Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-05-29
81 800, which he took with the ostensi-
BILE purpose of putting in one of his syn
dscstes. Other suits for embezzlement
are contemplated by some OF his many
victims.
IN GENERAL.

l
The first sunstroke OF the season is re-
ported from New York, the victim being
Solomon Good, 35 years Of age.
Amos R. Euo hss mort2agsd the Fifth
Avenue Hotel property in New York to
the Mutual Lite Insurance Company for
81, $50, 900.
The Secretary Of the Treasury Thurs
day issued the 128th call for the rsdsmp-
tion Of bonds. 1t is for $40, 900, 900 of
| three per cents maturing Jupe Both.
T. J. Hines OF Atlanta committed
| suioide by cutting his throat with a
at Columbus, Georgia, Thursday morning
| He WAS insApe.
Joseph Zwang, assistant engineer of the
water works at Cumberland, Maryland,
disappeared on the 20ih Inst, and his
body WAS found in the canal near that
place Sunday afternoon.
The schooner Angie R. Bacou, from the
Kepnebeo, with ice for Philsdelphis,
grounded in Portland harbor Sunday
evening. stove hole in her bottom and
filled. Her cargo is total loss.
Buford L. Dean shot and killed his
brother Daniel at Savannah, on Wednes-
day night week, for bstrayiug hia
daughter. A o0Ioner's jnry Thursday
George II Lewis, q broker of Washing
ton, who has been speoulating largely in
petroleum, disappeared on Monday week.
1t is said large number OF government
clerks were among his customers, and
that he has more than $100, 900 of his
customers money.
Sabato Alexander, the murderer, whose
death sentence the Pennsylvanis state
board of pardons refused on Tuesday to
commute, committed suicide in the jail at
Exston yesterday afternoon. He hanged
himself to the cell door with strip of
carpet.
Several officers overlook gang of horse
thieves and whisky peddlers in the
Indian Territory few days ago, and in
attempting to arrest them one of the
thieves was killed, another mortally. and
| third slightly wounded. Two Of the
officers were slightly wounded.
Heavy rains have again set in at Gal
| weston, San Antonio, Austin, Beaumont,
Huntsville and other points In Texas, en-
braoing not only the recent storm belt, but
an area 100 miles to the northward. Rail.
road travel is impsded, and no mails have
Reached Galveston for four days.
The corner stone of the new Roman
Catholic Chapel OF St. Charles Borromeo,
| in the northwestern section of Baltimore,
was laid Sunday, Bishop Gross OF
Savannah officiating and presohing the
sermon. The site of the chapel is said to
| bs the higheet within the city limits.
The total number of immigrants who
arrived in the United States during April
was 66, 800, against S,475 during April,
| 1888. The total arrivals OF immigr ants
during the 10 months which ended on
| April Both last, numbered 37l, ,625,
| against AIT $3.50 during the corresponding
period of the previous year.
| The body OF George Mstoalfe was taken
to Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, on
Tuesday week, from point S5 miles to
the north. While at dinner Metoslfe
quarreled with William Maloney, when
the latter shot him dead. Maloney was
arrested, and on his way to jail was cap
tured and lynohed by mob.
Ferdinand Ward, Of the collapsed arm
OF Grant & Ward, New York, was
arrested yesterday week. The arrest was
made by the sheriff on the complaint Of
City Chamberlain ]. Nelson Tappan.
The charge made ia fraud. The bail was
fixed at 100000. Ward was not taken
to jail, bat is in the custody of deputy
sheriff at the Metropolitan Hotel.
Two Arabian tramps vera stopping by
the roadside near the village of Shreve,
L IL 10, had
other stabbed him fatally, took the money
and fled. the wounded man crawled tt
farmers house. Unable to talk Eug-
lish, Le indicated by gestures the di.ec
tion his assailant had fled. Pursuit was
made and the murderer WAS captured
He vas identified by the dying man aud
the money was found.
la St. Louis, early Sunday morning
the wits of Alexander Ednont rose :roa
her bod and out the throats of her three
months old baby and her and her
year old daughtsrs. The latter p0
being fatally wounded screamed ont and
woke the father, whereupon the wife
geut Into her own rom, lay down by
her dead children and cut her owl
throat. She Is Low at the h, spitai in
critical condition. She is insane.
The northwestern storage warehouse o
Hiram Sibley & Co., in Chicago, dealer
in field and garden seeds, was burne,
Sunday Afternoon The firm lose
$25. 900 on the building and $50, 900 OF
the stock. The insurance is $55, 800. U
f. Gibbs & Son, seeds, who occupied
portion OF the building, lose $l2, 500; full,
insured. There were stored in the build
ing copsignments OF teas, coffee, sugar
60, the property OF dozen firms, Whoa
aggregate loss is $37 800.
| George Adams, colorsd, who wa
severely beaten 10 difficulty with fou
! white men in D4uville, Virginia, o.
Monday week, ia now in fair way 10 re
, cover, though not out of danger. Gov
! Cameron has refused the request Of Mayo
| Johnston for troops to preserve the peact
he having come to the conclusion tia
I | there WAS no need for interference on hi
a part. A line OF pastebosId soldiers an
musibians has been put in Main street,
. | rdioule of the mayors call for troops
An Associated Press dispatch frol
: Erls, Pennsylvania, received early Mcnda
l morning, says: Adam Brabender, pref
q ident Of the defunot Erie county saving
] bank, has returned to Erie. He admit
. that he and Cashier Petit lost $lO0,O OO
Q iu grain and oil sEeculations. Brabar
i der also admits that he took money b,
. longing to the bank, paid it to friend
i and lett, and exonerates the cashier. u
ia now in jsil. The feeling against Br,
bsnder ia very strong, as the paper in th
n bank has proved worthless. Brabendt
e has made an assignment Of his property
!. valued at 800, 900, to his creditors; BIT
e this amount will not cover his indebted
y ness, and the stockholders will prcbabl
e lose from 5000, 900 to $3.50, 900.
II A dispatch from Key West, Floridi
4 FAYE the owner of the schooner Winifret
n formerly reported missing, has returne
v with her from Nassau. He says f'
n Cubans went to Nassau with him in IL
Ia schooner Rosslis, and that arms and an
munition, with their etfecls, were selzs
d by the British government. he thlni
that Castro aud about 10 other CnbaI
"a have rendezvous on Andres Island, OF
"a of the Bahamas, and are waiting fol
" opportunity to CROSS to Cuba, they beiI
n watched by the British authorities. 1
ia also reports that dynamite and other o.
i. plosivss have been brought 10 Nassau |
"a persons hostile to the government TN
n threats against the Life OF the govern'
t. have been made, and that two memo
war have been called for.
's In Netkinsville, Mineral county, We
OF Virginia, little struggling village M
Tn hid in the leafy mountains, three live