Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-05-21
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
A VERY SEVERE STORM IN
SOUTHERN KdNSAs.
A Policeman Drops Dead While
Taking "a Drunken Man 10 the
Lockup-BuffaIO Bill Draws nn
Immense Crowd.


Immense Crowd.
Jennie Yarnell, aged 10 years, shot her
self dead in Shenandoah, Pa., Sunday,
because her father had been drinking
heavily.
The sum paid for the 65 acres of land
for the new Catholic University, near the
Soldiers Home, District of Columbia, was
1928, 500.
Joshua Gray, Justice of the peace of
Phillipsburg, N. j., was arrested on
Saturday evening on the charge of steal
ing chicken.
Mrs. Ira Hodgdon, aged IA years, died
Sunday in Bath, Maine, from the effects
of shot wound inflicted by her drunken
son on the 9th instant.
Most of the business portion of the
town of Darlington, Ind, was burned
Thursday morning. Loss, $25, 900. The
fire was started by burglar.
The treasury department decides that
wedgewood vases, containing sauces, &C.,
are unusual coverings, and are liable TO O
separate duty from the contents. ,----,
Emil Dorner, convicted of having
voted OF the last local election in Pitts
burg, although an alien, was sentenced
on Saturday to two years. Imprisonment
in the penitentiary.
The american Rural Home of Roches-
ter, New York, says that special informa-
ton from all over tue country indicates
that winter wheat will be 81 per cent of q
full crop, as against 81 per cent last year.
The British steamer Cilurnum, from
Hamburg, arrived at Baltimore Thursday
with bows badly stove and forward COM
partments filled with water, having been
in collision May 9Th, in latitude 45, longi-
tude 43, with an iceberg.
A game of base ball was played
terday at Cleveland, Ohio, and at the
close Messrs. Sweeney and Summers, of
the Cleveland club, and Day, of the
Omaha, were arrested for ball playing on
Sunday. A test case is to be made.
One of the severest storms ever known
in southern Kansas visited that region
last Friday, flooding the Elk and Verdi
girls rivers and their tributaries A num-
Der of cattle and six persons were drowned
in Gard creek, near Independence.
Frank Rotunno and Tony Mascarillo
were arrested in Chicago on Tuesday
week for swindling $50 Italian hborers
out of $3.50 each on apretence of obtain
ing work for them in Indiana. The
laborers assembled at the depot, but could
not obtain transportation.
Eight persons, consisting of family
named Turah and two men named Linte
and Brouthur, were poisoned by eating
trichinous pork near Mason, Mich, n
short time ago. Since then one OF the
Turahs has died, and the rest of the sick
people are not expected to recover.
The will of Jane Holmes, a wealthy
maiden lady Of Pittsburg, who died
recently, Mt the age of 81 years, was filed
for probate Thursday. The estate is
valued ut 81 ,000, 900, and she distributes
fully $700,000 among local Protestant
charitable and benevolent institutions.
Eugene Walton, collection clerk of the
First National Bank of New York, was
arrested Thursday on the charge of hay
ing made false entry of $1,000 ON the
I'd of April last TO recover deficit. His
bail was fixed ut $4,000. His total de-
falcation is estimated by the bank officials
ut $4,000.
Charles Huber, recently arrested at
Birmingham, Conn, as q tramp,turns out
to be John S. Palmer, q bank forgor. He
has been taken to Boston to answer u
charge of forgery on the Continental
National Bank. He has swindled nearly
every post Office in Connecticut and
several firms in the Naugatuck valley.
Rodolpho Rodriguez, 10 years of nge,a
cornet player of the Mexican Band ut the
New Orleans exposition, was shot and
mortally wounded on Saturday afternoon,
by John @. Golding, an exposition gate
keeper. The shooting grew out of nm
affair between Rodriguez and n l7-year-
old daughter of Golding
buffalo Bills Wild West Show
opened in the Driving Park, at Chicago,
Sunday afternoon, to an audience of
SO, 900 persons. A stampede from the
grand stand was caused during the per-
formance by some boys shouting fire"
but Buffalo Bill coolly resumed his
shooting and the panic was allayed.
Baker Brothers, glnss manufacturers oi
Baltimore, have offered 81 900 reward fof
the arrest and conviction of the scoun.
drel who made two attempts to blow uI
houses in which resided non-nnion EN-
ployes of the firm. The second of these
attempts was made Tuesday night week NJ
the house of the foreman Senrs; the
other about month ago on house IL
which several apprentices boarded.
A telegram from Medora, Dakota, says
that $50 cattle belonging to an Arkansan
have been quarantined Mt Sentinel Butte
near the Montana line. The cattle have
been loose and scattered. The reason fol
the quarantine is that they may possibly
be infected with pleuro-pneumonia The
cattle are apparently healthy, but ar'
very poor. The owner declares that The
quarantine is unwarranted.
Julia Kramer, aged 18 years, was sho
twice and mortally wounded, at Locus
Gap, Pa, Sunday morning, by Pete
Knolbauch, a rejected lover. She WA
talking to w. Newman, an accepted
suitor, ut the time, and Knolbauch free
at Newman ALSO but missed him. Th
murderer was arrested, and an attemp
was made to lynch him, hut officers lodge'
him in Jail.
s. f. Shelton, clerk of the courts o
Sharkey county, Miss, and William X
McLauren, prominent lawyer of tina
county, fought duel on Saturday morn
ing. using shot-guns, and Shelton wa
killed. There were no seconds, and a
Shelton is not known to have discharge
his weapon, the nffnir is apparently
murder. The trouble grew ont of All oil
feud.
The annual meeting Of the America
Tract Society was held last week in Ne
York. Reports were read showing that u
whole number Of volumes published b
the society during the last year WI
213,115; of tracts, card packages an
wall rolls, &C., 1868, ,S0I, making tot
of 60, ,S62, ,g04 pages. Donations of legaci'
received, Sg7,019; from other source
enough was received to swell the amour
TO 1857 ,2O5. The total expenditures Il
the wear were 1852. 14l, leaving balan'
in the treasury of $5,063.
The church organ in Salt lake City
Thursday's issue bewnils the hardne
of benrt of President Cleveland in N
promising to stop the enforcement of Il
law and send n commission of inyestig
tion. It urges continued appeals TO u
authorities Of the milton against the o
nrpssion of tyrlnts, and closes by sayin
,.Sbould n deaf enr be turned by them
the entrcaties of an innocent, maltreat'
people, the Lord of Hosts will listen
The cry of the oppressed and make m ~
iustment that will mako the ears
millions tingle."
The Somerset chemical works, ol
mile from the town of Somerset, P'
comprising nine buil'lin"s, were utter
demolished at $50 o'clock p. II. Thurs
by the explosion of nitro-glycerine. IA
dynamite. There were 800 pounds
nitro -olycerine and 5000 pounds of dyi
mite Ia the different buildings. w.
Beach of New York, one of the propr
tors of the works, was blown to atom
but this was the only life lost, none
the l2 or 15 men usually employed bel