Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1884-04-24
IN GENERAL.

The Secretary OF the Navy Thursday
issued proclamation Offering reward
of $26, 900 for the discovery or rescue Of
the Greedy party in the Arctic regions.
A freight train and shifting train on
the Pennsylvania railroad oollidsd at
Lancaster on Saturday. Ten cars and
Broomall, engineer, and Henry NJ. Hap.
pie, hremen, were injured.
Three hundred feet of snow sheds on
the Central Pacific railroad, near summit,
tell on working train and a plumber OF
Chinese laborers on Saturday. Six
Cinnamon have been taken out dead and
five others dangerously injured.
A circular sent from St. Louis short
time ago ''oalling q convention of the
officers of the expositions In the different
parts of the country" to meet in that city
on the Both OF June, has already been
accepted by majority OF the exposition
associations.
James Richie, aged 90 years, harm
less lunatic, who was herding COWS on
Wards Island, N. Y, WAS murdered on
Saturday by some thieves who landed on
the island from boat. The murderers
John Reilly, aged Is, and Thomas
Brown-were captured.
Contracts for furnishing stationery to
the treasury department for the next
fiscal year have been awarded to J. R.
Michael & Roland A. Robbins OF New
York, h ID. Lock wood Il Jones Langfeld
OF Philadelphia, C. W. Thorn x Co., J.
D. Free, Jr., j. L. Savage and William
Ballentine OF Washington.
AT special meeting OF tine Washing
| ton monument commission, held last
week, it was decided to notify Congress of
the anticipated completion of the mouu-
ment by the LIST November next, or
esrly in the summer Of 1885 at the
farthest, and to recommend that prompt
action be taken looking to fitting oele-
btstion of the event.
| A Long Island railroad train Monday
rsn Into buggy at o street crossing in
Williamsburg, killing DR.. Il. Nj. Fitz-
gerald, we'll known veterinary surgeon,
aud Frank Lyons, proprietor of the Green
point and New York express. There are
gates at the crossing, but the estemsn
did not lower them. He says his time
was up for the day.
1t is reported from Mount Stirling,
Kentucky, that J J. Cornelson, who re-
Gently horsewhipped Judge Reid, has
published a statement declaring that the
chsstisement was not for decision
rendered by the judge, but was fol
wrongs alleged to have been done him
by Reid before he went on the bench and
continued afterward down to very
recent date,
An empty sail-boa was found on Friday
last, floating bottom up near the entrance
OF New York bay. 1t was identified OF
, Saturday as boat in which Samue
. Hopkina, his son Stoddard, and younf
man named Samuel Wsat, OF German
town, a., started on Thursdsy for sal
,, through the Nsrrows aud lower DAY
, Nothing has been heard of the missing
i men, hut there is q faint hope thst they
I may have been picked up by an outward
bound coaster.
, The National Flint and Lime Glass
/ Association, in session at Pittsburg, yes
4 tsriay considered the advisability Of
1 establishing q pool for the disposition o.
I the product of the table ware factories Of
| Pittsburg, Wheeling.and vicinity. The de
I tails OF tue Ian are not marked out, but
will result in the practical consolidation
. OF the factories included in the pools into
' one gigantic concern, to be managed by 8
> commissioner, with power to regulate the
, production and prices, aud to settle al
wages disputes
terrible murder was committed Wed
> nesday morning week near Vernon, Miss
lssao johnson, a married man, became
enrsged al Isabella Booker because she
| eno h,taf 10 ha Il Inl .,
, sae her, and told her that before she
should marry suy man he or she should
die. Then drawing a kni the woman
rau, pursued by Johnson, who plunged
q the hniie $3.50 her bach, AID ssizing her
= he emit her throat, killing her almos
= immediately. The murderer He'd, and
t wss puysusc to the house i'll which he
expected to find secure refuge Al nigh
I This was surrounded by posse OF oi.i
' zans, and ths sheriff h.s gone To tt,
s scene 20 effect the arrest OF Johnson, II Il,
u has not been lyuohed. .-55.
telegram from Boston says that II
O'Clock Wednesday night week, two .nei
. in a liRhtopru buggy drove on Crsigie
2 bridge ircm the Braton end and wh4i
abaut in tue middle OF the bridge cine q
the nen left the buggy and plaosd some
:, thing on the horse-uar track, and re
d entering the buggy drove rapidly ava,
= toward Cambridge. loud explosion
followed q few moments later which sen
column Of smoks high into the air
An investigation showed shat an tx
a pO-ive had been placed in 10 pou
n powder can and fred by a decorating ca
+. aud fuse. Horse cars were approachin
q from either direction, hut were too is
: away 10 feel the effect of the explosion
1t is thought that the attempt wa
j. directed against one of the many hers
;. cars which pass this point 1T this hour.