Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-11-18
IN GENERAL.

hanged himself in the cellar Of his fhther's
grocery at Berlin, Wisconsin, Ttnisdsy.
Dependency is assigned as the O use.
The steamer France from ST. NJ; aire
via Guadaloupe, with 1900 en- grants,
has been quarantined at Montevide1 ,n.iny
deaths having occurred among her pms
| sengers
The stockholders Of the First National
Bank of indianapolis Thursday voted to
go into liquidation, and notified Secretary
Manning of their action. The business
will be wound up gradually, the bank
having sufficient funds to meet all obliga.
tions.
About 80 miles below st. Louis, on
the river bank, headless and foutless
corpse has been found, clad in fashion
ably made clothes. The trousers pockets
were turned inside out, and nothing could
be found upon the body that would lead
to identification.
The house of Reuben Baker, at Latrobe,
Pa, was completely wrecked Thursday
morning by an explosion of natural gas.
The pipes had just been connected and
the gas turned on when the exolosion
took place. None of the family were in
the house at the time. The loss is sbout
$4,000.
w. f. Stewart, absconding telegraph
| operator of Wichita, Kansas, charged
with bringing stolen money into Oau,.ds..
has been acquitted in Winnipeg. The
case is important, because, had it resulted
in his conviction, it would have supplied
precedents for the prosecution of other
American defaulters in Canada.
DR.. Cyrus Edison, Chief Inspector of
the Health Department of New York City
last night exhibited before the Society Of
Medical Jurisprudence, hog full of
measles, twin pigs rotten with cholera, and
a barrel of "bob Yeal,n all seized yester-
day morning, while being taken into New
York for consumption by its citizens.
The governor of Louisiana has issued
a proclamation designating the 25th inst,
as day of thanksgiving. He says in his
message: while pestilence has threat
ened our borders and storms have brought
destruction to many homes, peace, law,
enlightenment, constitutional liberty and
a spirit of progress have prevailed for
another year"
At Chattanooga Thursday the remains
Of the Rev. Father Ryan, formerly OF st.
4 CtuA anu hul ShtllblkC Mttt
| reinteTred in new cemetery. Bishop
Rademacher solemnized pontitical mass
of requiem. Father Ryan died in 1878 of
yellow fever, contracted while relieving
the sick and burying the dead. The re-
lief committee OF Chattanooga largely
composed of Protestants, attended the
funeral in body.
The barque Alice M. Minnott, Captain
Dickerson Of Bath, Me-, while Icing
loaded Tuesday evening week at West
Point, Va, with cotton for Liverpool,
was set on fire by lamp being over.
turned in the hold. The fire made rapid
headway, and the hatchts were closed
and the vessel toTed into the stream III
order to save other property. Holes were
then made in the burning vessel and she
was sunk. 1t i4 estimated that the loss
to the vessel and cargo will be about
$40, 900; insured.
little village on the MonongaheIa
river, in western Pennsylvania, known as
New England, was visited few months
ago by two or three Mormon proselytizers,
who have since converted about 20 of the
inhabitants and their families. Seventeen
of the converts will leave for Utah in a
few days, and the rest Intend to follow rs
soon rs they can dispose of their little
properties. The missionaries tried 10
make prosely,Gh at other points along the
river, hut were unsuccessful. New Eng
land village is an isolated place, largely
peopied by English coal miners.
The November crop report Of the de.
partment of agriculture SHOWS general
average of cotton two or three points
lower than indicated month ago. The
yield of corn is 20 bushels per acre,
making total product OF 1,668, 900, 900
bushels The potato crop ia the same as
last year, averaging 73 bushels per acre,
or total of lG3 900, 600 bushels. Buck
wheat promises IL 900, 900 bushels. The
yield of tobacco promises TO be 1885,
900, 900 pounds, about equal to the aver
age requirements of consumption and
expectation. The apparent product of
hay is Al, 900, 900 tons.
The New York C0RlmeTctal 416oepttse,'
is responsible for report that the officials
of the Pennsy lvania railroad have under
consideration a plan for the disposal of
its surplus fund, by the acquisition of
controlling interest ip the stock of the
Chicago d Northwestern system of rail
roads. The YRnderbilts, it is stated,
have no longer controlling interest in
the stock, having sold out large amount
of their holdings during the last year.
1.-The Pennsylvania road, +" says the Com
mercial AdBortiSer, twas the first eastern
road to secure an entrance into Chicago.
They did it by the purchase of the Fort
Wayne road. The Northwest road is
now feeling its way 20 the Pacific coast,
so that the Pennsylvania road, in acquir-
ing it, would be practically paving the
way for another transcontinental line"
When the mail train north on the
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg railroad
arrived at Dubois, Penna., Thursday, the
car inspector, while passengers were get
ting on md off the cars at the depot
discovered three dynamite bombs and
caps fastened under the springs of the
rear coach. The bombs were carefully
removed, and there were many pale faces
among the passengers when they learned
the terrible fate they had so narrowly
escaped. The train starts from Punxutaw-
ney every morning, and it is undoubtedly
at that place that the bombs were placed
under the springs, as it only makes short
stops between there and Dubois. 1t ia 20
miles from place of starting, and how it
was possible for train to run that dis
tanCe over short curves with that amount
of dynamite and caps under the springs
Of a coach is n mystery. Thirty-four
parsons were in the coach. The matter
viii be investigated.
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