Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-12-23
IN snNBRAL.

assistant editor Of the Western Uh7stian
advocate, died in Cincinnati on Saturday
aged 50 years.
A telegram from the City of Mexico
says the law forbidding bull. fights in the
Federal district has been repealed nhd the
sport will be revived. An immense iron
bnll ring has been contracted for in the
United States.
The Secretary Of the Navy has lesig-
mated the United States steamer Rich
mond as the flagship of the North Atlantic
squadron, In place of the United States
steamer Tennessee. The latter will
probably be condemned.
The total exports of beef, pork and
dairy products from the United States
during the IL months with ended ON
November 30th were valued at $77 ,05O ,048,
against $85,l18,124 during the CORE
spending period Of 1885.
A telegram from Reading says that,
notwithstanding the working time Of the
l,5O0 employees Of the Reading Railroad
Company In that vicinity was recently
reduced from 10 TO nine hours dav, the
men in the shops were Thursday put on
full time to build 200 large coal cars.
James Howard, aged So years, was
taken from jail dt Texafkana, Texas, on
Wednesday week, by mlsksd mob and
| lyncbed. He was charged with baviug
treated his wife, girl of IA years, with
horrible cruelty, among other things
branding her on the body with red-hot
iron.
In Newark, N. j., on Friday night,
Andrew L. Hill, of Blairstown, tried to
blow out the gas in his room, but d'd not
succeed. Determined to put the light out
he used water as an extinguisher, and the
flame disappeared. He then retired. He
was found in q nearly suffocated oondi-
ton by persons who were compelled to
burst open the door to rescue him.
Two young ruffians entered the house
of John Hewitt, at Rogers Park. near
Chicago Wednesday week, knocked him
down, covered his head with a blanket,
shot and wounded him on the scalp and
robbed him of $40. The robbers, one of
them Hewitt's 18 year-old son, have been
arrested. II is said that young Hewitt
fired the shot at his father.
The steamship Elder, which sailed
from New York last week. for Bremen,
/ via southampton, carried the heaviest
European mail that has ever been dis
patched from New York. Il consisted of
225 sacks of letters and $50 sacks of
newspapers and other printed matter, o
total of 1856 sacks, of which 575 were
made up at the New York post-office,
i where all this mail has accumulate since
Saturday last.
At Boyertown, Berks county, Pa, yes
terday morning week, an unknown tramp
/ entered the house Of Augustus WeptzeI,
and, seizing Wentzel's daughter, Della,
lged 16 years, who was alone in the
house, he held cloth saturat, a with
chloroform to her face. She soon became
i unconscious, and when she recovered,
half an hour later, she found that the
fellow had cut of her luxuriant tresees,
which had hung below her waist. She
suffered no Other violence.
1t is reported that evidence hns been
discovered of the existence In York
county, s. O., of an organization among
the colored people which contemplates
murder in the event of the detection of
any member accused Of crime. The first
witness was white boy who was beaten
to death week ago. Since then 26
negroes have been arrested, and some of
them have confessed the existence of a
clan for the purpose of stealing whatever
they conld, the members being sworn, if
detected, to kill the person who detected
them.
The commissioner Of the general land
| office yesterday week directed notice TO
be given that the lands granted to the At
lantic Il Pacific Railroad Company, which
were forfeited by the act Of July 9th,
1856, have been restored to the public
domain, and that the books of their
offices are open for entry of said lands as
other unoHerod public lands; those within
the granted limits at $3.50 per acre, and
those within the indemnity limits at 81. 25
per Rore. The restored lands are in the
territory of New Mexico, east of the Rio
Grande river, and such of the California
lands as are outside of the conflicting
limits Of the grants of the Southern Pa
cifc Railroad Company.
Mrs. Susanna Warren died on the 9Th
inst, al Sassakawa, in the Indian Terri
tory, and letter from that place, re-
ceived in st. Louis, tells remarkable
story of her age. 1t says: "She was
horn in st. Augustine, Florida, in 1850,
was slave and the property of Spanish
masters until 1873, when she, with other
| Spanish slaves, fed from the town of PEN
sacola when it was taken by General
jackson. She lived in the Seminole
country from then until the second treaty
of peace with the Seminoles, when she
was regarded as their common property
and was removed with them to the In
dian Territory. She leaves one daughter
living, who resides in Austin, Texas, and
is iu her 9th year. She leaves many
grandchildren here, some of them nearly
70 years of age"
William F. Jordan, a merchant OF Coydon,
Ind, colnmitted suicide Friday. He was
| a member OF several secret societies, and
had his life Insured for $4,000.
| Frances Hageman and Leonora Johnson,
| colored domestics, we're smothered to death
In Cincinnati on Thursday night by smoke
and gas, which escaped from a stove.
| nat Haeerstown, Md, Friday, Joseph
| Woods, colored, was sentenced to Is months
In the penltentiary for marrying Anna
! Nicodemus, a white woman, and the same
penalty was imposed on her.
All the members OF family named Yates,
at South Evanston. ILL.,, were poisoned on
| Thursday morning by eating oatmeal mush
in which rat poison was mixed. Two Of
them were not expected to recover.
At East Cambridge, Mass, the Jury In tho
case OF MIR, and Mrs. Baker, on trial for the
murder OF old Mrs. Susannah Prescott, a.
Groton, have found Baker not guilty. but
Mrs. Baker guilty on the Il st two counts vi
/ luuTueT III Lnb htcOuu utBTe6.
J. Frank Green, grocer OF Concord, N.
| o., committed suicide early Friday morn-
i by shooting himself through the heart
| II twas TO have cen tried Friday on
| charge of betrayal brought by young
woman. He leaves wife and flve children.
John G.. Whittier Friday celebrated his
| 7oih birthday at his residence In Danvers,
| Massachusetts. In some of the schools se-
| leotions from his poems were recited aid
read. He received IA large number OF lot.
tars and many callers. His health is ,alj
| to be good.
| At Perowan Utah, on Thursday, Deputy
Marshal William Thompson shot and killed
! Edward Dalton, indicted for unia0 fui
rehabilitation in March, 1884. Dalton bad
been arrested, but succaeded In making his
escape. He frequently declared that he
would never be taken alive.
Between and a o'clock Friday morn
ing, about four acres of ground, on West
| Coal street, Shenandoah, Pa, sank two to
four feet. About so houses settled with the
ground. and the damage is estimated at
! f50 0OO. The cave in resulted from tho
"robhlug" of ibn workings Of the Kohinoor
Colliery.
Factor Jones aud Richard Bullock, two Of
the four neRroes who recently murdered
George Taffein the Cho"taw Nation because
he caught them killing his cattle, and who
we're released In s4G0 bail, were caught
and lynched by mob at the Pcene OF the
murder on Wednesday wee4. The o her
two, SANDY" Smith and George Moss al Q
In Jail awaiting trial.
The house OF John Swilling, near Atlanta,
Georgia, was burned on Thursday morning,
and Swllling, his wife and three children
were burned to death. Frances Sanders
was arrested and confessed that he had
| crushed in the skulls OF the sleepers satIl-
rated the bed-clothes with coal oil, applied