Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-07-30
IN GENERAL.

The postmaster of Ladies Island, s. o.,
has absconded, having ashortage of SOTO.
The Birchdale Springs Hotel, Concord,
N H., was burned Sunday afternoon.
Loss, $4,000.
A cloud burst near Colorado Springs, |
Colorado, on Saturday night, causing |
damage TO the amount of about 1856, 900. |
1t it feared several persons were drowned.
fve-year-old daughter of DR.. 2. X.
Wiley of Baltimore, died on Saturday
from the effects of morphine, put up by
q drug clerk in prescription in mistake
for quinine.
The President Thursday issued proc
lamation directing the cattle men on
Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservations, in
the Indian Territory. to remove their
cattle within 40 days.
The assignees of John Roach d. Son,
who have been examining the books of
the firm, say that it will be a fortnight
before they can present q statement of the
assets and liabilities.
A telegram from Chicago reports that
William Starr, treasurer of the Brick
| layers and Stonemasons' Union is missing
reelected two weeks ago.
James Banta, a tramp painter, in Jail
at Osalena, ILL.,, has made a written COIL
fession that he murdered MS. Pritchard,
the collector of Cherry Valley, ILL.,, in
1879. Remorse led to the confession.
Charlton still prevails among the stock
and cattle in New iberia Parish, Louisiana.
On the prairie west of the town of New
Iberia, the decomposing carasses are so
numerous as TO vitiate the atmosphere.
John Fangman, his wife and three-year-
old son have died of trichinosis in Balti-
more. daughter is in dangerous con-
dition from the same disease. The in
fected pork was eaten on the 10th of May.
The murdered body of woman was
found in the bay ut Boston, on Thursday
night. The legs, arms and head were
severed from the trunk and sewed in %
sack. An autopsy showed that the woman
wes strangled and cut up after death.
The navy department has requested
the English government through the
Secretary of State, to allow two OF the re-
cent graduates at Annapolis to have the
benefit of the two years advanced course
at Greenwich.
Eighty-seven horses belonging to tile
Payne avenue street railway, in Cleve-
land, Ohio, were poisoned on Sunday
with croton oil. Three have died, and
the rest are in a terrible condition. 1t is
suspected that the Outrage grew out of
the recent strike.
The Secretary of the Treasury has in
formed customs officers that bonds cover
ing merchandise entered for expectation
by land to any British possessions under
any prescribed form of export entry, may
be cancelled upon the production of evil
denee of expectation and landing abroad.
William W. Smith, convicted of the
murder of his wife, was hanged Friday
ut Osceola, Nebraska. He denied his
guilt. A high fence was erec,ed around
the gallows ON Thursday, but mob tore
il down, and the execution was witnessed
by I'M unruly crowd of about 5000
people.
The canal bont d. Il. Gilligan, from
Ottawa, with lumber, hns been fined
, 81 900 by the customs officials at Ottawa,
N. Y, for not reporting at the custom
house within "a hours of her arrival
, The schooner British Queen, arriving
I light, has been fined $500 for not having
| Il manifest.
A ditch train OH the Richmond Il Dan
vile railroad Monday ran over COW
near Suwanee, Ga, and one cur wa.
| thrown from the track. In the car wer,
: Is negro train hands and six bars of iron
I The Cur turned on its side aud the iron
fell upon the negroes, killing seven ant
+ wounding three more.
A terrific thunder storm passed owe
I 4
week. Trees and fences We're uprooted
/, and houses damaged hy the wind, Will,
Q the corn, wheat and oat crops were ,llst
h levelled by the wind and submerged b,
9 the rain, The damage throughout TIN
II valley is estimated at $50, 900.
Y Near Redfield, Arkansas, on Thurstla,
y night, David Scruggs, colored, who WA
4 recently released ON hallehs corpus iron
the jail where lie was confined on cllnrg,
: of assaulting his little daughter, WI,
:, visited by II large crowd of negroes VIII,
:, :, cut him so horribly with knives an,
:, razors that he has since died.
A telegram from St. Louis report
y cattlemen leasing lands in the Indinl
il Territory say it will be impossible to re
move their cattle within 40 days, as re
quired Ivy President Cleveland's procla
:, nation. Missouri has about IS, 600, 00I
= invested in cattle i'll the Indian Territory
- st. Louis interests alone is Sii, 0Oil, 900
" The cattlenen have sent II petition To TN
=, Secretary of the Interior asking I'M ex
n tension of time.
J. Senator Plumb called upon the Presi
% dent Friday and presented II prutes
h from Governor Martin of Kansas, agains
o the Immediate withdrawal of troops iron
p the Kansas border. Governor Martin asl,
Ii that troops be allowed to remain ut tire
/ different stations ON the border unit
e winter. "Unless this is tlone," he saws
l. "l5,0OO people will continue in fear o
the Cheyennes, who are allowed to retail
:, their arms"
Information received from Waterford
g New Jersey, last night, was to the eifec
C that the forest fires has assumed alarming
ID proportions. The people of the adiacen
K villages were fighting il with back fire
NJ Seven tires could be seen from Waterford
1t 1t was reported that fires were BURNING
IF all the way to Absecon, and that portion
z, of Egg llarbor City were threatened. |
If is thought that nothing but a heavy raj
N can stop the spread of the flames.
4 John Hickey, who was held responsible
III by the coroner's jury for the death o
Engineer George Il. Murphy, in til
d. accident ON the West Jersey railroad, b
he leaving u switch open, surrendered to til
Is authorities on Thursday night, and WI,
le Friday committed to the Glouceste
H. county prison. Hickey states that he ra
s. away after the accident by the advice Il
rs Foreman John Erwin. He denies h.tyin
is received amy orders from Erwin 10 loc
n the switch.
rs Robert kerrof indianapolis was arrest,
u Monday ON mn express train near tlurhee
7 by Detective kehoe of Chicago. Ker
Df was asked to grant few minutes CONVEX
X sation, and the two entered tile postal car
y, kehoe rushed out of the car immpdiut.I
g afterwards eXclaiming that Kerr Ind nj
u, tempted to shoot him. Upon inyestign
m ton Kerr was found lying dead in In
u ear kehoe was arrested and taken 1,
nj Quebec with the corpse.
% DIR. Alexander +. Stirling died som
time ago ut New York, and soon after hi
death Mr.. Clarence A. Postley put in
III claim against bis estate for $i14 900 TIN
Il market value of government bonds
e. which Postley says lie deposited with th
IL doctor for safe keeping, The claim WA
NJ sent to referee, who decided in favor o
Postley, and Thursday Judge Donahu
he confirmed the referees opinion. A iudp
Of ment for $l17,7S2 was entered agai1ls
of the estate.
ie The Socialists and Anarchists o
l. Chicago held their annual picnic Sun
T. day near that city. The principal featur,
of the occasion WINS thn nnrn,la 10 a.