Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-08-13


operating on the crowd ut the funeral
procession on Wednesday. Their plumber
included gold watches down TO uncon-
sidered articles. They were alllocked up.
The village of Porter Station, near
Valparaiso, Indiana, has been afflicted
with disease resembling cholera, hut
which has detied medical skill. Five per-
sons have died and 40 are sick, Is danger
ously. The village is inhabited chiefly
by Swedes, and the epidemic is said TO
have been caused by the eating of decom-
posed meat.
The commissioner of agriculture was
yesterday week Informed of an outbreak
of pleuro- pneumonia in herd of 60
thoroughbred Holstein cattle at Port
Richmond, Staten Island Several yalu.
able animals have died. The commits
sioner has written to the governor of New
York asking whether he will co operate
with the department in quarantinng said
affected herds and thus prevent the
spreading of the disease.
The board appointed to examine plans
and specifications for the proposed new
cruisers has adjourned it's session III
Washington, subject to the call Of Com
modore Walker, president. The accept
able portions of the various plan; exam
ined were placed i'll the hands of Com
mantler Goodrich md Naval Constructors
Bowles and Gatewood, with instructions
to embody them in one plan.
The National Barb Wire Fence Com
pany met Thursday in Chicago and
appointed committee of five to arrange
new price list, the same to be not less
than l5 per cent higher than the present
schedule. All manufacturers will be
requested to close their factories until the
new organization is completed and every
thing in working order. The amount of
cash stock to be issued, outside of that
held by manufacturers in the association,
is not to exceed $250,000.
William Parks, colored, has been ar
rested in Amherst county, Va, on the
charge of starving his children TO death.
Within five months four of his seven
| children have died aud the three sur.
yivors are said TO be emnciated from want
of food, the father not only refusing to
provide for them, but prohibiting tho
neighbors from giving them food. Parks,
IT is charged, wants to marry again, and
the woman refused to accept him while he
had so many children"
The Italian postmaster-genera has motif
he'd the post office department ut Wash
ington that owing To the prevalence of
cholera i'll that part of French territory
through which mails from the United
States destined for Italy must pnss, all
mail sacks of the ordinary kind will be
tumigated. He suggests that TO avoid
detention for fumigntion, tarred mail
sacks he used. The superintendent of
foreign mails has issued instructions
carrying into effect this suggestion.
An excavation alongside the American
lead pencil factory i'll HobOken, N. j.,
weakened the wall, and a portion fell Fri
day night. A number of laborcrs were
buried beneath the debris. Two were
taken out dead. Henry McLain. one of
the contractors was fatally and John
Geoghcgan and George Jones severely
injured. James Carey, another of the
contractors, was arrested. lie was the
first person to notice the dangerous con
dltion Of the wall and promptly gave the
alarm, but the wall fell upon the men
before they could get out of the way.
A telegram from Mobile says that L. b.
Goelet, president of the Alabama and the
Citizens insurance companies, Thursday
transferred his property, amounting TO
S16.20O, to the two companies and re-
signed the presidency of each. Goelet
has at different times Hypothetical bonds
of the two companies amounting to
$4,000. He was held to account for
these bonds, and thus precipitated the
surrender of his property. The officers of
the companies say they are solvent and
continue to issue policies.
The Salvation Army in Belleville, Ont,
was mobbed Wednesday week night by
crowd composed mostly of boys. The
army had been holding meetings every
night ON market square. Some patent
medicine men rented the square for the
purpose of giving entertainments, and
when they drove on the ground they
found the army in possession of it. The
salyntionists refused to retire, when the
crowd set upon them and forced them to
retreat under shower of rotten eggs,
The army was followed to their barracks.
where stones were thrown and windows
broken.
The schooner Cox and Greene, from
Boston for Baltimore, in ballast, arrived
Mt Vineyard Haven Thursday and re-
ported TINT she was in collision of
Woods Hole ut o'clock in the morning,
with the schooner Eliza B. Coffin, from
Hoboken for Boston, with coal. The
Eliza Il. Coffin WINS cut through forward
and sank almost Immediately in about ~
fathoms of water. Captain Mann, his
wife and two sons were rescued by n
boat from the Cox and Greene. The
crew saved themselves by jumping into
her rigging. Captain Mann had one leg
broken in two places.
A request was received Mt the sanitary
headquarters in New York yesterday
morning week, from the managers of the
! Mount Sinai Hospital, for M investigation
of peculiar epidemic of acute dysentery
in narrowly circumscribed neighbor-
| hood on the enst side that SO filled the
Mount Sinai Hospital that the managers
have refused further admission to patients
suffering from the disease. The healtL
authorities made an investigation, and
found that the district referred to was
chiefly inhabited by Poles and Prussians,
who lived in total disregard of all sani-
tary laws. The disease is of an exceed
lngly severe type. Though none have
died, there is much danger in several
cases. 1t was said some had been admitted
to Bellevue Hospital, and it is not known
how many are uncared for in the afflicted
districts. Twelve cases are in Mt. Sinai
Hospital, and six have been discharged.
The Illinois Central Railroad Company
and other corporations are building piers.
driving piles, dredging and dumping sand
into the lake, at and near Chicago, for
the purpose of building islands to be
used MS pleasure resorts, This work is
said to threaten the navigation of the
harbor. The attention of Secretary
Manning having been called to the
matter, he requested the opinion of the
first comptroller. The latter Thursday
gave an opinion that, as the works in
question tended to obstruct navigation,
the general government can, by proper
proceedings instituted by the attorney
general, prohibit the continuance of such
work. He holds, however, that, as the
Secretary of War has charge of the I'M
proyement of rivers and harbors it is his
duty to take hold of the matter and do
whatever may be necessary.