Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-06-11
IN GENERAL.

1
Friday afternoon.
The main building of the Canton Paper
mill, at Canton, Ohio, was
burned early Tuesday morning. Loss.
$50 900 insurance, $27, 900.
The statue of the pilgrim" presented
by the New England Society to the city
Of New York, was unveiled in Central
Park on Saturday afternoon.
George Coustine, diver, was Mon
day carried over the dam at Holyoke,
Mass, and the air-pipe being severed,
death ensued from suffocation.
The New York police commissioners
Tuesday retired Superintendent Walling |
at his own request, and appointed In
spector Murray to fill the vacancy.
The skeleton of 16-year-old boy has
been found under the floor of house |
undergoing repairs in Richmond, Va. |
The head was severed from the body.
The treasury department is advised that |
Aufdemorte, the embezzling sub-treasury
officer ut New Orleans, has fled to Mexico,
where he is interested in some mines.
S. Bryan was killed by lightning at
Garden Hill, Ontario, Sunday, and a
man standing beside him was stunned.
Bryan had beenstruck by lightning before.
A gun left in barn at Niagara Falls to
kill rats was fired off on Saturday by
Charles Barge, who did not think it was
loaded, and killed another youth named
John Roche. 5.--
The Grand Lodge of Orangemen of the
United States began its tittieth annual
session in Chicago Tuesday. A resolu-
ton expressing sympathy with General
Grant was adopted.
A telegram from Bogota says the Co.
lombian forces have suppressed the in
surgents at all important points. Conf
dence in the government is restored and
business prospects are improving.
The supreme court of Ohio decided
Tuesday that I'LL taxes paid by saloon
keepers under the Scott law, which has
been declared unconstitutional, shall re-
main in the different county treasures.
The cadets of the first, third and fourth
classes ut the Naval Academy, nearly $50
in number, embarked at Annapolis Mon
day on the United States steamship Con-
stellation fortheir summer practice cruise.
Mrs. j. Osterholtz, aged As years, died
ON Saturday night, and her husband aged
IS, died on Sunday morning, in Charles
ton, S. c., from drinking water from a
foul cistern. They were taken sick last
Thursday.
During thunder storm at st. Thomas,
Ontario, ON Sunday evening, the dwell
ing of family named Ryan was struck
by lightning, and Mrs. Ryan was killed.
mnn named Stittson was knocked down
and injured on the street.
The application for new trial in the
case of Cluycrius, convicted Of the muir.
der of Lillian Madison, in Richmond, Va,
was refused Monday morning. A
motion was then entered in arrest OF
Judgment until the 10th inst.
A telegram from Lebanon, Pa, says
that Monday afternoon Mrs. Marie
Splitter was stung on the neck by H.
year locust, causing great pnin and swell
ing, and demonstrating the services OF
physicians, who have pronounced her on
OF danger.
The surgeon general of the marine hos
pital service has notified the quarantin,
officer ut Cape Charles and the heultl
officer ut Baltimore that the ship Jupitel
left Valencia, Spnin, where the cholera ii
| NPAANhiAhI VI bht ADtlA VI hpllls bONlu ~
Baltimore.
A scaifold upon which three men wer
painting II building in Lock Haven, Pa.
fell Tuesday afternoon. One man clunl
7 TO third. story window until rescued
George and Charles Fox fell with til
scatfolding, and Charles was fatally an,
George seriously injured.
The number of immigrants who arrive
= III the United States during MAY wa
g GG,9n. The total number of Immigrant
4 who arrived during the l. months wllic
+ ended May Both, 1885, was 3i3 ABS
: against I'D, BOG during the correspondent
i period of the previous year.
7 1t is reported from Chattanooga thu
= l7-year locusts are increasing ON I'll
:, ridges north of that city. All shrubber
: and trees and every green object IN
covered with the insects. In some local
:, ties they are so numerous that all 9th,
v sounds are drowned by their noise.
The Judgment against Mrs. Della Pa
nell was cancelled Monday morning
Il the office of the clerk in chanccry
X Trenton, New Jersey, the claim htviI
= been paid by New York friends. Cons
" quently the sale of personal propert
n advertised ut Bordentown did not TIL
# place.
l. johnson G. Peck, aged Al year
r. Rufus Clark, aged SO and John Stott ,ag,
10, who were burned by the gas explosit
in Beckerlc's hat factory, ut Danbur
Conn, last Saturday, died Monday fro
T. their injuries William Beckerie al
n several tiremen are not expected
10 recover.
p Among the letters received ut the DC
NJ Office department is one from I'M Indiai
he man who wishes TO be informed VIII
q qualifications are required of an applica
er for position MS hostler' ON mail rout
Another man has applied for the positi,
OF sexton of the post Office departing
building.
Edward r. Taylor, cashier of [
Logan National Bank of West I4ibert
~ Ohio, which failed in September last. "
a indicted by the United States grand in
Ill in Toledo for ''misapproprating" 800, 0
hit of the banks funds. He surrender
Sc himself Tuesday and gave bail in SO, u
ls Tor his appearance for trial.
W. While a man named Nicholas Cook NJ
Io boy named Philip Wise were sailing
~, the Delaware, near Trenton, Sunda
=, the mast broke, knocking the boy ov,
- board. The man jumped into the wnt
''' to save him, hut was drowned by the b
winding his arms around his would
Vs. reseuers neck, and causing both to sii
r.. heavy thunderstorm passed o,
ms Utica, n. Y, ON Sunday evening.
nn was followed by another violent stu
nd about l.30 o'clock Monday mornii
wo which levcled trees and chimneys, hi
ia on roofs, overturned barns and dem
No lshed t-buildings. The storm also ,
nd much damage to different sections
,re Montgomery and Fulton counties.
ess The governor of Massachusetts |
ny signed the Hoosac Tunnel bill. By ii
)m bill the state sells TO new cOrpornti
80 the Hoosnc tunnel and the Troy Il Gre,
field railroad, the state taking pay in
stock and bonds of the new corporati,
I'M. Thus is laid the foundation for a mn
IL moth through route from Boston vim
I'D Hoosac tunnel to Chicago.
vas Judge Walker, of the United Sta
err district and circuit courts, ut Clevelu
raj Ohio, has ordered the sale of the In
all Erie Western railroad. On April u
ty. the railroad company confessed iudgm,
~ for $500, 500 in the United States Giro
up court, in favor of Mr., George McGourl,
vas of New York, on u promissory note.
ION snle was ordered on this Judgment, n
will he made at Toledo, July 29th,
Marshal Goodspeed, as special mas
ice commissioner. The rond will not be 4,
the for less than S20O, 900, subject 10 all
of eunbrnces ON the property.
of While Philip ID. Slocumb was sitting
II the conniing-room of his store, 1T n