Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-02-19
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W. W. Massey, ex.tsller Of the Bank OF
Commerce Of Baltimore, Monday pleaded
guilty TO embezzlement and was GEN.
tenoed 10 five years. imprisonment In the
pepitentIAry at hard labor.
Near BlIzabethton, Tenn, on Monday
Afternoon, Mrs. John Young looked her
two children In the house and went visit.
ing. Upon returning che found that the
house and children had been burned up.
George Washington, colored, convicted
Of murder in the second degree for the
homicide Of Rufus Thomas, oolored, in
July last, was sentero ed TO 16 years in
the Maryland peniseDtiAry, a. hard labor.
Two sections Of stock train on the
PennsylvAnia railroad oollided near
Gon.maugh on Sunday morning. William
Kseler aud Joseph Brb, drovsrs, were
killed, and . tramp who was stealing A
ride was severely injured.
The people Of AroatA, California, have
compelled the Chinese 10 leave that
place, and have since held meeting and
adopted a resolution plsdging themselves
TO use all legal means to prevent the SET.
Element Of Chinese in Aroata,
John Williamson Of TAmsous. Pa
with difficulty on Monday saved a wagon
loaded with powder and dynamite, which
he was driving, from being run down bv
an express train. The escape was az
barrow that the driver tainted.
A passenger train on the Burlington
railroad dashed into q switch engine near
GAlesburg, H., Monday morning,
smashing four locomotives and fatally
iDjuriDg James Mccartney, fireman. The
cause was misplaced switch.
John Moore, a railway postal clerk be-
tween New York and PittsburV, WAS
arrested At the latter city Monday
morning on charge OF robbing the
malls. Marked bills which the inspector
had placed in letters were found on him
when he was arrested.
No news has been received Al Grand
Haven from the missing propeller Michi-
gar, which has been out week. She has a
crew Of "a on board. She 10 provisioned
for three months, but It Ia feared that she
has gone down In the recent gales. The
propellyr Wisconsin is in the foe, six miles
of Grand Haven.
Thomas L. Shields, who shot and killed
Joseph C. Sitton, at Statesville, N. c., fol-
the betrayal Of his sister, was Tuesday
convicted Of manElsuRhtsr and sentenced
TO five years in the penitentiary. THU
was Shields' second trial, as he had beer
convicted and sentenced to be hanged, bu'
took an appeal.
John Dolan, who died in Susqueh anna
Pa, few days since, weighed 46(
pounds. The coffin had 10 be made te
order, and was taken In and out Of q
double window Of his house. The body
was drawn to the grave on q sled, and
lowered by means Of windlass managed
by four men.
Two men boarded q passenger train OF
! the Galveston. Harrisburg & San Antonio
railroad at Luling, Texas, on sunds,
night, After the train had gone SOM
; distance from the station the two mel
, stood mp, and, with drawn rsvolvers II
their hands, compelled the passengers IL
the hrst'class coach TO give up $500 In
. money. The robbers then jumped from
, the train and escaped.
Mondays storm Of wind and rail-
: WAS very severe along the Atlantic coas
: and did great damage from VirginiI
northward, In New York City CELLAR
and streets were flooded, signs and 8, Mt
ters blown down, and glass window
Z broken. Five persons were injured, tw
perhaps mortally, by accidents resultin
from the high wind. Reports from Cap
May and Atlantic City, on the ooaet, an,
from interior points In New Jersey, indi
|, cate great damage by wind and water
A telegram from the City Of Mexio
8 says: There being fears that the Mormon
, In Utah are negotiating for the purchas
OF land In the state Of Sonora, In order
o transfer their entire colony there, til
q federal government has asked for infoI
b nation on the subject from the governor
Of Sonora. II is said that Mormon agent
8 are already in Mexico Public opinion 1
8 strongly against receiving such scot, AM
/ every measure will be taken to proven
o their entrance
A The journals OF an air shaft In th
/ Hiilman VsIn Goal CompAny's mine q
q WtlkesbArre, Pa, became overheate
I Tuesday morning, aud brief stoppag
1 for repsirs allowed gas to Acoumui ate Il
+, the workings. A miner entered one {
i the breasts with q naked lamp, and q
explosion took place. Much damAge wa
g dooe to the niue, and one mAu, name
j. James Solomon, was killed, 10 other
, beirg Injured. The ipj1red are all ex
O p oted to recover.
n Much feeling exists at Dallas, TexAi
because Of the action OF Justice Schulz, Il
{ introducing colored Jurors into his oour,
, The feeling, however, ia more on
OF prejudice than OF politics, q
n quite q number OF Democrats ipdors
e Justice Schulz, while many Republican
e condemn him and say they would not
n under any circumstances, sit f. q iuY
u box with negro James B. Simpson,
o leading Democrat, publishes card in tn
II DAllAs Herald, In which he advocates th,
8 rights OF the oolorsd man to the Jury DO:
L and defends Jussioa Schuhl.
. The Chinese Residents OF Indian oli
Monday fuishei their New York
. festivities with an elaborate banquet /
10 the Second Presby terrain Chnroh, fo
o which they prepared the feast larsel
!, from the products Of their native land
II About 200 persons sat down to the tablet
9 Among them were Vice President cleo
/ a-ndtickF, Governor Gray, Mayo
}. seMasters, and umber Of legislator
n and other prominent olIizsns. Toast
d were responded to by several guests, an,
II the programme was varied by eevers
exercises BY the hosts in Chinese an,
Boglish.
announcer SNOW blockade 10 reported 4
e the west and north west, with very 10,
j, ten perature. AT Chicago Monda
d morning there was temperature Of Il
. degrees below zero. The sky was clear
Int the air was filed with frozsn parti
8 cies, drifting before keen and outtIp
:, west wind, which drove nearly every bod
4 from the expossj streets, and made p4des
!, .riars seek the ,heltsred sides Of bulld
inRa when forced to be- ont. The heav,
n STOW storms OF the last two weeks, caus
K log slmost continuous railroad blockades
d have reduced the supply of sof
j, coal, the kind mostly used in Chicago. u
a very low ebb. Another effect OF tb,
\ snow blockade was seen In the failure a
o six theatres to give perform auoes Monda,
night, the companies which were 4,
Q appeAr having baan showed up in differ
j, emit localities. Reports from western ant
n northwest IN points Monday; light showed
!. the following temperatures below z,ro
Omaha, Is; st. Paul, 10; Dss Moines, 49,
Dubuque. 10; Fargo, Oak, 28; Games
town, Oak, 36i Winnipeg, 81; St. Vim
cent, Mimi, 80. Denver reported a tam
Y | perRturo of az abnva zaro