Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-07-09

avenue drygoods merchant, was killed
through O druggists mistake. The boy
was suffering with diphtheria, and the
prescription was taken to leading drug
gist who put up stronger dose Of the
medicine than the prescription called for,
The mother of the boy and the druggist
nre nearly insane with grief.
The chief of police of st. Louis Sun
day morning received cablegram from
Auckland, New Zealand, announcing the
arrival there of the police messenger sent
out month ago and the acknowledgment
of the requisition for w. H. Lennox
Maxwell, who murdered g. Arthur
Preller at the Southern Hotel there on
April 9th and fled to New Zealand. The
officers will return with Maxwell by the
steamer which sails on the 2lst inst.
The Halifax chamber of commerce on
Thursday passed resolutions protesting
against the action of the Dominion gov
ernment in permitting American fisher
men to use the Canadian waters after
July LIST, and recommending the payment
of bounty on all fish shipped to the
United States, which have been caught in
the waters of the Dominion by Canadian
fishermen, equal 10 the duty imposed in
the United States ON Canadian fish.
Another heavy rain fell during Saturday
night and Sunday throughout eastern
Kansas and western Missouri. Sunday
was the sixth day of almost continuous
cold rain at Paola, Kansas. II is esti-
mated that in Kansas alone 1,000,000
bushels of wheat in stacks have been
ruined, besides that damaged in the fields.
Corn is probably little injured, but it is
about 20 days backward, compared with
the latest season for 20 years.
Complaints have been received at the
interior department that the cattle men,
who hold leases of lands in the Cherokee
strip, Indian Territory, forcibly obstruct
and prevent the passage of cattle from
Texas to the northwest through the strips.
The Secretary of the Interior announces
that the established cattle trails through
that country are free to drovers, and that
the right of passage will be maintained
by oil the power of the United States
government.
At Gettysburg, Thursday, the men,
bers of the Ninety-eighth Pennsylvania
Volunteers and their friends dedicated
monument of Quincy granite in Che rear
of "Wheatfeld." Mr.. Godfrey Keebler
of Philadelphia, delivered the address,
and remarks were also made by Captain
j. A. Smith of Philadelphia, and d. A.
Buehler of Gettysburg. To-day monu-
ments will be dedicated by the Twenty
ninth Pennsylvania and the Twentieth
Connecticut Volunteers
In the United States district court at
New York Thursday Judge Brown rem
dered decision in the case of the brig
Ambrose Light, captured by the United
States steamer Alliance in Central Ameri-
can waters several months ago. Judge
Brown holds that the United States vessel
was justified in capturing the brig, but as
the belligerence of both the combatants in
the United States of Columbia was recog-
nized by this country, the vessel Ind a
right to carry arms. II was ordered that
the brig should be returned to her owners
upon payment of costs.
In Boston, on Friday, Judge Aldrich,
in the superior court, rendered decision
in the case of the Rev. w. Il. Davis, who
was arrested for preaching ON the COM
mon. The Judge ordered verdict of
guilty on the ground that the question
was one of law entirely. He said the
question has nothing to do with the right
of free speech or of preaching the gospel.
He could not doubt that the city had n
perfect right 10 make such provision for
the preservation of the common as it
might deem necessary. The provision
was not made to prevent freedom of
speech or public worship, but TO preserve
order upon the common Mr.. Davis has
appealed,