Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-08-06
IN GENERAL.

gent county, Dakota, Sunday evening,
damaged 1900 acres of wheat
Monday was the hottest day ever ex-
perienced in the San Joaquin valley, Cali
fornia, the thermometer at MERGED regis
tering 1140 in the shade.
During an election disturbance iu
Fayette county, Kentucky, Monday, two
men named Deal and Waller were shot
dead by Bud Hurt, who was himself
wounded.
Representatives of the different insur-
ance companies which hold risks on the
property destroyed by the fire in Toronto
estimate the total loss at between $500, 900
and $3.50, 900.
Last Saturday evening Hippolyte
Williams, colored was waylaid and shot
dead by twin brothers named Adams, also
colored, at New Texas Landing, Louisiana.
The murderers escaped.
At New Orleans Tu 'sday b. Abadie
murdered Elizabeth Laundry by cutting
her throat and then committed suicide by
cutting his own throat. Jealousy was the
cause. Both were colored.
A petrifcd squirrel, taken from the
heart of tree near Knowlton, Wis. % few
weeks ago, hus been presented to President
Cleveland. and by him placed in the
public museum at Washington.
Tim cCarthy, the notorious dive keeper
in New York, convicted of feloniously
assaulting woman, was Monday
granted new trial on the grounds of
newly discovered evidence and errors.
In Pittsburg early Tuesday morning
Policeman Evans was fatally shot by John
Edward Coffee, notorious crook. Coffee
was captured after long chase and
desperate struggle, in which he tried to
kill his captors.
At Raymond, Miss, Monday, w. r.
| Farr, white, convicted of marrying Sarah
| Williams, colored, was sentenced to the pen
itentiary for nine years. The woman was
also convicted and sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for three years.
The commissioner of agriculture has
| perfected arrangements with the board of
health of Kentucky TO cooperate with it
in the suppression of pleuro-pneumonia
in that state. He has appointed W. Ii.
Wray of Yonkers, N. Y, to go to
Cynthiana, TO rigidly quarantine herds in
which the disease exists.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
1
schooner Oriole, now in Philadelphia,
with the murder of a woman, portion
of whose mutilated remains were found
10 days ago sewed up in piece of carpet,
and floating in the Charles river, Boston.
Charles Neville, notorious convict,
died in the penitentiary at Columbus, o.,
on Sunday. He was under sentence OF
seven years for bigamy. His father was
an Englishman, his mother Russian
countess, and he claimed to be Russian
count. 1t is said that he had married 15
women.
While Captain Stacy Jarvis, of the
schooner Sarah Cullen, mt Baltimore, was
standing near the hatchwny Monday
morning, n large bucket, used for hosting
coal, fell upon his head and knocked him
down the hntchwny into the hold. ii,
was fatally injured, and died in n few
hours.
Harvey Keith, aged 81 years, son of {
prominent farmer of Van Buren, county
Michigan, disappeared ON Tuesday Of
last week. On Saturday his body, hor
ribly mutilated, WINS found in lake.
man named Marker, with whose wifi,
, Keith had been too intimate, was arrested
on suspicion.
II. w. Brown, from Erie, Pa, com
mitted suicide near Chattanooga, on Sun
day night. He swallowed mn ounce o
belladonna in the presence of his wife ant
then rushed from the house to the woods
where lie cut his throat. The body wa
found Monday morning. Brown had los
heavily by oil speculations.
At Westyille, ILL.,, ON Monday on tn
4 -. n, A
brakemen, McAdams and Brevolgle, stand
ing on n cnboose, frightened the brake
with such force that the platform whicl
! was old and rotten gave way just as tn
! cars came together. McAdums was killed
and Breyolglc so badly injured that Ii
died soon after.
e A masked burglar went to the house G
e W. X. Merriam, in st. Paul, Monda
g morning, seized Merriam's mother-in-ln,
i violently by the wrist fired II pistol TO in
timidate her, met Merriam inthe hall an
f cornered him with pistol and then mad
+ him point out valuables. The thief too
Il diamond studs, shirt buttons and gol
Il watch, all valued at 5000, and then COOL
i walked ont of the front door.
Il fire in Toronto before dnyligl
: Monday morning destroyed the Toront
r Sugar Refining Works, several boa
II houses, lumber yards, eley utors, coal yards
: schonners, ferry boats, warehouses,
n steamer and many minor buildings
d occupying half mile of one side of III
r Esplanade. The loss is estimated at owe
/ 81 900, 900. One man is believed to hav
d lost his lite. Three others We're badl
II burned, one OF whom is not expected I
e recover.
An election for state treasurer an
members of the Legislature was held i
= Kentucky ON Monday. A light vote wa
y polled and the state went Democratic b
= about the usual majority All the legii
! lative candidates of the Citizens Leagu
i'll Louisville were defeated. The leagu
= is reform organization composed of me
= of both parties, but owing to unfortr
y nate selection of candidates and e1
= traneous causes, it met decisive dcfeut
> The proposition to hold constitutions
convention was defeated in the state.
A delegation, representing the cattl
men, called upon the President Tursdn
y and urged him to modify the recent orde
for the removal of cattle from tn
D. Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservation i
is the Indian Territory, within 40 days. III
II delegation asked that the time be e,
} tended until spring. The President,
II declaring his refusal to modify the ordt
q said: "rwo interests are in conflict. o
Ii the one side we have public peace, publ
d security and the safety of lives. On I'll
T. other side are your interests. The forlnti
i. gentlemen, must be considered, thong
/, private interests suffer"
II The Secretary of the Treasury recent
g submitted to the ACCOMPLISHMENTS til
Z question whether +. A. IL. Bchaclr,
/ pardoned criminal, who arrived in Ne,
% York from Bremen, per steamship Alai
u should bepermitted 10 land under sectio
of the net of August Sd, 1882. and sc
u ton of the act of March Sd, 1875, rela-
: ing to foreign immigration. The con
9 mssioners of emigration nj New York I'm
reported in favor of allowing him to land
T. but the collector of the port Thought
,, contrary TO law. The Attorney Giener
a has decided that Behacke should be Del
y mitted to land. He takes the ground thu
y tue pardon blotted out the offence, nm
), that the evidence presented shows that
:, was not granted on condition of emigra
Il ton.