Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-01-21

Bhock resembling that OF an eatth
quake was felt in Bordentown at SIS p.
m. Friday. IL lasted three seconds.
A tenement at Kings Mountain, N. o.
was burned on Thursday morning, and
two colored women and an infant persisted
in the flames.
Henry Fear, aged 70 years, stabbed
himself to death at Black Ridge, neal
Hazleton, Penna., on Saturday. He had
been melancholy. x
DR.. Rely, attending physician at the
Albany penetentiary, when the typhut
fever broke out there, contracted the dis
ease, and his death Friday morning Il
announced.
James Brazil, member of the New
York Cotton Exchange, committed suicide
Friday, in Savannah, by shooting him.
self through the heart. He had lost
money in speculation.
At Ogden, Utah. on Saturday, Lorenzo
Snow, one of the Mormon Apostles, con.
victed Of unlawful cohabitation, was sen.
fenced TO six months imprisonment and
payment of $500 fine and costs.
The Beaver Falls car works, Chinese
headquarters and several other buildings
in Beaver Falls, Pa, were burned Fri.
day morning. The loss is estimated at
about $175 900, on which there is no in
surance.
A row of frame buildings in Washing
ton, occupied by colored people, was
burned on Saturday, making SO poor
families homeless. Hezekiah Edwards
was killed by jumping from third story
window.
Two hundred and fifty pounds of dyna-
mite stored at shaft IA Of the new Croton
aqueduct in Westohester county, N. Y, ,ex-
ploded on Saturday. All the buildings in
the neighborhocd were badly shaken and
Mrs. Fox was slightly injured.
Harry" O. Alliger, mailing clerk in
the city post-oflice at Washington, was
arrested yesterday morning week for rifiing
letters. He had robbed three letters adj.
dressed to officials. He confessed that
he had been rifiing the official mail for
the last five months.
5. W. Warren's dynamite packing
house, three miles from Toms River. NJ,
j., caught fire on Friday afternoon, and
blew up with 5000 pounds of dynamite.
The Laurel House at Lakewood, 10 miles
distant, was violently shaken and plaster
fell from the ceilings.
A fire in Lexington, KY, Friday
morning, destroyed the wholesale grocery
of II. Inness d Sons, the Opera House
and the Adams Express Oompany's office
and stables, causing loss Of about
$3.50, 900, which is covered by insurance.
James Parker was dangerously injured by
a falling wall.
Our consul at Santiago de Cuba reports
to the state department the existence of
large quantities of bat guano on the south
coast Of Cuba. This guano is deposited
in caves, one of which was visited by the
consul and estimated to contain from
% 900 to 10000 tons. The facilities for
working these deposits are reported as
The engine of ballast train on the
Baltimore u Ohio railroad collided near
Virginia, on Thursday after
noon. Both engines were smashed, and
seven cars were thrown into the Shenan-
doah valley. Three train hands, William
Fitzpatrick, supervisor of the Valley
branch of the road, Charles Order, brake
man, and q fireman named Bishop-were
killed.
The american Rural Home of Roch.
ester publishes reports from more than
b 1000 correspondents in all parts of the
country indicating that the wheat has
teen protected by the snow from injury
through the recent wave of intense cold.
The correspondents generally saw that
there is nothing warrantinp high prices
in 1886 except the total failure of the
crop now in the ground.
Inc supreme court of Virginia yesterday
week rendered decision in the matter Of
the state debt, holding: First, that the
contract of March, 3lst, 1871, under
which coupons receivable for taxes were
issued did not have the essential element
OF valid consideration, and on a proper
case they would hold the funding act
OF March 31st, 1871, invalid and ILLEGAL.
second, That the coupons could not be
received in payment of that portion of
the state taxes set apart by the constitu-
ton of Virginia for the maintainance Of
public free schools.
The Dauphin county court, at Harris
burg, Friday, decided the South Penn.
sylvania IL Beech Greek railroad iniunc-
Iion cases, continuing the iniunctions as
q the pennsylvania Railroad Company in
both cases, and as to the PENNSYLVANIA
company and the Bedford q Bridoenort
company in the South Pennsylvania cases
tS 10 al others in that case it is dissolved.
N the Beech Greek case it is continued as
. inc pennsylvania and Northern Cen
raj Railway Companies. and dissolved as
. all Others. The Pennsylvania COM
'any will appeal.
At Fort Wayne, Indiana, yesterday
week, the boiler in the basement Of
d. Mary's Catholic Church exploded.
the building and setting il on
re- Anthony Evans, janitor of the
hureh, was killed in the building. and
liberia Willard, girl on her way To-
chool, was killed by one of the church
loors falling upon her. The roof of tbe
'rlest's residence was demolished and the
'arochial school was badly damaged. n
vas iuil OF children at the time, but none
pere dangerously injured. The loss on
property is estimated ut $65, 200.
mayor Thurber of Marquette, Mich.
as sold $4,000 acres of pine land ON the
lead river to a New York firm for
i56O, 600. The land is estimated h baya
100000 feet of standing pine mon
!, and was sold at that low fi1ure
ecause at present it is inaccessible.
'etween $2OO, 1000 and 100000 will |
Q required to put the river in shape for |
1nhing logs and in that will be included |
le construction of railroad either five
eight miles long. Included in the
.ahsier are all the water privileges, the
over being estimated ut 1900 horse.
, me total product of the fishing vessels
dloucester, Massachusetts, DURING
500 was as follows: Goldfish, So. 800. All
ounds, against 55,24G, 200 pounds in
, @i hallbut, 1898, 900 pounds against
,VSS,zo5 poundslast year: haddock 'hnle
oliock and cusk, 1858, 500 mounds
Sainst 100000 pounds in 1891.
ackerel, l57, $50 barrels, against 223 34a
irrels frozen herring, 10, $3.50 600 boyas
5ainst 10 100000 boxes last wear. Tba
ear was unusually exempt from seri,ns
sasters until the closing month, and
,ele was an average production in all
Inc Grand Lodge of the Ancient Order
the United Working Men went into
luidatlon Mt Pittsburg Friday and
lJourned sine die. A new Organization
as then formed under the control Of Inc
ipreme Lodge of the United States, with
. Following officers: Grand Master
orkman, =. A. Kline, Greensburg; Grand
'reman, W. A. Dugan, Meadyille; Grand
A. +. Curtis, PHILADELPHIA,
Iana Guide, s. Gorton, Philadelphia.
,and Watchman, A. G. Carroll, Warren, ,
AND Recorder, j. McNair, Pittsburo:
ana hecelver, o. X. Gardner, Pitts'
igi Grand Trustee, DR.. ]. II. Clarke,
aganamaker's.