Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-06-05
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IN GENERAL.

Another transfer of United States a per
eents-$2, SOC, ,000-has been made by
William Il. to William X. Vanderbilt.
"Ned" Lyons, professional cracks
man." was sentenosd Friday at Spring.
field Mass to tbr N+sIs' impIi5oume Mt
in the psnitentiary FIR breaking open a
a paf-.
W. j Lsndun, ,Jr., the thieving teller OF
the Hampton Savings Bank at Spring
field, Mass, WAS Friday sentenced TO
four years Imprisonment; in the house of
correction.
Cstharine Love, supposed to be 1o5
years Of age, WAS last week declared to
be insane by q commission Of lHnscy N
New York. She owns 10000 worth of
| property.
Edward Wilson, colcre', died in Peters.
burg, Virginia, last week at the alleged
ese OF los years. He was "believed to
bs the o!des. oitiz9n" u that place, and
was the patrisrchal father of 49 children
cattle roundup camp on French
mans creek near the Nebraska and Colo
rade lines, was destroyed by cloud burst
last ThursGay and IL cowboys perished.
The bodies of four have been recovered.
Christopher Doyle wss ownedi Sun
day near Baltimore. He jumped from
a small boat TO get q companions hat
and did not rise again. Doyle received
the first piedal for saving people from
drowning on the occasion OF the Tivoli
disaster last year.
young German Ont his throat in Pat
terson Park, Baltimore, on Saturday
morning, but may recover. About year
ago one OF his legs was amputstei. A
few days ago he asked his employer for
SIS to buy wooden leg and being re-
/ fused resolved upon suicide.
President White Of Cornell University
last week received from Hiram Sibley
who ia now in Europe, letter making
q the folloTipg donations to the university
. For al additional building for the Sibey
' mechanic art school, 10000; for in,
I ereased equipment, $S,p0e for sn in
6 creased endowment for the sam depart
+ meGt, $50, 900,
4. A telegram from Troy, New York, say
that 20 years ago ak silver spoons aud
SILVER butter kniio We're missed from
table in this house OF Mrs, N. Crspdall
at Oohoes, and snspieion rested upon
servant girl. TIE summer kitchen hs
/ just been raised for the purpose OF max
% log repairs, and the missing silverwar
y has bean found uninjured in rats nest
: In Baltimore laat week, $95 600 of ci,
: bonds bearing per cent. inlerest psys
BILE in 1920, and 5000 ,0o0 Jones' Fall
loan, bssriug s. per cent. interest, pay
able in 1900, were awarded to bidders b
tue board of finance commissioners. Tn
per cents brought a premium rsngiu
from 10 to IL 8 l6 per cent, and th
3 65s premium OF ! to 1.23 per cen
The bids aggregated Il, ,c63,o
Riddle, the president aud Reiber, th
cashier of the Pean Bank, were arreste
in PIttsburg on Saturday evening, Ou IL
charge OF conspiracy. Riddle, who ID tt
sick to bs removed from his bad,
guarded a. tie hosI ital by pol,uernsl
while Rather ia in jail snit has also bet
ID, brought against their bODdsmeu. TT
OF bond OF the president is for $50 600 III
d, OF the cashier for $50, 600. T. J. Watso
ely the oil broker, whv is charged with ha
- ing aided in the wrecking Of the b.pl
e., was ARRESTED at jersey City oa SAturas
lie morning.
Rufus Minor, a noted bank robber, W
,ys arrested in New York Tuesdsy " eek ,
complel'y III Tue rUbDeFy " W, iuO frp
- the Commercial Bank of Augusta, q,
heis in March last. He was Sunday III
10y rendered to an cffl ser from Grorgi
NY Minor it is said, "has beAp arrested
: number of times for engaging in bal
md robberies, but has always escaped pu
ier ishment. He was one o. the taru W
robbed tue Bstk Of Baltimore uf $50, D
Ice on Nove,nbe 25th, 1882 hpd ia H. ssl
the year he assisted iu stealth, $7l 600 OF
IN of railroad bouds from rafe depo
~ company in Pi.tladeiphia. +"
lily The bodies of Mortimer Linlbleu
a,n .nsl cashier, a colored boy named Bow
. Giidea j. Hook, Hepnett McLsa a
nm. nm. James Kelly, shipping clerk of
: of Aessrs. Hooper, have been recovered frt
ths ruins Of Hooper's warehouse
lied Baltimore. The bodies Of james
and Bowen and William MOulton, be
. oolored, are believed to be still in I
ms debris. The loss on building and stoc
ave- ave- it is estimated, will not exceed $50, OF
''ly The disaster ID now attributed to /
its; decay of one end OF large girder viii
iud ran the entire length OF the building
the third floor. Many Of the heavy joi
>, on which the floors were laid are brok
land show evidence of dry rot"