Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-06-18

the powder and the explosion resulted.
Renson was taken to the hospital. 1t is
| said he cannot recover. He was recently
divorced and remarked. In answer to a
question, he said he intended TO commit
suicide and hoped he would die.
The Secretary of the Treasury Thurs
day ordered the discontinuance of the
purchase of silver bullion for coinage into
standard dollars by the mints at Carson
City and San Francisco. The purchase
will continue for the other mints. The
secretary formally announced yesterday
the adoption of the distinctive features
of the paper to be used for United States
notes, bank notes and certificates recently
recommended by the committee appointed
TO consider that subject. The secretary
also calls attention to the law on the sub
ject, which provides that any person who
has unlawful possession of any such dis
distinctive paper shall be subject to a fine
of not more than $5, 900 or imprisonment
at hard labor of not more than 15 years,
or both.
The 17-year locusts have appeared In
large numbers in central New Jersey.
Seven men were drowned at Quinge
Rapids, in the Ottawa river, on Thursday,
while trying to remove log which had
caused timber drive at that point.
Archbishop Gibbons OF Baltimore, Fri
day received a cable telegtam announcing
the appointment OF the Rev. j. Sullivan of
Washington, to be bishop ofMobile Alabama.
The body of Deputy Sheriff W. s. Howe
of Brooklyn, N. y, who disappeared on the
l1th of April, was found on the Williams
burg shore of the East river on Thursday
night.
The barn OF David Kaufman, in Rockland
township, Berks county, pa, was burned
Friday afternoon. Mr. kauimans O.
year-old daughter was fatally burned.
lncendiarism Is suspected.
The Santo Tiburcio dc Laveta Grande
mine, near Zacatecas, Mexico was wrecked
on Thursday morning by the explosion OF
500 cases Of giant powder which had been
kept on hand in the mine. Ten men We're
killed and 10 injured.
Henry Attmeyer's three sons, aged ie-
spectively 2, 8 and years, were terribly
burned ut Tarentum, Pa, Friday by the
explosion Of n can Of coal oil, to which one
of them applied II lighted match.
The mayor Of Philadelphia Friday re-
ceived an appeal for help from citizens of
Low Gap, Cabell county, West Virginia. 1t
is stated that over $50 families in the town
ship are suffering for the want OF food. The
cause Of the distress was the failure OF tire
crops last summer followed by II hard win
ter that killed the winter wheat. The ap-
plicants say they have asked aid from the
county and state authorities and the gov
ernment Of the United States without avail.
"A market train ON the Schuylkill Valley
railroad crashed into the rear Of u freight
train ut Spring Mill Friday afternoon,
causing the death Of the engineer, David
Wayne of Columbia, Pa, Conductor Jones
Cleuver of Downingtown, and Fireman
Samuel DrinkhOuse of Philadelphia. A.W.
Seltz of Syracuse, II railroad employe, who
was riding on the locomotive, was injured
about the head, hut not fatally. The road
was blocked for several hours. The wrecked
train was only placed on the road u few
days since, to haul perishuble goods.
The Georgia Temperance Convention fin
ished its session in Atlanta on Thursday.
Resolutions were adopted petitioning the
Legislature to pass II general local option
law ut its session next month, 50 that in
every county in the state there can be AN
election ON prohibition. OF the 1873 coun-
ties In Georgia 20 have restricted the sale Of
liquor and ~ have absolutely prohibited it.
1t is thought that more than half of the 3S
counties where the sale Ofliquor Is now nn-
restricted will be carried for prohibition If
the Legislature passes the law asked for.