Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1884-03-27


Dayton, Ohio, Tuesday, dwelling trssa
and damaging and dsmolishing numhs,
OF buildings. '''''
James dilfllan, ex.tressurer of tho
United States, ia mentioned in Wasbire'
ton as the probable successor OF John Z
New as Assistant Secretary of The
Treasury.
George Russell shot his wife wbila ala.
was in bed. and then put two bnlls,s
into mis- own head, in New York Tnas
day morning. He ia expected to die. al,
to recover.
A terrific storm of wind and hail visited
knoxville, Tenn tn sday atteruoon
windows were ashed by the hail IL
frame buildings were demolishej Inv ,l,.
wind and several persons were injured
Thirty-one car loads Of corn sent hv Tho
city Of Wichita and the county of LODI
wieh, In Kansas, TO the Ohio flood AMI
ferers, were formally received by a con
mittee on change at Cincinnati Monday
The msnulscture OF heavy steel csnro,
Of and l0-inch bore has been bevnn Al
the Washington naval arsenal. III
are intended TOR the new cruisers and IL
replace iron and brass guns on sous
other vessels.
1t WAS reported Tuesday that the vii.
lage of Colemansville, Kentucky, sbont
40 miles from Lexington, was almost
entirely destroyed Tuesday afternoon
by cyclone, and that ten persona war;
killed and about twenty injured. Moth.
ing definite is known.
The third trial of the suit of Hail.,
Kilbourn against John g Thompson. AK.
sergeant-Rt-arms OF the House Of Rsnre.
sentatives, for $3.50, 600 damages for ftlss
arrest and Imprisonment, was end4dTues.
day in the circuit court at Washington
and yesterday the jury brought in a
verdict Tor 1877 800 for Kilboum.
While Governor Hamilton of Illinois
WAS iii his office at Springfield, Monday
afternoon, bullet crashed through a
window of the executive mansion. A man
at work in the vicinity said the shot was
fired by boy who was engaged in
pigeon shooting. As a precisely similar
occurrence took place a short time ago.
there are suspicious OF an assassination
plot.
The heaviest earthquake shock felt at
San Francisco since 1868 occurred there
Tuesday afternoon, at 4.44 O'Clock. TIL,
shock lasted 10 seconds and several
buildings on made ground, near the water
front were badly damaged. People
rushed from their houses in panic. A
second but lighter shock followed at s. Ii
p. M, and more are expected.
Mayor Latrobe of Baltimore, MONDAY
approved an ordinance Of the city council
abolishing the office OF fire mashal, anc
substituting paid commission of thre
+ therefor. Monday evening he sent to til
council the names Of William Il. B
, Fusselbaugh, ex-police commissioner
Samuel King, an old fireman, and
, Alex. Preston, a lawyer, for commissioners
The nominations were laid over.
, The war department has received
! telegram from Major General Pope in re
, lation to the missing boy, Chsrli
, MoComas, which says; "The most care
a ful examination has been made, but Iii
general testimony of the Indians ia this
Charlie MoComas WAS never seen aliv
after the fight in the Sierra Madre." /
4 ia believed that the boy persisted iror
4 cold and exposure in the mountains s.ite
!. the fight.
n At the Essex Institute in salel
+ Massachusetts,, on Monday night, "a publ
1 exhibition was given OF new bleachin
9 process by paratiine soap. Unrotted fla
Il just as cut from the field and dried, WI
- rendered snow white in 40 minutes
l. Successful tests upon Russian hemp fla
s. in fibre and Russian and Irish lax
l. fibre were also made. There ia no 1898
/. weight.
. James Kirk, formerly well-tO.d
citizen Of Pottsville, and Victor Fsyaf
were crushed to death in mining acc
dent near Pottsville, Pa, Monds!
Kirk and his sons being too poor to Ell
o ploy miners, were working q vein of GO
when heavy fall occurred behind theI
D. Fayart went to their assistance and W
t. crushed by a huge boulder. KIRK in tr
v ing to dig out, pulled down tods of ear
a aud rock upon himself. His sons t
" capped. .--.=
& IN Joint convention Tuesday the Bs
II timore city council took up the nOmin
81 tons for commissioners Of the fire depal
10 ment. That of Mr. Fusselbaugh W
a confirmed, and those of Messrs. Kirk a
ID Preston were rejected The prinoiI
reason assigned for the reject
10 ia that the candidates did L
ot give pledge to remove the prese
Ie chief engineer of the department. T
mayor states that he will renOmini
Kirk and Preston.
d, The chief signal officer of the army b
e received telegram from whaler at
o Johns, N. f., saying that the whsl'
/, any
" in search Of the Greedy party if it be ma
III worth thei while, aud that it ia report
u there that reward had been otiert
Mrs. Greeley, it is understood, ia We
al DESTROYS that the cooperation OF I
be whalers should be secured by means OF
suitable offer of pecuuisry compensate
u in case OF success.
at A telegram from Ogden, Utah, repo
~ that the case OF W. \. Stokes, notorio
cowboy, who, IN November last, shot
OF killed violinist at dance for anu
at ment, was TO have bssn decided by 4
he judge on FIday night. A gang of 90
boys, however went intO court wi
u three or four revolvers apiece,
termined to free Stokes at any co.
- The sheriff, with large posse, succeed
D. in disarming and dispensing this gan
he and the prisoner was remanded witho
bail.
TO The two hundred AID fiftieth anniv
py ssry of the landing Of thu first settlers
Maryland in st Marg's county Sa5 CO
q, hrated in Baltimore Tuesday night by
" Catholic literary societies OF the arc
es diocese. This programme cOnsieted OF
Ne address on the relations Of the ohuroE
N the settlement of Maryland by the H
De Il A Mc(}urks, 2 ; the reading oil
anniversary ode composed by M
. Eleanor c Donnelly, the suthoress
" Philadelphia; an address on the set'
inent of Mary lapd, by Gsneral Bradley
wn Johnson sn historical essay, written
up Mr.. Hnsh p McEiroue; rn address
oie Judge George William Brown, snd 9.
iii Guiding address by A Lso knott OF DAI
lar more L-tters we've read from ol'
Wendell Holmes, John @. Whittier a
Inv Charles A Dana. The Maryland hiS'l
no ical Society will hold a similar celeof
ton TO morrow evening.
A dispatch from Columbia, y, say
bis A report has gained crederce all throu
III the state that W. Began Cash, the o.
,er Law, for whoae apprehension the govern
by has offered large reward, ID foah'
his about the country disguised az hes
Saturday colored man, who was oh'
-, ping wood along the Santee river, saw
,ts man disguised as negro, his face bis.
w ened with charcoal, walking along
river HIS hailed him, and the III
III being startled, drew his rifle
~ fred at the wood chopper,
ali took to his heels and fled preeipitate
nal This disguised man is now kno
RS, to be Cash, who is hiding in the vioin