Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-09-24
~ anxnnAn.

Princeton College will open this year
with about $50 students on the roll.
Henry A. Wiley Of Texas, was Fri
day dismissed from the naval academy
for hazing.
The date to which Riel has been re-
priaved to allow the hearing Of his appeal
before the imperial privy council is
October 18th.
George Butler, x-United States consul |
general &C Alexandria, was locked up for |
drunkenness in New York Thursday in |
default of $40 fine.
Elizabeth Thomas, 100 years of age,
was killed Friday morning while walk
ing on the railroad track at Lorberryville,
Schuylkill county, Pa.
A young son of Edward Turnbaok died
on Saturday in Hazloton, Pa, from the
effects of hazing received on Wednesday
week from some boys in a public school.
A Gre at Nashville, Tenn, yesterday
Der and the mill buildings OF the Southern
Pump Company. Loss, 5000, 900; insur-
ance, $l0U,OO0'
AtDover, N. Ii. ,yesterdayweek, the jury
in the suit of Berry against Young, to re-
cover $40, 900 damages Tor injuries by u
dynamite explosion, rendered u verdict OF
80, 900 for the plaintiff.
Several buildings were struck by light
ming during heavy thunder storm in
Buffalo Tuesday morning. large
barn at Lancaster, near Buffalo, was con-
sumed, with several head of cattle.
The common council of Long Island
| City Tuesday night week passed an ordi-
nance imposing a license fee of 500 on
skating Kinks. This measure will prevent
the opening of the two Kinks there.
At Erie, Pa, on Thursday night, the
| jury returned verdict of guilty i'll the
case of Adam Bartender, president of the
bank which he wrecked, TO the financial
ruin of thousands. He is 10 years of age.
| The subscriptions for the Grant mora
ment fund in New York up to Saturday
night reached $79, 9l5, Madison Square
Garden has been leased for three months
for the purpose of holding tair in the
aid of the fund.
James Webb was arraigned Tuesday,
at Hoboken, for bigamy. 1t is charged
that, having n wife i'll Brooklyn, he in
duced Miss Hasbrock, u young lady well
known in society to marry him. She is
| ~ years olu, WeDD Az.
The hog cholera in the southern por-
ton of Essex county, Ontario, has as
sumed such proportions that it is ex-
pected to spread into the adjoining
counties unless the government takes
steps to stamp it out.
William Meaghan, aged is years, the
son of n wealthy and respectable citizen
of Jamaica, Long Island, was Friday
convicted OF burglary and attempt to
commit an outrage and was sentenced to
10 years imprisonment.
Bernard Stechner, alias Louis Brown,
II Chicago jewelry thief, was sentenced Mt
London, Ontario, Friday, to three
years imprisonment, he having pleaded
guilty to the charge of bringing stolen
property into Canada.
At Bevier, Missouri, early Monday
morning, an mir compressor, TO be used
in coal mine, was blown to pieces on the
Cur from which il was not yet unlonded
1t is supposed dynamite was used. and
strikers are suspected of the deed.
Z The boiler i'll Fabels soap factory ri
{ Louisville exploded Tuesday, killing
+ Edward Earnest, the engineer, and dam
, nging the huilling TO the extent o
il Sl5,U0O. A boiler in the same factory
II exploded year ago, killing two men.
A telegram from Dickinson, Dakota, re
Il ports prairie fires rigging in that neighbor
4 hood Sunday. Miles of country hn'
c been burned over, and there was grea
If destruction of grain and hay in stacks
Several buildings were also consumed.
0 Captain Gillings, of the British steame
= Oakdale, which arrived in Baltimore o.
! Sunday with nearly %, 900 bugs of COTE
II from Brazil, was Monday fined $500 70
y not having proper manifest. Annppea
'o was taken to the Secretary of the Treasury
m Howard Pierce and Hugh MclIenry, al
n, rested in Topeka last week for til
n robbery of a train on the Chicago a. Alto
se road at Blue Springs, on the night {
IN September I'd, Were indicted Tuesday wee
n by the grand jury, and were held
q. $3, 500 bonds.
IN An attempt was made yesterday wee
e. to rob Loomis IL Sons bank nj Attici
Id N. Y. The assistant cashier was owe
n. powered and the rohber was going oil
ht with $500, when he was stopped by ma
ne named Lerish, and after lively tuss
ok placed in the hands of the police.
Id William Kearney, one year ago one
Dy the most brilliant young members of Il
or Cass county, Indiana bar, was arrested
III Sheldon, ILL.,, and taken to Logansport G
C, Tuesday week, charged with horse stealing
a. He denies that he stole the hors
10 Keareny's downfall is attributed to VIII
u and women.
i; The season Just closed nj Long BranC
is snid to have been a very good one fl
;ol the hotel-keepers, Mt least 10000 mo
s persons haying visited the Branch tina
bc during 1854. During the coming whit
"A number of new cottages and Mt lea
;t .o one new hotel will be erected for ne
~ summer.
X. Augustus L. Heclxler of the Dra,aat
a. Neacs, was Friday presented with
m, gold medal by the Life Saving Benev
by lent Association of New York, in recogI
he ton Of his bravery in saving from drow
no ing Miss Kate Budener and Thorn
Ir. Morris of Baltimore, on August 18th,
,rs Asbury Park, New Jersey.
ito The treasury department Monday 1
is ceiyed for redemption package of abo
nat 100000 in United States notes wifi
lin are badly mutilated and almost beyoi
he recognition. Their owner, an Oh
nd farmer,is said to have buried them in Il
lit. earth, in preference to placing them in
M bank or other depository.
IN At Silver Creek, near Pottsville,
-ne Saturday night, Sarah O'Neall murder
PRS her husbands aunt, Elizabeth Keefo,
ny cutting off her head with an axe. MI
erS O'Neall was drunk ut the time. She al
me her husband were continually quarrelin
ms and she blamed the aunt, who lived wi
eiT them, for causing the disagreements.
IL" Thursday was '"Iobacco Day" in Lou
,av vile, the occasion being the celebrate
~ of the sale of the 100, 000th hogshead
tia tobacco in that city this year. 4
nS, feature of the celebration was a parad
1f' representing nearly every commerce
orc interest which was more than eight mil
ora in length. The festivities attract
orc 10000 visitors to the city.
nd The American Paper Manufacture
elk. Association has written to the quaranti
ted commissioners Mt New York, complaint
that the process of distinction now
use Injuries the rugs that are importe
1t is urged that in 100 paper mills
the country, employing 100, 900 operative
"" there never yet has been case of chole
resulting from infection in rags.
S rs, A telegram from Chicago saws tl
as' friends of Archbishop Feehan are tryil
nee to raise fund to enable the archbish,
rI to purchase the partly finished pala
W. dwelling erected by the late Wilbur
"o Storey IL ia iOtaOdad fn onn,,o,4 Al