Delaware gazette and state journal., 1884-02-28
IN GENERAL.

better than at present.
The horses attached to coach in
funeral procession In Newark, N. j., ran
away Friday afternoon, and an un-
known man was killed in attempting to
stop them.
Benjamin McElrey and Pipton Young,
both oolored, were lynched in Lebanon,
Kentucky, Wednesday night week. They
were accused Of an assault upon a
woman.
0oe hundred pounds of dynamite ex
ploded seven miles from Omaha on Thurs
day, killing Thomas Burns, plowing great
gaps in the earth, and causing a shock
which was felt throus shout Omaha
The body of Salmi Morse, author OF the
"Psssion Play" WAS found Friday in
the Hudson river at the foot of Eighty.
eighth street, New York, under circum-
stances which indicate that he committed
suicide.
John Heith was sentenced al Tomb.
stone, Arizona, on Thursday, to i'm.
prisonment for life for complioity in the
Brisbee murders. Yesterday morning ha
WAS taken from the Jail by 100 men aud
lynoheo.
A special dispatch from Lsrsnge, Tex,
says Emma Mccoy, oolOred, yesterday
week gave poisoned biscuit to a woman
whom, it WAS alleged, her husband was
intimate with. The latter divided the
gift between two children, one of whom
died.
he naval photographic office has re-
oeived reports indicating that the ice is
coming down from the Arctic seas much
earlier this season than "a usual. This s
considered favorable for the Greedy relief
exped tiou, as indica ing an unusually
open Polar sea.
William X, Hull, a fireman on the
Baltimore Il Potomac rsiirOsd, jumped
from his enk inc, ON Saturday night, to
escape the soalding steam from a pipe
which had burst II Tell on his head
fractured bis skull, and died at the city
hospital Sunday.
a dispatch from uniontown, Pa, ssys
the people living in the mountainous
regions OF Fayette county have long been
terrorz zed by a band OF highway robbers,
who made their headquarters in the
mountains. Yesterday week the rob
bers we're surrounded while attempting 10
rob house, aud in the fight which
ensued Sheridan Monteith, one OF the
band, was fatally shot. The others
escaped.
The Rev. NJ. r. Seares was accidentally
killed Thursday afternoon ny q freight
train on the South Carolina railroad be-
tween Augusta and Charleston. His body
was horribly mangled. Mr.. Sesrcs was
one OF the most distinguished members
of the Baptist denomination in the
Southern States. He was for some years
Jewish rabbi and then embraced the
Christian religion and became powerful
preacher. He wrote several notable
works touching religion.
Blanche Slade was found Thursday in
her room in Reading in an insenHible con-
dttion, suffering fiom an overdose OF NOR
| phiDe. She was resuscitated, when ii
| was learned that she took the drug to re-
| lievs her Of pain and also for the cure Of
extreme nervousness. II is said that her
nerves were badly affected by her extra
ordinary uss Of cigarettes, The physician
emphatically iafprmed her il she con
tiuued to smoke it would kill her. 1t ia
said she consumed three packages OF
cigarettes a day.
The contest o! the will of Sarah Burr,
in New York, which beqnesthed her
whole sstate, valued at 50 000, ,00O foi
char table purposes, was decided last week
by Surrogate Rollins against the con
testsnts. Her relatives claimed toat ali,
was insane but the surrogate held thai
the will Expresses the free, unrestraineC
and deliberate purposes of the decadeut
that abe wAs Of sound mind and memory
when she signed 1t, and that it is entitled
| f,.. |v,,. Il 20 ,LaN
, ws7 made in 1866, aud the decedent dice
in 1882
The observance of Washington's birth
/ day was general throughout the Unite,
3 States. Iu Washington there WAS th
y usual celebration, including a militsr
parade. In Baltimore, the colored mill
tary, including the Gray lnvincibles ,
i Philadelphia, psrsded, and the eight
. anniversary Of the Johns Hopkins Uni
a vsTsity was celebrated lu Frederick
Md, there WAS a carnival and trades dis
play. At Hagerst0wu there was a
n industrial parade, balloon ascensio
aud g torehlight procession, which il
cludei Rex" and the ire department
= la AlexaLilIs, Va, ths local nilitar
II and fire companies turned ou and III
. George Washington Club Of Philsdelphi
y participated
), = 7 annual meeting OF the WashngtC
"a Monument Society was held Friday
. the sldeuce uf General W Mckee Dun
In Washington. committee Of five VI
d, appointed to provide for a pr9oeF Gel
erston of the completion Of the moat
y msut, which ia eNpee!ei to take ple
u esfly in December Of tLs present yea
" 1t has nov attained height of 4l0 Tee
=, aud there ia on hand sufficient smou
Of money (ahOut Sij0 COO to compile
d, the marble ob-lisk 20 it's apex, which,
'f the total height ut 555 fact above the ba
line, will Gvettop all other structures
~ the world. The aggregate amount OF Il
at varions Congr+ssioua appropriations t
" this work ia 490O GOO sud abb 5000, o.
le has been contributed by private c,tiz i.
~ aut IoGat organiz itioas tbrou ghout Il
"a. country.
A peculiar case Las been decided in 1
" Toledo, ONO, common pleas court, iuvol
ipg the validity Of slsve marriages
~ c0lnrpi man named Anderson wns ms
p ried there il 1883 ard was thereup
- arrested for bigsmy, It b-ing chang
2, thai he was married while slave t,
;, 9lavs woman in Bedford county, V,rRiui
] OF the slay. marriage The Judge
in strnctrd the jncy thst slavos, bel
Of property, coul not make legal ca
Ia, tract, Int that the courts had decided y
2 alsv- marriage b oame valid by cohs
teiion rs man aud wifi, after the emsu
patiou proclamation weut into eff .ct
1864 The case Thus urned on the an,
tion of fact whether the pair had 50
", habitrd or not, ss shown by the evi1eu
The iurv rendered verdict of 70, guilt
he Union Hotel block in .Iacks,
Mich, was destroyed by fire Suud
morning. Besides the Uniou Hn,-i, I
l. block contained the Uaion Hall Thps,
A. he JaokaoU Savings Bank, Waldran
M Curtis' drug store, G. NJ Eliott's Rroc.
60 aud N. Il. Esklet's saloon. Five fra
pr buildings were also burned The to
nd loss is estimated at $I75 900 It is
tar ported that several lives were lost, |
ed only one body, that Of Charles Cornell
ig crippled soldier, had hsen recovered
nv last accounts. Four persons were NJ
ON tally ipjured-John Prior and NJ
- Banks, walters; au unknown Colo
man, and lanes Hernra OF Clevelsl
oAi", who struck lot of telegraph wi
in jumping from a third story windt
aud was whiried around hesdfOremos
the pavement Charles Kimhall Of Ia
mszoo, received severe but not ia
scalp wound by jumping from the
cony in front Of the hotel.
AT the investigation OF the City
Columbus disaster, New York, Thursd
ing Captain Maynard Psarce, Of the stel