Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-06-12
IN GENERAL,

The bricklAyers engaged on the new
parliament house at Quebec have struoI
ior e2.26 Per day, On increase Of 60 cents,
The house Of Alexander Carroll, near
OTTAWA, was burned by lightning on
Friday night. Four children perish ed In
the hamss.
Johnny Dobb and William Thou, psop.
bank burglars, were sentenced Monday
At Lawrence, MAss., to 10 years eatL in
the state prison.
Tilden g. ABBOTT, the thieviag cashier
OF the Wstertown, Massachusetts, Bank
was Tuesday sentenced to eight ,saJa,
imprisonment In the penitsntiary.
A barrel Of beer burst Monday in
brewery At Nsvburg, Nsw York, killing
James Quillan. When HE inv Aid wife
heard the sad news she became insane.
The city Of Rochester, N. Y, Monday
celebrated the semi i-oentennial Of her cor.
porAte existence. There were meetings .sd-
drssses, ringing OF bells, firing OF salutes
and freworks.
A natural gas we'll, said to be equal in
pressure to the Westinghouse we'll In
Pittsburg, hes been struck at a depth of
l 400 feet on Racooon creek, In Washing
ton county, Pa
Miss Gabrielle Greeley, daughter of the
late Horace Greeley, had her right
shoulder broken aud received internal
injuries from a runaway accident. at
Chappaqus, New Yo,k, Sunday
afternoon.
General Brisbin, commanding a bat
talon Of troops marching from Montreal
to Idaho, crossed the main range of the
Rocky Mountains on the Sd inst, He ,ound
the snow several feet deep and the
weather very GOLD.
The Presby terian General Assembly al
Toronto Tuesday passed a motion rela-
tive to marriage with a deceased wifs's
| sister, virtually oensuring" minister
Of Kingston who recently married a
| couple related in that way.
Kmma Hinea, aged II years, committed
| suicide on Saturday night In Baltimore
by taking laudanum. Her father ohided
her for misbehavior on Friday afternoon,
and she took 1t 30 hard that she wrote
poem on death before killing herself.
Our total exports of petroleum and
petroleum products during the ten
months which ended on April Both,
| 1884, amounted in value 10 $38, ,272, ,244,
against $35, 1876 1856 during the GORE.
sponding period OF the previous year.
A gravel train, with boarding car
attached, containing a number OF Italian
lAborers, WAS wrecked by running off the
track near Akron, Ohio, on Saturday
evening. Seven men were severely
injured, two Of whom have since died.
In the state court at Brunswick, Ga,
1
MAbrey got verdict for $5, 900 damages
train, upon which she claimed equal
sooommod ation, having = first GLASS ticket.
During political argument In a tavern
near Liverpool, in Perry county, Pa, on
Friday night, Morris Boyer, James Weiss
and James Hogan were shot and stabbed
in suoh a manner that their recovery Ia
doubtful. Twenty men we're arrested for
the crime.
John and Charles Kennedy, laborers,
Of Louisville, have received notice that
they have fallen heirs to about s2, 900, 900
through the recent death of All nDols In
Australia. The uncle suddenly LEFT
Louisville 80 years ago, and was not
heard Of until Lis death.
John Hall, ex. United States marshal,
WAS arrested at his home, in Washington,
Pa, Monday afternoon, charged with
making false returns TO the government.
Examiner Ballin Of the department Of
justice, reports that, during his term OF
office, the amount returned by Hall WAS
S32, ,2O3, while the receipts were &l86, 1851.
A fishing schooner, owned by William
Shawner Of Crate Cove, Newfoundland,
and comm Rnded by his brother, Neil
Shawper, with crew Of 13 men on
board, is reported to have been lost, in
Trinity bay, with all hands. She has
been seen floating bottom upwards near
Hart's Point.
The round house and repair shops Of
the Wabash, st. Louis & Pacific, the St.
Louis, Des Moines & Northern, and the
Des Moines * North western railroads 10
Des Moinss, Iowa, we're destroyed by fire
Sunday evening. The fire is supposed 20
have been incendisry. The loss is esti-
mated at $125 900.
A quit bas been Instituted In the pame
of Colonel Henry X Rathbope, now in
the Hanover Insane Asylum, against the
recently suspended banking firm Of Mid
dleton x Co. of Washington, for damages
assessed at $5O, 600 for the alleged wrong
iul conversion to their own use OF bonds
deposited In their hands for safe keeping.
The one thousapdth performance in the
Tabor Grand Opera House at Denver was
celebrated on Monday night, The large
audience was successfully photographed
with the aid of SO electric lights, ana each
lady who was present will be given q
/ copy OF the photograph as souvenir.
The performance WAS the "SchoOl for
Scandal" with Madame Rhes.
A fight occurred lsst evening in a
drinking saloon in Baltimore, bstween
Michael Riley and Thomas Kennedy on
one side and Augustus and Thomas
Harper, brothers, on the other. Au-
Rustus had one of his eyes shot out, and
Thomas Harper received a shot in one OF
, his eyes the sight of which had been
r previously destroyed. The sfrAy was
, | the result Of an old feud.
The corner stone OF the new Catholic
church of st. Francis Xavier, in st. Louis,
was laid Sunday by Archbishop Ryan.
Bishops Devepger of Fort Wayne, and
Gross Of Savannah made addresses. The
ceremony was preceded by parade OF
the Catholic societies, in regalis, about
; IL 00O strong, and was Witnessed by
10000 persons.
, Attorney General Brewster has written
to Congressman Springer that criminal
proceedings are about TO be brought
against John Halt, -x United States
, marshal for Western PsDnHy lvanis.
With, ses testified before Mr.. Springer "a
comm Tee at this srseion OF Congress
that Hall iailsd to ACCOUNT for from
: 5000 0U0 to sI0O coo.
The schooner Fanny Fern OF Gloucester,
Mars with 10000 pouuda Of fish on
, board, WAS run into aud snnk by an ur-
known GOAL steamer, while on her way
home from the Georges Bsuk. Six OF her
crew were saved by jumping on the
steamer the captain, Jason Olsen, and
! three others went down with q
, schooner. The survivors have been
4 landed at Boston.
! The Giant Powder Company q magazine,
I containing 1000 pounds Of powder,
> situat.d three and half miles east OF
, Denver Colo ado, blew up Tuesday
morning A new farm house 800 yards
, distant from the magazine was de-
! molished, but the occupants escaped
| | injury. number OF plate glsss fronts
In tha city OF Denver were smashed.
During severe thunder storm In
Harrisburg, Tuesday afternoon, Frank
Dively and his wife we're struck by light
nipg and killed at their doorway. Several
, other pereons received shocks and mum
, brr o. buildings were struck Altogether
hve thunder storms prevailed within
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