Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-06-18
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
TAXING HIS QUIETUS WITH A
BARE BODKIN..
A SkiIful C0unterfeiter Arrested
A Mexican Town Visited by a
Cyclone.

A recent cyclone at Salinas, Mexico de-
molished 45 houses and did great damage
to the crops.
Sunday was the wnrmest of the sea
son in Baltimore, the temperature reach
ing 80 degrees in the shade.
Alonzo Fuget, one of the most skilful
counterfeiters in the United States has
been arrested at Versailles, Ky.
A proclamation has been issued declar-
ing the state Of Panama under martial
law. The city of Panama is quiet.
Rudolph Ryan died in Montreal Thurs
day of glanders 1t is the second fatal
case of the disease in human subject in
that city recently.
S. H. and Dean Denman, father and
son, were killed by the bursting of a
small steamboat boiler at Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, on Wednesday night.
At New River, Tenn, on the Cincin-
natl Southern railroad, Thursday, tun-
mel caved in on construction train and
six persons were killed and 20 wounded.
One hundred and seventy of the 200
bodies of the persons drowned by the
water-spout at Paso de Quarenta, Mexico,
have been recovered. The town had IA
population of 800.
John Huntsman, son of prominent
merchant of Allegheny City, Pa, was at
tackled and fatally wounded by II burglar
in his fathers house Sunday morning.
The burglar escaped.
The members of gang of ruflians who
have been committing robberies and muir
ders in Lafayette county, Ark, were cap
tured by sheriifs posse few days ago.
Two of the gang We're killed.
In the queens bench court at Montreal
on Saturday, w. II. Hall was sentenced
for forgery to ~ years imprisonment,
and Robert Fox, for feloniously uttering
forged documents, to six years i'll the
penitentiary.
Mrs. William II. Diebold of Temper
anceville, near Pittsburg, jumped into the
Ohio river Sunday morning, with her
4-months-old babe in her arms, and both
were drowned. Mr.. Diebold's mother
committed suicide six weeks ago by taking
poison.
Cassius Stackhouse and Albert Lnbar,
young men of Lincoln, Sussex county, N.
j., took refuge under u tree during n
thunder storm Monday night. week and
were struck by lightning. Labar was
killed and Stackhouse dangerously
injured.
The Dolphin made her trial trip ut sea
Thursday, making six hours run outside
Sandy Hook. The trip was considered
successful. According to the log the
vessel made mn average speed of l2g
knots, but according to the charts the
speed was 13 80 knots.
In the conhagration at Aux Cayes,
Hayti, on the 18th ult., 800 buildings
were destroyed and l, 900 families made
homeless. The loss is estimated at over
$2,00O,0O0. The government has sent
$50, 900 in money and a supply of pro-
visions for the sufferers.
George w. Jones, cigarmaker, was
Sunday morning committed TO jail at
Winchester, Va, at his own request. Half
an hour later he attempted suicide by
pressing IL needle into his side, near the
heart, and then cutting his throat with II
cigar knife. lie is not expected to re-
cover.
Four masked rufIinns entered the house
of Leonard BOnner,a farmer i'll Allegheny
county, Pa, last Friday night, and gagged
and tortured the members of the family
until Bonner told where his money was
concealed. The robbers got y 300 III
cash and about $500 worth of jewelry.
The Dorrance shaft of the Lehigh Val
ley Coal Company was set ON fire ON Sat
urday night by the ignition of gus from Il
miners naked lamp. The men in the
mine managed to escape, but the mine is
still burning, and it will probably take
la no ne lnuuf tn ayiinfF1ligll fIl
flames. About 200 men will be thrown
out of employment.
The Presbyterian church at Shippen
burg, Pa, was destroyed by fire Sunday
afternoon and dwelling opposite caugh
fire and was also destroyed. The tota
loss is about $27 900, on which there ar,
insurances of $11 900. The fire in th'
church started on the roof, and is sup
posed to have been caused by sparks
from chimney.
Ezra Herring, the National Express
messenger between Troy and Schenectady
New York, was arrested last week ut hi
home ut Limsingburg, for stealing tire,
money packages containing about u, ,OO'
in bonds, notes, drafts and cash. Th'
missing packages were found behind |
picture hanging on the wall, with TIN
seals broken, but the contents intact.
A shooting aifray occurred Mt Eas
Bernstndt, KY, Thursday, bctweei
George, William and James Thompson
brothers, and Wilkcrson and Rufus Law
son, cousins. Wilkerson Lawson wns i'll
stantly killed by George Thompson, ant
Rufus Lawson received several dangerou
wounds. B. l.. Poyntcr, bystandcr, wa
also dangerously wounded.
A telegram from tho City of Mexic'
saws: "Details of the terrible loss of lif
and destruction of property by the re
mnrkable wnterspouts near lagos, IN tn
state of Jahsco and nj Gunnnjuato, ar
still very meagre. All the dispatches thu
far received estimate the loss of life il
the lagos district ut over 300 souls Th
damage by the flood in the city q
Guanaiuato is now placed at $500, 600.
On Saturday the body of Riclar
McElvee, % years of age, was foun
on the roadside u few miles from Osykl
Miss, with 10 buckshot in his head. IL
hnd eaten breakfast ut his fathers nous
but an hour before, and his body wa
discovered only half mile from III
home. On his person were found wv
reyolyers, one of which wns londrd, Will
the other llad three chambers empty.
The health board of the town I
Westehester, N. Y, has informed the stat
board of health that the manufacture I
dynamite is carried on extensively
B,ychester, on the line of the New NoI
4 New Haven railroad, about half n mi
from Westchester. The local board MI
alleges that there ARE tons of explosiv
stored there, and asks what can lawful
be done to rid the country of danger
The commissioner of Indian Ailnl
Thursday awarded contracts for furnis
ing beef for Indians as follows For u
Crow Creek agency, SO0,OOO pounds,
S3.4( per cwt., to Charles A. Weare
Chicago for the Yankton school al
agency, 800, 900 pounds, to Asel kyes
Yankton, at $3.57, aud 300, 900 pounds
Charles A. Weare, at $3.57 for t
Rosebud agency, 6,500,0OO pounds,
1888, to A. H. Seeran of Cheyenne
the Pine Ridge agency, $500, 900 poun'
Mt 49, ASA. to Strange Brothers of Sio
City.
The Secretary of the Treasury Il
week issued circular to customs oihc'
containing the following: 'All clrcnl'
of this department concerning the dls
fection of imported old rags are here
revoked, and that all old rags hereaf
imported from foreign countries shall
admitted to entry at the custom hou
only upon the production of permits fr
the health officers at the ports of imp
tation duly authorizing the landing OF
same. Vessels carrying old rags arriy
at any United States quarantine will
detained by the quarantine officers, {
held subject to the order of the pro