Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1885-09-25
NEWS OF THE DAY


GENERAL ITEMS.
-Four cars were drawn by electricity on
The New York Elevated railway, Friday after
noon.
"A short time ago Nicholas snowden
worthless negro, brutally assaulted Alyins
Fisher, little girl Of his own color. smai
party Of masked men, all col0red, took sum
maiy vengeance upon ShOwden on Friday bl
dragging him from the Jail at Ellieott CITY
Howard county, Nd, and hanging him to
tree.
Mrs. Wilson, Of Montreal, Canada. ri I
to kill her husband by putting ground glass in
his food. The guilty aud inhuman wife, hear
ing that her murderOus plans had been dis
covered and that her husband know ALL hur-
riedly left the city, thereby avoiding prosecu-
ton She is now in Boston, stopping under
an assumed name at one Of the principal
hotels.
Patrick Collins, John Butler and VIM. Nc
Grotty were killed while at work on the new
aqueduct in New York.
Official returns at the Health Office in
Montreal Can, on Friday, show that twenty
nine deaths from smallpox occurred in one
day. There are ZONE hundred cases of small
pox in st. Cunegonde and several in Griffin
Two men lost their lives through the cap
sizing Of yacht on Lake St. Francis, Ont.
John Stanis fatally injured by falling
to the bottom of Black Rock Mine, near Butte,
MT.
-Louis Riel. the leader in the late North
western rising, has been formally notified Of
his respite to the 10th of October next.
The Price Curen. says its reports in
dictate that the present corn crop Of the coun-
t~v will aggregate 1890, 600, 900 bushels, an in
cIsase Of l95,O00,tO0 bushels, or nearly II per
cent. over last year. From the 18th to the
1ith inst, the date Of most Of the returns,
about three-fOurths Of the crop in twelve
Western States, which produce n per cent. Of
the entire crop, was out Of danger from frost.
Ten to fifteen days more will render the re-
mi anrff ufa for ant u~sf1
the present favorable weather, the danger
line will be crossed.
"A fugitive balloon decended on a church
in Monmouth, H. demolishiDg the chimneys
The @ronaut, Prof. Williams, is missing.
The wrecking schooners Edwin Post and
Rapidan we're struck by a Perth AmbOy tow,
and the former was overturned and swamped,
the captain and cook being imprisoned in the
cabin.
Red Eagle, The Hole, Poor Grow, Red
Bean and Left Hand have been found guilty
of treason-felony for their participation in the /
battles of Duck Lake and Ba.Oche.
Three men were killed in Wake-up jim
p, Shaft near Butte, NJ. T., by the falling Of a |
j. bucket
q O A cowboy, one Of party of three Who at
Q tackled and fired upon a sta e coach, was slot /
Onsnd killed by passenger.
n o-In Wyoming Territory the Knights of
q 2bor have taken decided stand against the
Jahaaipese, and their ultimate expulsion from
he Territory is regarded as probable.
AT Celina, Ohio, four young men, sons Of
eY teading citizens there, have been placed under
,onds, charged with burglaries committed in
3 ohat town.
20 "A passenger train on the Kentucky Central
n cad plunged down an embankment near Ham
Malt0n Station, Ky. The engineer and fireman
erasere killed, and number Of passengers seri-
'usly injured.
we -Riel, the Canadian rebel, has been re-
1Uulited, and his case will be considered by the
nglish Privy Council. It is believed that
s sie will not be executed.
.we1 Striking iron workers at Cleveland, Ohio,
Htacked a foreman on the street. when the
a otter drew his revolver and shot at his assail-
90 'nts, wOunding two Of them.
- In Chinatown, San Francisco, Cinnamon
IN ire discovered boiling down the remains of
tHheir countrymen in order 10 send their bones
hw Nme.
Press reports from the corn belt of the
) n aast are very favorable. Little damage has
!. zen caused by FROST the weather is propitiOus
4 most sections report that all fear of the
e. bapst is past. The crop will be very large.
is n "A drunken mother in Toronto, Canada, :
e the throats Of her three little children. !
~ Cl-Henry Arthur & Co., dealers in leather L
ms findings, New York, have failed, with v
u olltles OF 100000 and actual assets Of t
eli u1eOJ The nominal assets are 100000. il
2 @ AT colliery near Shenandoah, Pa, two L
i oOners were instantly killed, through being /
the over by loaded cars, which had become I'M
j nageable.
nles Mrs. Barbara Reutlinger and her six
? irmlths' babe plunged through an air shaft in .
e Eighty-tirst street, New York, while es- a
M thing from fire, and both mother and child u
. killed. &
re- Rev I. De Witt Talmage arrived home on
pluAurania. h
~ of Santos, released from prison in Ecuador
~ Q instance Of the United States Govern NJ
Aif ar, claims over 100000 damages from the M
@ dorian Government
u The first section Of the Panama Canal will b
le(opened in October. Il
ylH-Ihe Dominion Inspector of Prisons re- W
BITS that owing to the large increase of crime
Ofmong the Chinese in British Columbia it will
Pc necessary to enlarge the penitentiaries Of b
cthat province. Sc
WASHINGTON NoTEa to
The President has appointed Lemuel b. CIV
+ Fowler to be Postmaster at Augusta. Me-. vice
Joseph Manley. Mr. Fowler is a successful
dry goods merchant and prominent man in
Augusta.
1t is probable that some action will be
taken by the Knights of Labor soon in re-
gard to the rapidly Increasing number of
Chinese aundres which have been started
IN Washington in the past year. There are HI
about sixty Chinese laundries now in Wash
lrgton, thirty having been added in the last
twelve months.
FOREIGN ITEMS DR.
AAufAcGh 4Loul mdehuWlu IN Inc southeast a.
ern corner of the Soudan, give a deplorable MI MI
account Of the condition Of the italian MILF ~
tary expedition lately established there. The ~ ~
heat 10 fearful, the night temperature fire.. sts
quently rising to 122 degrees. nv nv
There is an active revival Of the project to bal
run line OF passenger steamers from Milford chi
Haven. in Wales, across the Atlantic to New dot
toundland to transport the passengers across vii
Newfoundland by rail, and thence to New York Tn
by connecting line OF steamers It is urged as
that by this route the normal time Of making Ia
the trip from England to New York would be ele
only six days. tbe
"A dispatch from Derby, England. saws the
that serious accident has occurred at the to
Oakwel coliiery at llkstona, miles from dro
Derby The shaft of the colliery has been anC
blocked, and 800 miners are entombed Efforts ira
are being made to rescue them by the wav of aw;
the furnace shaft and they will probably snc- puT
ceed life
Cholera has become insignificant in his
France and is fast diminishing in Spain. In strI
Italy, however, infection centres have become ing
establish ed at Parma and at Palermo The nea
government has begun to issue cholera bulle- Of /
tins. swi
five
Political Conventions. I
by
Maryland Democratic state Convention. bea
In the Maryland Democratic State Conyen- rOal
ion j. Frank Turner, of Talbot, had no oppo- Cruz