Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1884-10-23
IN q ENERAL.

legislature OF Vermont provifinR for the |
execution Of murderers BY electricity.
A l0.year old son Of George Rlx was
Friday out TO pieces BY falling into . |
| threshine machine on his fathers farm,
near Bass Lake, ontsrio.
A Ere at Carthage, N. Y, yesterday, |
destroyed 400 buildings, ipoluding mum
Der Of factories and mills, hotel, three
churches, the opera home, and many
dwellings. The loss 10 estimated ut
81, 100000.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has In
struoted the customs officers TO consider
the question whether old bagging comes
within the meaning OF tie order prohibit.
ing the importation Il rags, and report
their conclusions.
Archibald Stewart, hotel keeper Of
Portet's Lake, Novia Scotia, hes died
from eating wild pareDipe, which he took
for tarsaparilla. A Toy named Murphy,
who also ate some OF the poiaupous
vegetables, ia in critical condition.
Willie Webster, a 15.yeAr old boot.
black, was arrested In St. Louis on Satur-
| day morning. lie said he was one Of the
ak boys WHO lighted the hre which re
su ted II the great lumber yard oopnA
grafton in Cleveland on September IA.
The boiler Of . thrsshing msohine, on
the Lseoh h Nichols farm, at Beltrsmle,
Minnesota, burst Tuesday, killing the
engineer, Jour farm hands and q boy, and
badly soAlding another man. The enRi
neer, 1t is saio, was just recovering from
q spree.
John Fitzgerald, charged with horse
Il I'D Nn
Jail At Greensburg,, Pa, Monday morn
log, by letting himself down from the
window with q rope. The rope broke
and Fitzgerald fell to the ground, 4S feet
below, receiving fatal injuries.
The King Of Siam, In appreciation Of
the friendship existing between Siam and
the United States, and OF Minister
Halderman's faithful enforcement Of
treaty obligations" has presented to tue
American government buildings and
grounds. at Bangkok, "all complete"
for the United States legation.
In Joly last W. B. Chew, one OF the
Oldest aud best known oonduo ors on the
Baltimore Il Ohio railr ad, was arrested
on the charge Of embezzling SIS 95, which
ha had received for fares from passengers.
His trial In the criminal court at Balti,
more resulted yesterday week 10 W rdi0t
Of not guilty. The jury was out oily IL
minutes.
The grand Jury Of Monmouth county,
New Jersey, was discharged Tuesday.
It found ia bills. Among them were 20
indictments against Frank Patterson, the
Asbury Park Opera House manager,
recently arrested as . forger. Bforts to
secure indictments against the proprIe.
tors Of summer hotels at Long Branch for
selling liquor on Sunday failed.
A telegram from Mobile says tbs drouth
10 thst section OF ths south has now
lasted IL weeks, and there are no indioa-
tiors OF Change. The springs ard wells
srs dli@d MP and the riv,rs shrinking In
Volume The cotton crop was burnt out
more than three weeks ago, Gnd very
little top crop can be made. The turnip
crop Ia complete failure.
A teleE ram from chicago says econ.
Ger ning tbs puroba'e Of the Bed Star Line
, of the American Steamship Conn an7 "a
y steamers, and the proposed development,
OF q Philadelphia and Liverpool service
) already announced, officers Of the com.
pauy here say that 1t Ia also the Inten.
|, tion to organize q branch Of the new
Z American line, to run between New York
= and Liverpool
D The dead b ,dy Of Mrs Annie Madison
was fund Friday on tbs fl ,or Of he,
house in Co7ington, K -utucky. She had
been strangled and her throat was cat
Har husba'.d, who worked ia Cincinnati
/, Hss ;elsgraphed for AID arrested on hit
appearances. He dsnied all knowledge O
j. the crime, and his little son says tn,
!, muI deTrr was all old msu with gray
u whtskers. Madison is young and hal
: Only slight moustsohe.
A farmer OF 81. Jacobip, Quebec
day lef' his four children in the hons
while he waut to he field Duriue his
absence, the eldest boy, IL yeare Of age
t placed TASK containing p9wder on the
g stova sud then poured quantity OF tn,
II explosive in the stove. The stove wsi
!, blown into Thousand fragments and tn,
It house was set on IRE Three OF the chill
II dren were resoued in a dyiog condition
Q The fourth was also rescued aud will pro
n badly recover.
9 Tha corJner's jury ia tie case O.
e Mitchell, alias Sootty, the lynehed muir
! derer OF Frank Burton, at Lacrosse, Wis
y oonsin, Friday rendered verdict ktha
!, the deceased was the man who murdered
NJ. BnFton, and he came to hia death by
. hanging at the hands Of parties to th,
. jury unknown. II Is believed tina,
sutobell, who ia generally believed Il
= have beeu insane, and who at one timt
was an Inmate Of an asylum, Intended Il
u kill two other men besides Burton.
q The director Of the mint bas prepared 4
y statement in regard 10 thu present
: money circulation IN 80 Of the principaI
n Countries OF the world compared with .te
IA circulation as reported a year ago, which
q SHOVE decrease In the gold circul Stiou
"a 81 about $52 600, 900, All increase Ia this
silver circulation Of $d2, 00O, 600. and AZ
lncreasu 10 paper circulation Of &II2.
UUuiOuO He attributss the lcss Ia gold
D circuiatioa to reduced production, and
B. u tbe Increased uss OF that metal In
l. characterization and the arts.
y 10 The court house q, Lonisv;lla
% Kentucky, ON Saturday, morning, OK
~ Uhiet Justice Hurgis sud Colouel Bennett,
II fou' q, well known lawyer. and
= president OF the Southern Exposition. %,
y up disgraceful scene. While aruuiuo
an itJunotion case, uur0is made a rematj j,
rensotlug upon Young ths latter called
: the ex-J judge an infamous liar, f." aud tn.
! ex judge retaliRt'd by hurting two law
oopks ~ Young The antagonist, tbsn
L resortsd 10 their fists, but vers ssparat. I'd
!, by friends.
4 The long drouth that prevailed in
n September existed In all sections of N !
!, country east Of the Mississippi valley
and in Texas. During he present month
general Tains have FALLEN in Tennessee
,he Ohio valley and lake region, hat th,
4 drought mas continued in tha mid he
10 Atlantic, sonth Atlantic aud gulf states
L The icss and suffJrilg 60 s.ausut noon
e the long absence Of rain bav- b,en severe
h In many sections. The woolsp mills AZ
!. South Berwick, N. u have shut down
} from lack of water.
e The failure Of A W. Bowm N. oapitsl.
! ISL and real estate broker Of Sau Fran
= CISCO, 10 more serious than was at frat
q suppoaed. Tbs moneys placed In his
hhnds for investment are estimated IN
amount to $500 900. II Is said that one
o. the heaviest losers will be Mira Harry
Bowls, who is now in Europe, aud q,
those affairs Bawmsn had absolute con
J vol. Henry L. Breed of Boston. had
: S25O, 900 entrusted to Bowman, bnt the
amount Of his loss Is not knoyn, The
. bank Of California viii, it is said, lose
$40, 600 Bowman, who ia siok In bad
: has bssn plsesd under arrest.
! 10 lacrosse, Wis. ,at O'Clock Thursdav
. evening, F. A. Burton, president Of tie
o Blaine and Logan Club, was shot dead bv
p | q man known as tScottv whila The p