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

Va hho Bhb MCtO bbIuCh III u Well III
Lima, Ohio, on Tuesday week. The vel
is ,251 feet deep.
The body of Jacob w. Thoman, the
dead actor, was cremated Thursday after
noon at Lancaster, Pa.
Andrew Paolitzki was fatally injured
Thursday by falling so feet from the
main tower of the ice palace in st. Paul.
The Baltimore Manufacturers Record
says the assessed value of property in the
south has increased nearly 81 1000, ,000, ,00O
since 1879.
John G. Kimbrell, his wife and three
children were frozen to death in a wagon
while driving home during the recent
blizzard near Dodge City, Kansas.
A dispatch from Hancock, Mich, says
Angus Mcdonald, contractor on the
Calumet &c Hecla railroad, has disap-
peared with $4,000, the wages of so men.
General W. T. Sherman told a reporter
Friday night that he had made up his
mind to remove to New York next spring.
His daughter, Mrs. Fitch, now resides in
that city, and his son is in an eastern col
lege, leaving nothing to bind him to the
West.
The malt house of the Albany Brewing
Co., seyen.story structure in Albany,
N. Y, was damaged by fire Thursday
night to the extent of 1926, 900. The in
surance is $80,000. Andrew Tennant, q
hoseman, was dangerously, if not fatally,
injured by falling through hatchway.
The board of health of Newtown, Long
Island, Thursday inspected Calvary ceme-
terry, the Catholic burying ground for
New York city, and in the poor burying
ground and the temporary burying ground
found trenches 15 feet deep, with coffins
piled therein. A report will be made
condemning this system of interment.
AT st. Etienne, Quebec, Tuesday week,
Hector Bouchard fell victim to a super.
stition. 1t is believed among the shanty-
men of that region that if they blow into
the muzzle of an unloaded gun while the
cap is being fired any request they may
ask will be granted. Bouchard was per-
forming this act, but the gun was loaded
and the bullet went through his head.
An express train on the Baltimore g.
Ohio railroad ran into the rear of q
freight train near Chicago junction,
about one o'clock Friday morning, and
o terrible wreck ensued. -Four train
hands were killed and number of pas-
sengers injured. 1t is said the disaster
was caused by the failure of the freight
conductor to display his danger signal on
the rear of the train.
A singular phenomenon was noted at
Austin, Texas, Tuesday week afternoon.
Toward 4 O'Clock from out of clear skya
shower of very fine dust began falling.
There was no wind at the time. The shower
increased toward night fall and continued
through half the night The dust had q
peculiar effect on the lungs and throat,
causing Irritation and hoarseness in some
instances. A similar phenomenon was
witnessed there eight years ago.
At Buffalo, Friday, a jury in the
suit of Joseph p. Thoms, switchman,
against the Buffalo Greek railway, for
$4,000 damages for loss of his arm.
awarded the plaintiff $1,000. Thoms
while in the act of uncoupling car on
August 29th, 1872, had his left arm so
badly crushed that it had to be ampu-
tated, and he claimed that the accident
was due to the negligence of the COM
pany in not having the engine in proper
repair.
The attention of Archbishop Gibbons
of Baltimore, was Thursday called to the
report telegraphed from Cleveland in re-
gard TO his prospective elevation to the
cardinalate. He said that he had held no
communication, personal or by letter,
with Bishop Gilmour since the latter's
return, and, therefore, he could not say
anything in regard to the report nor us to
what foundation there was for it. He also
said that the Papal Consistory for The
creation of new cardinals and other
ht1clnaee nf tfat n1, nj nrAl l.
held until March.
A telegram from Louisville says: "The
recently attempted corner in certain
grades of tobacco has ended. and tobaccos
included in the. Spanish contract have
broken $1.25 to $1.50 per hundred
pounds. The decline was caused by q
supposed treaty between the Spanish con
tractor and New York syndicate, repre-
sented here by Sawyer, Wallace q Co
The syndicate was formed to buy up al
this tobacco, so as to be able to sell to the
Spanish contractor. A contest ensued
and tobacco went up from 81 to $1.75
from which price it has fallen again by
the above agreement"
The supreme court of California Thurs
day decided in favor of the plaintiff il
the case of the city and county of Sar
Francisco against Holiday. The actor
involved the title to Lafayette Square
and also, indirectly, the title TO a vas
amount of property claimed by the city,
under the Pueblo grant. The value o
the property, which, by this decision
will revert to the city, is about $5, ,000, 600
Much of the ground is covered witt
houses and other improvements made 81
years ago by squatters. The case I'm
been in court almost since San Francisco
became a city.
S. E. Chamberlain, stock dealer
living near Toledo. Ohio, was found il
an insensible condition in Cincinnati
yesterday morning week. After beinl
restored to consciousness he said he hat
arrived in the city on Tuesday night and
entering the first hack he noticed at tn
depot, asked to be driven TO the Palace
Hotel. After proceeding some distanc
he heard peculiar noise, as of air escap
ing from tube, and soon afterwards los
consciousness. His pockets had beei
rified of $120 and valuable gold watch
The police have made no arrests as yet
but say the story is undoubtedly true
and claim that the hack was fixed b,
means of pipe extending from th
drivers seat to the inside, SO arranged a
to enable the driver to force sleep-pro
ducing gas into the vehicle.