Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-05-14

ANANhNi
service.
Abandon Kalback, we'll known bust.
ness man of Reading, Pa, So years of
age committed suicide early on Saturday
morning by swallowing arsenic He had
lost money in land and cattle speculations.
He leaves widow and four children.
Three years ago John +. Bacon was
killed by train on the East Tennessee,
Virginia Il Georgia railroad. His wife
brought suit against the railroad company
for $4,000 damages. On Saturday, at
Cleveland the court rendered u decision
awarding her $1,000.
H. A. W. Walkemeyer, well known
ice dealer of Harrisburg, committed sui
eide on Saturday by shooting himself
through the heart. Judgments TO the
amount of $4,000 had been entered
against him, and the sheriff levied ON his
property.
Train wreckers on Saturday set fire to
the trestle on the Savannah, Florida Il
Western railway. about so miles north Of
Jacksonville. While burning u train ran
into the trestle and the locomotive and Is
cars We're burned. No lives were lost.
All the trestles on the road are now
guarded, II"
The brig Julia A. Merritt of st. Johns,
New Brunswick, from Aracuju, Brazil for
Hampton Roads, for orders, with n cargo
of sugar, is ashore 20 miles south of Ocra-
coke Inlet. The crew of seven were saved.
The cargo, it is said, can be saved, but the
vessel will probably be total loss.
AT the Luke Fadden colliery, Shenan.
donh, on Saturday afternoon, u car broke
loose and ran down the inclined plane
into the boiler, causing an explosion.
Enoch Sodusky was killed, Martin
Maloney fatally scalded and William Kati.
CHAN, John Marose and John Thomas
severely injured.
Joseph W. Drexel, Oswald Ottenderfer,
Felix Adler, Z. II. A. Seligman, and othel
| gentlemen in New York, have incorpo.
rated The Tenement House Building Com.
| pany, whose object shall be to acquire
land and erect dwellings that shall moi
pny more than 4 per cent on the invest.
ment to the stockholders.
In Milwaukee, ut O'Clock on Saturday
morning, the house of G. II. Atwell, q
wealthy shoe dealer, was robbed by a
burglar, who cut his way into the house,
and, awakening Mrs. Atwell, made her,
ut the point of n revolver, gather for him
all the money and valuables in the house
and then let him out. The same burglar,
it is said, robbed another house in the
same city on Thursday night.
While drilling lifting hole in the
heading of cut for the new Croton aaue-
duct, near Tarrytown, N. Y, on Satur-
day, the drill struck some powder in the
bottom of IN old vertical hole. The re-
sulting explosion caused the death of
Michael aud George Hurlbut, and slightly
injured two other laborers II is evident
that some unexploded cartridges remained
in the old hole when it was blnsted.
The Murphy temperance movement
now going ON in Pittsburg excites great
interest, Sunday night hundreds were
unable to gain admission to Library Hall,
where the meetings are held, and the audi.
torium was so densely packed that several
women tainted. The crowd on the outside
broke down the doors in their efforts To
get in, and the police were finally com.
PEELED to dispense them. Over 400 persons
signed the pledge.
The Newfoundland sealer Young Prince
was sunk by collision with IN iceberg in
the gulf of st. Lawrence on the 18th
ultimo. She sank almost immediately,
barely giving the crew time to save pro.
visions and clothing. The crew, mum.
herring ~ men, lived on the ice foe for Is
days, subjected to the rigors of the
weather. On Friday they were deserted
by the French brig Etoile des Mer and
were all landed ut st. Pierre.
The captain of the steamship Caspian,
from Liverpool for Baltimore, which put
in Mt st. Johns, Newfoundland, on Satur-
day, reports heavy ice in the North
Atlantic. He says he was forced to go
down to the forty-fourth parallel to escape
n vast belt of ice, $50 miles wide, east and
west, and extending southwark to the tail
of the Great Banks. Icebergs as low down
ms the forty-fourth parallel are simply in
Vulnerable and are to be counted by
| hundreds.
The Maryland court of appeals yester.
day decided the appeal Of Charles j.
Bonaparte, executor, TO avoid the pny.
ment of city and state taxes on securities
held by the estate. The amount levied is
10000, and the court affirms the decision
Of the court below in favor of the city
and state. Most Of the securities were
issued by corporations out of the state OF
Maryland, and this decision settles the
| question, so that hereafter those holding
securities will be obliged to pay property
taxes on them.
Snow fell in Buffalo on Saturday fol-
several hours, and shortly before noon
the temperature dropped to 3Oo. Snow
has never been known to fall there so late
IN the year. The nearest approach to il
was in 1873, when light snow fell May I'd.
The harbor and river are choked with ice,
which extends lakeward for IL long dis.
lance. Snow still remains in the Adiron-
dack forests to the depth of two feet, and
the ice in the mountain lakes is so solid
that it is not expected to disappear be-
fore the list of June.
Extradition papers were prepared in
st. Louis last week to be sent TO Auck.
land for Maxwell. The chief of police
cabled to Mr.. Gamble, consul Mt Auck-
land, to hold Maxwell at all hazards until
the arrival of an officer from Missouri.
The police authorities of st. Louis have
also telegraphed to Secretary Bayard that
an officer will leave San Francisco for
Auckland on June 9Th, and have urged
MIR. Bayard, in conjunction with the
British minister at Washington, to see
that Maxwell is not released on techni-
cality until the officer arrives.
The body of the murdered man shipped
from Chicago to Pittsburg was exhumed
Thursday morning and positively identi-
ned by francesca Caruso as the remains
OF his brother Fillipo. francesca is of
the opinion that Fillipo was murdered by
countryman named Augustine Gilardo,
who WINS preparing to go to Italy. Gilardo
knew that Fillipo had money and fire.
quently importuned him for sufficient
amount to pay his passage over. The
murdered man was last seen in the COM
pany OF Gilardo and Russo. and Fran
cesco thinks he was chloroformed and
then strangled by hand.
One end of the New York Central &
hudson river railroad grain elevator A, at
tne root OF West Sixty-second street, New
' YORK was forced out yesterday week