels of wheat Tor ex-
port, ard Victori, 1000, 900 bushels.
The total value of oar imports OF
merchandise during the calendar year
1883 was $6S7, ,020, 122, decrease Of
S65 1923 1856 compared with 1882. Our
exports OF merohandise during 1888 we're
valued at $795, 5,09l, ,S06, an increase Of
s27, ,l09, 1850.
Colonel John G. Casey, ex-tressurer Of
Bedford county, Virginia, and lately a
Read uster candidate for state treasurer,
is reported to have disappeared, leaving
an indebtedness of $50, 900 to his bonds.
men to meet.
- The main steam pipe of the steamer
Natchez exploded Sunday evening near
Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A o0l0red boy
Was killed, aud one passenger was
terribly soalded by the escaping steam.
sixty-two new pupils arrived at the
Indian training school at Carlisle on Sat-
urdsy morning. Fifty-two Of them are
Apaches from the San Carlos reservation /;
the remainder Pueblos from New Mexico.
A telegram from St. Johns, Nav found
land, says the sealing steamer Beau was
sold Thursday to the American govern
ment for the Greedy relief expedition, aud
will leave for New York In week. She
is of the same age and tonnage IS the
lost Proteus and OF similar build.
The wife of Thomas Collyer disd at
Laurel Hill, Long Island, on Thursday,
from eating beef soup, which is said to
have been poisoned. Her husband was
taken sick, but his lite was saved. Her
ia aA tutth afr tiur
symptoms, and his body will be exnumed
for analysis.
]. 8. and Charles Il. Unversaght were
arrested in Baltimore several weeks ago
on the charge Of using the mails for a
fraudulent purpose, by sending out oirou-
lars for a bogus insurance company. At
hearing before the United States COM
missioner Thursday, Charles II. was held
in 81, 500 bail for trial and ]. 5. WAS dis.
charged.
Many counterfeit silver dollars have
been circulating In Cleveland, Ohio, for
several days The spurious coins have
been passed upon poor women, mostly
Germans, in the produce market. The
outside being of silver, and weigh little
more than the genuine. The milling on
the edges is bad.
The statue OF Chief Justice Marshall to
be erected In Washington will be plaosd
upon the west front of the capitol, in g
lii with the middle entrance. The
figure, Of heroic size, is OF bronze, and
was made by Story, in Rome, but has moi
yet been shipped from that city. The
statue is expected to be in position and
ready for unveiling within three months
The directors OF the Corn and Flour
Exchange OF Baltimore last week elected
the following officers: President, George
Ii. Baer Vice Presidents, John Gill and
K. Nj. schryver; Treasurer, George 7
Ksnly Secretary, William II. Wheatley
Assistant Secretary, Harry A. Wroth
Kxeouiive Committee, R. s. Fowler
Thomas II. lowering, Samuel G.. Ciocker
Jarret N. Gilbert and Samuel X. George
Exposed electric light wires will be ,
formidable rival to the pistol and tn,
halter as means of suicide when theil
death dealing powers are once appre
ciated. The other day a young man a
Johnstown, Pa by means Of plain iroI
rod held in the hands, succeeded in max
ing himself the recipient OF an eleotri,
current which produced instant death
He is a pioneer In this method of self
destruction.
An accommodation train on the Indian
Apolis Il Chicago Air Line broke through
truss bridge at Whites creek, sever
miles from Indianapolis, Thursda,
morning. The engine ran of the track
but the cars, three in number, fell in
neap at the foot of the pier. Part of tbs
wreck WAS submerged, but the portiol
which remained above water caught fir
and WAS partly destroyed. Six person
were killed, and nine injured, on
fatally.
The ice in the Mississippi river at 81
Louis is running freely, and an early re
sumption of navigation to s0uther
points is expected. At tow. boat and
sand boat were sunk Of Saturday mornin
by the ioe. The upper Mississippi re
mains closed from Alton, Illinois, north
ward, but the gorges in the Missoui
river are broken in several places, an
that stream will probably be open
Kansas City in a few days.
A telegram from St. Paul says tb
Marquis Demorss, who in July LAT
shipped $4,000 sheep from Wisconsi
and Iowa to ranges in Montana, report
that 55 per cent. have died. The an
mails swell up and bleed at the moi
before death. A post-mortem exsmipi
lion disclosed an extrsvasation OF bloc
in the intestines. The disease has bee
heretofore unknown, and is oonsidere
inourable.
Some months ago Mrs. Lsvinia Clsgget
the captain OF the Salvation Army,
Wheeling, West Virginia, was arrestt
for tumult and disorder, and WAS fined
the city police court. She had played
tambourine and sung in the street duriI
the march OF the army. Mrs. Clagge
took an appeal to the circuit court al
Judge Jacob decided Friday that II
army has right to parade in public wi
music, and that this does not constitu
tumult and disorder within the meanii
OF the law.
A terrible gasoline explosion ooourr
yesterday in F. M. 0rr's stove and ii
ware store in Alliance, Ohio. The bull
ing was demolished, and number
persons were buried In the ruins. Sever
persons were in the store at the time, al
two families lived in the upper part
the building. At last accounts four p'
sons had been extricated and four othe
were known to be in the ruins. l.
wrecked building stood in the midst ol
block, and the adjoining buildings we
damaged. The total loss on property
estimated at $75, 900.
The negro, Sandy Robinson, "
recently murdered Deputy Sheriff jan
Lathrop OF Leon county, Texas, was TAX
from the jail Sunday morning