Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-04-30

permission of the board.
Crop reports from all parts of California
show That the grain yield in all the coun-
tics except one will be only from one-quar-
ter osthree-quarters of that Of last year.
This is largely due to the decreased acre
age. The fruit districts report largely
increased acreage and promising crops.
What is lost in grain will be made up in
fruit and wine.
Charles Gibson, horse thief, and
Joseph Croft, burglar, who escaped
from the county prison ut Lancaster, Pa,
were captured on Monday night on the
Welsh Mountain, near Blue Rock, and
company with Abe Buzznrd, and many of
the recent robberies in that section of the
country ARE attributed to them.
Eben W. Boynton of New York has be-
gun suit in the United States court nj
Pittsburg, against Hussey, Howe d Co.,
steel manufacturers of TINT city for
alleged breach of contract. He claims /
that the defendants refused to deliver |
large order for steel plates which had |
been contracted for because the price of |
steel advanced several cents before the |
date of filling the order. The suit in |
wolves $600,000.
The dead bodies of Mrs. Aurelia |
Evans, wife of William Evans, and II man
named Casper Wengan, were found Fri
day on bed in Evans house, in New
Orleans. Both the man and the woman
were shot in the head. The servant girl,
returning TO the house, found II locked,
and as Mr.. Evans was not Mt home, she
did not believe there was anybody in tina
house. The police, however, forced the
door and discovered the tragedy.
Robert Butler, young colored man,
WINS arrested in Baltimore early Thursday
morning while attempting to force M en-
trance into n house. He confessed that
he had committed all the burglaries COM
planned of recently, and did his work I'M
| aided. large quantity of the stolen
| property, including diamonds. jewelry,
watches. silverware and clothing hns been
recovered. His stealings amount to aEout
| $l00,00O.
The heaviest snow storm ever known nj
Denver, Colorado, began at y o'clock OH
| Wednesday night week and lasted until 6
O'Clock in the evening. Fully 20 inches of
snow fell, as much in theaggregate AZ the
previous falls of the whole winter. The
snow was very heavy. A number of
roofs have fallen in, but without fatal
result so far as reported. The storm was
general throughout the state, but railroad
trains are moving nearly on time.
The Central and South American Tele-
graph Company in New York Monday
received the following telegram, dated
Panama, April 27th "The city is quiet
The moral effect of the occupation by the
American forces has been very great
Not shot has been fired since. Colom-
binn troops from the south are expected
to arrive here this evening. An excited
meeting was held here on Sunday. Sedi-
tious speakers We're stopped under pain
of arrest by Aizpuu."
A disease resembling typhoid fever is
epidemic in Plymouth, nenr Wilkesbnrre.
Pa. Upwards of 600 cases are reported,
with ID deaths on Friday and l5 on Satur.
, day. The disease is attributed to the
fact that there are no cutters or sewers to
carry away the refuse of the town. II il
, also Inscribed to the use by large portion
of the inhabitants of polluted well water.
Six deaths from the disease took place
yesterday, and there were nine funerals.
On the night of january 18th the
British schooner Avlona went ashore of
|
she would be total wreck, and after her
cargo of sugar was taken out she was sold
for $76. The purchaser found upon
! examination that she was in very goot
4 condition. She was hauled ashore nnt
!. some repairs mntle. The launch tool
Z place on Saturday, and she is saii to be
4 ms senwortly ms ever.
General Henry j. Hunt retired. was u
n Saturday appointed governor Of thr
e Soldiers Home ut MashinstU n, i'll pi,lu,
IS of Colonel Samuel d. Sturgis, of tn,
e Seventh Cavalry; and Captain Rober
o Cattlin, retired, was appointed deput,
governor in place of Captain w. Lyman
ii of the Fifth Infantry. Army officials mr.,
., pleased with this action of the President
Is as it was originally intended that tn,
X home should be n retreat for nged o
IS disabled soldiers commanded by retiret
officers.
a During the month of March the import
d of merchandise into the United State.
% exceeded the exports FL SOL ,G4S. During
5, the IL months which ended March Bis
i" 1885, the exports exceeded the import
Ie $147 STA $3.50. The total value of TIN
imports of merchandise during the l:
II months which ended March 3ist 1885
If preceding IL months 1858, 298, 251,
lie decrease of 1857, 106,917. The total ynlu
tx of the exports of merchandise for the |,
L. months ended March 3lst, 1885 wer
SAB, 7G5,9 and for the ~ month
t. ended March 3lst 1884, S761, 768, SOL,
,e decrease of SlS 1902. 701.
!. The Chicago Railsoay Age publishes
II list of 20 railroads that have been place,
NNa AI1Eah Ii. #
u LIST to March 3lst 1885. The total capi
tai stock and bonds of these corporation
u aggregate 1915, $3.50 900. The 1qe saws
y "Our record for 1884 gave the total mum
l. Der of roads placed in receivers hands a
;. 81 embracing HOBS miles of line an,
ie $715,000,000 of capital and debt. TIL
u first quarter of this year already show
more than one-half as many roads, NOR
y than 81 per cent of the mileage, an,
y about 40 per cent of the total amount o
u capital stock involved by the receiver
" ships of the entire previous year"
y Two1trains on tho Iron Mountain rail
road collided ut n sharp curve, IL mile
q. from st. Louis, Monday afternoon. On,
"a of the trains was a special, carving
y party of Texas Pacific and Misso1r
~ Pacific railroad officials, on a trip of in
=. spection over the road. Louis Crist, fire
70 man, and Philip Toland, connected witt
the locomotive department of the Penn
sylvania railroad, who was riding ON tn,
y engine of the special were kilel
William Stevenson, engineer, WINS danger
j ously injured. Ex-Governor Brown
+ general solicitor of the Missouri Pacifi,
q road had his shoulder dislocated. Severa
= others sustained slight injuries.
In Chicago Monday Mayor Harrison
}. entered three heavy suits for damages, on,
II for 100000 against the Inter Ocean
l. Publishing Company, one for 5000, OO(
q against Edwin Lee Brown, and one 10,
3 $4O0, 900 against the Inter Ocean anf
v Edwin Lee Brown jointly. Counsel fol
e Mayor Harrison said last night that the
suit against the Inter OHan was based OIL
y IA ibelous charges, in which Mayor
v Harrison's private character wns attacked
] during and prior to the late campaign
d The other suits were based upon speecl
1t by MIR. Brown, published in the Inter.
y Ocean, in which the speaker said that
Is Mayor Harrison was consort Of tlieye,
l. and ballot-box suffers, or words to that
effect.