Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-08-20
Hamburg mills were flooded and light.
ming killed five mules.


ming killed five mules.
Three signal service officers-Lieuten
ant A. w. Greedy, Fifth cavalry Lieuten
ant Robert Craig, Fourth artillery, ant
Lieutenant II. H. @. Dunwoody in
cluded in the recent order directing lin,
officers who have been on detached dut,
four years to go back to their regiments
| II is thought an exception will bio made il
the case of Lieutenant Greedy, in order tt
allow him to complete his report of thu
Arctic Expedition.
Yesterday week cloud burst oc
CURED at Hoffman's Ferry, eight miles
from Amsterdam, New York. The track
| of the New York Central railroad were
washed into the river for distance o.
500 feet, and telegraph poles and fencel
were prostrated for miles, Trains were
delayed, the passengers being transferred
around the break. The rain fell in sheets
destroying crops and inficting serious
damage in various ways.
A telegram from San Francisco sayt
the Central Pacific land office, while
making up map of the railroad lands il
Idaho and Utah, made the strange dis
coyery that Idaho claimed one boundary
line and Utah another, and that strip Of
land % miles wide, extending across the
northern part of Utah, was left, which
by the survey does not belong to either.
The surveys used are those filed at Salt
Lake City and Boise City. s-,
A tornado in Norwood, st. Lawrence
county, New York, yesterday week
destroyed several buildings and the Og.
densburg q Lake Champlain railroad
bridge. A number of persons were killed,
among them being John Martin, Mrs.
David Fitzgibbons and Mrs. Armstrong.
Five hundred excursionists from platts-
burg to Ogdensburg are detained at the
latter city owing to the destruction of the
bridge. Details are meagre, as telegraphic
communication is interrupted.
A dispatch from Wilkesbarre, Pa, saws
there are no new Developments in regard
tothe accident in the West End eolliery at
Mocanaqua. The bodies of the 10 men
who were suffocated were all removed
from the mine. The stoppage of the fan
and the consequent accumulation in the
mine of fumes from the boiler fires and
foul gas caused the accident. The coro.
ner will hold an inquest on Saturday, and
for the accident.
At Gettysburg Thursday afternoon the
One Hundred and Sixth Pennsylvania
Regiment dedicated granite shaft on the
scene of Pickett's charge. An address
was made by Gen. A. S. Webb, of New
York. Gen. j. @. Lynch delivered the
monument to Col. j. nj. Vanderslice for
the Memorial Association. Gen. e. b.
Findley, acknowledgement, and about 80
members of the Ohio committee, are
engaged in marking the position of the
Ohio troops during the battle.
Governor Perigree presided at the
meeting of the Battle Monument Associa-
tion in Bennington. VT, yesterday week.
A design by j. P. Rim of Boston was ac-
cepted, and committee was appointed
to report the details to the President of
the United States and the governors of
Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. This
action will entitle the association to re-
ceive appropriations made by Congress
and the legislatures of the states named
for the erection of the monument. The
fund now amounts to $80,000.
A telegram from Billings, Montana,
says that Ed. Goulding, with two as
sociate cattle men on the Musselshell, on
Thursday met marauding band of Piegan
Indians between Hse Razar and Half
breed creeks. The Hegans numbered 30,
and had with them rs stolen horses.
Goulding and his companions fred, kill
ing one Indian, but, being greatly out
numbered, were compelled to retreat.
Obtaining reinforcements, and overtak-
ing the Piegans, they killed the entire
party and recovered the stolen horses.
What effect this fight may have ON the
neighboring bands is unknown.
Governor Ireland of Texas, Thursday
issued n proclamation reeiting Tint ''per-
sons from Vera Cruz and possibly other
places in Mexico, infected with yellow
fever, are now entering this state by way
of El Paso, Laredo and other points on
the Rio Grande by railroad and other
conveyance, in direct violation of the
quarantine proclamation of March Goth "
Therefore he declares tlnt "after to-day
quarantine shall be enforced on the Rio
Grande against infected places in Mex
ico." Quarantine stations will be estab-
lished at Laredo and Ell Paso.