Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-10-08


DIR. Waugh in Chicago, for alleged in
tiInacy with the formers wife, has been
ignored by the grand jury.
The prairie fires in Mcpherson county,
Dakota, burned over an area of 100 square
miles, making hundreds of families des-
titute. The loss is estimated nj $3.50, 900.
At st. Petersburg Pa, on Friday night
| six masked men tied Elias Ritts and his
wife, an aged couple, and two other per-
| SONS to chairs, and robbed the house of
81 600.
John Nicholson, Alfred Best and Emil
Olsen, were convicted of polygamy iii Salt
Lake City, on Saturday. Nicholson is
editor of the Deseret Neaos, the Mormon
church organ.
The dominion department of agricul-
ture has taken steps to prevent the spread
of the hog cholera in Essex county,
Ontario, by quarantining all farms in
fected with the disease.
In the circuit court ut Independence,
, Mo-, on Saturday, Miss Edith Vernon was
awarded Sis, 900 in suit for breach of
. promise against David Hughes, of Kan
sas City She sued for 1875, 900.
/ Edwin Gadsby, aged IL years, and
George Hatred, aged IA, fought with
V knives about 13-year old girl in Toronto
4 on Sunday. Gadsby was stabbed in the
: arm, and his antagonist has been arrested.
4 The stables of G. L. johnson, dairy
Il man, near Atlanta, Ca, were burned on
r Sunday, and 1873 head of cattle persisted
s Several hundred tons of hay were con
II sumed. The loss is estimated at $50, 900
n A severe rain storm prevailed in Salem
l No. ,al,,, O. l..
afternoon, causing damage to the extern
of many thousands of dollars. The dam
age in Lynn alone is estimated at $40, 600
: The boiler of locomotive drawing tn
Il Long Branch express train, which lief
- Camden on Saturday afternoon; explode,
i near Browns Mills, fatally scalding tn
~ engineer, John Curtis, of Point Pleasant
n The fireman was also injured.
nj A colored man named Mebane, accuse
in of the murder of Mrs. Walker, nea
al Milton, N. g., was arrested on Frida
re night. While being conveyed to Yancey
st vile on Saturday he was taken from til
To officers and lynched by mob.
t" water tank at Granville, N. Y, burt
y, Monday, demolishing the Sentinel offic
O. and furniture store, damaging til
in National bank and flooding milliner
y store and the streets. The loss is est
mated at $4,000.
The body of the man who committe
". suicide in hotel in Hoboken, on Frida
10 night after registering as "Geore
on Edmunds, Philadelphia, has been ident
es- fed as that of William II. Davenport
he New York. designer for Tiffany & Co.
70, Peter Walker, aged about 60 years, W,
iIe arrested on Thursday while trying
~ ~ break into house at Shandaken, N.
~ Half an hour later he was found dead
MI his cell, having hanged himself from IL
as window bars.
he John Davis, burglar who escape
up from Jail in Reading last August, was r
he captured Tuesday 4 ut Lebanon. Sin,
ng his escape he has been engaged in ti.tto
He ing boys, and had infected many with
ex- loathsome disease.
his The Rev. Father Green, pastor of
Catholic church at Newton, Mass, W
found dead in his bedroom Tuesd
=. morning. He had been suffocated by G
a., which escaped from leak in gas sto
sed used in his rooms.
sh- Killing frosts occurred on Mondi
UT night in Minnesota, Nebraska and w
OK consin, and extended as far south
est northern Missouri. Reports as far sout
Ter, west ms Denver Tuesday morning show
I.s IA temperature of 32o.
,ost On Sunday night burglars entered Il
he house of Frederick L. Ames, at Nor
9 Easton, Mass, and stole four of his me
nod valuable paintings, cutting them from I
IT. frames. One was the work of Never v
I'm. Bremen, another Theodore Rousseau 4
Il, other j. F. Millett, and the fourth RI
beck.
Near Allegan, Mich, last Saturdf
John Chamberlain, being insane drown
A. his eight-months-old child. He was 81
.e sequently found with his throat cut a
"a the dead infant in his arms. He
10y aa expected to recover from the wound.
A telegram from Winnipeg says tina
thorough examination of the wheat b
of Manitoba, the Northwest Territory, a
the northern tier of counties in Oak,
II, shows the grain in that belt was iniul
Law. irreparably by the killing frosts in Aug,
al. last.
UNI Alfred Cobb, n years of age, who
dying at East Deerfeld, Mass, has
eco. quested that when he shall die, his he
ted be taken to his tobacco barn and til
and kept for three days, when it be taken t
man hill near the house, saturated with Ike
limo sene and burned. telegram fir
d Greenfield asserts that Cobb is of sou
ion. mind and strong advocate of cremati
ent, The house of Rear Admiral Baldwin
1000 Newport, II. l., was robbed ON Satur,
the night of money and jewelry valued
cost $4,000. On Sunday night two farm hal
from Portsmouth called on the admi
Com and handed him all the stolen prope
70 of except purse of money. They said
ated on Sunday, while walking in mead,
from they saw man looking around as if
ston search of something. He told them
shop companion of his had thrown wa
hree from the train and he was looking for
100 The man left, and the farm hands, c
Rev. tinuing the search, came upon the
the containing the stolen valuables. IT
1t of recognized photograph of the thief I
the police are on his track.