Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-02-12
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| His liabilities are over $4,000.
r. X. Bsaudry OF Montreal intends &,
build an orphansge st cost OF $3.50, 900,
on n site given by himself, and to add
| 300, 900 towards its endowment.
The house Of Michael Barnes, near st.
Charles, Minnesota, was burned on
Thursday night, and two OF his girls, aged
respectively and IL years, lost their
lives.
Mail advioes received at San Flauolsoo
| from China report that on December Dad
the Runpowder woyks at Fat Shan, Ia
miles from Canton, blew up, killing $50
employee.
DR.. Samuel J. Allen, young Vermont
physician, who, while drunk, shot and
killed Dell Hapsell In Boston last MAY,
was last week sentenced TO five yesrs'
imprisonment.
jacob Smith and wife OF MSxatawney
township, Berks county, last week made
an assignment Of their newly built fur
mace and several dwellings. Their liabiii
tiss are not known.
The schooner Helena Morris OF
Windsor, Nova Scotia. from Philadelphia
for Halifax, with coal, struck on Flynn'O
leland, near Ssmbro, on Wednesda,
night week, and became = total wreck,
The overseers Of Harvard College voted
yesterday to concur with the president
and fellows Of the college in repeating
the statute requiring students to attend
public worship on Sunday morning.
Bishop FAbre OF Montreal has Issued a
circular to the clergy Of his diocese call
ing attention to the dangers which menace
their focks from attending immoral plays
and holding private theatrioAls.
The Chattanooga Times publishes dis
patch from Dalton, Georgia, reporting
that tests made Thursday in the mineral
regions Of tine CohuttA Mountains confirm
the previous reports OF the existence there
OF large gold deposits.
William 8. Kirker, ex-teller OF the
Second National Bank Of Ironton, Ohio,
who was convicted of having made false
entries to cover deficiency, was last
weekssentenced to FIVE years imprison,
ment.
Peter N. Rutt, q wealthy farmer, about
80 years Of age, committed suicide by
shooting himself in his barn, near
sbethtown, Lancaster county, Pa,
Thursday morning. He had been suffer
ing from sleeplessness and pains In thu
head.
The north dormitory OF the Agriculture
College, at Amherst, Massachusetts, was
burned on Tuesday week, II cost $50, 0Ot
and was insured for 100000. The fire Il
supposed to have been caused by thu
explosion of coal oil lamp in the In
: oubator.
The Rev. John Parker Of the Msthodis
ohuroh at J4msios, Long Island, ha
threatened to expel from bis church an,
member visiting roller skating rink
The younger members threaten to leave
he persists In his opposition TO role
. skating.
Passengers arriving at Vicksburg from
Greenville, Mississippi, report that tn
river bank in front Of that place ia cav
ing in rapidly, and causing great IN
easiness. 1t is now only l75 feet from th
/ river to brick buildings, which cannot b
2 moved.
h Frank Bonham, oldest son OF a widow
i named Loripg, returned to hi
home, near Radical City, Kansas, Thurs
day morning, after An absenos Of thre
days, to find that his mother, brothe
ard sister had been murdered while b
h was away.
T. A fire in IN annex to the signal ssrv 10
office in Washington on Saturday even
ing destroyed and damaged large mum
bsr of valuable meteorological record
II and damaged some OF the finest iustrr
J. ments In the office. The records deatroye
Is cannot be replaced,
A special dispatch from George towI
COL, says that during severe win
storm yesterday week a train Il
Denver, on the Colorado Central railroad
N, y. was blown from the track into ditci
w OF the 20 passengers on board Is wei
more or less injured.
The Guion line steamship Alaska, SO,
eral days overdue, was siRnalled of FIJI
We Island at 10 O'Clock yesterday. She ha
q the steamer Lake Winnipeg in tow, 4
- the purpose OF steering, the Alssh
having lost her rudder. Both vessels q
rived In New York hsrbor later In Il
day.
90 Poison has been discovered in Il
,Tie stomachs Of John Sullivan and his wi,
who were recently found desd
Ansonia, Connecticut The theory (su
vat gested by medical opinion that he died
IN hours before his wife) is that she, beil
Jealous OF him and belle ling that he W
about to desert her, gave him the poiso
and afterwards took 1t herself.
j, The account of the appraisers in u
assigned estate Of Amos Henderso
- banker, Of Lancaster, Pa, was filed la
week. The available assets amount
an $5S, 767 "a In addition to real .sta
worth, probably 1875, 900 The liabiliti
mt Of the bank aggregate $780, coo in ado
tion to $751; 900 Of personal debts. II
he believed the assets will psy about
'st cents on the dollar.
Cicero Jefferson, John A Smyth 81
joel Wilson, the murdersrs of Hira
es Jefferson, were lynohed at Audubo
y Illinois, yesterday week. Smith al
Wilson were shot In their cells aft
all making desperate fight, and Cioe
Jefferson were hanged from the bar
stand in the park. The latter hi
al confessed that he bad murdered /
op father, and implicated Smith and Wilso
We his brothers-in. law.
,as The commissioners appointed to inve
tigate the manner In which the Gro
lease was secured report that the Gre
nation emphatically protest against Il
NO lease, and openly threaten to destr
every heal OF stock placed on the leas
portion. The lessees induoed the India
ON to sign the lease by intimRting that otht
% wise their rations would run ont on An
lat. The negotiations for the lease hs
,a unsettled the Indians and made the m
subordinate.
The steamer City Of Augusta, at N,
York Friday from Savannah, repoi
on that on Thuraday morning, 80 miles
Cape Lookout, she came into a GO
or, tinuous string OF wrt ckage for two hou
y, passed q deck, apparently bottom U
"a, with beams sIaying to and fro In t
es, water, and part or some Of q cal
painted white; also dry goods, cas-,
,od barrels, buckets, tubs, &c., apparently
op cargo Of general merchandise. At
ars a m ,-same date, passed 8 metallic be
painted white and partly full of wat,
but apparently otherwise in good &C
dition.
he The oourt Of appeals OF Virginia
Thursdsy delivered an opinion deolsri
az. unconstitutional and void the law enact
by Mahone's legislature In 1882, viii
IN, was intended to delay bondholders
proving the genuineness Of their ocupo
- rendered for taxes. The act yequir
Iis, that the Renuineness OF all coupons
ELF rendered should be proved. aad allow
the commonwealth, In order further
= delay litigation, an appeal to the sts
supreme court in all cases, regardless
in the amount involved. The effect Of 4
" decision will be to stop the state fri
taking advantage Of this delay.
w AN UNRIvALLED HAIR DREssIN