Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-07-16

There were three deaths from fever in
Plymouth, Pa, last week, and there are
$50 persons still sick.
Steamships arriving at Quebec still re-
port numerous icebergs, especially around
the Straits of Belle Isle.
Warwick McCray, third class cadet
from Pennsylvania, was drowned Mon
day while bathing at West Point.
Immense clouds Of grasshoppers of the
Kansas variety, have appeared in the
Mexican state of Coshuila, flying north
ward.
The tenth death from lockjaw resulting
from the firing of toy pistols on the
Fourth of July occurred Tuesday in
Chicago.
Sixty persons are reported to have been
| poisoned near Kankakee, ILL.,, by eating
dried beef brought from Chicago. Twenty
of the victims are dangerously i'll.
A shortage of $500 discovered in the
accounts of the postmaster at Ord, Ne
brasl1a, has been made good, but his sure
ties recommend that he be removed
James Pruitt was knocked down and
killed by Enoch Cook, at Louisville, Tues
terday, in quarrel about dog. Cook
escaped and has not been arrested.
The two-storied hennery of DIR. bio
Lewis, at Smithtown, Long Island, was
burned ON Saturday, with 400 fancy
fowls. The fire started in the incubator.
Christopher Mann died in Independ-
ence, Missouri, Sunday night, at the alleged
age of Ill years. He was born in Vir-
ginia in 1774, and went to Independence
in 1888.
The worlds exposition plant buildings
and machinery, at New Orleans, were sold
ut auction Monday for $175, 900, and
were bid in for the new exposition com.
pany.
Lieutenant Commander Webb of the
Asiatic squadron has been convicted of
drunkenness by a court-martial, and has
been suspended for two years, with fur
Tough pay.
The British steamer Colombo, from
South Carolina with phosphates for
Dublin, ran ashore on Scotary Island last
Friday evening and is II total wreck. Her
captain and crew are safe.
A heavy storm of rain visited the coun.
try round Huntingdon, Pa, ON Friday
night. 1t lasted the greater portion OF
the night. In some localities the growing
corn was literally cut into shreds.
Thomas Mclaughlin and Robert Dial
zelle, young men, while bathing in Long
Island Sound, off Riker's Island on Satur.
day evening, were caught by the swell Of
passing steamer, swept into deep water
and drowned
II. Nj. Peacock and Charles Thompson
quarreled mt Chauncey. Ga, on Sunda,
, evening, and blazed away ut each othei
with revolvers Both were killed, bu
, not before a stray bullet had killed
! negro standing near.
Albert Ross Tuesday morning sho
and dangerously, if not fatally, wounded
I his wife, and then killed himself, Mt thei
D home in Jacksonville, lud. They hat
e been married only two weeks, ye
I jealousy it is said, was the cause.
Daniel Anderson, while rowing with hi
wife and four childred ON small strean
: near Spotswood, N. j. on Sunday after
!, noon, upset the boat while trying to pull
= it oil snag, and his two boys, five an
seven years of age, were drowned.
J, Duncan Mackenzie of Kingston, Ont.
= has been arrested ON the charge Of CON
:! plicity in the robbery of So, 900 at Harr
a son, Mich, year ago, Tho town treI
y surcr was gagged and bound to II chai
., and that sum was taken from his safe.
Is Inspector Armstrong telegraphed Nor
day morning to Secretary Lamar tina
Il all differences between the drovers an
d ranchmen have been settled, and tht
v cattle from Texas are now moving nortl
1t ward through the Indian Territory witt
As out obstruction.
l. Judge Duffy, in the circuit court !
ar Baltimore, Monday, ordered the remoy,
ID of bay window Just added to the res
i'd dence of Robert Garrett, on Moui
IL Vernon Place. II was alleged that Il
u objectionable window cut of light from
e neighbours house.
I'd Late on Monday night five murdere
H. escaped from the jail ut Asheville, N. q
IS by overpowering the jailer and lockil
sc him in II cell. All the prisoners ha
nc pistols. They ARE in the mountains, pll
y sued bya posse of citizens and compai
- OF state troops.
20 In accordance with recent act of Il
" Legislature of Illinois, Governor Oglesl
Z, Monday issued II proclamation recallil
nv all existing orders against the import
DC ton of cattle into that state from certu
1
a. tanning pleuro-pneumonin. ..e.-
MS An unknown tramp entered the hou
of of William Jones, ut NOvi, Mich,
ed Sunday night, and demanded lodgin
III II was refused, whereupon he began
IA break the furniture and drive the fam
nd from the house. Jones returned with
lie gun and shot the intruder dead. III
is authorities refuse TO prosecute Jones.
~ At Dawson, Georgia, on Saturday ,Jol
he Brooks, an Swear old colored boy sill
til and killed his sister Bessie, aged 81 m
rs then threw himself into II stream, fro
sci which he was rescued after having SUI
he twice. The little girl was running aroul
of the house, and refusing to stop ut Ii
NJ brothers bidding he got Il gun and sh
nd her.
es Several days ago the Bradford House
~ Wayerly, N. ", was burned A lar
s quantity of goods were saved from d
10 burning building and stored in the hot
ID barn. Last night the barn with its co
ne tents was destroyed by fire. When Il
pe firemen undertook to use their hose tn
OF found the MOBILES stuffed full of grave
u The people are looking for the suppos
ne incendiary.
In Chicago, year ago, Mervis Raffsl
conspired with the father of young mi
a accused of burglary to fix the grand in
~. no that no indictment would be fonn
ha md received $40 for his work. He W
~ arrested, tried and convicted of co
IL spiracy, and was on Saturday sentence
IA by Judge Halves topay a fine of 1880 al
M costs to he worked out at the rate
lie $l.5O per day.
is A dispatch from Horse Gave, Ky., 81
it. that while George johnson and VILLA
,rs Slinker were returning to their homes,
,es Metcnlf county, on Saturday, they We
he fired upon from ambush by Willin
Clymer and William Stokes. Slinker "
fatally and johnson was serious
wounded. The men had quarreled duri
the day.
ny At Rich Fork, Ohio, on Sunday nigl
David Cogan quarreled with his vii
'e's After knocking her down with cofl
'ys pot, he procured an axe and severed h
ng right arm. He then turned the axe a,
nat beat her brains out. The murder {
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