Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-11-19

York by telegrupn MOnuiy Ior tue tehoi
of the fire sufferers in Galveston.
John Otis, SO years of age, pork
butcher, committed suicide in New York
Tuesday morning. He had been drink
ing heavily.
Eight Indians will be hanged OF Battle
ford, in the Northwest Territory, on the
2Sth instant, for crimes committed during |
the Riel rebellion.
The hog cholera is still raging in Essex
county, Ontario, all attempts to stamp it |
out having failed. More than $50 farms |
are quarantined.
John Weiss was killed by a kick from |
his horse, at Basking Ridge, N. j., on
| Wednesday night week. The animal hoofs |
struck him in the chest.
A friend (who is understood to be Levi
P. Morto, of New York; has presented
Dartmouth College with the valuable
Rood estate in Hanover, N. II.
Eight young men, hitherto esteemed
respectable, were yesterday week sentenced
in Ottawa TO imprisonment for life, after
being convicted of outrageous assault.
Captain Woodbury. S. Polleys, aged 10
years, formerly United States consul in
Cuba, committed suicide yesterday week in
Portland, Me. lie was unable 10 obtain
| employment
| Nine students of the Ohio Wesleyan
University, at Delaware, Ohio, were yes
terday week suspended and 81 others were
reprimanded, for having attended q repre-
sentation of "Richard ILL.,"
O. Fl. Barker, an unmarried man, 2S
years old, who lives in Newburyport,
Mass. has been notified that he has fallen
heir to fortune of $7,500,000. The
property comes from his aunt, Mrs. Mary
Ann Thurburn of London.
Mrs. Mollie Brown of Logansport, Ind,
bride of six days eloped on Monday
night with Frank Smith, professional
dude. Mrs Brown was Thursday cap
tured at Peru by her young husband, ex-
pressed repentance and returned home
with him.
An explosion took place Thursday
morning in building where gas is made
for private use in the village of Pine Iron
Works, Berks county, Pa. Jeremiah
Zimmerly, William Eagle and William
Boughton were terribly burned, but are
expected TO recover. .....
A large petition, signed by clergymen
and prominent residents of Newport, II.
l., has been forwarded to Philadelphia,
asking that lenience be shown by the
board of pardons to Annie E. Cutler, col
ored, under sentence of death for shooting
n young man named Knight.
| A 4-year-old daughter of Jacob Dhein,
II lime-burner aud stone-quarrier at Rock
field, Wis, Thursday picked up and
threw into the kitchen stove large dyna-
mate cartridge. The explosion which re-
suited killed the child, broke both its
mothers legs and painfully injured its
father.
Captain Nelson Spaulding, recently of
Philadelphia, but now in Boston, Mon
day received from President Cleveland n
handsome gold medal, struck in comment
Grafton of the heroic rescue by the
Chelmsford of the master and crew of the
wrecked American schooner William IL.
Phare, adrift at sea, December list, 1888.
A freight train ON the Erie railroad was
derailed near Middlotown, N. Y, Thurs
, day morning, by the loss of wheel while
the train was crossing the Hampton
bridge, which spans gorge 80 feet deep.
The cars piled over one another in the
gorge, and two brakemen--James Gamma
1 | ford and Il. l.. Gerst-were injured, il is
g believed fatally.
Ex-Recorder Ford, now in the peniten
tiary at New Orleans, said Thursday that
a it was he, and not his brother, Pat
e Ford that killed Police Captain Murphy.
7 He said; II fired two shots before he fell
I and he was not exactly down after the
i first two shots were fired. As l reached
. him fired the last shots, but how many
l was so excited that cannot tell"
General Russell Thayer of Philadel
A phia, Thursday read paper upon "Di
4 vergible Balloons for War Purposes" be
4 fore Il session of the Military Service In
stitution on Governors Island. He snit
:, fear of ridlcule had prevented develop
~ ment of the science of aerial navigation
Z but that AN easily comfortable speed o.
i 30 miles an hour would not be n strange
!, development in the future.
1t is reported from Meriden, Miss, tina
;r IL. A. Roland of Nexubee county recent,
a had his arm cut by gin, and had somt
\ skin from the arm OF Mrs. HOLLAND
"a grated over the wound. Both Mr.
% Ireland and Mrs. Holland have since dice
! from the effects of the operation, AM
~ the doctor who performed the operation
% is now in critical condition. 1t is sup
IL posed that the knife used by the docto
had been used i'll dissecting.
~ The customs collector of San Francisc,
ii informs the treasury department that
number of Chinese laborers who landet
Mt New York in June lust, in transit t
pr San Francisco, where they We're to tax
70 the steamer for China, have not bee
az heard from since their arrival in Ne,
h York, and the supposition is that the
q. are concealed in this country, and hay
~ no intention of leaving 1t is said ut til
4 treasury department that there are N
N available funds which can be used +
. trace them.
In Thursdays session of the nationa
n. butter, cheese and egg convention, q
i'll chicago, resolutions were adopted askin
Il Congress to tax oleomargarine, butterin
i and all authorizations of butter 10 cents
in pound; to place an import duty o
ry European eggs, and to suspend the coi1
~ age of standard dollars. A resolution wa
nj also adopted requesting the joint classif
Nv cation committee of the Trunk lines t
provide cargo and less than cargo rate
lie for eggs and dairy products. Washing
ton Windsor of New York, was electe
NJ president and Col. II. w. Littler of lows
in secretary.
or A telegram from Washington report
that meeting of the bureau of Catholi
nm Indian missions was held in that city o
air the 18th inst, at which were present, be
nd sides the members of the bureau, Bishor
m Marty and Ireland, representing til
Catholic hierarchy of the United States
Bishop Marty of Dakota, and the Re,
DIR. P. L. Chappelle of Washington, wer
unanimously elected members of til
lal bureau. This action places the burea
lie not only under the protection of the law
ok of the United States but also under thu
re of a decree of the Third Plenary Counc
as held in Baltimore November, 1854, as NJ
proved at Rome.
The Louisville Egening Times yeste,
yn day published the following editorial
Seeing that the people for whom h
NJ. fought have virtually refused to erect
u. monument to the memory of Gen. Grant
suppose the south, against whom Ii
In fought only to befriend and protect ther
m, in the hour of defeat and sorest need
To- put her hand in her purse and contribut
tho money to build a pile to the memoir
Ho OF the hero whose bosom contained
ir- heart that felt for her woes. The TIM
nc Will freely contribute to such n fund
oe Let's hear from the boys who wore tn
cir gray, and if the thing is feasible, the
/ let's take steps to set il properly on fool
on What say you, johnny Rebs 2"
In York, Pa, about n year ago. Mrs
n Berg, doctress, who kept house fo
1h three men, disappeared suddenly, and
INF was reported by the men that she ha
ri gone to Germany. Tuesday week scare
was made, and the remains of a woma
tn were found buried in the cellar of IN
SO, house. Charles Trevert, boarder, wn
I'm arrested and confessed fl,ot I, ~. ,,,,,,;...