Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-09-23

A butcher Of Fntragnt, Iowa, recently
bought n car load of beef cattle nj tho
Kansas City stock yutds Nine days
after unloading them al Faragnt Is of
them died Of Texas fever
According to telegram from Charles,
ton detonntions aud tremOrR continue NJ
Sumlneryille, but they are growing less
forcible and frequent, and the people are
getting used to them and hopeful THAT
they will soon cease.
Two freight trains, one IF them loaded
with cattle, oOllided ON tho Missouri
Pacific railroad, near Clayton, Missouri,
on Saturday night. Both engines md
several cars were smashed and II cattle
We're killed. The damage is estimated Al
$4,000
special live stock train of 90 ears,
from Montana for Chicago, ran oil the
track near Black River Falls, Wisconsin,
ON Sunday evening, owing TO the break
ing of n tlango. Tho locomotive aud nine
cars Wore wrecked. Twenty cattle were
KILLED md aU4Hi aay mere injured
Tuesday morning lash, Superintendent
Nichol and fire Boss Prnndlock went into
siiu MAI Niho ShlibS hehr DCFunlOn, anu
found the dead bodies of six Of the
eight miners who wore entombGd nv the
caye-in of the 18th inst. The mCn had
evidently been suiTocatod soon after the
disaster occurred.
II is stated that the cost of the Star
Route mail service during the last fiscal
year was S5,4lI,S 0i, decrease OF
S62, G23, or l.57 per cent as compared
with the preceding fiscal year. The steam
boat service was also reduced in cost DIR
ing the year from 1868 .002 to SliG,Ilg
or u little over 20 per cent.
jerome Brown, of the banking firm of
| Lee N Brown, OF SAranac, Michigan. Inns
disappeared, and his partner, A. q. Lee
says that his namo, which appears on
| S6,OO0 worth of tho firms paper il n
forgery. The firms liabilities are abont
10000, and there are no assets, nil The
property having been disposed of.
II is reported from New Laredo, Mexico,
that the fnmiIy of I'll Coyote deny that he
was killed in the recent battle with Fed
eral troops near LAlnlpasns. II is sup.
posed that Juan Nillerat, who closely re-
sembles I'll Coyote, was mistaken for the
leader. The governor has ordered the
mayor to have the bodies properly iden.
titled.
The notorious Martin Irons was mr..
rested in Kansas City on Sunday night
and will be held until he is tried in n
Louis on an Indictment charging him with
completely III tapping the private telo.
graph wires running into Vice President
HoSie's residence. Irons recent Ind con.
duct caused his hondsman to give him mn.
Alden, n small mining town about nine
miles from Wilkesbarre, was visited bv :
terrible storm of wind and rain on SIM.
day night. Several houses were gwen,
away, drug store, n hotel and n nbIif
school We're wrecked, and nearly evor,
other building in the place was DAMAGED
several persons were injured, but none
fatally.
passenger train which arrived n,
Denver, Colorado, ON Sunday, from Sal,
Lake, had narrow escape from n fearful
disaster. The train, consisting of 10 cara
drawn by two engines, was going tbroupl
the Black Canyon ut speed of 20 mile,
per honr, when several OF tho cars ran of
the track. Fortunately the train was
stopped IN time TO prevent it from beinp
hurled INTO the depths below. Several
cars were badly damaged. There were
about LOO passengers HI peril.
Tho schooner Risilla b., from Boslo,
Tor ~. John, New brunswick, was driver,
ashore at Red Point on Sunday ni,,,,t
lle crew OF four men chung TO the rio.
RhB Tor several hours, the sens wnahino
over them. At last the hull went h
pieces ami the men were hurled upon tbe
rocks among the broken spars and wreck
age Captain Phipps John Il. Anbef
ana anthony One succeeded in gettino
Deyond the reach of the waves, but M,
fourth man, William Ruhalee of Gfnn.
vale, Maine, was drowned.
There waa heavy rain snnall in y. 80
toh narDor abont half past two O'Clock
ON Sunday afternoon. When II ba,,
PaSsed inc steam yacht Giraffe discovered
6ioop yacht bottom up about mile Il
tne eastward OF IoVelPs Island. Az Ia,
ufncie approached she righted and sunl
~ 10 rect oil water Two mon in u baat
VINO ma seen her eapsile, said that she
H"e,il'H 10 PC tull OF passengers N,
potlieH could DC found. Tho yacht stnk
p2i9Fe tiie name on her stern could bt
rc'ei' ono was 20 feet long, painted
white ana carried mainsail and lib, but
| - DtiFh AiVE t'tuVhS WIS new nuU Inn
apparently been recently bent. Her mast,
above the croRstrees show above water
Tint no loss Of life was caused h,
Saturday nights tornado in Joliet, mi. /,
explained by tho fact that constant tlnsbo,
OF lightning so Illuminated the sky that
the funnel shaped cloud conld I've plainI,
seen as it came whirling towarda tic oil,
with a roar like n hundred locomotive
blowing oil steam. Seeing its approach
people fled to the cellars. Twelve house,
were demolished, and number of otLort
were moved from their foundations. On,
house was tunod completely upaid,
down, A large elevator was wrecked ami
trees and Telegraph poles were torn mn
twisted on and bent into various shapea
Along Fourth avenue great holes Weir,
scooped out of the hard gravel road, and
eyo-witnesses say this was done by mi,
OF electric fro, which bounded alonp tba
ground. A horse and wagon hitelsd IN
front OF house disappeared in The tor.
nndo AMI no trace of either has been dis.
covered since. The loss in pronertv d
estimated at SIG, 900. "