Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-04
IN GENERAL.

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Most Of the business portion of Brown
wood, Texas, was burned on Monday
evening" Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$751;, 900.
John Ralston, for 20 years foreman of
the Journal job Office in Dayton, Ohio,
committed suicide Monday morning by
cutting his throat.
The billiard tournment in New York re-
suited on Saturday night in victory for
Schaefer, who beat vignaux by 1852 points
in the total Of 5000.
While men were clearing snow from the
railroad track near Frisco, Col, on Mon
day, three of them were buried bya snow
slide under 100 feet of snow and rocks.
A. Orne, one of the earliest shoemakers
in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and author
of several works on temperance, which
are said TO have wide circulation in
England, died on Sunday, aged "a years.
In the United States court at Fort
Smith, Ark, on Saturday, Judge Parker
passed sentence of death on seven men
convicted of murder in the Indian Ter
ritory. They are to be hanged on April
| 23d.
Alexander Heinowsli, q painter, was
burned to death in hotel in Charlottes
N. O., on Sunday night, and three other
men narrowly escaped suffocation. A
bed was set on fire by matches in Heinow-
| skis pocket.
The Rev. DIR. O. L. Goodell, pastor of
the Pilgrim Congregational Church, in st.
Louis, was stricken with apoplexy on Sun
day night, and died yesterday morning.
He had occupied the pulpit of the Pill
grim Church about - years.
The steamships Noordland and Servia
| collided in New York harbor ON Saturday
afternoon, and the Noordland had large
hole cut on her starboard quarter. She
was to have sailed for Antwerp, but was
taken back to her dock for repairs. A
thick fog prevailed at the time.
State veterinal ian Atkinson of Wiscon
sin, on Friday presented to the Madison
board of health n report on hydrophobia
showing that five persons have died Of
the disease in that city within few
months after having been bitten by dog
which showed symptoms of rabies.
An engine hauling train of empty
coal cars, on the Bellefonte and Snow
Shoe railroad, left the track at Fountain
Station, Pa, Monday afternoon, ant
tumbled down q 20-foot embankment
Conductor MoMullin and Fireman Littl,
were killed, and Engineer Jeremiah Nolai
was dangerously injured.
Ritzinger Brothers bank in Indianapo
lis failed Manday, its proprietors max
ing an assignment. The concern was es
tablished in 1867 and did large German
business. Its assets are said to amour
to $400, 900, largely in real estate. Tn
suspension started run on s. A. Fletche
Il Co.'s bank, but the run subsidized in tn
afternoon, the bank meeting all demands
Thirty. three members of the compan,
who performed ut Heuck's Theatre il
Cincinnati on Sunday, Monday appeared
before Judge Anderson and pleaded
guilty, and were fined 81 and costs each
They were arrested at the instance of tn
law and Order League. 1t is hunted tina
the whole matter was arranged before
hand to present the assessment of
heavier punishment.
The eighteenth annual convention o
the New England Labor Reform Leagu
was held on Sunday in Boston. Resolu
tions We're adopted declaring all govern
ment robbery, trades unions repressiv
monopolies, Knights of Labor tyrannoul
pirates, silverites and oddities warrinj
, sets of thieves, rum and Mormonism rep
resentatives of personal reli gious liberty
, and marriages, church and state all hind
RANGES to progress.
The trustees of the Chicago Gran
monument fund have accepted desigl
i for terrace and monument surmountet
by an equestrian statue, to be erected il
Lincoln Park. The principal feature o
the design is solid terrace wall, piercet
by massive granite arch 60 feet long
: Above this rises the monument on Whicl
j the statue is to stand, the top of the mon
ument being AZ feet above the ground
The structure is to cost $50,000.
A telegram from Little Rock says j
j. Waters, the postmaster at Quincy,
: small settlement in Newton county, ha
> been driven away by his neighbors OF
\ account of his manner of treating per
$ sons having business at that office. A
. last accounts Waters and his wife were a
9 Jasper, the county seat, and his son-in
e law and a few friends were in his house
A which was besieged, shots being occo
sionally exchanged between the parties
The treasury department has authorizes
? the customs collector at New York +
allow box containing the ashes of
lady who died abroad, and whose bod,
was cremated to be forwarded to Phila
delphia without being opened for exam
nation. The remains are also to b
delivered to the relatives in PHILADELPHIA
! without payment of duty. The box i
= question is described in the consular in
voice as containing samples of phosphat
!, OF lime.
The government of Guatemala recent
I sent out n commission to inquire into tn
probability of IN outbreak Of the Pacay
= volcano. Their report announces til
. total destruction of the village of Sa
| Vicent Pacaya. Some, "A tiled roofe
& houses completely collapsed, making sue
. a cloud of dust as to create belief tina
/ a new crater had opened. The ho
' springs surrounding Lake Amatitlan emf
n large volume of water at higher tenn
4 perature than usual The crater o
r PAcaya remains unchanged, while that o
a Fuego has been very lively.
: The coroner's jury in the case of tn
g miners killed by the explosion of fire
o damp in the 0riel Goal Mine at Newburp
West Virginia, on the 2lst ult., rendered
. a verdict on Saturday night. The iur,
| find that "the accident was caused b,
3 leaving an open door in the mir passage il
, the mine, thereby impairing the ventila
. tlon and allowing gas to accumulate:
. that it was due to the failure of the SUI
perintendent to obey the instructions .
the state mine inspector; and pronounc,
) the penalty affixed by the Legislature fo
. such neglect inadequate.
| A storm of sleet which had ragged
, throughout New England for 4s hour
ended on Saturday night. Reports from
Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts,
. show that incalculable damage has beer
done to fruit and shade trees. Some Of
the principal fruit growers in New
, Hampshire say their orchards are entirel,
ruined. In Portsmouth all the peaci
trees are believed to be killed. In Not
tlngham one man lost 1000 peach trees
In Portland the magnificent elms, which
were the glory of that city, have suffered
injury which it will require years to re-
pair. Similar reports come from othei
points. In Boston and its vicinity the
principal damage was done to telephone
and telegraph wires.
The Cross leyee at Stockton, California,
which separates the lower division OF
Roberts Island from the middle division,
gave way on Saturday, flooding So, O00
acres of land, of which IL, 900 acres were
in wheat. The levee, which surrounds
the island, broke at the middle section
several days ago, flooding the section,
which comprised $4,000 acres in grain.
ms brought heavy pressure of water
against the Cross levee, which was being
constantly strengthened but, as il nroye6