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


ages in South Essex, Ontario.
A proclamation by the President was
issued Monday, ordering the removal Of
fences from the public lands
Twenty-Five Sioux children arrived in
Washington Friday on the way to the
Indian School at Hampton, Va.
The total amount received by. the
Grant monument fund committee OF New |
York, up to Tuesday afternoon, was
1888, 1913.
Hine and Stewart Pond, brothers, were
gored to death by q Holstein bull on Sun |
day on their farm, - miles from 81. Paul,
Minnesota.
o. Howard, white and Thomas Gill
and Thomas Neill, colored, were hanged |
at Fayetteville, N. g., Friday. They
were all murderers.
While painting the dial of clock in a
church tower at Grand Rapids, Michigan,
Monday, John Fox aud Frederick Scherer
were killed by the scaifolding giving way.
1t is reported from Villa RIGA, Georgia,
that Richard Hindsman, colored, who
was guilty of insulting white lady, was
given 800 lashes by indignant white
citizens.
The post office department has been in
| formed of the arrest of Thomas j. Grier,
a postal clerk running between Gaines
| vile and Social Circle, Georgia, for riding
letters,
At Chattanooga, on Sunday night John
Scott, bookkeeper for the Skeletons flour
ing mills had his throat cut from ear to
ear on the principal business street. The
murderer escaped.
II is reported that about 200 persons
are sick at Shamokin, Pa, of acute dys-
EMERY and spotted fever. The sickness
is attributed to impure water and lack of
sufficient sewerage.
During thunder storm, near Rock
Rapids, Iowa, ON Sunday, farm house
was struck by lightning and all the in
mates-John Mcguire, his wife and three
children, were killed.
jason A. Reed saved boy from
drowning at Westerly, Rhode Island,
Monday. After the boy had been taken
into boat Mr.. Reed attempted to swim
, ashore, but was drowned.
During quarrel about woman at
Sacramento, CAL, on Saturday, Barney
Palm and Joe Mclsaacs drew revolyers
and exchanged shots. Both were fatally
| wounded and are dend.
The house of @. A. Clement, near
: Detroit, was struck by lightning ON Mon.
q day night and consumed. His wife was
, killed and he, one child and the hired
: man We're severely injured.
q Notwithstanding the appearance of til,
. caterpillar in different parts of Georgia
4 the cotton crop of that state promises tc
!, be the largest ever gathered there, ant
the quality the best for five years.
n Notice has been given to the quarantin,
V officers Mt Baltimore and the Delawar,
V l5reakwater to look out for three vessel
is which have sailed from Genoa for thost
. places without proper bills of health.
Is In Chenango county, New York, Mon
'e day morning. Edwin Preston went to tn
l, house of his sweetheart Matilda Miner
and shot her dead MS she sat at breakfast
IT He then shot and fatally wounded himsel
ID in the head,
y Advices of n cyclone which passed dow
u Loup valley, in Omaha. have been re
~ ceived. 1t lasted 20 minutes, and near
u wrecked the town of Ord. lin roofs wer
10 torn up, weak buildings blown down an
crops DESTROYED.
w. ii. Grove, showcase manufacture
on Fourth street, below Race, Philadel
u phia, committed suicide ON a farm nei
Phmnixyille, Pa, ON Saturday afternoon
er by hanging himself in barn. He WI
at insane from nervous prostrntion.
he A boat, containing Jarvis Snyder, h
S3 wife and little daughter, and Willinl
ed Hoifner and George Hansen, was carrie
Ie over the rapids Of the Columbia river, ,
10, Cascade Locks, Oregon, on Saturtu
i'll night, and nil persisted.
he Two more persons have died of Il
to sickness prevailing Mt Porter Station
re Indiana. Seven new c,lses were reportt
ny on Friday. One of the physicians is il
M clined to think that lack of sanitary pr
'c- caution has as much TO do with the di
lat ease as tainted meat.
to A heavy rain and thunder storm yisitt
Iot Kansas City, Missouri, before daybref
Tuesday morning, Cellars and stree
rat i'll all parts of the city were flooded. Nv
by brick stores collapsed during the storm
lor their defective foundations having bee
in weakened by the flood
it'll The China OgerIand Mail of the 81
July reports that by the great food
the province of Canton, which began I
July 10Th, whole villages were eneulfe
III the rice and silk crops nearly ruined NJ
led 1000 lives lost. The flood was caus,
18th by the bursting of dykes.
lad William kearney, an insane man, w
iIr. arrested in Kansas City, Mo-, Frida
his, lie lives i'll Nebraska and sad he was ,
to his way to Washington to kill Preside
lips Cleveland, against whom he had n fanci
n grievance. He had revolver and W
ent we'll supplied with money.
cal AT Findlay, Ohio, on Sunday evenin
he whites Mrs. Maria Struble, aged GO yeal
tic, WINS taking n bottle containing old cid
the from shelf in the pantry. the bot
ich burst and n large piece of glass struck Ii
IS a in the neck, seyering her iugular vel
of She died in n few minutes.
was A telegram from Augusta, Ga, Mond
nge night, said: "To-night William Dantipp
in shot Il. A. Sibloy in the breast. Bo
'es. men are well connected and ARE relnt
md by marriage. The nilair grew out of
misuntorstandingand is deeply regrett
by both and 10y their friends"
nj. The New Jersey capitol rebuilding COZ
it's mission met Tuesday in Trent, n aud d
tLn clded to 90 ON with the excnyntinp INN
IF diately. Willie this is being done Arcl
il !. tect Broome will perfect his plans. II Ii
rec been decided to sell the old materi
Ia which will be Of NO use to the state.
i n At Erie, Kansas, Mrs. frankie N,
| 10 ii't7 ''''u N'uNiNlttt vi Int murder
NJ = her mother, whose life was insured
Ii Slh,0O0. Tho payment was contested
end the Insurance company. Mrs. Nor
ms was married ON Sunday evening, in I
the Jail, to Harvey d. Copeland, of Wichii
lis mob of 20 armed men entered Eure
lis Springs, Arkansas, on Thursday NJ
cni opened II fusillatle upon u house occuni
tbe by family of newcomers Of lIntnyiul
NO. reputation, named Young One mn
YER member of the fatally returned the III
wounding three of tho assnilants scri,us
and eifectually dispensing them.
AT Halifax, on Saturday, Captain Hen
: Baker was committed for trial in the :
I'M, preme court ON the charge Of having nc,
MY tied the schooner Smiling Water. m
hh- mate of the schooner sw0re TINT Blk
ted paid him 1925 TO hnre hole in the yesse
I Is bottom, and one of the crow testified
nal having helped to sink the schooner.
The French brig Deux Cousins of
was Brienx, recently passed in mid Atlantic
got large ships boat containing tho de-
the bodies of three men. The boat had
en- piece of pole for n lagstag, to which "
was attached piece of canvas as n flap
zen distress. She evidently belonged 10
ace Norwegian vessel, ms she had the mn,
ma Richard Lnnwig painted on her.
ms The July report of the National Cottt
rel Exchange says the percentage of colt,
lhs been advanced to 97,against 80 at d