Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-06-17
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Several buildings in virdeu, III. wers
badly damaged by violent Storm Of
wiud and rain Sunday afternoon.
Several vessels were wrecked iu the
hnrbor of Valparaiso, Chill, during q.
norther on Friday night, and 13 lives wsr8
lost
The stables of the Forty second atredA
cross-town green car line in New York
we're burned on Saturday night. hssx
$4,000.
tornado inthe vicinity Of Valley 6lfy, ],
Dakota, on Friday, demolished q large
windmill and did other damage. No loss
of life is reported.
Christian Schultz, travelling repairer
of clocks in Montgomery county, Pa,
committed suicide ON Saturday by hang
ing himself TO a bed post.
Five tramps on Friday evening at
tempted to wreck q freight train ON the
Central Vermont line Al Montpelier Juno
ton All the rnfiidns were captured
Mrs. Andrew Doran, her 7-year. old aon
and Miss Taura Keefer, all OF New York.
ware drowned Sunday by the cal,slyi,g
oi II sail boat Gu tie 'Earkersaok riv.r.
Mail atlyires received IN san Francisco
report famine iii Corra, where ti.orr hsH
not been a good harvest for seven yesrs.
Five persons have died OF starvation in
Seoul.
Rear Admiral Jouett has been detached
from command of the North Atlantic
squadron and ordered TO duty as presi-
dent of the inspection board, with head
quarters at Washington.
A telegram from Trenton, N. j., says
that large number of the Womana
/ Christian Temperance Union visited tho
state prison yesterday week and placed
bouquet and a tract in each Of 900 cells.
| The wholesale and retail drug store OF
j. FL. Sheehan a. Co., in Utica, N. Y, was
burned Thursday morning. Loss, $40, 900;
insurance, $50, 900. The adjoining build
ings were damaged to the extent of
$4,000.
Charles Lohrman and Florence Macke
were cleaning out sugar shute in Viii
Transport, N. T., on Tuesday week, when
| they were buried under q quantity OF
| sugar. Lohrman was taken out dead, and
Maeks unconscious.
At Cincinnati Thursday, the Rev. Will
| liam Henry Roberts, d. D., was elected
to the chair of practical theology in Ianc
Theological Seminary by unanimous
vote of the trustees. He succeeds the
Rev. DIR. James Eells, deceased.
A four-story boarding house at Ninth
and Olive streets, st. Louis, collapsed on
Saturday morning, from the effects of an
excavation for a cellar in an adjoining
| lot. Several persons were in the house
when it fell, but all escaped injury.
At Calias, Me-, Thursday, three masked
men appeared at the section house, over
powered the officer in charge at the point
| of revolver, released William Buckley,
who was held under q charge OF en-
bezzlement on Lynn, Mass, warrant,
and escaped with him to Canada. Buck
ley was recently enticed across the line
and arrested by an American detective.
The Republican state convention of
Maine met last week in Lewiston, and
nominated j. r. Bodwell for governor ON
the first ballot. The platform contains
| the usual New England orthodox Repub-
lican planks about the tariff, fisheries,
| civil service, prohibition, the southern
ex-rebels, &C., and an additional plank
declaring that "Home Rule should receive
the approval of the friends of free govern
Inent."
| DR.. Watson, accused of "cruelty TO
animals in the interest of science" (he
| tortured dogs to experiment on spinal
| paralysis), was Thursday arraigned before
a justice in Jersey City. He waived ex-
animation and gave bail TO await the &C.
tion of the grand jury. DIR. Charles A.
| Chopper, his assistant, who is also accused
of experimenting on the dogs during DR..
| Watson's absence, also waived examina-
tion and gave bail for trial.
Governor Pattison Thursday made the
| following appointments Robt. MoMahon
of Pittsburg, to be inspector of steam
engines and boilers for Allegheny county
| w. j. Sawyer of Pittsburg; Peter O.
Spidel of Pittsburg, and ]. Munroe Shell
lenberger of Doylestown, to be members
of the board of public charity. The last
two are appointed instead of Lewis Peter
son and w. w. II. Davis, whose terms
have expired. Sawyer was reappointed.
There will be no commencement at the
girls high-school, in vincennes, Indiana,
because ''eight young ladies refuse to
| graduate in the same class with colored
| girl" The obnoxious girl stands above
the average in her class, and Mr.. Taylor,
| the superintendent Of the Vincennea
schools, says he twill hear her address
| and deliver her diploma in the presence
of the girls friends in the high-school In
the ordinary FORM"
The Roman Catholic Knights Union Of
the United States of America Sunday
concluded its annual session in Wheeling,
West Virginia. The following officers
were elected The Rev. M. McMeara,
Circleville, Ohio, Chaplain; Lawrence
Rut2, Jr,, Day ton, Ohio, President John
Kuster, Columbus, Ohio Vice. President ;
M. NJ Bonner, Chillicothe, Ohio, Trea-
surer. A resolution was adopted express.
ing confidence in Painell and in the ulti-
mate success of home rule.
According to telegram from Halifax
sis is stated on the best official authority,
that the British government has issued
orders to make no more seizures of
American vessels except when the viola
ton Of the treaty of 1918 is so open and
fragrant that ii cannot be winked att 1t
is understood in Halifax, "from guarded
official utterances," that imperial instruo-
tions do not sustain the Canadian con-
struction that the three-mile limit does
not mean three miles of the headland.
William Hutchinson, aged 35 years,
captain of the canal boat Isaae Dougherty
lying at the foot of Pacific street, Brook
lyn, aud his wife, Matilda, We're discov-
cred suffocated ON board the boat on Sat-
: urday afternoon by policeman. Hap-
pears that Hutchinson went into the for
) ward part of the boats hold for a rope,
; when he was overcome by gas escaping
from the bilge. His wife came in answer
: to his cries and she was also overcome by
3 the gus, An ambulance WAS summoned,
but both were dead when it arrived.
l The cases of the indicted anarchists in
! Chicago were called before Judge Rogers
Thursday afternoon, and the defendants
: were granted change Of venue. The
party then went to Judge Gary's room,
, and States-Attorney Grindell asked that
the cases be set for trial one week from
next Monday. Captain Black, for de-
! fence, opposed this and wished them TO
: be heard on the first Monday in July.
i During the course OF his remarks it be-
e e came evident that Seliger would appear
! MS witness for the state. The trial waH
. finally set for June 2lst.
The Postmaster General last week
awarded 10 the Morgan Envelope Com
, pany and the Plympton Manufacturing
/, Company of Hartford, the contract for
q furnishing the government with stamped
y envelopes and newspaper wrappers for
'e the four years beginning October LIST,
y 1886. The estimated expenditure under
! u this contract will be about $3, ,250, 900. A..
Il Hoen & Co., of Baltimore, were also
n awarded contract for furnishing the
m post-ofiice department with the annual