Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-01-15
IN GAkERAL

Scarlet fever ia epidemic In the suburbs
Of Brooklyn, and the public schools have
hean ordered TO be closed.
While number Of boys were skating
on a pond in Pottsville, Pa. Friday
afternoon, the Ice gave way and four OF
them, ranging in age from IL TO 10 years,
were drowned.
Senator Plumb says that thousands Of
settlers have gone upon the Oklahoma
lands, have built houses, churches and
schools there, and the government ought
not to turn them ont.
A human skull, to which was attached
3 paper tag inscribed ga. T. Stewart"
was found Friday In the area OF pri.
vate house in Hoboken, New Jersey. 1t
was sent to the morgus.
St. Peters Methodist Episcopal Church
in Reading Pa, was rededicated SUM-
day. In the afternoon, Governor PAttison
whose father was pastor Of the church
II years ago-delivered an address on
Msthodism
Governor Dawes Of Nebraska, in his
message to the legislature, suggests the
propriety OF law which will fix the
maximum passenger iaro on railroads at
cents per mile. He also thinks the
time has come to consider the demand for
Legislation OF some kind looking to q re-
duction of freight rates.
In Columbus, Ohio, Friday morning
about 2 O'Clock, Policeman Feist saw
three men counting roll OF money back
OF the state house. He approached to ask
about the nature Of the transaction, when
one Of the men fred Mt him, causing q
wound which soon resulted fatally. The
gang escaped.
Robert Roberts was shot dead eal
Fairfield, Nebraska, on Thursday. Two
boys named Taylor, aged respectively Il
and 10 " ars, were arrested, and one Of
them being 'strung up" made q con,
fession. Roberts had been taking brush
from land claimed by the father Of tbs
Taylor boys.
Col. a. K. Mcclure addressed the legis
lature Of North Carolina by Invitation
Thursdsy. The speaker explained tn,
attitude Of Abraham Lincoln toward th,
sonth during the war and in the matter
of reconstruction, as known by him, and
touched on the race problem, the tariff
and the present prosperity Of North Caro-
lima and the south. .s
At meeting OF the Montgomery county
bar In Norristown Friday, resolution
were adopted opposing the bill prepared
by the Philadelphia Bar Association (,
establish circuit courts for the relief o
the supreme court, and favUring, instead
. constitutional amendment establishing
two supreme courts, with Jurisdiction O.
limited as not TO conflict.
DR.. De Wolf, chief Of the hesltl
department Of Chicago, shows that Ia, AT
deaths, a weekly average of $40. occurret
In chat city in 1884, against IL, 555 death
in 1883. There died 6,666 children unde
five years OF age, 4,179 OF them bein
less than one year old, or So as per cen
Of the total mortality 1908 Of tn
deoendents were go years ard over, tw
being more than 100 years old. TIL
death rate for the whole year waa 10 8
FER 900 on q basis OF $50, 600 pop ulatio
according 10 the school census taken 4
July Of last year. This Ia 4 trifls bette
the year 1888, when the death rate wa
)9 81 with population OF $50, 600
At East LiverI DOL, Ohio, Oh Thurada
evening, ii persons making up tamil
party at the house OF Daniel Van Fosser
we're poisoned by drinking coffee. A six
y"Ar.oh girl hiss sinos died. Mrs l'ollins
an sged lady Elmer Collins, aged 20, au
Daniel Van Fosseu, q littls boy, are be
lieved to be at the point of death. TIL
Others, 1t is thought. may recover.
suspicious looking sediment has bee
found in the ooffes Van Fosaan'
daughter, Auna, who ia an opium eater
and who had previously RiCkeued sOm
school children by giving them taHy q
her own making, has been arrested o.
suspicion.