Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-06-24
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS
Eso0UFrER ENMBxToANs
AND APAOHEs.
A Candidate for the Bench Goes
Crazy-NIne Wien Drowned ON New
foundlnnd BaBKs-OttayVa Diocese
Made 10 an ArchbIshopric.

fonndlnnd HanKs-OttaxVa Diocese
Made 10 AN Archbishopric.
The crops on the lowlauds around Con-
toooook, New Hampshire, were killed on
Saturday morning by frost.
The French brigantine Michael sank on
the Newfoundland banks last Thursday
and nine men were drowned.
The seized schooner Ella NJ. Doughty
was bonded at Halifax ON Saturday morn
ing and will be given over TO her captain.
A dory containing the bodies of two
dead men was found floating so miles of
Cape Ballard, Newfoundland, few days
ago.
Bishop MoQuaid of Rochester, N. Y,
has opened subscriptions to the Irish par
liamontary fund in that city with check
for 800.
Three thousand acres of wheat, 80 miles
from Modesto, California, were destroyed
by fire on Friday. The loss is estimated
at $4,000.
The North Star saw mill, at Mime
epolia, was burned on Saturday night.
The loss is estimated at 100000 insur-
ance, $40, 900.
Winfield Buckler Of Paris, Kentucky,
candidate for superior court Judge, has
been placed in the lunatic asylum. He is
suffering from acute mania.
Two six-year-old boys, while playing
in a bin of Bhelled corn in an elevator at
Dana, Indiana, Thursday, wero caught in
vortex of sinking grain and smothered.
The piano mandatory and salesrooms
of M. T. Autesell 81 Co., in San Francisco,
were burned Thursday. Loss, 5000, 900;
insurance, 800, 1000. An adjoining store
was damaged $25, 900.
A furious storm of wind and rain and
hail visited BUSHNELL Ill. ,yesterdayiweek,
A circus tent was blown down and
80 persons were injured, several danger
ously. Fences and trees were also
leveled.
The fiftieth annual commencement of
Franklin and Marshall College took place
Thursday at Lancaster. The degree Of
Bachelor of Arts wns conferred upon 28
graduates, one of the largest classes in
the history of the institution.
AT York, Mich, Wednesday week, John
Barnett, farmer, 6S years Of age, went
to the house Of his mother-in-law, Mrs.
jackson, where he shot and mortally
wounded his wife, and also shot and seri-
ously wounded Mrs. jackson. His wife
was 35 years old and had left him.
A telegram has been received in Ottawa,
Canada, announcing that the Roman
Catholic diocese of Ottawa has been Gre
ated nm archbishopric, and that Bishop
Duhamel has been appointed the first
archbishop.
II was reported from Magdalen Sonora,
hat p4a
Apaches, in Tecapadepe Pass, near
Sarache. The Indians were defeated, and
it is believed several backs were killed.
One squaw is known TO have been killed.
The Mexicans lost three killed and one
wounded.
Jacob Weller, aged 62 years, of La
bachsyille, Berks county, Penna., while
Mt supper on Wednesday night week was
informed that n letter containing 81, ZOO
back pension money had been received
for him. Hurrying to finish his meal, n
piece of meat lodged in his windpipe and
choked him to doath.
Commissioner Miller of the internal
revenue bureau, returned to Washington
Sunday from the Hot Springs, Virginia,
WHITTIER he accompanied Secretary Man.
ming. He reports the Secretary much inn
proved in health.
At Creston, Illinois, on Saturday night.
Jacob Swingley, aged As years, cut the
throats of two small children, and then
committed suicide. One of the children,
Maggie, aged years, is dead; the other,
Albert, aged 2, will probably recover.
Swingley's wife died Inst january, and
her death apparently caused him to be-
coIne Ihsane'
A telegram from Cheyenne says the
proposed repeal of the desert land act
engenders strong opposition among the
residents of the territory. The Laramie
boomerang says Colonel James A. George,
special agent of the land office, is circu-
lating protest against the repeal of the
act, which will be sent to all parts OF the
territory Tor signatures
One of the large hydraulic dredges
used for harbor improvement and the
reclamation of the Potomac flats, at
Washington, was burned on Saturday
evening. Eight workmen who slept in
the dredge escaped by jumping off and
getting ashore over some pipes. One of
them, named William Shaffer, was 80
badly burned that his recovery is doubtful.
nassenoer train ON the Worcester and
Nassau division of the Boston and Maine
railroad collided with freipht train. at
Fast Pepperell. Mass, on Saturday night.
Both engines were wrecked. The en-
gineer and fireman of the passenger train
Jumped off; and the former escaped with
slight bruises, the latter being severely
injured. Three passengers were injured,
two of them dangerously.
WbiIe marty of colored people were
,o;ng home from church at Hinesyille.
saoro;a Tuasdoy niobt week. thew nuar.
reIed over tbe words of the preachers
tavt RicbaYd Perrv tried 10 stop the
disnute He was fired upon and in.
staptlv killed Inv Samuel Martin. The
fight then became general, resulting in
tbe fatal woundine of Martin, Thomas
Meade and Mrs. AIeinda Law.
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enforcement ot hheS, penulties unu lo,-
ieitures some Ior inc coiiec.ioh Vi penai.
ties on bonus, &C, anu others aBuihsV
collectors OF customs Tor recovery OF NJ
legged excessive duties under section 2,93l
Revised Statutes. IL is estimated that
there are 5000 suits OF the last named
class.
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vicinity, held on Saturoay, resoiutions