Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-10-08
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The public debt statement issued Thurs
day shows decrease of $12, ,757 1856.
The loss by the Sherman House fire d
Fargo, Dakota, Friday morning, wal
$30,O00 insurance, $14, 900.
Franklin j. Moses, ex-governor o.
South Carolina, was sentenced in Bosto1
Thursday, to three years. imprisonment
in the penitentiary for obtaining money
under false pretences.
The government cruiser Chicago, the
heaviest vessel ever built at Ronchs ship
yard, Chester, is said TO have settled OIL
her ways to such an extent that workmen
haye had to shore her up to prevent
| accident.
The cadets accused Of hazing in the
Naval Academy Tuesday night week are
Robertson, Miller, Bailey, Fitch and
Edwin II. Quimby, the latter from New
York. The investigation now going on is
expected to result in a court-martial.
About so survivors of the One Hun
dred and Nineteenth Regiment Pennsyl-
vania Volunteers 1.-THE Gray Reserves),
dedicated their monument ut Round Top,
Gettysburg, on Saturday morning. Gen.
James W. Latta delivered the address.
A number of discharges were made in
the Brooklyn navy yard last spring, owing
to the smallness of the appropriations.
Among those discharged were seven
veterans. These have just been REM
stated by direction of Secretary Whitney
at the intercession of their comrades.
The schooner Florence Shay, which
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that on the 25th ultimo, 20 miles east of
Atlantic City, she picked up sail boat,
"a feet long. The boat contained fish
just caught, fishing tackle and two empty
whisky bottles.
In Charleston. s. O., Friday morn
ing, Stephen Reilly, well-known colored
Democrat, was shot dead by DIR. A.. N.
Bollinger. The latter claims to have
acted in self-defense. They had quar-
relied because the doctor blamed Reilly
for cruelty treating horse.
The Alabama Soldiers Monument Asso-
ciation has been organized in Montgomery
to build monument to the Confederate
dead on the capital grounds, where Jeffer-
son Davis was inaugurated president of the
Confederate States. The monument is to
cost $50, 900, and large amount has
already been subscribed.
James Fl. Rowe brought suit for
1926, 600 damages against the Detroit Free
Press for the publication of charges made
in proceedings that had been entered for
divorce. The Free Press copied from the
court records. Last week the jury brought
in verdict in favor of the plaintiff for
six cents damages.
The live stock commission of Illinois
hos reported to the governor that the
state is absolutely and entirely free from
pleur0- pneumonia in an acute and coDta-
5ious form. The governor is requested
to inform the executives of such states as
have quarantined against Illinois of the
fact.
The dead body of Isl" King, the negro
who assaulted two women last week, was
found hanging from tree near New
London, Missouri, on Saturday. He had
been dead several days. Some people
think he committed suicide, but the
general opinion is that he was quietly
lynched.
The five-story iron building, No. Is, II
and 10 Light street, Baltimore, was dam
aged by fire last nightweek Clarke q Jones,
candy manufacturers, lose $15, 1000; Gug-
genheim & We'll, label printers, SAC, 200 ;
Well d Hall, shoe manufacturers, lose
$40, 900, and the loss on the building is
estimated at $4,000. All the parties are
insured.
Seven third. class cadets in the Naval
Academy were caught Tuesday night week
hazing the new members of the fourth
class. The third class men were all
caught in separate acts of such positive
hazing that the indications are that in
quiries now proceeding will end in a
court-martial, and that all seven of the
culprits will be dismissed from the navy.
John A. Lowell g. Co., engravers, of
Boston, have failed. John A. Lowell,
when seen Friday, could give no
estimate of the liability. He said the
cause of the failure was the great expense
the firm had incurred in turning out
work of such high order, the heavy pay
roll of the firm and the purchase of many
works of art to assist in the production of
engravings.
Archdeacon Farrar preached Sunday
morning in st. Paul's Church, Baltimore,
to congregation which packed the build
ing to its utmost capacity long before the
services began. In the evening the arch
deacon preached in st. Peters to an audi
ence numbering 5000 His discourses
were taken from gospel parallels, and
were entirely devoid of what is usually
termed sensationalism.
A man and woman, both dressed in
black, committed suicide by shooting
themselves in Central Park, New York,
ON Saturday evening: The man has been
identified as George Bossandorf, % printer,
and the woman ms Maria Koch, wife of
DIR. E. r., Koch, editor of the Jersey City
Frei PreSsG and SOntagSgast. Letters
found on the bodies show that the tragedy
was agreed upon by the couple.
Officers of the Salvation Army at Nanti-
coke, Pa, were Thursday fined $2 each
for obstructing the,highway. They refused
| to pay the fines and were sent to Jail for
six hours. A bowling mob surrounded
| the prison and tried to tear it down. The
| whole police force was called out, and
with difficulty saved the building and dis
persed the crowd. The salvationists were
released that night and paraded the town
with nearly 1000 followers.
The President has issued an executive
order directing DIR. E. o. Shakespeare, of
Pennsylvania, to proceed, under the di-
rection of the Secretary of State, as the
representation of the United States, TO
Spain and other countries in Europe
where cholera exists and make investiga-
tion of the causes, progress and proper
prevention and cure of the said disease,
in order that full report may be made
to Congress during the next session.
The acting third assistant postmaster.
general has called upon postmasters for
reports of the first weeks special delivery
business. A Washington dispatch says
the officers of the department are not dis
couraged by the comparatively small
business done on Thursday at the princi-
pal offices. They feel that the public has
not yet had an opportunity to acquaint
itself with the advantages resulting from
the use of the special delivery system,
and believe that the system will steadily
grow in popular favor.
Williams College, at Williamstown,
Mass, was the scene, Wednesday week OF
cane rushes, indoors and out, between
the sophomores and freshmen. The fresh.
man class contains rs members, and the
sophomore class about half that number
so the freshmen insisted upon theii
rights. The rush was continued in the
dormitory, and the disturbance there was
carried into the village. President Carter
and the faculty held q meeting and
promptly suspended seven sophomores
ringleaders in the rushes in the dormitory,
The Secretary of the Treasury has in.
structed the collector of customs at New
York to issue clearances to the steamship
City of Mexico, plying between New Yorl
and Honduras. The vessel has beer
under surveillance at New York for sew.