Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-11-12
IN GENERAL.

lendale, Oak. and the weather there is OK
tremely cold.
Alexander Laughlin, president of the
Iaughlin Iron Works Company, dropped
dead in his mill at Martins Ferry, Ohio,
Thursday morning.
| Richard James, John T. Davis and
Patrick Pligh were terribly burned by an
explosion Of gas in coal shaft at Sugar
Notch, Pa, on Wednesday night week.
johnson and Smith, striking coal
miners, arrested for trying TO persuade
non-union miners to quit work have been
held in Pittsburg on charge of con-
spiracy.
| The hog cholera is still spreading in
Essex, Kent and Brandt counties, Ontario.
One hundred and twenty farms in Essex
county are quarantined because Of the
/ disease.
William Millman, young man, COM
mitted suicide at Baldwinsville, N. ",
Thursday afternoon. He had been
Respondent since the death Of his mother
a year ago.
A boiler explosion in the pork packing
and proprietary medicine laboratory of
w. M. Atkin & Co., at Evansville, Ind,
Thursday, damaged the building and dan
gerons injured 13 men.
Our consul at Palermo, Italy, reports
that up to October 18th there had been
3,937 cases of cholera and 2,093 deaths
| from the disease in that city, and that
over 60, 900 of its inhabitants had fled.
The hotel at Lawrence junction, Pa,
owned by the Pennsylvania company, was
burned Sunday morning. LOSS $50, 900.
There were "a persons in the building, all
of whom barely escaped in their night
clothes.
Frank Butter and Samuel Louks were
found dead on the railroad track at
Mountville, near Lancaster, Pa, Sunday
morning. They had been struck by an
engine while walking on the track. When
Inst seen both were drunk.
A tenement in Weston, Massachusetts,
occupied by city laborers, was burned
about midnight Sunday night by the over
turning of lamp. Patrick Sullivan, aged
60 years was burned to death.
Wesley Burchard, cashier of the
Farmers Bank of Grass Lake, Michigan,
has disappeared, and is reported to be O
defaulter for $18, 1000 of the banks cash.
He is so years of age, and has wife and
daughter.
Mrs. Mary Slower, blind woman, Of
Benton Ridge, o., was burned to death
Thursday, her clothing taking fire while
she was working about stove. Her hus.
band, also blind, was severely burned
while trying to save his wife.
The Wanda, the first steamship of the
line established by the Mobile Il Ohio
railroad between Mobile and Liverpool
sailed Thursday afternoon, with 1900
bales of cotton, by the new ship channel
connecting Mobile with the lower bay.
Peter McCarty and Michael Woodi
were burned, the former fatally, by al
explosion of natural gas in one of the
streets of Pittsburg Thursday night. They
were digging trench, and lighted {
lamp, which ignited gas leaking from tht
pipes along the street.
A private dispatch received Thursda,
in Portland, Oregon, said that Chinatown
situated near the lower depot and whar
of the Northern Pacific railroad at Ia
coma, had been burned by mob, ant
that the railroad tanks, trestles and otheI
property had been destroyed.
The centennial of the Methods
Il OhuANhCp Va AbOblJh huu
L. l., was celebrated Thursday by specia
Elders 1. Simon and B. Adams. The at
! manifested. The churches were botl
instituted November 9th, 1855.
Detectives in Toronto have arreste,
Richard Stone, butcher, and thre
assistants, as being the parties who hun,
the partly dissected corpse in front O
{ LangrilPs butcher shop on Saturda
night. The motive assigned for the act i
a desire to ruin Langrill's business. Iti
said that several medical students ar
i also to be arrested.
t A strict Sunday law enacted few day
; ago by the city council of Birmingham
= Ala, went into effect Sunday. II stop
!. ! all business and traffic except the sale G
4 medicines, even the selling of newspaper
4 being forbidden. The Daily Age, how
y ever, appeared and was sold MS usual, ,an
$ its business manager, Charles M. Hayi
! was arrested and held to bail. The AS
Company wish to test the law.
4 The Hennepin Canal Commission m,
!, Thursday in Chicago. At an informi
|. session in the forenoon, delegates wei
present from Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin
VI Minnesota, Michigan and New York.
was decided to give the commission IL
name of Lake Michigan and Mississippi
4 River Canal Commission. The sessio
Il was formally opened in the Afternoon
l. Judge Murphy making n speech I
,r welcome.
~ Thursday o number of citizens
N Berks county filed bill in equity,
oplyitafy INN IN, af,Oitnuf N
le county commissioners and assessors
OF prevent the latter from requiring pei
Mt TONERS to furnish sworn statements
g their personal property, such as MOI
VI cages, bonds, notes, gold watches, &C
. for purposes of taxation, the last legisl
n ture having passed such revenue bi
IN which is very obnoxious.
ne The schooner Almon Bacon left NJ
n London Thursday morning for Providen
to with $50 tons of pig iron and ~ tons
~ logwood. Near Point Judith she W
al found to have sprung leak, and VIII,
o two miles south of the life-saving stati
ct she sank in ~ fathoms of water. II
m crew was rescued by tho life-saving me
Is, The wreck is in the track of passing VI
sells, and lantern will bo hung on
projecting topmast when it is possible
Is reach her.
;ht The Board of Bishops of the Method
h9 Episcopal Church, in session in New Yol
). has approved the appeal of the Free
~ ~ mems Aid Society for a quarter of nj
,,o an lion dollars year for Christian white n
nc colored people. Every pastor of
church is urged to raise his full app
Lye tionment for this cause, and churches a
in members of larger means are called uI
wo to contribute with increased hberality
M this work. The Missionary Society vo
to raise 81 900, 900 for missionary purI
OF ses during the coming year. The s
oer raised last year was over $500, 900.
I I'els In st. Louis, Wednesday night week,
r1, ;nn police arrested David Keenan,, W.P. Set
80 p. s. Burns, N. Weathers and Mas
AL Workman Pinkerton of the knights
,io Labor, all street railroad men, on
BOD charge of being engaged in the recent
the plosions on the street car trucks. Jt
his ShaughnesBy was arrested Thursday af
noon. These men are all strikers
ted Knights of Labor and were arrested
OF house on Lucas avenue, from which t
the directed their operations, and wher
vent quantity of dynamite and caps
ant found. They purchased the dynamite
'"' Louisville with money furnished by
Knights of Labor ostensibly to buy
oot- co., d. ,tro,s,a,,, fon,;l;oc hnf tbp ,,o
hile lor .he s,Laneia lns .i,'an.n pus ~ ,ts
an clhiih 70 nave ihiorlhhtiou tn''' 'he On.
lied knew that 1t was to purchase expiosi
and The men have all confessed their com
icle- ton with the plot to destroy railr
property.
lock A committee has been for some
iced Investigating the management of
sing Maryla1d House of Correction. an
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