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

that cholera prevails in Calcutta, India, to
an alarming extent. 4
The Connecticut legislature adjourned
sine die yesterday, after passing n bill
establishing a labor bureau. n
Since January LIST !, 700 cases of measles
and 70 deaths from the disease have been
reported in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Governor Martin of Kansas, Tuesday
issued n proclamation imposing quaran-
tine of 80 dayson all cattle from Missouri.
The United States commissioner of
agriculture arrived in Boston Tuesday
TO inquire into the location of the cattle
quarantine.
A bill for the protection of cattle and
the prevention OF pleuro pneumonia was
introduced in the Illinois house of repre-
sentatiyes Monday.
Mrs. Charlotte Brinkworth, postmaster
Mt Maria, Bedford county, Pa, has given
bail in 81 800 to answer the charge of
stealing money from the mails.
s. M. Smith, nephew of Joseph Smith,
the Mormon prophet, Il. ID. Davis of suit
Lake City, and Bishop Stewart of Idaho,
have been arrested for polygamy.
AT White River junction, Vermont,
Thursday, the thermometer registered ~
in the shade at ii o'clock in the morning,
and 90 at o'clock in the afternoon.
1t is reported from Sonora that in re-
cent battle between the Zaqui Indians
and the Mexicans the latter were de-
feated with loss of 80 killed and
wounded.
If the bill to refund the direct war tax
levied in 1862 should become law, the
90 states now united in securing the pas
sage of such bill would recover about
| $40, 900, 900.
| The President has designated Major
George M. Sternberg of the United States
army, to represent the United States at
the sanitary conference which will meet
i'll Rome on May 10Th.
Forest fires, extending for about so
miles on each side of the Blue Ridge west
of Lynchburg, Va, have been burning
for several days. Immense volumes OF
smoke hang over the mountains.
The Maryland State Temperance ALI.
ance met Thursday in Baltimore, deter.
mined to start again prohibition party
in Maryland, and appointed committee
on organization and platform.
Sadie Walmer, IL years of age, was
fatally burned MT Lebanon, Pa, last week
by her clothes catching fire from.a basket
of hot lime, which she wns carrying OF
her shoulder.
The large railway hospital of the Goult
/ system ut Fort " orth, Texas, was burned
ON Sunday morning. The patients, 80 il
, number, We're removed safely. Loss
$35 900; insurance, SOS, 900.
3 Andrew Barrett and Samuel Skidmor
Q entered an old opening in Waddle's mine
r at Wilkesbarre, Pa, with naked lamp
1 Thursday. An explosion of gas occurre
$ and both men were fatally injured.
u The Louis Cook Manufacturing Com
= pany of Cincinnati engaged in the manu-
n facture of carriages and buggics, made u
n assignment last week The liabilities NJ
). estimated at 5000, 900, the assets ut nbou
# 1927, 900.
. DIR. Joshua Potts, who was convicte
u in Lancaster, Pa, of criminal Innlprat
tice, was last week sentenced to pay
!, fine of $500 and costs of prosecution I'M
undergo five years imprisonment in I'll
penitentiary. .. -=.....= .5....
Mrs. Burrius, widow of the Lutte pres
ia dent of Guatemala, and her seven chi
dren, arrived ut San Francisco from Pan
No ma last week. 1t is reported that Pres
II dent Barrios had S., 1000, 900 invested
L the United States.
s. A terrific explosion of gas occurrt
Q, Thursday in the basement of the pc
No Office and Music Hall at Wilkesbarre, p
The fagstones in front of the bnildiI
IL were blown out of place, and the janit
er was slightly burned.
We The Mexican government has tax,
IL vigorous measures to guard against Il
q. introduction of cholera Mt tue vario,
" seaports. Vessels from countries whe
w cholera is reported will be subjected
Id rigorous quarantine.
ne The new breaker of the Reading co
Ms and iron company, at West Brookside, Pr
r. was burned on Saturday evening. 1t
IN supposed to have been fired by spa
from n locomotive. The structure W
IL valued ut about $4,000.
IF The Rev. DIR. Leonard Wilmington,
=. well-known Congregational minister, di
~ last week in Newbury, Mass, at the a
of 96 years. He was author of the boob
81 "rhe Puritan" and "Solomon's Songs
Ia and was frequent contributor TO t
IL ' press.
H. II; E. O. Hubbard, convicted of the murd
Gu of William Knowles, was hanged F
- day at Trinidad, Colorado, in presence
a large number of people. This was t
first legal execution in that county,
er previous executions having been lyme
AS ings.
he A movement has been started in Oh;
'ly tanooga to offer General Grant the Fl
ms use, during his cOnyalescence, of a d
| h,.t,
ly of the battle-ields of Chickamauga, Nj
lie. sion Ridge, Lookout Mountain and Oh,
ms tanooga. .-....-
MS A man and woman registered at hoi
IT. in Cohoes, N. y, Tuesday night wee
ar and yesterday week were found unco
us scious. They had blown out the u
I'M Their names are SO badly written on 1
Or register as to be illegible, Both are in
de critical condition.
mt james Talbot, AZ years of age a cous
m of the Earl of Shrewsbury, and former
n captain in the British infantry, died
to the county workhouse hospital in N,
Ia York on Saturday. He had spent riotous
rd fortune inherited from an uncle and |
sia came IL drunken tramp.
raj The epidemic at Plymouth, Pa., is
nd ported to be chiefly prevalent in t
la lower sections of the town, where HUI
'rt garians and Poles are crowded togeth
nd i'll tenements, as many MS Is or 90 occ
ut plying one house. In other quarters I
yes disease is believed to be abating.
The disease prevailing in Plymout
en- Pa, is described by prominent physical
OF of Wilkesbarre as typhoid malarial me
nd nights, and they say that the chief eau
ar- is due to stagnrnt water pumped out
'cs the mines, which is allowed to permea
the upper soil and create poisonous d
eases.
e. Hiram b. Clawson, Mormon bisho
raj indicted at Salt Lake City for unlawf
OF cohabitation, was called before the col
re- missioners' court on Saturday Beii
N. asked his plea, he said; "Mr. Commi
he sioner. it is not necessary to examine NJ
INT witnesses in this case. l admit all Il
facts MS set forth in this complaint"
CHI The Union Pacific Railroad Compal
tes has paid in to the United States treasu
'e- the sum of 1916, 704, of which SG33 s.
nd is to be applied to the sinking fund, m
lat 1888, 1853 to the bond and interest accou
a in accordance with the AWARDS nude
ar the court of claims and the computation
thereon made by the officers of the i
ur terror department.
en- Joseph l.. Yoder and his hired ma
tie Samuel Roth, were burning brush on d
formers firm npnr Rathlphpn pa NC