Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-11-26

AT n meeting Of Irish-American citizens
in Lincoln, Nebraska, on Thursday night,
$2,5OO were contributed to the Parnell fund.
The county inflrmary, near sandusky,
Ohio, was damaged by fire last night. Five
women were burned to death, and tho super
intendent was badly injured and WIS un-
conscious at last accounts.
Henry W. Sage, the founder OF tho Sage
Female College, in Cornell University has
given S60,000 to endow a professorsbip of
ethics and moral philosophy in that univer-
sity, in memory OF his late wife.
While John b. Bowman, one of the most
prominent citizens of East st. Louis was
approaching his home, in the outskirts of
that town, shortly before s o'clock last
night, he was shot deau by an unknown
assassin
An explosion occurred yesterday at tie
Pittsburg Producers Wild Cat Oil Well,
near Mars Station, Pa, caused by the gas
igniting from n match struck by one of the
employees, who was lighting cigar. The
derrick and rigging were destroyed and
four workmen were severely burned.
The Attorney-General of the United
States has notified the United States Dis
ct-Attorney at Tacoma Washington Terri
tory, that he will be given whatever legal
assistance he may require in prosecuting
the persons arrested for complicity in the
attacks recently made on the Chinese resi-
dents of that locality.
The National Grange OF Patrons of Hus-
bandry, in session ut Boston, Yesterday
adopted Il resolution offered by l.. Il.
Rhone of Pennsylvania, as follows: 1.-THE
National Grange, assembled in annual
session, enters its protest against the pres
ent policy of the American manufacturers
In pursuing u free trade policy in tho adj
mission of raw material and high protec-
ton on manufactures, which strikes directly
ut American farmers and producers of raw
material"
Augustine REBEL, 81 years of age, was
arrested in New York yesterday for the
murder of the Chinaman Chong 0ng, in his
restaurant on Spring street, in that city, on
the I'd inst. 1t was thought that no one
saw the murder, but 1t was witnessed by
George MAUI, q boy of 15,who informed the
police and gave them u description of the
murderer, which led to Rebells arrest. The
matter was secretly kept by the police until
they had caught the man. Rebel is q
Cuban cigar maker, and he was arrested In
factory, where he was working.
At Newport, II. I Thursday, in con-
nection with the Burton murder mystery,
Allen W. Dorsey, medical student ut
the College of Pennsylvania, and SON.
in-law of Benjamin Burton, and Maria
DOioN9g iilo Mlity NOEo ltTEtbltu CHuIRCu
with wilful murder, and locked up with
out bail.
Agent Armstrong of the Grow agency
in Montana, has telegraphed to- the in
terror department that the Indians on
Tongue river are properly supplied with
rations and in no danger of starvation.
II is said at tho department thnt number
of Indians left the Pine Ridge agency
some time ago, despite the protests of
their agent and went into the Tongue
river country. The agents ut the Tongue
river reservation, under instructions from
the department, refuse to issue rations to
these Indians, and it is presumed that
their condition has given rise to the re-
port of suffering among the Tongue river
Indians. If the truant Indians are in
distress they must return to the Pine
Ridge agency, where their rations are
issued.
In Edgefield county, South Carolina,
Robert Jones occupied ground rented by
relatives, Charles and Edward Pressly.
They notified him they could no longer
pay the rent, and that he must yacate
yesterday week. poneswent to field where
Edward Pressly, aged 80, and his sons
Charles and Edward we've blowing and
shot Charles dead. Edward started in
pursuit, and Jones stabbed him mortally
with knife. Jones reloaded the gun
and killed the father, old Mr.. Pressly,
who is the grandfather of Jones' wife.
Jones then went to the court house and
surrendered, remarking that he had killed
three of the best men in the county.
Another account says that the Presslys
went to the field where Jones was work
ing and Jones killed them in self defens