Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-12-10
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Walter 4 Bauer's toy works ut Appleton Q
Wis.,, were burned on Saturday night |
Loss CSC, 600.
Two young SOUS Of Commissioner Lee
clair were drowned Thursday While
skating at Auoka, Minnesota.
A heavy storm OF wind and rain, accom-
panied by thunder and lightning, ragged at
Halifax, Nova Scotia, during Saturday
night.
The Northwestern Chemical Gompauy's
works, near Milwaukee, were damaged by
fire TO the extent of 100000 on Saturday
evening.
The Cheyenne National Bank of Chey-
enne, Wyoming Territory, was last week
authorized to begin business with a CAPT
tai of 100000.
The shoe factory of NJ. Russ, and
dwelling in Salem Centre, N. H., were
burned yesterday week. Loss, S2l 200
insurance, $500.
An incendiary fire in Fort Gratiot,
Michigan, on Saturday morning destroyed
three saloons and grocery, causing
loss of $4,000.
A fiatboat loaded with potatoes was
capsized by the waves at Norris Landing,
near Metropolis, Illinois, on Friday last,
and six men were drowned.
Five of the family of j. A. Galyon, at |
Knoxville, were poisoned yesterday week |
by drinking coffee in which their colored |
cook had placed half pound of arsenic. |
The Ottawa Citizen asserts that the
newly formed national party offered one
of the Dominion ministers q sum equal to
his salary if he would resign his seat in
the cabinet.
The British barque Harkaway, with q
cargo of salt for Gloucester, Mass, went
ashore near Caffrey's Inlet, N. G., on the
3Oth ult., and is total loss. The crew
was rescued.
In the city court at Baltimore yester-
day week, John H. Lenhardt was awarded
| $4,000 damages for having had one of
| his arms broken by collision on the
York Road horse railway.
Major Sumner has reported to General
| Miles from Fort Reno that the instruc-
| tions regarding Oklahoma have been
carried out, that all the intruders have
| been removed and TINT cattlemen with
their herds are on the move.
DIR. j. A. Hail. aged 76 years, and Mrs.
Matilda Brown, aged 60, convicted of
criminal malpractice which resulted fla
tally, were sentenced in Pittsburg on Sat
urday, to three years and six months and
four years and six months in the peniten-
tiary, respectively.
Thursday afternoon about 800 Scandi-
navians, gathered from all parts of the
northwest, and all of them men except
three passed through Chicago, on their way
. to New York, where they will embark for
, n visit to their old homes. They bought
half a million of crowns for use on their
journey.
At Nicholasyille, Kentucky, on Satur-
, day, David Hutchcraft, who had been q
| witness in case against Wade Rue, met
? the latter at the polls and looked at him
! Rue, remarking that no man could "eye'
him like that, drew revolver, but was
shot dead by Hutchcraft before he could
J, use it.
The supervising architect of the trea
!. sury, in his annual report, says there ar
y now in course of construction 80 ney
" buildings, ranging in cost from $25,0O
to 80, O0U, 600 each, calling for a total eS
lie penditure of 1851 400. The expendi
IS lures for the year on this account hay
~ aggregated SLABS 700.
y An aged woman named Miles was nlui
y. - dered and her house was robbed of $ll
in Medina, N. ", yesterday weel
The murder was discovered by her hui
al band, who, on going home to Dime
III found his wife's throat cut. basin {
p. bloody water showed that the murder,
cs had washed his hands after the deed.
~, IT, A telegram from Rosenberg, Texas, {
i"t the line of the New York, Texas Il Mex
can railroad, snys the 1U-nile wire fem
MT along the north side of pasture co
ISL tanning 100000 acres, belonging
led Kountze Bros, bankers, OF New Yor
OF was cut in every panel on Friday mig
io- by unknown parties. Fifteen thousai
ing head of cattle were grazing on the land
the time.
OF The steamship Titania, ashore
Zee Observation Point, Anticosti island,
DC mains in the same position and shows
n.y. signs of breaking up. Salvors are
fles work on the cargo and expect to have
gh- out by spring. The crew of the Earl
Dufferin are engaged in saving the cal
will of the steamship Brooklyn, also ashore
ldy Anticosti. They have provisions enou
in to last until spring
cts The oil mills of j. p. Mills & Co.,
ing indianapolis, were burned Sunday aft
Gus noon, with about 100, COO bushels of fl
seed, %, 900 gallons Of oil, and cons
e in cradle quantity of oil cake. The loss
be- estimated at nearly $3.50, 000 inspra
live $115, 900. Among the assurances
ght- $4, 900 in the Franklin company of Pl
His adelphia; $4,500 in the Pennsylya
Can Fire, and $4,000 in the american of p
adelphia.
liar DR.. Lyons, who lived on farm
hich Camden county, Missouri, for sew
its years charitnbly cared for an imbec
Ugh. named Williams, who had been cnnsidc
Ions harmless. On Saturday the idiot s
ches denly caught up an axe and killed
arge Lyons by striking him on the head.
then attacked and killed the doct
mack fourteen-y ear-old daughter. A young
,epa- of the doctor coming up at this juno
ring shot Williams dead.
But The New York chamber of comm
nd" yesterday adopted resolutions sugges
n for as remedy for the decline of Amer
scalp shipping the establishment of n bul
of commerce under control of the Sc
alton tary of the Treasury. The harbor
are provement committee was directed
dny Incorporate in its report nm address
The the government asking that immet
five steps be taken to put New York harbt
bling proper state of defence.
+, and A telegram from Pittsburg says; g
rush stated on the authority of one %
directors of the Washington 4 Way
trnc. burg railroad, that the Pennsyly
mum Railroad Company has obtained col
{ the of the line, and will make it n stan
eiyed gauge road At meeting in Waynes
amily on Tuesday, John E. Davidson
been elected treasurer and J. w. Rel
es or auditor movement TO extend the
luced to Blacksville, West Virginia, is sal
on foot"
f the Two freight trains, running at
capn- speed on the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
!. He collided 2yesterday week in v
,rpen- mans Cat, halE mile east of Was
send, ton, Pa. There is Il curve in the
llaGtd which prevented the engineer of G
habits train from seeing the other until it
ments too late. Frank Snyder, brakema
Piedmont, West Virginia, was scald
erman death. All the other hands on both
Der of We're injured, James Morris of Was
umpire ton and j. o. Reynolds Of Jamest
diges. dangerously.
70 as In the farmers national congre
but Indianapolis Thursday resolutions
lN'.ief adopted asking Congress to make
ne tiie stringent legislation for the prevent
houta pleuro-pneumonia; to regulate int
commerce; to restore the tariff on W
lctlced the figure of 1880, and to make the
yilyon missioner of agriculture a cabinet o
london Robert Beverly of Virginia, was q
them. president, and b. T. Clayton of X
good secretary for the next two years
lackay congress will hold its next meeting