Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-11-26
IN 6ENERAL.

Martha's Vineyard was successfully
landed at noon Thursday.
George Walters, chief engineer Of the
Phoenix Iron Company, died Friday, at
his residence In Phenixville, Pa.
DR.. William rockingham, we'll
known physician of Now York, shot him
self dead Thursday morning, whether by
accident or Intentionally is unknown.
Thomas O. Hance, who killed his wife
in house of evil repute in Baltimore,
two months ago, was Thursday acquitted
of the charge of murder after 10 days
trial in Annapolis.
| The steamer Louisiana, which sailed
from New York for New Orleans at 8 p.
M, on the 14th instant, arrived at Port
Eads Thursday afternoon at 3.45, making
the fastest run on record between the two
| points.
Governor Pattison Thursday refused to
| sign the recommendation of the pardon
board for q pardon for Emil Dorner of
Pittsburg, convicted and sentenced for
fraudulent voting. He sent the case back
for rehearing.
The Essex and Kingsville stage, con-
tanning number of passengers, was at
tackled by mounted highwaymen near
kingsville, Ontario, Thursday night. The
robbers fred five shots at the driver and
missed him. He whipped up his horses
and escaped. ~
In the United States Court at Auburn,
N. Y, Thursday, Henry j. Taylor
pleaded guilty to embezzling money
order funds, while assistant postmaster
at Rome, and was sentenced to pay fine
of $657, and to serve one and a-half
years at hard labor in the state prison.
A dispatch from Galveston says: "The
total of the subscriptions for the benefit
of the sufferers by the fire amounts to
nearly $87, 900, of which 1853, 900 have
been paid in, and something over S33, 900
paid out to 613 applicants"
Andrew Bruon, ex-president of the Hot
Springs National Bank, indicted for false
entries on the banks books, and swearing
false returns to the controller of the cur
rency, has been acquitted in the United
States court at Hot Springs, Arkansas.
The schooner Fanny Fern, at New
London, Conn, reports striking, two
miles west by half north on Point Judith
light, o rock or sunken vessel, which
knocked her centre board up to the deck.
The schooner with board up draws but
five feet Of water. The obstruction is
dangerous to navigation.
Frank Tress was mysteriously and fa.
tally stabbed at ball at Beaver Falls,
Penna., on Tuesday night week. He was
standing with others where there was
some crowding and good -Aatured jostling,
when suddenly he felt a sharp pain in the
side. An investigation shows dangerous
wound. 1t is not known who did the
stabbing.
A stove exploded in the city hospital at
Louisville Thursday afternoon and started
fire in the elevator way, between the
third and fourth floors. The fire burned
tiercely and there was much excitement,
as there were many helpless patients in
the adjoining wards. These were, how
ever, removed, and the fire, which had
communicated with the roof, was soon
under control.
Annie Lyons was arrested yester-
day week in Boston on the |
charge of attempting to poison
the family and servants of Charles |
W. Parker, by whom she had been en-
ployed as cook. She is alleged to have
put arsenic in q barrel of -four, and it |
was only by the exertions of physician |
that the victims were saved. She was
held in $40, 600 bail for trial.
The public committee appointed to in |
vestigate the facts connected with the ex-
pulsion of the Chinese from Tacoma,
Washington Territory, on the Sd inst,
has reported that not single Chinaman
suffered bodily injury, and that none of |
their property was destroyed. The cor |
rectness of the report is attested by 2l of |
the leading citizens, representing the /
banking, commercial, Legal and other in
terests.
In the county clerks Office at Goshen,
N Y, Thursday, William V. Smith, chief |
engineer, filed q mortgage of $4,000, 900,
signed by Chaunoey Vibbard, president of |
the New England &Southwestern IL railroad,
to the Central Trust Company of New |
York. The mortgage covers the line from
the Erie connection to Brewsters, ,26 miles,
including the projected bridge over the
Hudson at Storm King.
The New England Institute fair build
ing in Boston was yesterday week sold to |
the Metrol olitan Railroad Company for
$500, 900, the property including $4,000 |
square feet of land with an extensive
front upon Huntington avenue. The /
building upon this land was erected and
was utilized for several years for exhibit
tion purposes, at cost of about S400, 900.
II covers about five acres of land, with
about eight acres of floor space.
Disastrous prairie fires are reported in
the Indian territory, especially in the
section lying north of Red River Station.
The fire appears to have started at Wild
Horse creek, about 40 miles north of Red
River Station, and burned down to the
bottom lands of Red river, thence to
Beaver creek, Is miles west of Red River
Station. It is believed that the fire belt
is from 40 to 60 miles wide. The loss to
cattlemen is placed as high as 100000
In Chicago, yesterday week during an
of the county insane asylum,
DR.. Kiernan testified that when he took
charge of the asylum, a year ago, he
found patients tied with ropes and in
straight jackets. Other patients were
covered with sores, tied up with filthy
rags infected with vermin and maggots.
Other witnesses testified to cases of neglect
and abuses Of patients by attendants, in
some cases, choloral being given in large
quantities TO keep patients asleep or
30 as not to be troublesome.
AT Wilkesbarre, yesterday week, Daniel
+. Seybert of Salem. IN ex-member of the
state legislature, recently convicted of
assault and battery and larceny, was sem
fenced to pay fine of $50 and undergo
ten months imprisonment in the Luzerne
county jail. He sought to secure post
ponement of the sentence by having q
message sent to the court on Monday to