Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-11-26
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The total number of immigrants who
,rriyed in the United States last month
was 25, 9lS, against 81, 097 during October
1884.
The navy department is informed Of
the arrival Of the Galena at Jamaica
Monday and her proposed immediate
departure for Aspinwall. 1
A shanty at sabula. near Dubois, Pa, |
was burned on Sunday night, and James
McGraner and William Campbell, both
drunk were burned to death.
The Secretary of the Navy has been in
formed OF the death Monday of Lieu
tenant Ransom B. Peck at Vallejo, Cali
fornia, on the way TO Honolulu.
William s. Warner, Ferdinand Ward
and j. Henry Work were Monday in
dicted by the United States grand jury, in
New York, on the charge of conspiracy to
defraud the creditors and stockholders OF |
the Marine National Bank.
The dead bodies of two men who had |
registered as @. A. Thorp of Frenchtown, |
and s.. White of Perryville, were found in |
a bedroom in one of the hotels of Balti- |
more Monday morning. They blew out
the gas before going to bed.
The three. masted schooner Oracle N,
which sailed from New York on October
10th with cargo of guano for Charles
ton, S. q. has not been heard from. Her
captain and several of her crew are resi-
dents of Riverhead, Long Island.
ohristano Publ, 90 years of age, a fire.
man on the steamer Albo, which arrived
in New York from the West Indies three
days ago, with all well on board, died on
Sunday night of yellow fever. The late
ness of the season prevents any fear OF
the spread of the disease.
Near Seattle, Washington Territory, on
Saturday night, John Cannon, James j.
Smith and j. Harry Gaul, coal miners,
were crushed to death in their cabin.
They were sitting around o stove smoking,
when large tree, rotten at the butt, fell,
crushing the cabin and its occupants.
The Supreme Court of the United
States, in case from California, Mon
day rendered decision in effect that
neither police officer nor a private
citizen, in his capacity as such officer or
citizen, can lawfully arrest, without
warrant or order of military authority, a
deserter from the United States army.
Colonel Oudinot, addressing his con-
| stituents, in Montreal, Monday, said he
would vote against the government on the
| Riel question. Il is said that the next
move of the leaders of the Riel agitation
will be to get the county councils
throughout the province to pass resolu-
tions condemnatory of the present gov
eminent.
The total value of our exports of mer-
chandise during the IL months which
ended October 3lst, 1885, was $717, 179, 1852
and during the preceding 10 months
| 1884 1927, 1913. The value of our imports
of merchandise for the ~ months which
ended October 31st, 1885, was 1919 ,417,-
1922, and during the preceding IL months
1861, 561 ,413.
Clement Gransinger, an old resident Of
Cass county, Indiana, died on Sunday
morning. On his death-bed he confessed
that he had murdered his daughter, aged
80 years, about six years ago. At the
time of her death he reported that she
had committed suicide, and the circum
stances under which her body was found
tended to confirm his report.
Reports have been received ut the trea
sury department of growing scarcity o
10-cent silver pieces throughout til,
country. About $4,000 in dimes wa
coined in the Philadelphia mint weel
ago, but, the supply being insufficient, til,
superintendent has since been instructed
to coin into dimes all the uncurrent sub
sidiary silver there may be in the mint.
) Mr. and Mrs. Ulysses s. Grant, Jr.
. called Mt the White House Monday, an,
! spent few minutes in going through til
rooms, after which they stopped in tn
: Green Room. The President being in
formed of their presence stepped into til
Green Room on his way to the Eas
: Room, greeted them cordially and re
manned in conversation with them fo
e several minutes.
= The st. Jean Baptiste Society {
t Sillery, Quebec, has passed resolution
9 denouncing the Dominion governmer
9 for the execution of Riel. Similar rest
r lutions We're passed at an indignatio
G meeting in st. Joseph de Beauce, Quebec, o
g Sunday. An anti-Riel public meeting
proposed in Toronto to offset the inflan
matory meetings held in the province
Y Quebec.
The death was reported Monday
Samuel Jennings, aged SS years, one
y the "0ld Defenders of 1874" in Bait
% more. There are now but four living
that city, out of the 1853 who formed q
70 organization in 1912 to annually celebra
Sc the battle of North Point. Mr.. Jennin.
was the oldest printer in Baltimore. Il
az was the first printer to set up in tyl
So the "Star Spangled Banner"
Several thousand acres of fine grazi1
ao land in the st. Francis and Cache riy
So bottoms, Arkansas, have been laid was
within n few weeks by the burning
underground by hunters. The farme
% Ss have banded together for self protectio
" and it is rumored that mt Jonesboro',
Monday night three hunters who h,
O5 been caught in the act of firing undo
oi growth were lynched by the farmers.
~ A monument erected in honor of L
Nc ward Kelly, the Irish patriot, who W
sentenced in 1867 to be hanged, draw
'st and quartered, was unveiled Monday
al Mount Hope cemetery, in Boston. IT
KY monument, which is about IL feet hig
n is representation in miniature of IN Q
Ill Irish castle, and in design and execute
of it is unique and beautiful. The atten
in ance was large. John Boyle O'Reil
he delivered an address.
It's Lucius A. White, arrested in st. Lot
y. two months ago for the forgery of Braz
'at lao securities, was tried in the Unit
oi States district court Monday morning
ca three indictments. By agreement betwe
on counsel on both sides he entered plea
We guilty, subject to the decision of a poi
VI as to the constitutionality of the Ii
hs under which the indictments for the fc
gerry of foreign securities were frame
Is, the point to be raised by a notice in
8: rest of Judgment at subsequent sitti
ats of the court.
m 1t was reported in Ottawa Tuesday I'll
i. IN representations had been made to 4
III IN Dominion government respecting the CO
~ duct of Stipendiary Magistrate Rouleau
Is Battleford, which may cause respite
gn the eight Indians sentenced to. be hang
Ior at Battleford on Friday next. Itischare
Ior that he threatened that every Indian al
N. half breed rebel brought before him aft
ias the instruction was suppressed would
OF sent to the gallows if possible. For IL
re; reason and as Judge Rouleau was hea,
'eo loser pecuniarily by the Indian outbre
70 at Battleford, it is commended that
iM should not have been allowed to presi
De at the trials of the prisoners.
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