Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1885-09-18
NEWS OF THEDAY
GENERAL ITEMS


Senator Esty Of Ithaca, n u, has given
$1,000 and two village homes to the Ladies
Union Benevolent Society, one Of the buildings
for a hospital and the other for an orphanage
and place where poor working women can
leave their children while at day service.
The late Edward Tufts of Lowell, Mass
beaueathed to the Massachusetts, Bible Society.
Ell 600, to the American Home Missionary
Society $1,000, and to the Seamens Friend
Society Si7, 900.
Waller H. Lonnox Maxwell, the presumed
murderer Of Preer was taken into the Court
of Criminal Correction at st. Louis, and by
agreement between counsel the case was con-
tinued until Oct. 10.
Deputy United States Marshall W. A. Ar
mold in the mountains Of Virginia shot and
killed negro murderer
Tho murdered crook, Tom Davis, OF New
York, left three families.
A shocliug tragedy took place in YER
million county III. man named Whitlock,
being deserted by his wife, on account OF ms
dissipated habits, shot her and her two 1isters
and then killed himself.
Six hundred Cinnamon, protected by six
companies of federal troops, have returned to
work in the coal mines at ROCK springs, W.
T., and all is now quiet
"A North Carolina jury gave passenger
sl75 damages against railroad company LOT
forcing him to ride in a smoking car.
General N les reports that the cattlemen
are executing with all speed the fresldents
order to withdraw their herds from the Indian
reservations
The Commodore Perry statue at Newport,
r. /. was unveiled with interesting and ap-
propriate cerem mics.
"A cyclone passed over Washington Court
House, Ohio, aud swept all before IT. leyellng
buildings and da aging property The Court
House was destroyed. The damage TO prop
ertv is said to be over 81, 600, 900. Ten per-
! 1i1l oil il ola
4 three hundred were more or less injured
Two women were burned to death in New
M York city by their clothes taking fire.
IN The schooner Advance of Chicago was
capsized in a gale nine miles south OF Sheboy-
OWyan, Wis. Capt. Paulson with his son and
Nqt ew, made for the shore IN small boat
hen in the breakers the yawl struck the bar,
!. 1sized, and all were drowned except sailor
.Etned Jacob RaWn.
vi Miss Ida Maxwell, Of Atlanta, Ca, eloped
/. with John Shelton, and they were married.
p Miss MaxweIl's father and brother pulsued
81 aud in the flight the two Maxwells and Shell
, ton were all MORALLY wounded.
The funeral services over the remains OF
m, the late Rev. Stephen H Tying, ID. d., were
held in st. Georges Church, Of which he was
al for so many years pastor. The casket was
carried up the aisle Of the church by the
~ vestrymen and placed upon catafalque in
4f front of the ehancel. Following the Yestry-
men we're members of the deceased clergy
lai mans family and the servants OF his house
1a hold. The remains were inferred IN the family
plot at Greenwood Cemetery.
Another child was found sick by the health
authorities in the Hebrew private school atNo.
liz l27 Pitt street, New York, where case OF
e. asaallpox was developed last week. Despite
Lhu sa efforts made at that time to break up the
=, "a -ol fifteen children we're found studying in
" e lsame room with the sick little one, wi o
he q. an the bed. They were sent home at once,
> THE patent, two-year-old girl, was re-
iaille hal to Riverside Hospital, where she was
IbuY. % have measles and not smallpox.
= q, Kerry Whtlock, twenty-eight years old,
u 81, to the residence Of his father-in-law, +.
vhiofJ e. some miles south Of Danville, ILL.,, and
1elis wife, Emily, twenty-five years Old,
lie ". ,,her two sisters. Maggie and Iinchie,
hy-eght and twenty-five respectively and
'esG or killed himself. The three sisters are
1sV ally wounded. Whitlock had previously
g;a netened to kill the whole family, as his wife
in I oeeently left him.
Is Il obn McGrane, a wealthy New Jersey
inf -lcler tried to commit suicide by drowning
A Win 1iling shot and killed himself in his room
roo, in the day. McGTane was one of the
4 IL T popular Democrats Of Union Hill. He
Il cen a member of the Town Council since
IL ION land was elected each time without oppo-
tn, &c endowment Of fairly good after
WI Gen racing at Sheepshead Bay Tuesday,
est,, iously marred by a fatal accident IN the
It eu.shase, causing the death OF Dues lu;s
tesiineh tlhe rider of the horse Revenge when
in p Hlled. Ford was about twenty-five
wiz %, sf age and married.
peffeln the local option election in Milan
na.. unity, Texas, the Prohibitionists prevailed
] a majority OF So.
Gc tt-Iawrence Brainerd, the defauting ex-
IL . esident Of the st. Adams Savings Bank was
~ Kidnapped at Winnipeg, Manitoba, by detec-
tn ba-es, who forcibly conveyed him into the
!, United States.
= I Miss Mary Irene Hoyt. well-known as the
tIeontestant in the Hoyt VIII Case, now on trial
Z Tin New York. had her pocket picFed on Wash-
=, ington street, Boston, Of money, ieWelry and
papers valued at $4,000.
el Thieves forced an entrance into the Ocean
View House. at Nantasket Beach, took the safe
N aud carried it to the beach, where they blew
: it open. The thieves obtained 81, 900 in cash
and a quantity OF valuable iewelry. Some
papers and 800 were found on the beach
near where the safe was blown open.
"A mob on Sunday night visited Pike
County Jail at MurfreesbOro, Ark, and made
an ate mpt TO shoot the Polk boys, confined
for murder, but not being able to get them In
range the mob hauled load OF wood to the
jail. piled it round the iron cell, saturated the
wo d with coal oil and literally roasted both
prisoners alive, nothing was standing but the
brick walls Of the jail.
At Dover n H., one child was killed and
several persons made seriously i'll by eating
bologna sausage which had been poisoned
-Riers appeal has been dismissed, and the
belief il general in Winnipeg that the half
breed leader will be hanged.
BY the explosion Of sulphur gas at Potts
vile PA } cOlliery one boy was killed. three
fatally injured and ten severely burned
The locomotive Of a sleeping car train or
the Saratoga and Champlain Railroad colllded
with a pill of rock that had fallen on the
track near Comstocks Landing, wrecking the
train badly. The engineer was killed and five
others were seriously injured.
Lieutenant Colonel Chapman, who is il
command of two companies Of the r. gulars
Rock Springs, W. T.. has requested that he b'
reinforced by additional troops Il IS sur
missed thata preconeerted movement Is threat
eued to rescue the rinel9aders Of the Chinese
outbreak. now in jail at Green River.
The Wisconsin State census is now com
plete, and the total population Of the State il
shown to be 1863 $50, gain over 1870 Of p
per cent The largest gains are in the north
ern half of the State, where there has beer
large openings OF comparatively new country
due in great measure to the lumber interests
"A dispatch from Lyons Wayne county
n. r., says that the farmers are apprehenslyt
of the loss Of their potato crop by reason Of {
small, shiny bug that has appeared there. i
works its way into the hills Of the potatoes b,
going down The stalks of the plants. 1t theI
eats its way into the potatoes and deposits
eggs, which are Matched within the vegetable
-Quintar Walker, Of Reidsville, N. O., lef
lis house at night TO get a drink Of whisky
In the morning he was found lying in tn
yard. 1t developed at the inquest that b
bought quart Of whisky and drank it all a
once.
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