Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-07-02
IN GENERAL.

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men were badly injured by the caving in
of sewer at Lancaster, Chic, Tuesday.
All the telegraph and telephone wires
which had been placed on the roof Of the
White House in Washington were re-
moved Tuesday.
During the fiscal year which ended
Tuesday 146 national banks were organ
lied and the charters of 73l were eS-
tended for 20 years.
A GENIUS of the city of Buffalo Just
taken by the police, shows its population
to be 202, 6l8. The cencus of 1880 gave
q population of 1866, 1874.
BY fall of coal in the Lawrence
oolliery, near Shenandoah, Pa, Monday
afternoon, Philip Hahn was killed aud
James Kelley fatally injured.
The boiler of hosting engine en-
ployed for the unloading of a vessel, at |
Boston, burst Tuesday, injuring several |
men, one of them dangerously.
The wife of DR.. Fraleigh, a prominent
physician, threw herself and her infant i'll
the river at Gananoque, Ontario, on
Saturday, and both were drowned.
II is reported that snow fell ON Monday
night at Durham, in Greene county, New
York. Fires were built Tuesday in all
the mountain houses in the Oatsl1ills.
The earnings of the Auburn Peniten.
tiary for June were 81 1857, and the ex.
penses $8,633. OF 942 men in the prison
only 81 are employed on contract labor.
A great lumber fire at Amigo, Langlade
county, Wisconsin, on Monday night
caused losses aggregating about 1920, 900
The assurances are estimated at 5000, 900.
Representatives of American steamship
companies Monday had an inveryiew
with the acknowledgement in regard to
the compensation for carrying ocean
mails.
The new Landsdowne roller rink and
block of stores in Trenton, Ontario, were
burned Monday. Loss, 5000; in
surance, $30,OOO. Incendiarism is
alleged.
A building in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin,
occupied rs brewery, saloon and dwell
ing, was burned Monday morning.
Three children were suifocated or burned
to death.
The police of Chicago Monday raided
two gambling houses running in defiance
of the mayors order of two weeks ago,
and arrested 81 persons, besides cap
turing apparatus.
While Professor Shippey and family
were rowing on the Des Moines river at
Algona, Iowa, Tuesday, the boat cap
sized, and Mrs. Shippey and two children
We're drowned.
William Oswald was arrested Monday
in the act of setting fire to the great
storage house of the Knickerbocker Ice
Company at Tumbling Run, in the
suburbs of Pottsville, Pa.
Colonel William Il. Patten, ex-clerk of
the New hampshire house of representa-
tiyes, and ex-city solicitor for Manchester,
N. H., was Tuesday committed to the
insane asylum ut Concord.
A. j. Dumont, ex-nayal officer at New
Orleans and chairman of the Republican
state committee of Louisiana, committed
suicide yesterday at his home in Algiers,
by blowing out his brains. 1t is said
family trouble was the cause.
Secretary Whitney, has revoked the
order issued on July 9Th, 1883, forbid
ding naval officers attached to cruising
vessels, especially commanding officers
to take their families to the visiting sta.
tions.
Near Bedford, Pa, on Sunday evening
Grant Miller and Josiah Wolford Were
having friendly tussle, when Wolford
accidentally fell upon an open pocket
knife held in Millers hand and was
stabbed through the heart. He died
almost instantly.
The supreme officers of the Catholi,
Knights of America met in Louisville last
evening, and reelected DIR. Emiles Willet
of Memphis, to be supreme medical ex
aminer for the next two years. John j
Duffy of Memphis, was elected Chairman
of the sinking fund.
A gang of tramps invaded Shenandoah
Pa, on Sunday afternoon, but were
driven of by the police on Monday morn
ing. They returned ON Monday night
and attempted to rob freight car, bu
were again driven OH by the police, who
captured one of them.
1t is now two weeks sinceany new casoi
of fever or fever deaths have been re
ported in Plymouth, Pa. There are 9.
patients in the hospital, but all are re
covering. One hundred and twenty tw,
destitute families are receiving relief
: There have been two new cases of feye
of mild type Mt Sugar Notch since las
report.
At Lebanon, Ohio, last year, Franz
Long was twice arrested at the instanc
of two men named Nixon and Bradley, 70
horse stealing. He was each tim
acquitted, and recently obtained vel
dict of $3 900 against these men for falls
: Imprisonment. A telegram from Leblanc
says Long has now confessed that he wa
guilty of stealing the horse as charged b
Nixon and Bradley, and that he has bee
guilty of eight separate crimes of pei
jury in connection with the law suits pei
/ tanning to the cases.
Thomas 0'Shea, As years old, bag
, pipe player, while drunk on Sunda
Y night, ut Brooklyn, beat his sleepin
3 wifes brains ont with hatchet, an
I when he surrendered himself Monda
, morning and told of his crime, officer
e who went to the house found the dea
body of the woman in one room, covere
by sheet, while i'll an adjoining one In
4 her three children, aged respectively Il
and years, all asleep and unconsciou
5 of the crime. O'Shea explained that
3 it was drunken freak and seemed /
repent his bloody crime.
Christopher Ii. Mabley, prominel
merchant of Detroit, died Tyesda
> morning in that city, at the age of 4.
His death was the result of general brenl
r ing down of his system caused by clos
attention to an immense business Iii
/ business in Detroit comprises clothin
and gentlemens furnishing goods, hat,
shoes and m immense bazaar, besides
large number of branch stores in III
larger Michigan cities. He also hu
e branch stores in a number of the larges
! cities in the country, among them bein
r Baltimore, Cleveland, Louisville, Cincil
natl and Toledo. He leaves wife an