Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-11-05
IN GENERAL.


The tops OF the Catskill Mountains were
Monday covered with. snow.
1t is reported that tho widow of General
Custer will be appointed Pension Agent at
Detroit.
Frank Furtah, Injured by the tug ex-
plosion at Marine City, Mich, died Mon
day, making the fifth victim.
j: b. White, prominent planter near
richmond, Texas, was shot dead by an nm
known assassin While seated at sumner
Monday night.
Preparations arc In progress for n re-
sumption of work next Monday at tho flint
glass manufactures in Kensington and
Richmond.
Elwood F.. Moore, n slater, was killed
Monday ut Dayton, Ohio, by falling from
the steeple OF a new church. He went to
Dayton from Philadelphia few weeks ago.
A municipal census of Kansas Citv Mis-.
souri,, just completed shows the city's POM.
latlon, exclusive OF the suburbs, TO he
lUb,Uf2. This indicates u gain of nhout M
per cent since 1880. The proportion be-
tween the sexes is $4,000 males to 80 600
females.
The public debt statement for Oetober
shows reduction of $13, 276, 774. The re-
auction Tor the first four months Of the
present fiscal year, has been S97. b76. 5s1 ar
nearly S5,0OO,0O0 greater than the reduction
Ior the corresponding period of the last
fiscal year. "'''
inc legislative Joint committee nj
columbus, acting under instructions of the
last legislature of Ohio. which appropriated
SlO,OO0 for the purpose, Monday awarded
the contract for statue of the late William
Alleh, ex-dovernor OF Ohio, to Carl II.
Neihaus of Cincinnati and aeeepted bis
sketch with slight alterations. 1t is TO be
placed In the hall Of the old House at WASH
lngton. The statue will be completed in two
years. WV
=, The President Monday appointed Owen
L. Rouse OF Missouri TO be United States
attorney for Arizona. He Is a LAWYER of
Moberly, about 40 years of age, an active
polticihh, ana hns served Il term in the
senate OF Missouri. The President nlso
appointed Frank Harvey to be postmaster
AT remove, Pa, In place OF Newton Mills.
suspended; Elijah II. Parsons. Dostmaster.
at Towanda, Pa, In place OF j. r, Keenev
suspended, and Joseph Taylor, postmaster
at Dubois, Pa, to succeed e Dale resigned
The first through train on the Canadian
paciilc railway from Montreal to tho Rocky
Mountains was to have started Nondn,y
II is expected to reach Winnipep to dny,
ana Donald, 40 miles beyond the sum,
init OF the Rocky Mountains and 2445miles
from Montreal, early neXt week. Trainson
tne branch line will run TO connect with tha
main line. AT present there will be no for
mality connected with tho opening, as Il Is
intended to reserve the celebration until
next spring, when traffic will be opened TO
Fort Moody on the Pacific coast.
Professor W. T. White of Duffs College
lnllittsburg, is dangerously sick with symp,
toms OF strychnine poisoning. He was
ulken suddenly Ill several days ago, after
eating heartily OF food prepared by Bridget
morgan, domestic, who has since tiisap-
Peared. This girl was in the employ Of
Emanuel Deroy at tho time OF the fatal
poisoning OF his child, and left shortly after
she nurse, Mary Allen, was charged with its
MURDER, Mary Allen was tried and con-
victed OF the crime and is now in the peni-
tehtlary serving n sentence of II years,
her friends hnyo taken her case In hand
ana VIII try to prove her innocence, claim
i ~ mat circumstances now point in another