Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1884-10-02


FIRE. He Ia 81 years Of age.
The temperature at Petersburg, Va,
Tuesday, reached $50 In the shade, q
higher point than u reached any time
during the GUNNER. There was one stroke
Of sunstroke.
Bids were opened Tuesday ut the
treasury department for carving on the
granite Of the Baltimore poat office.
Alexander Kemp Of Philadelphia, was
the lowest bidder.
A telegram from Plttsburg says the
Massachusetts Gas Company Monday
morning struck the larg,s st gas we'll that
has yet been developed In the farentum
field. The vein was struck on q grist
farm at depth Of !, 200 feet.
The German schooner Adele was seized
BY the revenue steamer Corwin while
killing seals At st. Psul's Island, near
Alaska. The Adele aud part Ct the crew
have bsen taken 10 San FrGnoisoo and
turned over to the United States msrshal.
The total estimates OF the sppropria-
tiors required fJr the support Of the
Indians during the next fsoai year, In
| Guiding Sl,369, 724 for schools, 10
| 81, 1888, 049. The present appropriation
10 90, 73s, 7s9.
Adam Deas OF Reading, Pa, who dis.
| appeared week ago, was found dead In
q corn field, 18 miles from that city,
Monday. He was 81 years Of age, and had
recently been discharged from q position
he held for 26 years. II 10 suppo.ed he
persisted from starvation and exposure.
Inspector Haworth reports the total
average attendance Of pupils at Indian
1 Ars ha Lao duaa1 AZ
b,678, or 80 per cent larger than during
the preceding year. Excluding mis-
sionary schools and pupils placed in state
educational institutions, the report shows
that there are 40, 900 Indian children old
enough to attend school.
The sixth annual reunion OF the New
England Association Of Survivors OF
Southern Military Prisons was held Tues
day In Worcester, Mass. The attend
anoe was light. It was voted to remain
Independent Of the national association.
The following officers were chosen Presi.
dent, Charles NJ. Smith Of Worcester;
Vice President, ]. Z. Prentice, Of Wor-
oester; Secretary and Treasurer, William
Jubb Of Fitohburg.
The coroner's inquest In the Toms
River, New Jersey, mu,der case was
a finished Monday, with evidence by Q
detective showing that the slugs used
J In the killing Of Wainwright had been
/ out from leaden sinkers t0und In cigar
l box at the house Of deceased. The jury
! In their verdict found bison Rockwell an
accessory after the fact, and advised the
holding Of Mrs. Wainwright, widow OF
the deceased, and Julia, George and
3 Charles Wainwright for trial.
! The fifth annual convention Of the
: United States association OF charcoal iron
: workers opened Tuesday in st. Louis.
= William Il. Lee, the president, delivered
= an address, discussing the low price of
: iron and mesAures Of relief. The seere-
= tary's report showed the total member
= ship to be 1854 In 26 states and territories.
II was stated that most Of them have
- adopted, and others will adopt, the
- mended-namely, 2,748 oubio inches, or
- 20 pounds. ..
q. John Mccullough essayed the part Of
r; Spartacus in the "Glsdiator," at Chicago,
a, on Monday night. Owing to physical and
Q. perhaps mental disability, his perform
anoe Of the character was very unsatis-
factory, and 1t was with difficulty he got
TX through the play. Tuesday morning
tuo uhuhHomoub huuUuhObu tuht thp Oh
IN gagement Of Mr.. Mccullough was closed.
~ The trouble with the tragedian is stated
. by his managers to be q breakdown In
IN his physical condition, which has been
~ bad for nearly two years.
h Touching the distinction between trade
a. marks and labels, the commissioner Of
~ patents has rendered decision. He de.
NO oided that the proper construction Of the
- 81. G.,kn fa 4. H. "a
!. application for label shall be that which
90 not be merely subject matter for . trade
Nh imply that II certain subject matter Il
found to be incapable Of registration al
trade mark, 1t can nevertheless bs
registered as label, for Il may not be
descriptive Of the quality or nature Of
Ike the goods, and, therefore, fail TO oonsti'
he tute label.
At Muscatins, IewA, Tuesday, Judge
ed Hayes charged the grand Jury in,the mat
lly ter Of indictments under the new prob ibi
al. tory liquor law. He charged the Jury
.st that while selling liquor is indiotabls
buying 1t is EQUALLY violation OF the
To- law that all persons testifying to having
an purchased liquor are indiotable, and thai
to in case OF any persons being induced OIL
ng encouraged by any organisation or body
les to buy liquor for the purpose Of oriminat
in, Ing the seller, such buyer would be in
Ia dictable, and such body would be guilty
or. OF conspiracy and subject to indictment
he Under this ruling there is little hope O
int the enforcement Of the law.
ali The ninth academic session Of til,
en- Johns Hopkins University, In Baltimore
IN. WAS formally .inaugurated Tuesday night
Among those present were Sir William
Thomson, the eminent English physicist
and j. Beran Braithwaite. who made
addresses; Professor Lind sasn of til,
en- University OF KDaigsburg, Germany
ar Mr.. Kakishi Of Japan, and number O.
other physicists, who have come to tn.
ial University to attend Sir William Thorn
&C. son's lectures on molecular dynamios
Ia The number OF students enrolled Il
larger than In any previous year. There
ial are $50 post graduates and students.
~ A suit on Star Route contract wa
~ filed Monday Ia Washington by tn
VI district attorney, to recover $11, 904, will
'oi interest from September 18th, 1880, from
A. Il. Brown, who was the contractor OF
route 38, lis, from Monument to LAX,
.,s Bond, Colorado, during the period be
,,s tween February, 1879, and June, 1882
Iat 1t Ia charged that Brown obtained tn,
he sum susd for by fraud, in claiming (,
,as have employed eight men and "a horses
,ds when his force was but three men and Il
horses. The total allowed on the contrac,
was S27 ,0l0.22, and 1t Is alleged that or
the basis Of stock and carriers employed
he 1t should have been but $15, LOG. SO. The
BIZ di triot attorney also entered suit to re-
In cover $l2 900 for the United States from
In W. B. Moses and L. Il. Rogers, surstiel
he on the bond Of Henry W. Howgate, late
m disbursing officer of the United States
m signal corps.
telegram from Pittsburg says that a
contract has been closed between tht
a. Lehigh Valley Railway Company and
al the Pittsburg 4 Western Railroad Com.
a. pany for the purchase by the former Of 1
hs half interest 10 the track Of the latter
nv from point at the mouth OF Plum Creek
"a valley, on the Allegheny river, "a
''' Woods run, in Allegheny City, both
roads to use the line In perpetuity. The
art Lehigh Valley Company has also pur.
Az. ohassd outright ak acres Of land on
,rs Smoky Island, in Allegheny, on tho lins
Of the Pittsburg & Western road, fol-
depot and yard purposes. It will extend
lite line from Ashland, Pa, its present
in western terminus, through Huntingdon
ss and Blairsville and the points named on