Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-08-06


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Peter s. Colby, paymaster for the
Morgan, Louisiana Il Texas Railroad and |
Company, was arrested late on |
Friday night on the charge of embezzling |
funds of the company. He admitted n
which is said to amount to
$11 900.
The Montreal cattle exporters have pre-
sented petition to the minister of agri-
culture for the establishment of speci-
fed space for cattle on shipboard. They
ask for space two feet eight inches by
eight feet for cattle and u proporti onate
space for sheep.
AT Waynesburg, Pa, Wednesday week,
overcome by foul air while working at
the bottom of u well 40 feet deep. Thomas
died in the we'll, and Faulkner was taken
out in such n condition TINT his recovery
was considered doubtful.
An agricultural station has been estab-
lished ut Aurora, ILL.,, in connection with
the chronological division of the depart
ment of agriculture. 1t has been placed
in charge of Nelson w. McIMne, who has
been specially instructed To pny attention
to bees and honey producing plants.
The steamer Normandie, July 9th, AZ
rived at Sandy Hook bur Sunday after
noon Mt O'Clock. Her trip from lluyrc
to New York, deductng difference OF
longitude md three hours slowing down
ON account of fog, was Z days and %
hours, the quickest passage ON record.
A heavy storm prevailed on Saturday
af4 10, l,n If
caster county, PA. The tobacco was
greatly damaged by hail, many of the
stones being ms large MS hickory nuts.
The barn of Jonathan S. Stewart, at
Landisyille, was destroyed by lightning.
The Indian tribes ON the Clearwater
river, in Idaho, are qnarreling over some
property claimed by each tribe. The
hostiles sent north from the Indian Terri
tory killed nine Indians last Friday, and
the relatives Of the murdered men are
| seeking 10 avenge their death. There is
much unensiness among the whites.
The corner stone of the new Convent of
| the Sisters of Mercy at Trenton, New
Jersey, was laid Sunday afternoon by
| Bishop 0'Farrell. About 1000 persons
were present. A long platform erected
| for the occasion broke down under the
weight of people upon il, and several
| persons We're injured, but none seriously.
At Georgetown, Colorado, ON Friday,
William Neff, employed mt the Telephone
mine, complained of being ill. He went
| to his cabin, lay down on the floor, placed
n stick of giant powder, with n cap and
fuse attached, under his head, md while
in this position lighted the fuse. His
head was blown entirely from his body.
| Several persons have been arrested in
Montreal for the wholesale destruction OF
fish by means of dynamite cartridges.
They explode the cartridges i'll the eddies
and bays in which the fish rest during the
day, and hundreds of fish came to the
| surface after each explosion. They arc
packed in ice and sent to American
/ markets.
Several months ago gang of masked
ruffians went to the house of school
teacher named Slocum, near Horse Cave
| Ky. Slocum fired into the crowd and
killed three of them. He Friday filed
n suit for 1925, 900 against 40 of the best
citizens of Hart county, and charges
them with conspiracy to drive him out
of the county.
Henry Conover, assistant cashier of the
Manufacturers and Traders Bank in Buff
falo, N. Y, died suddenly Friday week
An examination of the books of hii
department shows that the bank has beer
robbed systematically for several years
the amount aggregating $74 900 The
banks officers say there ia no impairment
of its capital, and there is n considerabl,
surplus in addition.
AT Chelt anlam Beach, near Chicago, OF
Saturday night, W. L. Smith and A. L
Talbot assembled in two balloons for
race in mid-air. When at hight O.
about l 200 feet the balloons collapsed
Talbot went down with the wreck com
paratiyely uninjmred, but Smith fell til,
whole distance, striking some telegraph
wires before reaching earth. lie WA
fatally injured.
A dashy individual giving the name o
Adam Wilson, has swindled many of til,
farmers of Somerset, Fayette and Bed
ford counties, i'll Pennsylvania, by takin,
orders for lightning rods and weathe
ymes,to be supplied by the lnternationa
Manufacturing Company of Chicago
which company has no existence. Wilson
who il said to he of handsome extero
and well dressed, obtained advance pay
lnents To the amount of 50, 900.
Governor Wilson of West Virginia, Fri
iiay issued a proclamation relative Il
taxes due the state from the Chesapeake
IL Ohio railroad The governors edict i
addressed TO the prosecuting attorney o
kanawha county, and says that taxes ar
due, they must be paid, and the execu
tive department expects the prompt assis
lance of every officer having duty to per
form concerning the snme, that the law
may be faithfully executed. This is TO
the guidance of officers of all counties
through which the Chesapeake a. Obi,
railway runs, and conflict now arises be
tween the governor and Judge jackson
the Federal court.
The governor of Nebraska has issued
proclamation prohibiting tho importation
into that state of all cattle coming from
Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Del
aware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia
Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mis-
ouri and the District of Columbia unles
such cattle are quarantined at the poin
of entry into the state of Nebraska for a
/ least ten days, and retained there unit
| they shall receive certificate of healtl
signed by the state veterinarian of Nel
! raska or an authorized inspector of tina
: state. All cattle going into Nebraska
. from the above named states are required
to enter the state at Omaha, Plattsmouth
t Blair, or Falls City.
: Nine workmen on the new aqueduct o
a shaft near High Bridge, New York, Fri
day got into the elevator bucket +
ascend the shaft for their dinner. III
i shaft is 175 feet deep. When about
third of the way up, the bucket caught
projecting substance and tilted oven
= Four of the men were thrown out. Tw
of them chung to the outside of til
bucket, and the other two fell to til
bottom of the shaft. OF the latter
y William Cunningham, aged IS years, wa
Q instantly killed, and Timothy Harrington
!, aged "a, had his skull fractured and die
' in the hospital soon after. The two me
who chung to the bucket were severely
not dangerously injured.
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