Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-05-07
IN GENERAL.

in Mexico as national holiday in COM
memoration of the defeat Of the French
at Pueblo in 1862.
A firm in Hartford, Connecticut, has
received IN order from the Italian gov
eminent for 100 Gardner machine guns,
to be delivered within year.
William M. Merrick, appointed to fill
the vacancy in the supreme court of the
District of Columbia caused by Judge
Wylie's resignation, was sworn into office
Monday.
The governor of New Jersey has signed
the bill preventing railroad companies
from leasing their roads or franchises
until they have obtained the consent of
the legislature.
Secretary Whitney had conference
Tuesday with John Roach on the subject
of the acceptance of the Dolphin, and il
was agreed that the vessel should make
another trial trip.
A tire at Scranton, Pa, Monday morn
ing, destroyed the rail mill of the Lacka-
wanna Iron and Coal Company's steel
works, and damaged the blooming mill
adjoining. Loss, $250,00O insurance,
$3.50, 900.
An attempt was made Monday morn
ing-the second within 10 days-to burn
the Children's Home, at Covington, KY.
One of the inmates awoke in time to give
the alarm, and the flames were soon ex-
tinguished.
Dennis Morrissey and Peter Brontz, fire.
men attached TO the life-saving service in
| New York, while practicing for all exhibit
ton Tuesday afternoon, fell from the
fifth story Of house by the breaking of o
rope, and received fatal injuries.
Lucy, wife of John Gilchrist, while in
sane from liquor, i'll Newark, N. j.,
Tuesday morning, chopped OF the head of
her six-months-old baby. Another of her
children gave the alarm, md the neigh
bors rushed in, though too late to save
the infant.
In the superior civil court at Boston
Monday, the jury in the case of Claribel
q. Shattuck VS.. William s. Rand returned
verdict of $3.50 for plaintiff The suit
was brought to recover damages for per-
sonal injuries sustained in an elevator
accident at the Hotel Garfield, which is
owned by the defendant, and in which
the plaintiff was tenant.
. On Sunday night gang of disguised
men visited the house of Conley Johnson,
. colored, near Ebenezer, Tenn, broke in
0 the door and shot him dead ms he was
!, trying to escape. 1t is supposed the
a murder was in revenge for a difficulty
Z which Conley had with white man u
4 short time ago. Several negroes were
Q whipped recently in that vicinity.
n 1t was reported in Chicago Tuesda,
9 afternoon that Charles A. Libby,a partner
=, =, in the New York and Chicago house o
James A. Libby Il Co., had mysteriousl.
Il disappeared, and that the police and hi
10 relatives could find no clue to his where
abouts. Libby left his store last Monday
saying he would soon return, but sine
that time he hasnot been seen or heard OF
4 At meeting of Baptists in Chicago OF
N Monday, to consider what should be don
r in view of the approaching foreclosure O
le the mortgage against the Chicago Uni
1T versity, committee of II was appointe
N to devise means for the establishment @
Il. such i'm institution, to be distinct
"a =, Baptist in its government. The indebted
Y, ~ ness against the building is 1920, 200, II
d. sale is advertised for the 9th inst
or No systematic efforts have as yet bee
~ made to discover the cause of the ep
ie denlic Mt Plymouth, Pa. Not post-mortei
40 examination has been made. The opinio
a. generally held by physicians is that it
q, fever, complicated with malarial poison
ms ing relief committee reports that thel
10 are 730 cases of the disease. Surroundin
ng towns are being canvassed for subscril
tions for the sufferers and $500 hay
already been collected.
The railway commissioners Of Alabam
~ decided Monday that they cannot reg
mt late charges on freight from points on
Ir. side of Alabama to points in that stat
To- The complaint was that the freight ra
his from New York to one point in Alaban
to was greater than from New York
an another point, and the commission W
o oh asked to regulate the charge. Thi
nd they say, is Interstate commerce, nj
ed entirely under the control of Congress.
At n meeting of citizens OF Britt
yer Columbia, held in Yictorin on Monda
~, ~ resolutions were adopted declaring I'll
the responsibility would rest on t
Dominion government if Chinese riotil
and bloodshed ensue, and asking I
Inv representatives of the province at Otta'
me to withdraw their support from the &C
at eminent should it neglect TO introdu
md and carry n bill founded ON the report
~, IN the Chinese commission. Ii is deem
n anc imperative that restrictive measui
upr should be passed to take effect by il
ara LIST.
one II is reported from Taraton, Mexi'
inE that the 7-year-old son of wealthy re
WIN dent named Lopez was kidnapped
Gently and the father WINS notified that
boy would be killed If ransom
.ho $75,000 was not deposited in cert,
ton place within 10 days. By accident
by note was not delivered until
the late to negotiate. At the expiration of |
he'd second day the father found the horril
'ver' mutilated body of the child in his cou
yard. The boys sister, aged IL years,
seeing her brothers corpse, fell dead. ]
father became a raying maniac.
/ in The Secretary of the Navy Tuest
telegraphed to Rear Admiral Jouett
. follows: 1.-The officers for the Iroqu
M& sailed per steamer of the I'd inst. Char
. the men, putting on board men now
"a the lsthmus. Send the old crew no
49, with officers. Send home one-half of
marine force if you think it prude
When you think it safe withdraw all go,
sons. Put the remainder on board sh
MT Panama and Aspinwall for the presen
The secretary was informed yesterday t
the Colombian government had decla
martial law on the Isthmus, as the /
means of preserving order.
Il The coroner's jury at Shenandoah, /
empanelled to inquire into the causes
- the Raven Run mine disaster, rendere
verdict Monday, declaring that de
wins caused by n fall Of top coal, eau
by not leaving sufficient support to 8
tain the same. The verdict, which is 8
10 to be disappointing to the public and
miners, related only to the three n
killed in the second lift of the workin
lily and il liz claimed the iurv will rende
nily more conmlota pordict 4,,,a,, az, y.
tiout bodies have been recovered. There
tlu | still six bodies in the fntnl mine,
and
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