Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-10-28
INTERESTING NEWS ITEMS
THE PREsIDBEr SENDS 500 70
BABIKE PASS.
Fatally Injured ahiIo saimtinR th1
PrcstdenL-thsee NcrF0c~ Hanged
for Arson Schooner Wr.chsd.


for Arson a sGhboner wr.chsd.
PreEiltlt Gtev land has sent 800 10
the Sabipe 7. 81 SUD. r'rs. ssr
The Irazu volcano, near Carriage, in
| Costa Ricu, lnug considered nxti4stt, lnis
| recently tnk IL 20 emitting smoke.
General John Rodman of Frankfort,
died Sunday in Louisville. aged G6 years.
He was twice encouragement OF Ken
| lucky.
William Hohngrau, book-keerer and
cashier for jewelry firm In Chicago, is
missing, and said to be $4,000 short In
his accounts.
Antonio Linswald, "A years of age, was
arrested in Brooklyn Sunday morning
for enticing young girls into his place for
immoral purposes.
Bradley, the Pullman Oar Company de-
faulter, pleaded guilty in Chicago, Thurs
day morning, and was sentenced TO i've
years in the peniteDtiary.
A large shipment of game, on the way
| to the United States, was seized Thursday
morning At ingston, Ontario, as game
cannot Oe exported under tho Canadian
laws.
The Rev. DIR. Charles W. Rankin, rector
emeritus of 81. Euke's Protestant Epis-
copal Church in Baltimore, died tuesday
night week, aged G7 years. lie was noted
for his scholarship and ritualistio ideas.
While firing salute during the passage
| of President Cleveland through Fred
ericksburg, Va, Thursday, the cannon
wns prematurely discharged, and James
Wheeler, young man, was fatally in
| jured.
Hicklin ]. Landers, confidential clerk
Of two pork packing firms of Indianapolis
and senior member Of another firm, dis
appeared on Friday, and is reported to
be forger and defaulter for about
$40, 600.
While David Evans, aged so years
his son William, aged IA, We're crossA
tunnel at Slatington, Pa, Thursd@
morning, it caved in. They went down
100 feet, and their bodies were covered
with huge mass of earth.
Miss Sallie McGrath, q niece of the
well-known turfman, Price McGrath, was
burned to death in Lexington, Ky.,
Sunday morning, by her clothes catching
fire from CRATE. Her sister, Belle, was
severely burned while trying to pat ont
the flames.
The Secretary of War has directed
General Sheridan to send Geronimo and
ID of his band to Fort Pickens, Florida,
to be kept in close custody until further
orders. The other Apaches captured at
the same time are to be taken TO Fort
Marion, Florida.
The schooner j. P. Wallace, with q
cargo Of brick, struck on DEVILS Back, In
, Boston harbor, on Saturday night, and
] sank. The crew climbed to the rigging
} and remained there until daylight Sun
day when they were taken of by the crew
of fishing vessel.
/ Among the passengers who arrived In
J New York from Europe Sunday was
} Henry Willard, ex-president Of the North
, ern Pacific railroad. His private secretary
said that Mr.. Willard had completed ne
gotiations with German capitalists to
make Investments for them in American
securities.
J A state convention of the Missouri
Anti -Horse-Thief Association met We'd
nesday week in Chillicothe, 200 members
being present. Reports showed the order
to be increasing in numbers and influence,
and horse stealing decreasing the means
OF detection aud capture become more
certain.
The Standard of Buenos Ayres, South
: American, publishes an account Of losses
> caused to stock owners by recent
: drought in the upper country. More
l than 100000 sheep have died Of a
lung and throat disease formerly unknown
1 on the plains, and the loss is estimated at
nearly $40, 100000.
A special agent of the Treasury De
! partment has reported that silks and
. other valuable goods, taken from the
! wrecked steamer Oregon, have been found
in the lighthouse at the entrance of New
York harbor and in private dwellings.
He recommends the dismissal of the
, keeper of the lighthouse.
At Boston, yesterday week, James
A. L. Whittier, the lawyer who, as q
trustee of the estate of Miss Harriet ID.
, Reid, is charged with embezzling
, 300, 600 worth Of the latter's property,
pleaded guilty to embezzlement to the
extent of $4,000. He was sentenced 20
four years and three months imprison-
! ment.
The Rev. Simon p. Smith, colored
minister OF Knoxville, who attended the
Congregational conference in Chicago,
: has brought suit against Robert j. Mason,
restaurant keeper of the latter city, and
his head waiter, James Hughes, for re-
! fusing to give Smith meal in the restau-
rant because of his color. Mr.. Smith
? wants IS, 900 damages.
+ The dead body of Alexander McVicars,
I 80 years of ago, was found ON Saturday in
. n ravine near Pacific, Missouri, with two
, bullet holes in his head and with his
throat cut. McVicars was last seen in
company with young man named Web
. ster Jackson, who, it is supposed, oom-
+ niitted the murder for the purpose of
9 securing the old lnan's money.
4 The schooner George L. Smith, which
t sailed from Gloucester, Massachusetts,,
: with crew Of IA men, for the Grand
t Banks, on August 18th, is given up for
: lost. This makes 81 vessels Of the
I Gloucester fleet lost, Of the total value Of
= StT3 600, and 116 lives SO far this year,
r by which 2S wives were made widows,
n ani 56 children rendered fatherleas.
# Judge Goebel of the probate court of
Cincinnati, has accepted the offer Of
Judge Hoadly 20 pay to the trustees of
the estate of archbishop Purcell $62, 500
. in full satisfaction Of his liability aa
bondsnian for j. .. Mannix, jefaulting
!, nssigace. The trustees will now declare
: a divieend II y per ceut, and begin its
q payments in a l.W days. SD
5 The Rev. Father Joseph Giustiniaui,
g rector uf the Church of the Immaculaie
A Conception in Baltimore died Wednesday
u week aged rs. he was native of Italy,
a but came to this country in 1886. Tive
!, years later he was ordained priest in St
IS Louis. He spent Is years ON the Louis
l. lana mission, and was % years in the
g parish in which he died.
u 1t is reported from Washington that ths
Z revenues 80 far for this month have aver.
:. aged over 81 ,000,O00 day, and are nov
! about $l2, 100000 in excess of the ex
/; penditures during the same period. Th'
r financial situation is regarded at thu
70 treasury department as favorable fol
i another call for three per cent bonds ant
= it is probable that one will be issued in I
,e few days.
- The steamer Waesland, which left New
York on Saturday for Antwerp, returned
to port Sunday at noon. At $50 p. m
ha on Saturday, when about 95 miles east o
~ Sandy Hook, the after section of her shat
k. gave out. At o'clock Sunday morn
he ing, of Fire Island, she was taken /
ar tow by tug and brought back. Tn
y, damage to the shaft could not be repaire'
~ at sea, so the captain deemed II pruden
~ to return.
cd A man who murdered his neighbor'
ist wife near Palmer Rapids, Ontario, fey
I'm days ago, has been arrested. BE went
le. shanty where she lived, of which he wa
yer landlord and ordered her 10 Vacatt