Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-25
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The cornerstone of a Confederate monu. |
ment was laid Monday at Baton Rouge, |
Louisiana.
The Paris Manufacturing Oompany's |
factory, at South Paris, Me-, was burned |
on Sunday morning. Loss, SAC, 600 in |
surance, 800, 900.
Peter W. Hariston, well-known COM
mission merchant of Baltimore, died
suddenly yesterday week of apoplexy.
He was 65 years of age.
The cattle in Montana suffered very
little during the recent cold spell. It is
not expected that the losses for the season
will average 8 per cent.
Grace Episcopal Church, ut Man
chester, New Hampshire, hes unanimously
called to its rectorship the Rev. Henry
E. Cooke of Philadelphia.
st. Hedwig's Polish church in Toledo,
Ohio, the scene of more or less religious
trouble during the last three Years. was
destroyed by an incendiary fire last week.
A heavy snow.storm ragged throughout
Vermont on Saturday. At Burlington the
snow was six inches deep, the temperature
Mt zero and the wind blowing 40 miles an
hour,
George Williamson, cook of the British
steamer Serpho, at Baltimore, was stabbed
in quarrel at Locust Point ON Saturday
night, and died Monday. His assailant
is unknown.
The crater of the volcano of Colima, in
Mexico, is diminishing in size, but the
eruptions continue The inhabitants of
the surrounding country are fearful of
coming disaster.
General Middleton says, in Ottawa,
that the flying column to be sent into the
Blackfeet country will consist of 700 men.
The main points of operation will be
from Calgary and Regina.
A large number of hogs have died Of
the cholera in Middlesex county, Ontario,
and the disease is widely spread. The
hog cholera also prevails in Oxford
county, in the same province.
It is understood that Yseult Dudley,
who shot O'Donoyan Rosa at New York
year ago, and who was committed to
the Middletown Insane Asylum, is greatly
improved and will soon be released.
John Weber, 81 years of age, drank
quart of whisky in a saloon in Ashland,
Pa, on Sunday night, and then crawled
into an abandoned tenement to sleep. He
was found dead there Monday morning.
The experiment of closing the theatres
in Cincinnati on Sundays, begun three
weeks ago, is said to have had a
gratifying effect on the finances of
theatres where the sale of liquors has
not been allowed"
The revenue steamer Rush, which went
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| Amethyst, has returned to San Francisco
after II cruise smongthe Aleutian Islands,
during which she saw and heard nothing
Of the missing vessel.
The nail works at Crescent, Pa, on the
Northern Central railway, owned by Will
liam WeiglItlnan of Philadelphia, and
operated by the Standard Nail Company
of Philadelphia, were burned yesterday
week. Loss, 100000.
| Oscar Baldwin, who lost one foot and
bad the other crushed in September,
1884, while switching cars in the yard OF
the Evansville Il Terre Haute railroad, at
Evansville, Ind, Monday obtained a
verdict of So, y66 damages.
The men employed at hand work by
Charles w. Reeves Il Sons, cabinet-ware
manufacturers, Philadelphia, Monday
| received an advance of from 10 TO Is per
cent in compliance with their demands.
The knights of Labor in New York
Monday organized the packers in the
cigar factories of Mccoy &sCo., Levi
Brothers and Brown AZ Earle, and all of
these shops will henceforth bear the
Knights of Labor label.
st. Michael's Church, in New York,
being free of debt, was consecrated sun.
day. Bishop Loughlin celebrated the
mass, and Archbishop Corrigan preached.
Bishops McQuade of Rochester, and
Spalding of Peoria, We're present.
John Britt of Dubois Pa, president of
the Miners and Laborers' Amalgamated
Association of the Fourth district, says
that, unless there is I'M advance in wages
of 10 per cent very soon, 5000 miners of
the Clearfeld region will go on strike.
| Part of the roof of the Kings Noun
tain tunnel on the Cincinnati Southern
Railroad near junction City, Kentucky,
has fallen in, causing a blockade on the
road. Passengers and baggage are trans
ferred over the mountain in wagons.
Lloyd Sensenbach and family of South
Bethlehem, Pa, have all been sick of
triehiniasis, from eating pork killed about
month ago. Annie, 14-years-old
daughter died of the disease on Friday
night and Mrs. Sensenbach was not ex-
pected TO recover.
A man named Lane was shot at by five
men, named Turner, near Pineyille,
Kentucky, on Friday afternoon. He re.
turned the fire, killing one of the assail.
ants, and then fell dead, pierced by
several bullets. This tragedy was the
result of feud.
Nine buildings in Edenburg, Clarion
county, Pa, were burned at l o'clock on
Saturday morning, and a young man
named Groves, who slept over the post.
office, persisted in the flames. The fire is
attributed to an explosion of natural gas,
and the loss is estimated at nearly $15 900.
A telegram from Boston says. "The
supply of tobacco, amounting to plug
weekly to every inmate of the Massachu-
sets Reformatory at Concord, is to be
stopped on and after March 21st, with
the object of preventing the younger
prisoners from becoming addicted to its
use."
John w. Mccarthy, clerk of the
supreme court of California, who went
to the Sandwich Islands last month, re.
: turned to San Francisco Monday in
charge of detective. He is charged
with being defaulter, but says he left
San Francisco for his health, and owes
nothing to the state. He was released in
SO, 900 bail.
Unusually high tides in the Bay Of
Fundy on Saturday flooded large portions
of Digby, Annapolis and Kings counties,
Nova Scotia, doing much damage. A
tidal waye visited St. Johns, N. b., on
Saturday, submerging all the wharves
and streets along the harbor, in some
instances to depth of four feet.
Chief Justice Zane made ruling al
Salt Lake on Saturday that, under the
Utah statute which compels wife to
testify to injuries inflicted upon her by
her husband. she must testify against her
husband in unlawful cohabitation cases.
as that crime is one of the most serious
injuries which man can intiict upon his
wife.
According toa telegram from Pittsbure,
the minority stockholders of the South
Pennsylvania railroad give as authorita-
tive that in addition to President Governs
purchase of the Vanderbilt interest in the
Reading road, he also bought the Wander
bilt interest in the South Pennsylvania
road. They assert that the road will Ger.
tainly be built.
Two colored boys found murdered nenr
Savannah on Friday have been identified
as Cornelius and William Heaton, brothers,
aged respectively and years. Clues