Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-07-09

Af""tN aibAAt tBtu ~ blhtbT,
aged 80, and their colored servant boy,
about Is, were murdered in their house,
near Moncure, N. c., last Saturday night.
The object OF the murders is supposed to
have been robbery.
Frederick Rogler, aged 90 years, fatally
shot Annie Forsch, n l5-year- girl. and
then committed suicide, at Arcadia, Wis,
on Monday night. nhe cause of the
tragedy was the girls parents refusing to
allow her to marry Rogler.
The wife of Daniel Donnelly, killed ut
the Hellman mine, near Wilkesbarre, Pa,
on Monday, has become maniac from
the shock. She will be sent to an asylum
and her five small children cared for by
the guardians of the poor.
A large nugget labeled "Australian
gold, valued at $15, 000," was stolen from
the geological museum in Ottawa by bur
glars few days ago. 1t was merely
plaster paris fac siinile of celebrated
nugget found few years ago.
violent hail storm passed over part of
Sussex county, New Jersey, on Sunday
afternoon. In n section 10 miles wide
and 10 in length grain and vegetables
We're destroyed and young chickens killed.
Hailstones the size of hickory nuts fell to
the depth of foot.
BY the premature discharge Of dyna-
mite blast ut one end of the SidelinR Hill
tunnel at McConnellsburg, Pa, Monday
morning, three men We're killed and six
others injured, two dangerously. The
killed We're John 0'Brien, Christopher
Mccormick and John White.
A dwelling near Woodbridge, Va, WINS
burned early on Saturday morning. The
infant of Mrs. Bailey was burned to death.
Joseph Harrison and two of his children
were so badly injured by fire and smoke
that they have since died, and Mrs.
Harrison's recovery is doubtful.
Three youths named Shambauph.
Mcfarland and Fisher, aged from Is to
10 years, were drowned while bathing in
the Kickapoo river, near Viola, Wis. on
Sunday. Mcfarland saved one of his
comrades, and while in the act of rescu-
ing another was himself drowned.
Charles j. Bonapnrte, Jr., and G. G.
hhodes, lawyers, had n round Mt iisticuIIs
III the clerks office of the circuit court af
baltimore Tuesday morning. Each re.
eeiyed n black eye before they were
| separated. The cause was a remark by
Rhodes which Bonaparte misunderstood
| James Van Elta's large stock farm Mt
Fulton, Wis.,, was destroyed by fire
Monday morning, together with its
contents, including nine blooded horses.
Two men were badly burned, one it is
thought fatally. Loss $50, 900, insurance
~, bO0. The fire was caused by lightning.
In the suit of II. L. Collins, MT Pitts.
burg, against the Pittsburg & Western
kallroad Company, the arbitntors have
decided IN favor of the defendants. The
SUIT involves 100000, the claim being
Dnsed on stock transactions. There was
no appeal from the award of the arbi-
traitors.
Several days ago Il. II. Bingham of
Granville, Ala, lost two mules by light
nlng' Hearing that he wished to replace
thehl, John Rome and Rufus Malcom
rode over with their stock, hut failed Ia
make trade, and, while returning home.
single stroke of lightning killed both
men and the mules.
A dispatch from Salisbury Cove. Maine.
says; Reports from the Georges Banks
state that the fishing schooner Mary Jane
Lee of Hancock, Maine, was run into Inv
an unknown barque and sunk. also TINT
the schooner Lewis King of Lamoine LOST
| seven men in the recent gale. and flint
other vessels lost lories and deck fittings
Robert Swain of Salt Lake, Utah was
arrested iuesday, charged with unlawful
cohap,tatloh' lie has three wives, two of
,hem peihg sisters. lie was placed under
non'ts, ana the women held ms witnesses.
robert MOTHS was also arrested, charged
| with the same olfense. He has three
WIVES. ne waived mn examination and
was placed under bail.
| The inland
mohday, received instructions from
ottiwa not to pass any entries of spirits
| OF TOBACCO until further orders. Ten
minutes after the order was received
uoouenllam Worts presented n marked
| eheSk ior $2OO,OOO and Dominion legal
tender for SlS0,000 to clear that nlIish
| splrits, but the collector declined,
IN the United States circuit court nj
baltimore Tuesday, Judge Bond affirm, d
.le decree OF the district court ttwardin,
three coiored women damages of SlOtl
eaeh lor having been excluded from first.
eii'ss SIeellhB apartments on the steamer
nus, atter they had purchased first. class
tickets. This settles the question SO f,r
as travelling on steamboats, ON Cbesnpeaka
| Day is concerned.
| a case OF yellow fever has been die.
covered IN New Orleans, but the boord nr
| nellln Oh That city considers there is no
luStihcation for alarm. The president of
.he lelith board Inns sent out the follow.
| ing dispatch; ITO correspondent bon,ds
ana sanitary associations; A snorn,li
case OF yellow fever in suburban lower
part OF New Orleans. Every precaution
OF dislnfection and isolation taken. No
Trace OF Importation
I,n IN.
me Shn Francisco Bukletin asserts that
| o,tuo Chinese landed Mt San Francisco
petween August list, 1889, when the Re-
strlction act went into effect, and Jnlv
oth, 1854, when the amended Restriction
aet was passed. From the latter date mn.
III Jniy 18th, 1885, over 3, 100 Chinese
landed, or 400 more in one yenr lmder
lhe amended act than during 90 months
under the original act. This isnttributpd
ny the BHftetth to the increase of frauln
lently obtained certificates
An extensive cave-in occurred TnaeL
any morning at one of the Baltimore
mines OF the Delaware Il Hudson com
plhy, about one mile from Wilkesbarre
II. The earth has only settled abont
three inches, but the cracking is extent.
ing. The cave-in covers at least 10 ocrne
OF hnd over which branch railroads Of
the Lehlgh Wilkesbarre Coal Compnnv
ana the Delaware u Hudson COMPANY ex,
tend. 1t is impossible to run any trains
at present. The men, mules and all the
running implements have been removed
from the mine.
The New York Daily Commercial Bn,-
httR publishes acompilation from lis own
files of 15G fires that occurred dnr;na
June in the United States and Canada
where the reported loss wasifrom S10 onG
to $4,000 1t estimates the aeeregate
hire waste of the country during ,jnne NJ
$6, $50, 900, which is 1926, 900 more tban
the average normal loss in June for ten
years past. There We're 10 fires the re-
ported aggregate loss of which was more
than one-fourth of the entire loss of the
month. The total loss for the first siy
months of the year is $50, $50, 900.
In the United States circuit cop,+ nj
Kansas City, Missouri, Monday. Judoe
krekel rendered judgment against Thomas
selby and G. M. Berry for contempt in
intimidating the employees of the receiver
of the Wabash railroad who were
appointed by the court. Berry was gwen
two months and Selby one month in mil
They were charged with leading the
strikers who entered the round-honse nj
Moberly during the strike Inst winter
and prevented trains from being run ont.
A motion for "a