Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-04-23

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Mrs. Emma Young, burned in Reading,
Pa. = Tuesday week, by her clothes catch
ing fire, died yesterday week. s
! The ice houses of NJ. Carver 4 Co., ut
Indianapolis, were struck by lightning on
Friday night and destroyed. Loss, sc, 900.
Mrs. Mary Draper, her Il year-old
daughter and 3,year old niece, were
drowned yesterday week Mt Evansville,
Ind, by the capsizing of IA skiif.
Most of the business portion of
Bloomer, Wis, was burned Tuesday week.
Loss, $50, 900; insurance, 1876, 900. Fifteen
stores were destroyed.
The trial of William Dickson, foreman
of the first Star Route jury on the charge
of corruptly endeavoring to influence
jurors, was begun Monday in Washington.
A Q. Mechling for many years trusted |
clerk of Welty Bros, carpet dealers of |
Pittsburg, was arrested Monday ON the |
charge of embezzling ", 900 from the firm. |
A volunteer committee of leading ladies |
of Wilkesbarre, Pa, is collecting contri- |
buttons to the Bartholdi pedestal fund. |
The limit of the subscriptions is 10 cents |
each. -=.
fire in Sullivan, Ind, Sunday
morning burned the Masonic Hall, Ameri-
can Hotel, Times office, and several other
buildings, causing loss estimated at
$50, 900.
A large frame building, at Maspeth, L.
l., used for the printing department of
the Sampson Oil Cloth Company, was
burned Friday afternoon. Loss,
$50, 900.
X. II. Frazer x Co., tea merchants, of
st. Louis, made IN assignment Monday.
The liabilities are said to be about
| 5000, 900, while the assets are sworn Mt
| $125,0OO.
Four men, for whose arrest for horse
stealing warrants had been issued by the
United States commissioner, We're all shot
dead by cattlcmen in the Indian Territory
On Sunday.
Benjamin Nj. Piatt, aged SO years, u
prominent lawyer of Cincinnati, shot
himself dead in his Office Friday NORM
ing. Pecuniary trouble is supposed to
have been the cause.
Lucius Avery, manager of the Vallecillo
mines, near Valladana, Mexico, was muir
dered and robbed of SIS, 600 last Friday
night. He was formerly United States
consul Mt Camargo.
William Wright and Andrew Wnsby,
colored, were arrested i'll Lexington
! Kentucky, on Saturday, for robbing the
post office. They opened the private
! boxes with false keys.
Mrs. Hattie f. Bevan, we'll known il
Baltimore society, died suddenly OIL
Thursday night, in consequence of swnl
lowing quantity of hair tonic i'll mistake
for medicine. The tonic contained aconite
, A large two-story building in Hemp
stead, Long Island used MS II summe
, hotel, was destroyed Sunday morning
by nm incendiary fire. The building wa
owned by Jacob Bernheimcr of New York
i Hog cholera is reported to prevail OF
n three farms nears Pittsfeld, Mass., nbou
1 30 animals having died. yeterinnrini
4 says there are fully 800 cases on farm
! between Pittsfield and North Adams dis
e lance of 20 miles.
The United States consul ut Mndri
telegraphs that he is informed by til
director general of health that there is II
cholera in SPUN, and that the cases r,
. Gently reported in the province {
Valencia are not cholera.
Louis Carl, convicted in Allentown
= Pa, of voluntary manslaughter in eau
= ing the death of his son, was Mondu
! sentenced to six years solitary confin
,s ment Mt hard labor in the Lehigh count
= Jail, and to pay II fine of $500.
Il Isaac Faltz of South Bethlehem, Pm
" committed suicide FRIDAY morning. i
'e was the owner of the shirt factory in Il
70 Excelsior mill destroyed by fire In
a- Saturday night, and there was n suspiciC
1t that he was the incendiary.
u The loss by the fire in the KatzenbaC
" hardware store AT Trenton, N. j., c
il Thursday night, is estimated Mt S25, 90
George Lebarre, bookkeeper, WINS bad
ID burned, and almost sulfOcnted viii
it trying to put the books in the snfe.
hr Patrick Cain, hostler and james Firs
~ II notorious rough, quarreled in saloc
- near Chattanooga on Sunday. First drew
II pistoland shot Cain through the breast
D. Cain was falling he fred ut First putting
re bullet in his abdomen and making fat
10 wound.
~ The Secretary of the Navy Monde
re appointed court to investigate the ci
re cumstances connected with certain co
ca tracts between Austin p. Brown of Was
III ington and Paymnster-G General Smith, fl
" the delivery of beef, pork and other SUI
"a plies for the navy.
er A telegram from Chicago saws Mi
lis Frances Il. Willard denies that she ey
ed sent n communication to the Hillsbo
IL Presbytery, assuming that she had +
ceived divine revelation. She disavo,
having addressed TINT association in m
way whatever.
Edward Legrand, son of prominel
W carriage manufacturer of Wilkeslnrr
was recently committed to inil for abu
III ing his family. Early Friday mornii
III he attempted suicide by swallowing
H. paper of tacks and drinking the conten
Ne of n coal oil lamp.
~ The Supreme Court of the Unit
~ States Monday rendered decision
IS the Virginia coupon tax cases. The d
~ cisiOn is against the State in all materi
points and i'll favor of the bOndhuldeI
,Da The chief Justice and Justices Bradle
~, Miller and Gray dissented. .
mn A telegram from Kingston, Ontnri
n says that the Imperial pensioners on bei
of paid last week were warned TINT. in {
i'd event of war between England and Russ
As nll under 80 years of age might be call
mi news with great satisfaction. =..
nd All attempts to stamp out pleu
III pneumonia among the cattle in Callow
to and adjoining counties of Missouri In
ne thus far failed, and much dscourageint
ON is felt among the farmers in cunscquen,
nm Vigorous action by the state is propos
M for the eradication of the pest.
De Daniel Knoll, the imbecile who fir
lra the building on Wentzel's farm, lit
Reading, Pa, by which five lives we
'a' lost, was committed Monday ON II chal
ON of arson. 1t is said he was always look
eu upon ns harmless, hnlf-witted fello
on Int was desperate when reused to ang
nm The Rev. DIR. David Stern, rabbi, di
,nt Sunday morning morning in Wiki
w barre from the effects of poison taken
Saturday with suicidal intent. His CO
gregation comprises some of the wealth.
citizens of Wilkesbnrre. Stern seems
m have been in II morbid mental conditic
~ President Cleveland has issued n Or,
nv lamation vacating President Arthu
IN. order opening the Winnebago reservati
inv i'll Dakota to settlement, on the grou
IRIS that it was in violation of treaty oblii
lev tons. Settlers who have already enter
he upon the reservation are warned to a
mt within GO days.
Of Francis Taylor, Tubal Taylor a
he Elijah Sublet, who had attempted
nd murder j. G.. Dickerson and his wi
me were taken from the Jail Mt Forsythe, M
souri,, on Friday night, bya masked me
1t is considered certain that three m
were lynched, hut their bodies have u
been found.
y, McVetey, the wife murderer, was sc
Oh ! fenced nj ,Jprsny Citv Mondo,, o.,