Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-11-11
IN GENERAL.


A slight shock of earthquake was felt
Monday at Reno, Nevada.
Judge W. W. johnson of the supreme
court of Ohio, has resigned because of ill
health.
The Otis grain elevator in Cleveland o.. /,
was burned on Saturday night. Loss,
1886, 900; covered by insurance.
Mrs. Druse, the murderess, was Mon
day resentenced at Herkimer, N. T., to be
hanged on Wednesday, December 10Th.
B. F. Harrison, Wholesale grocer of
Detroit, died on Saturday from the effects
of fall down an elevator well on Tues
day week.
The piano factory of William Heine-
kamp q Sous, in Baltimore, WAS burned
early Sunday morning. Loss about
$25, 600; fully insured.
Ice quarter of an inch thick formed
at Lynohburg, Virginia, on Sunday
night. The snow is three inches desp in
the neighboring mountains.
The house of John Davis, at Quio,
Quebec, was burned on Saturday. Mfs.
Davis, 10 years of age, persisted while
trying to save some valuables.
A farmer of Dry Point township, near
Shadyville, ILL.,, has just lost seven fine
cattle from black leg. The disease was
prevalent in that section last winter.
The torch of the Bartholdi statue in
New. York barbor was dark Sunday night,
| there being no official provision nor any
private tender of means for lighting it,
1t is still insisted that vessel sank
where the revenue cutter Manhattan was
supposed to have foundered. Wreckage
has been cnnmg ashore at Bradford
Point.
A. ]. Vaughn, a milkman, and his
adopted son were killed by a railroad
/ trim ut crossing near Cleveland. Ohio,
on Saturday morning. Their horses were
also killed.
Count de Lesseps, Admiral Jaures. Gen.
Pelisaier and other members of the
| French delegation sailed from New York
for Europe on Saturday in The steamer
La Gnscogne.
Mrs. Margaret Miner, widow, accused
Of enticing little girls to her fat in Eighth
avenue, New York, for immoral purpose s.,
was tried Monday in general sessions
and found guilty and remanded for SEN
tence.
The Illinois Live Stock Commission
Monday decided to appoint appraisers
some time this week to determine the num-
Der of diseased cattle in the distilleries in
Chicago When that is done the cattle
will be killed.
| Robert Garrett, president of the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad Company, has pur.
chnsed controlling interest in the An.
napolis & Bay Ridge Railroad and also
in the Bay Ridge resort property fol
$3.50, 900.
Some persons in the upper part of higt
buildings in the lower portion of New
York City thought they felt q distinct
shock Of earthquake about p. m. Sum
day. The experience, however, does MOI
seem to have been general.
A fire in Pittsburg yesterday evening
destroyed Emil Winters grease rendering
establishment, McConway & Torley'i
foundry and the Westinghouse Machin,
All the buildings were fully insured.
Edward Kelly, an employee of an cleo
trio light company in Cleveland, Ohio
was killed in the Grand Central Theatr,
there on Saturday night while adjustin.
an electric lamp. His body came in con
tact with the wires and he fell dead.
II Attorney General Garland has given al
opinion to the Treasury Department tina
, there is no legal objection to allowing a
alien residing in Brooklyn, N. Y. to brin
into this country lunatic son whom he
now maintaining ina foreign country, pro
! vided he will engage that he shall not b'
, come public charge.
The authorities at Chicago have d,
cided to examine every milk-producin
animal now kept in the city, whethe
, owned by dealers or private Individual
Il is stated that already number Of COW
quartered in the barns and stables {
wealthy citizens had been found to b
exposed to disease.
IL The United States district attorney 6
! New Haven has brought suit against th
i | Northfield Knife Company of LitchfielG
) | Conn, for 81 800 penalties for importin
| is English laborers under contract. Th
\ papers are returnsble at the April term c
i the United States court. The suit wa
0 brought under the law of 1885.
Larry Donovan, who jumped from th
Suspension Bridge at Niagara Falls o
3 Sunday, is now at Buffalo, N. Y. HI
2 physician says that Donovan will be a
: right in about week. Donovan want
TO jump the Genesee Falls, at Rocheste
N. Y, where Sam Patch lost his life, an
; then, he says, be is going into the thea
rical business, on the strength of his rep'
tation as q jumper.
!, The enforcement of Sunday laws
:, Lacrosse, Wisconsin, has caused an NJ
3 roar. Not only have saloons been con
!, PEELED to close, but the telegraph and tie
ephone companies were obliged to su
i, pend operations. Milk and baker
wagons were stopped. Mill repair
!. necessary TO permit the saws to move Q
! Sunday were not allowed. Even the pal
= choir singers in the church stand the ria
: of prosecution.
!, The annual reunion of the 143d Reg
9 ment of Pennsylvania Volunteers WI
2 held on the old camp ground, near Wilke
/. barre, on Saturday afternoon. Captain
s De Lacy of Scranton, president of ii
4 association, presided. H. b. Payne {
a Kingston was the orator. II was decide
+ 10 erect q monument to the regiment [
v Gettysburg, and large sum of none
o was subscribed for that purpose.
o Arguments were begun Monday in IL
1
i. new trial for James Titus, convicted ,
n the murder of Title Smith, The defent
claimed now trial--"First, because IL
is second count in the indictment is ba,
6 second, because the eourt below erred
st allowing evidence to be given in the tri
is that felonious assault had been perp
]. trated; third, because affidayits taken
r, the case show great misconduct on Il
et part of the jury after they retired to CO.
10 slider their verdict.
a. The steamer Wauderer, from Centr
American ports, arrived at New Orleai
70 on Saturday with Francis Brown, pro
IN ably the sole survivor of the sehoon
70 Azelda and LAURA of New York, whit
re was shipwrecked on October 9th en- rou
10 from Mobile to Ruatsn. Captain Jorge
re sen, Mate Anderson, the steward, ~
y sailors and passenger set off in q boz
y and are supposed to have heen swamp
ie and lost. Browns arm was broken.
g. he chung to the wreck until noon
II October 18th when he was rescued.
% Arthur 0rtou, who claims to he
Roger Tichborne, was arrested on Setl
IN day night at his boardins- houseiu Broc
~ lyn, on warrant by United States CO.
e missioner. upon complaint of the pensi
VI department at Washington. Orion
g charged with having personated o
y Charles Curtis, who is alleged to ha
served in the One Hundred and Six
New York Volunteers, and with endeavt
ing to draw the presumable pension
Curtis. Orion is in Jail in default
le 81, 500 bail.
Tn SNOW fall Sunday in Western Pen