Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1884-03-20
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
,yOTHER DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS
LOADED CASE.



,,rre Miues-rhe Situation at tb'
pocahontas s1fnes-A by Ing Mother
Coufesses 10 killing her Daughter
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II ia reported that tx President Willard
of the Northern Pacific railroad, bough
a tract Of land In Portland, Oregon, fol
s45, 900, and recently sold one-quarter o
it for $3.50, 600.
Matthew Lewis, colorsd, was hanged
Yesterday in st. Louis, for the murder o
lis fe. After the execution funera
took place from oolored church.
Margaret Gsrrity, aged ~ years, died
In Chicago on Thursday from the effects
of poison swallowed Wednesday week be-
cause her mother had given her scold
ing.
The Stockton Hotel, at Cape May, was
sold by the West Jersey Railroad
Company on Saturday to William b.
Ksnepton, 220 Walnut street, Philsdsl.
phia, for $4,000. 1t cost originally
sbout 100000.
Governor Irwin OF Idaho, has returned
to the treasury his salary for the quarter
ending December 3let last, amounting to
$3.50. He had already returned his salary
for the two previous quarters. No ex-
PLANTATION OF b conduct ia given.
The Citizen newspaper OF lion, N. Y,
last night printed its whole edition by
electricity, using ths Parker electric
motor, deriving the ourren. from Parker
10 light dynamo Is rods away. 1t is
the first newspaper in the country thus
printed.
Samuel Heris, a farmer on Line
mountain, Pa, has disco- cred 3S inch
v4in of sapphire oorundum on his place,
the yield of which is valued at 5000 per
ton. The discovery has sent the price
OF the tract mp from $500 to csc, 600 and
set ths nsighbors fairly wild.
Nsws was received at Omaha last week
that Henry Richardson, one of the lead
ing members OF the vigilance committee
of Brown county, Nebraska, who are
credited with having hanged ID horse
thieves during the last three months, has
himself been hanged near his home at
Morris Bridge, Brown county. By whom
he was hanged is not yet known.
A major generals salute was fired
Friday In Utica, N. Y, in honor of the
passage OF the Fitz John Porter bill. AT the
same time the following dispatch was
sent to General Porter "The members
OF the Fifth corps that loved you, and that
you loved 30 well, are firing a salute in
your honor. They feel that Congress- has
partially righted the great wrong done
their old commander"
A telegram from Neosho Falls, Kansas,
ssys the excitement there over the cattle
plague Ia subsiding, aud 1t ID reported
hat iyo ha
quarantine regulations. II will be i'm
days longer. The people generally do
not believe the diseass 80 highly cen
tsgious as the surseonssreI ort it.
There is some fear that another explc-
sion may occur at the closed Pocahontse
mines, in Virginia, and q guard hss been
set at the entrance. The east mine,
which was not affected by the recent ex.
plosiop, will, II ia said, bs worked again
IS soon ss arrangements can be msds and
workmen employed, probably in a few
days. Tue resuiapllou i'll the west mine,
the seeae OF the explosion, oSnoot take
p!boe IN less than Two months
Two prisoners, named Kennedy and
o'Csllaghsu, confinsd in the jail at Sand
wich, Ontario, for a post offire robbery,
Sunday morning shot aud Killed the
jailOr, L.ech, fatally wounded tbs turn
key Davis, and tLeu escaped. Kennedy
was sub'equ"ntly captured on ferry
boat ss it was about to CROSS to DstIoit
O'Callagbsn il yet ct large. Kennedy
reported that U'Ca!lGghan had besn shot
By the jailOr AID p.obably died from loss
OF blood after escaping ON jail.
5tf 1 Nfa
dared at her home ia Dayton, Oatv, on
tle l9.h OF J .ulsry, 1867, Ssvsrsl Ier.
Sons wcte suspected of the crime, among
hem lovss OF the girl, but there was
no rasl oiew to the murderer until SAtur
day last, whso The sri's brother Ill .ie o
terrible rsvelation lie said ths. his
2sn mother three weeks age, when
lying, confessed that she had murdered
her daughter II tit of passion, sn axe
bNug the weapon isei, ...-e
Pisrrs Cottee, E celebrated tSlf Frenoh
negro, died 81 Viucsnnes, lui , on Sa uI
lay, agei is yesrs. He wss born in
Nnox county and WAS never farther than
10 miles from that city. He claimed that
he was born III Francs aud that he was
in the French revolution; but his niece,
100 years old, says not. Cottee has been
weak miuded since 1888 i!e never went
10 bed without rolling log against the
door OF his bedroom, aud kept two large
bowie knives Oh table near by to pro.
tect himself. He carried the brick for
denefal Uarrison's mansion, built IN
1904.
The barque Lillian OF Harrington, Me-,
sailed from Baltimore on Saturday for
hsVsra' While proceeding down the
Chesapeake, about 10 miles below An.
hapolia, Gus Peterson, Swedish sailor
stabbed and killed Mste John Wilson,
The murderer aud the body were taken
to Baltimore Sunday and the former
mcarc rated, It is alleged that Peterson
set fire to the vessel while COL fned below
The prisoner claims that, the mat,
Jumped upon him aud shot him in I'll,
Les with pistol. Peterson then stabbed
The mats. He rays the mates pipe wa
Knocked among some oakum during th'
scuill'e, which caused the FIRE, Wilsor
resided In Brooklyn, N. Y.
While come friends were viaitipg q
the house of John Cassidy, in Brooklyn
Yesterday afternoon, Dennis Reilly, aget
s years, Grew a revolver and pointed /
at Mary Cassidy, saying that che woul'
tnHamerizs her" She seemed frightened
Thereupon he lsnghingly turned pointed
the weapon ct Mics R,nneJ's head ant
pull the trigger. There was a lout
report, aud Miss Renney fell dead,
bullet having piercsd her brain. Rsilly
VINO seemed petrifsd with horror, wa
BANDED over to the police. He said h
tiousht the revolver was empty. 1t wa
louna, upon examining the weapon, tina