Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-05-21
IN GENERAL.

IL is estimated that more than $50, 900
wortL Of timber was destroyed by fires in
the woods of Suffolk county, L. l., dur
ing March and April.
The round-house of the Elmira, Cort-
land Northern railroad, at Cortland, N.
Y, was burned on Sunday evening. Loss,
nearly 100000.
All the schools in Kingston, Mass.
were closed Monday, owning to the pre-
valence of diptheria. There were four
deaths from the disease on Sunday.
A telegram from Lynchburg, Va, SAYS
the reign of terror reported in the Flat
Top coal region, Tazewell county, has no
existence in fact. A religious revival Ia
in progress there.
Angelina Jarvis, eolored, died suddenly
ut Little Neck, Long Island, Monday
morning. at the alleged age of ITO yenrs.
according to one telegram, and 1902 wears
according to another. She was born n
slave in Virginia.
The relief committee at Plymouth, Pa.
reported Monday that there were nearly
100 fewer cases of the fever than were
shown by the last canvass two weeks apo.
No new cases have appeared, and many
OF the sick are convalescing.
boiler in the Bib cotton mill, nj
Macon, Ga, burst Monday morning,
killing Frank Gibson, engineer, and in
Juring three others, one named Wesley
johnson, MORALLY. The damage 10 pro
perty is estimated at $4,000.
The coroner investigating the collision
OH the Reading railroad near Wilkesbarre
on Saturday, by which two men were
killed, reports TINT il was due to the gross
carelessness of Jacob Hoover, the train
dispatcher Hoover has fled.
The Indian police md posse of citi-
zens Ind IL fight ON the Choctaw lands. In
the Indian Territory, last Thursday with
u gang who were driving OF several hum
dred cattle. One of the robbers was
killed, two were captured and the rest fled.
A passenger train broke through a
6O-foot trestle bridge near Yale, British
Columbia, ON Sunday morning. fire.
man and Il brakeman were killed and two
other train hands injured Two bents of
the trestle Ind been washed away by n
food.
A telegram from Ottawa says the Do
minion government has not yet considered
the case of Riel. The best LAWYERS here
sily he will be tried for treason felony.
under the treason felony act of 1869 He
mny be tried either by general court
martial or by an ordinary civil tribunal,
In n fight between the West brothers
and the Langford brothers near Madison,
Florida, on Sunday, William Langford
was killed, George IAngford was 80 Sc
yerely wounded that he is not expected to
live, and Taft Langford WINS wounded in
the head. Eugene West was shot and
Abe and johnson West were cut, but not
seriously. The fight grew out of an cleo
ton feud.
A Halifax, N. S., dispatch says court
| of inquiry was held on board the flagship,
Admiral Commerell presiding, ON Thurs
| day on the conduct of the lieutenant and
marine on sentry on the Garnet when
| Captain Boyton attached torpedo to the
vessel. The marine was sentenced to AZ
days confinement The case of the
lieutenant will be written TO England
about. The marine will be sent to NELLIE
vile Island military prison.
| An Associated Press telegram from st.
Johns, Newfoundland, says that ON Sun
day another anti-Roman Catholic demon
stntion occurred ut Bay Roberts. The
house of William Daley, II leading Roman
Catholic trader, wns almost demolished by
stones. Some of Captain Hanneburry's
property was flung over the wharf into
the seh. Several Roman Catholic boys
and men were assaulted on their way 10
the chapel. The judge of Harbor Grace
imposed money penalty on the Orange
ringleaders.
The second anniversary of the Chinese
Sunday schools of New York and Brook
lyn, under the auspices of the Chinese
Sunday School Union of New York, was
celebrated Monday night in the Madison
Avenue Congregation Oh ,rch. About
20 churches We're represented, and there
was large attendance. There were
scripture readings and singing in English
and Chinese. Among those who made
addresses We're the Rev. DIR. w. +. Pad
dock, president of the Chinese American
Union of Philadelphia the Rev. u. G.
Henry, Chinese missionary from Canton,
and Au Yong Ming, Chinese consul at New
York.
AT Reading, Pa, Monday afternoon
Judge Sassnman dissolved the injunction
proceeding in the case of the Philadelphia
" Reading Railroad Company against the
Pennsylvania Schuylkill Valley Company,
involving the right of the latter to cross
at grade the Reading company's sidings
to manufacturing establishments ON South
Front street, in Reading. The judge de-
clares that the Pennsylvania Schuylkill
Valley company must give the Reading
company bonds for any damage that may
be done to its property; that there must
be temperate and orderly use of crossings
by both companies, and that there must
be no unreasonable interference with each
| other.
Smallpox is spreading rapidly in all sec
| lions OF Montreal. The health department
has broken down, but the mayor, assisted
| by Leading physicians, is trying to check the
| disease. @
Under thousand dollars license law
passed by the council of Sioux City, Iowa,
eleven saloons have taken out licenses since
sunday, and many more are expected to
i follow suit.
| Henry and Lizzie Stokes, colored, Of
| Blacks-and-Whites, Nottoway county, Va,
have been arrested on suspicion Of having
/ murdered their son, Samuel, who il Is sup
| posed, was stunned by blow and then
buried alive.
| Halter In Pittsburg, Tuesday, u porch in
| front OF the house give way, precipitating
10 people 10 the cellar, 10 feet below Mena
Leptselter, aged 20 years, and an old lady
named Culbertson, were dangerously If not
fatally, Injured, and u number OF others
| sustained severe bruises.
| A violent wind storm at TAYLOR Texns ON
Saturday evening, demolished the Missouri
Pacillc railroad freight house, unrnofed the
round house, wrecked the city hall and
damaged about IL other buildings. Tho
railroad companys loss II 81, 900, and the
damage to the other buildings Is from
sl2,OOO to 5l5,0O0. No lives were lost.
| meeting of clergymen held in Mime,
apolis on Saturday, denounced indecent
posters and called ON the city council 10
| prohibit them. On Monday evening the
| Rev. Father McGOldrick took out warrants
for the arrest of II hill poster and NJ. Il,
| Lehyitt, proprietor OF u theatrical company,
on charges Of posting obscene pictures.
1t said at the state department that the
presence Of Minister Phelps at the ronrlu-
sion Of the trial of the Irish Americans.
Cunningham and Burton, in London, on
Monday, was in pursuance OF special in
itructions received by him prior to his de-
parture for England, looking to the plytrc-
ton OF the legal rights of tho prisoners.
new move is reported ON the mart of
eattlelncn in the northern part OF tile Pan
Handle Of Texas, TO prevent driving of
southern TEXTS cattle over their rt,hg,s. A
nerd passing n0rthward was stopped ut
lascosa, ON the Canadian river, by the
sher1lf, acting under II writ In tresInlss md
the matter has been carried into Tie cOli,ts,
with the intention of mnkinp n tnst p,Sn