Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-05-20
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The catboat Ada capsized of Bath, LII,
on Sunday, and three men were drowned.
Great distress continues on the north
west coast Of Newfoundland, and the
deaths Of four persons from starvation
are reported.
Chesley perkins, aged Al years, was
found dead in bed with his throat cut, at
PittsAeld, New Hampshire, on Saturday
morning. One year ago his father died
leaving him 1915, 900.
One of the buildings of the Penn Hard
ware Company at Reading, Pa, was
burned Tuesday night. The loss is esh-
mated at about $25, 900.
There waa severe frost in New Hamp- |
shire and Vermont on Monday night. In |
some places early vegetables were killed,
and the fruit prospect was seriously af-
feeted.
The barn of G. W. Mcpherson, in Dro- |
more, Lancaster county, Pa, was de- |
stroyed on Monday evening by an incen-
diary fire, with its contents. Loss,
$4,000.
BY an explosion of hot metal in the
converting department OF the Bessemer
| Steel Works at johnson, Pa, on FRIDAY
evening, i've men and boy were severely
|
An unknown, well. dressed man, under
40 years of age, who said he was from
| Camden, N. j., and had family troubles,
| committed suicide Monday by jumping
from q bridge at Pittsburg.
The wife of Theodore Charland, of
Lewis, Quebec, was found murdered in
her house on Sunday night. Her hus-
band, who was the only one in the house
at the time, has been arrested.
Colonel "Bart." Jenkins, sergeant-at-
arms of the Kentucky senate, quarreled
Monday with his son William OF q hotel
dinner table In Frankfort. The father
threw glass Mt the son, and the latter
fred revolver at the father, but neither
was hurt.
At Joliet, ILL.,, Monday morning, Albert
Miller, 26 years of age, and Mrs. Black, a
widow of 45, were found dead in Miller's
room, each with bullet hole in the head.
Mrs. Black had lived with Miller some
time. She was twice married, and both
her husbands died suddenly.
Governor Pattison has received a letter
from Secretary of the Navy Whitney, in
which he says that there is no vessel in
the department suitable for use at Pbila-
, delphia as nautical school for instruo-
: ton in seamanship, marine engineering,
&c. He said there would be no difficulty
in obtaining officers, but believed more
suitable ship could be constructed at q
i less expense than the fitting up of an old
one.
r Heavy frost was reported on Saturday
/ night and Sunday night at various points
in Illinois, Iowa, northern Indiana and
q western Michigan, which did q great deal
of damage to small fruits. In some places
the cold wave was quite severe, and far
mers are anxious about the corn, which is
2 not yet up. At East Tawas, Michigan,
thin ice formed, while at Muskegan the
: ice was an inch thick and all vegetation
9 was killed.
In the criminal court of the District Of
Columbia, on Saturday, Justice Macarthur
i sustained the validity of an ordinance
!, passed by the city council in September
1869, making it unlawful for barber shops
a to keep open ON Sunday, and imposing 0
g penalty Of $40 for each offence. This law
9 has been dead letter for several year,
past, and was only recently revived
! through the efforts of the BARRIERS Union
d The court held that the law applied Il
g hotel shops as well as the others.
n Five Socialists were arrested for misde
l. meanor while haranguing meeting il
a San Francisco on sunday. The leader,
p. Rudeizky, advocated going to Mob Hill
70 and sacking the residences of Messrs
>. Stanford, Crocker and Flood and dis
d tributing what money and valuables the,
" found among themselves. On Rudeizky'
|, person were found two pamphlets writtei
re by John Most and entitled 1.-THE Beas
g of Property" and Total Annihilation
OF Imposed as the Only lnfallible Remedy
n, The prisoners resisted arrest, and ih
10 officers had to use their clubs.
81 The Cincinnati Art Museum, buil
OF through the munificeuce of the lat
r. Charles w. Vest, who gave $780,
~ upon the condition that the citizens shoul
p give like sum and who afterwards CAV
ne $l50,000 to endow the museum, WI
a thrown open to the public Monday afte
IN noon. The ceremonies included brit
si addresses by Mr.. NJ. e. Ingalls,, presideI
gu of the Art Museum Association; A. 7
IN Goshorn, director, and Amor Smith, Jr
OF mayor, and vocal and instrumental musi
Oh The building is of limestone, is fire-pro,
'ut well lighted and entirely isolated excel
eel that similar building for the art scho
of kindred purpose stands near it. I'll
situation is one of the highest points
Eden Park. There Is already vel
valuable collection of art treasures in Il
rs new building.
The fishing schooner Ella NJ. Dough-
at of Portland, Me-, has been seized by Il
nit authorities of Englishtown, Nova Scott
q for alleged infraction of the Canadii
I'm fishing laws. The vessel had the usu
we permit, signed by the collector at POI
ar land, to touch and trade at all Canadit
of ports. Notice of the seizure has BET
nd sent by the outfitters to the Secretary
tie State. A telegram from North Sydne
Cape Breton, dated Monday, say
a 1.-THE American fishing schooner Ella I
Doughty, Captain Warren Doughty, n
ny chored outside the entrance of st. AnI
nd harbor on the 18th inst, and purchased
ng number of barrels of bait. She left
OF the 18th, but, owing to ice, had to p
in back on Friday, the 18th. This mornil
she asseized by customs Officer McAul
for purchasing bait and neglecting
/ enter or clear at the custom house. Ca
Doughty admitted purchasing bait, al
ext seems very little concerned about d
be seizure, saying that he will look to L
Ike American government for protection.
he instructions have yet been received frC
m Ottawa. The collector of customs at Ba
or deck has inquired into the facts regardil
of the seizure, and expresses himself as sat
fed that it was legally made" The seizu
a has caused great excitement in Portlan
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L Myers Wins His Third Race.
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