Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-01-17
IN GENERAL.

lives lost by the burning OF the convent
at Belleville, Illinois, WAS rs.
Stephen Richards, hanged at Auburn,
CAL, Friday, for the murder OF
Thomas Nichols, treated the affair |
coolly, and mounted the scaffold while |
smoking Cigar.
Buckley & Co., dry goods merchants Of
Utios, N, Y, bave made an assignment.
Liabilities, e200, 900; assets stated at
from $240, 900 TO $1,000 The prefer
ences aggregate about $l3O,OOO.
The roof OF the Delaware, Lackawanna
& Western railroad round house, At
Hoboken, New Jersey, was crushed 10
Friday morning by the Ice and snow
upon it. John Jordan, An employs, WAS
fatally injured.
At meeting Of the Kentucky whisky
pool association, held Friday in Louis
Vile, 1t was ordered that the capacity for
production this year b, reduced To 66s
per cent, the average production of the
last two years.
Mayor Edison, In his annual message to
the New York board Of aldermen, Gays
the net bonded debt of the City of New
York op December 3lst, 1888, wac
i92, $40. OBS, showing decrease OF
1886, 922 during the year.
The rivers and harbors Of Maryland
were to great extent freed by the gale of
Tuesday week, which carried great fields
OF ice into the Chesapeake bay. fleet
OF embsrgoed oyster vessels WAS towed up
to Baltimore. The Susquehanna river is
threatening a rise.
In the United States court at Trenton,
RriA 10 In a
case OF Ada Dsvey, widow of William L.
Dsvey, agair st the Etna Life Insurance
company Of Hartford, after being out 26
hours, returned verdict for Gil ,293.
Dsvey was insured for sl0, 1000, but upon
his decease the company refused to pay,
| insisting that death resulted from drunk
enness.
The city council of Chicago, a year ago,
plsosd rental of SIC, 600 year op the
site occupied by the exposition building,
where Ihe last National Republican con
veuiion WAS held. All ,fforts to compro
mise the claim have failed, and the
mayor has notified the exposition COM
pany to vaoate the premises. 1t WAS pro-
posed to hold the next National Republi
eau convention in that building.
The corn exchange OF Montreal, In Its
annual report advocates the abolition Of
canal tolls, and strongly recommends 'in
the interests Of farmers, hour millers,
the grain trade, and the public gen-
erally," the abolition of all taxes on
breadstufis; untrammeled interchange OF
national produ between Canada
and the United States, and the abolition
OF all imposts and burdens upon shipping
by the st. Lawrence route.
A mortgage bond for e25, 900, 900 was
entered in Erie Thursday against the
Buffalo, New York & Philadelphia rail
way company In favor Of the Fidelity In
surance, Trust and Sale Deposit company
OF Philadelphia, for an issue of thousand
dollar psr cent. bonds to that amount.
The Buffalo, New York & Philadelphia
railway company will expend the money
raised for extending its western Pennsyl-
vsnla and New York lines.
. The gale of Tuesday week did damage
; at Coney Island estimated at upwards o
, $4,000 The marine railway, betweei
,, Manhattan and Brighton beach was sub
|. merged and, it is reported, almost en
tirely destroyed. Part OF Culver's ifOi
: pier was carried away, and the old iroI
= pier suffered considerably. ALL the shed
and houses near the beach were wrecked
I, or swept away. The Brighton Bsscl
~ Hotel was greatly damaged, and Enger
q mans pavilion WAS destroyed.
A John Jarvi the frat white man eve
!. executed in Princess Anne county, Va.
II was hanged at Norfolk Friday morn
ing. His neck was broken by the fal
rs and he died without the movement OF
If muscle. The hanging was Witnessed b.
h only about 80 persons. Jarvis murdere
10 Claudius W. Bonney, at London Bridge
ia near Norfolk, last Septemer, because h
10 considered himself aggrieved by Bonne
A. in some transaction about the purohas
,r OF small farm.
10 The condition of Mr.. and Mrs
&c Townsend, the old couple at Oyster Bay
IA L | who were murderously assaulte
l. Monday night week was improved Thur
IN day. John Tappan, residing at POvert
De Hollow, near Oyster Bay, has idsntifis
st the overalls found in the woOOs near til
At Townsend house and the hammer use
as by the aaseilant as his property. TappaI
d, who ID the brother OF an importaI
* witness in the Msybes murder case, an
rt his wife were under examination Thur
It, day before Justice Chipp.
N.
n- terring to the charge that British sp
u had been permitted to examine certai
oy letters that had passed through the Ne
a. York post office, said there was no poss
'tn bility for any such inspection, and nor
50 had ever been made. Inspector Nev
combe said that such q scheme to be ca
ried out would require conspiracy Il
la' ending about $50 persons, from the pos
,'s master down. Caief Post Master Il
spector Sharpe WAS in town, but had N,
1n spoken on this subject to any one, N
N u, had he made any investigation OF it.
-, Reports to the Jacksonville Ella
81 Times. Union agree that the severe co
b, has damaged the young orange tire
ha somewhat, but none have been kille
Al. The tender shoots have been nippe
sr which will shorten the bloom on Il
ral trees for the coming crop The fruit
the trees has been badly damaged in Il
"a, northern part Of the state. Guavas Gi
,x bananas have been killed in the great
n, part or the state. Ga the whole, I
,s, damage is not so great as was at fl
an feared. The weather last night h
l1a moderated, aud the danger ia apparent
inc over. 1t will take some days of sum
10 weather, however, to tell how badly /
na. orange trees are damaged at the roots.
al Isaac Anderson, tolored, WAS hang
/, Friday at Bsrnwell court house. s.
ot tor the murder Of Owen Williams, whi
ar in October last. The cause Of the murd
sx. was the killing of Anderson's dog
ion Williams. The murderer expressed |
in willingness TO die. He was allowed
on minutes to speak to his friends from t
,ba Jail window. He exhorted his race
take warning from his example.
then ascsndsd the scaffold withC
assistance, and after the black cap
NIB. been a. justed conf. ssed his crime 7
Ties drop fell at IL 40 O'Clock, but Anderson
arm neck was not broken and he died fr
,m. strangula.ion. His body was given to
lad friends. The execution was rlvate.
the The PREPARATIONS for this winter car
yes val, commencing at Mo.treal on +,
no ruary 4th, are far advanced, and, VIII
eau completed, will greatly surpass in til
lect elaboration what VAS attempted !
se year. The ice palace il nov assumi
les; mammoth proportions eud cannot fail
me. ba a genuine surprise to strangers. I
ace ce ,ta tower is already 46 feet hi,
nth while lhs walls are rs feet high I
, to applications from cities in tine Uni
1n,' States for accommodations are treble wi
le a they were for the first carnival.
i'm; leading feature OF the amusementB will
an an attack upon the ice palace on W
,aaa | Da5dAy aveninp nv the auow Il