Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-06-11


The barque Abbottsford has Just arrived
at Quebec from Greenock after voyage
of nearly two months. She was detained
in the ice "a days.
The state department last week received
from Minister Foster, at Madrid, n tele-
gram saying that n government commits
sion had declared Asiastic cholera to be
epidemic in the Spanish province of
Valencia.
A strange and fatal malady has attacked
the cattle in the neighborhood of Tusca-
loosa. Alabama. Those afflicted with it
appear to be mad and blind. A promi-
nent physician thinks the malady resem-
bles meningitis.
A 4-year-old daughter of David Schapp,
in Manor Township, Lancaster County,
Pa, during her mothers absence last
week, gave her infant sister n fatal dose
from liniment bottle. The little victim
died in few hours.
DIR. E. r. 10y, who killed Harry
Champlin, his brother. in-law at Gincin-
natl, was yesterday week discharged in the
police court, the judge saying that the
testimony made out clearly n case of self
defense. A shout of ofapplause greeted the
decision, and the doctor and his wife were
deeply affected.
According to dispatch from Proyi-
dence, Captain Nathaniel B. Church of
the Menlnden fishing steamer, George
w. Humphrey, has reported as follows ::
"On Monday evening week, while of Fire
Island, the steamer was running about 10
miles an hour with load of 1000 barrels
of fish, when she struck q whale. The
shock was SO great that the engineer and
fireman were knocked down. An officer
reports that the whale appeared to him
after the collision to be nearly cut
through"
A telegram from Winnipeg, says the
Rev. Father Lcduc, vicar of st. Albert,
near Edmonton, in the Northwest Terri
tory, reports: Before | left st. Albert,
Big Bear was sending scouts from his re-
serve for the different reserves around the
| neighborhood. The message he gave
them was to this effect: We are doomed,
and we will be killed one after another, by
the whites, but before we die or disappear
altogether we must enjoy ourselves as
much as we can. Therefore we must
plunder the stores and kill many white
| people.
| A telegram from Chicago relates that III
June, 1884, Mrs. L. w. Walker of Coying.
ton, Ky, lost a handbag containing
diamonds and jewelry, valued at $4,000
on railroad train. In November An
drew j. Anderson, a burglar, was sent tc
prison for Is years. After being in prison
short time he sent for Frank O. Smith
his lawyer, and told him that he had hid
den the diamonds under a bush in Lincoln
Park. Mr.. Smith made several attempts
to discover the place indicated, until, {
few days ago, he found them where the
burglar had stated. The were all intact
and Mrs. Walker has arrived there &c
claim them.
Don Jorge Hclquin, secretary of th'
treasury of Columbia, has arrived at New
York on mission to the United State
and France, where he is to perform yer,
important commissions as envoy extra
ordinary and minister plenipotentiary
1t is understood that Mr.. Holquin ha
been instructed by his government in
special manner to separate the financia
rights that this republic has in the enter
prises of the Panama Railroad Compan
and Panama Canal Company. Itappear
that the Panama railroad or canal con
pany have been summoned before IL
! supreme court of the federation on a.
/ count of failure to comply with the stip'
lations in existing contracts.