Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-05-28
IN GENERIL.

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James NJ. Sharp, being i'll and threat
| ened with blindness, hanged himself neal
Statesyille, N. c., Friday,
The grand jury Mt Springfield, Mass.
| Thursday indicted the Boston IL Albany
railroad for running trains on Sunday.
During Thursday and Friday the sun
at Quebec was obscured by smoke from
brush fires in the mountains few miles
from that city.
The pay roll of the New York custom
house for the present month amounts to
1927 900, or $4,000 less than in April,
and 1928, 900 less than in October Inst.
James King, aged so years, a farmer of
Fulton, New York, committed suicide
Thursday morning by cutting his throat,
because he hnd been accused of watering
his milk.
The tobacco plants in Virginia and
North Carolina are now large enough for
the hill in many places. Planters are
busy setting one crop and preparing the
other for market.
The Rev. j. II. Reasoner, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church of Collinsville,
ILL.,, committed suicide Thursday by
shooting himself in the head. He is be-
lieved to have been insane.
William Geies, a boy of 15 years, died
Thursday morning in New York from the
effects of dose of "Rough ON Rats"
taken with suicidal intent, because, as
supposed, he was disappointed in love.
The new propeller Baltimore, built for
the Richmond Steamboat Company, was
launched last week in Baltimore. She is
236 feet in length, 38 feet in breadth and
% feet deep. Her capacity is 1900 tons.
The night express train on the New
York Central railroad ran on n pile of ties
which had been placed on the track south
of Highland on Thursday night. The
engine and baggage CIR and two express
cars were derailed. No person was hurt.
The State Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows,
Mt Harrisburg Thursday, adjourned finally
after installing the now officers. Before
adjourning permission was granted to the
lodges throughout the state to appear in
full regalia ON Memorial and mtlepen-
dence days.
BY the fall of the scaffold ut the new
post office in Baltimore, yesterday after
noon week, seven men were precipitated to
tbe ground, distance of 20 feet John
Rogers was killed and the others were
injured, one of them, George w. Miller,
dangerously.
John Pinnax of Stony Greek, N. c.,
knocked his two little children, boy and
n girl, on the head with mn axe on Thurs
day night, then ran to creek and
drowned himself The boy is dead and
the girl is dying. 1t is Thought money
embarrassments made Pinnnx crazy.
A delegation of Otoe Indians Friday
had an interview with the assistant secre-
tary of the interior, and requested TINT
their annuities be paid to them in cash,
instead of in goods that were not suitable
for their purpose. The assistant secre-
tary promised to consider the matter.
Crop reports from the line Of the Omaha,
Minnesota Il Iowa railroad, received in
st. Paul, say there is i'm increase of %
per cent i'll the acreage of corn and flax,
but the latter has suffered 30 per cent
killed from cold weather, Corn planting
will be completed this week, Wheat is
docking well.
Andrew j. McCaulcy was arrested in
Baltimore Friday upon the request of
the Philadelphia authorities. He is
charged with being a defaulter and with
jumping bail iii January Inst. He was
given into the custody of n detective, who
started for Philadelphia with his prisoner
Friday afternoon s
d. l.. Glover and George Mask went
cunning for squirrels at Troutman, N. O.,
Friday. While both were running
after II squirrel, Masks gun struck
against IL tree and was discharged, the
contents striking Glover i'll the abdomen.
Glover lived three hours, but before he
died said the shooting was accidental.
Heavy rains fell throughout the lower
counties of Virginia on Thursday and
Friday. The rain was greatly needed.
1t is said that in some sections of the state
the drought was so severe that none of
the corn planted has come up, nor any
grass, and that feed was SO scarce that the
cattle were feeding on the buds of trees.
The boiler of the steamer John Green
way ON Onondago Lake, near Syracuse,
N. Y, exploded on Saturday night Cap
tain Kinne, the owner, WIS fatally, and
Antonio kinne, the engineer, dangerously
injured. Captain Kinne died yesterday
morning. The boiler was considered I'M
safe, and the captain had been warned of
its condition.
At Erie, Pa, Friday jury awarded
L. Roscnzweig SSiS,700 damages for ejec-
ton from Lake Shore passenger train.
The train was limited express, and the
conductor refused to accept regular
ticket or money from Roscnzweig, who
was passenger from Cleveland to Erie.
Rosenzwcig fell into pile of stone when
he was put of the tnlin, and paralysis
was the result. lie sued for Sl00,000
A strange disease battling the skill of
the physicians, broke out in Paris Roads,
II small station ON the Pan Handle rail
road, 1S miles from PittSharg, n few days
ago There have been five deaths in ono
family. Eight persons have died and
eight more are sick. The local physi-
clans refused to attend the patients and
Situbenville, Ohio, doctors aro there.
The disease is spreading rapidly and all
cases prove fatal.
In Pittsburg Thursday afternoon, Frank
Babbcrt, aged l6 years, shot and killed
Lizzie Lippech, aged four years, and then
committed suicide. Babbert, who boarded
with Mrs Lippech, was playing with
the little girl, the mother being present,
when he suddenly drew n revolver and
fired the fatal shot. He then fired at the
mother, but she escaped by running from
the room. He then fired two bullets into
his own body and was lying dead ON the
floor when the neighbors rushed in. No
cause for the deed can be assigned. Bah
bert was Bohemian, and had only been
in the country II few weeks
The report of the resignation of Presi-
dent zaldivar of San Salvador, and his
| departure from that country is confirmed
by official dispatches received in Wash
ington. His resignation was caused by
the rejection Of a proposition TO hold a
congress of delegates from the five Con
tral American states with view TO con-
federation General Figueroa, vice presi-
dent of Salvador, has assumed the reins
of government, and the government is
moving energetically and with success
against the revoiutionists, who are led by
General Menendez, and who, the dis
patches say, are furnished with materia
J for carrying on the war by Guatemala.