Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-01-28
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mont, was burned Tuesday morning.
Loss $50, 900, insurance $43,00O.
Two farmers have died near Terre
Haute, Ind, this week, from gangrene OF
the feet, resulting from frost bites.
The revenue cutter Manhattan, in q
cruise in chesapeake Bay, rendered
assistance to IL vessels in distress and
saved property valued at about $l6o,ooo'
Work was begun on Saturdayin Roaoh's
ship-yard at Chester on an iron steamship
for the Brazilian Mail Steamship Line. IL
is the first vessel started there for more
than year.
The Jacksonville Times Union esti-
mates the total loss by damage to vegeta-
ton throughout Florida from the recent
freeze at 80 600, 600, of which 81, 100000 |
is ON the oranges.
At Kingston, Ont, Tuesday, Henry
Horsey, a young man. was convicted Oh
setting fire to the premises Of Robertson
Brothers last Friday night, and was SEN
fenced to IA years. imprisonment
The revenue cutter Boutwell, has been
ordered to the assistance of the schooner
Martha Brewer of Philadelphia, which IS
reported to be in distress about 200 miles |
eastward of Fernandina, Florida.
The wages difficulty between the Z. d
G. Brooke Iron Company, at Birdsboro,
Pa, has been settled and work will be re- |
sumed at once. About 400 hands have
been idle for more than three weeks.
A widow named Nickolaus died of
leprosy in Algiers, opposite New Orleans,
on Friday. She was IA years of age, and
4 4. f.. 81. Sha
had son and two daughters, and the
son inherited or contracted the disease
from her.She was native Of Switzerland.
The managers of the Knox Wooden
Company, at Camden, Maine, whose mill
has been running IL hours per day, an
nouuced on Saturday that it would begin
on Monday on 10-hours' time, without
any reduction of wages. This is the free
offering of the company; and was sur
prise to its employees.
A telegram from Shoshone, Idaho, says
| that 16 car loads of Idaho cattle, fattened
on clover hay, were loaded Sunday at
| at Caldwell for the Chicago market. This
is the first train load of winter-fed cattle
shipped this season over the Oregon
Short Line. The running time was made
80 miles an hour.
Herbert Nichols, brakeman on the
Nashua & Worcester railroad, was arrested
in Worcester, Massachusetts, on Sunday
evening, on a charge of robbing train
of 5000 package on Friday evening.
Five hundred and seventy dollars of the
amount was found hidden between the
leaves of book under the carpet in his
| room.
Joseph Bates and wife, an aged couple,
were burned to death lit was supposedly
in their house near Thorold, Ont, on Sat
urday morning. An examination of the
woman's body afterwards discovered three
knife wounds and fracture of the skull
Her husbands body will be examined to-
day. The couple recently received {
large sum of money from sale of live
stock.
Michael Browlowski, his wife and 81,
children, Bohemians, are sick of trich
iniasis in Cleveland, Ohio. They ate raw
pork few days ago, became sick, and
receiving medical attention soon recovered
so far that they were thought out O.
danger. They again ate the raw pork
and on Saturday Browlowski and his wifi,
, were believed to be at the point of death
The commissioner of pensions decides
, in the case of an ex-soldier who deserted
from his command and was imprisone,
for that crime, and who was afterward
restored to his duty in pursuance of tn
articles of war, and served from this dat
to the expiration of his term of servic
, and was honorably discharged, that hi
: title to pension is not affected by til
: charge of desertion.
3 The brig Aquatic, at Charleston, iron
Rotterdam, reports that on the 21st inst
5 she fell in with the schooner Marth
4 Brewer, Captain Hand, from Philadel
3 phia for Charleston, dismasted, with boat
! stove, rudder broken, sails blown ava
r and cabin flooded; part Of her cargo ha
: been jettisoned. Captain Hand desire
i to abandon his vessel, and he and hi
crew were taken off and brought /
Charleston.
The annual election for directors of til
A Baltimore Corn and Flour Exchange, hel
Monday,s resulted in the choice of tn
i. following: Edison M. Schriver, Henry A
a Parr, Robert S. Fowler, George L. Kenly
Samuel f. George, Hiram G. Dudley, Gee
|, w. Titlow, Charles ID. Reid, Joseph L
! Foard, Edwin Reese, A. Henry Nelkei
4 Edward @. Head, Alexander j. Godby
i George Frame, John H. Girvin.
Q Mayor Hodges of Baltimore, sent hi
first message to the city council Monda
h evening. He says that the funded an
Q guaranteed debt of Baltimore is $36, 1888
n 246, of which interest is paid from othe
@ sources than taxation on $l6, 256, 500 an
@ productive Investments reduce the del
5 over available interest bearing assets I
@ $6,016,2 1856. The floating debt of 1855, 80
IS was paid of during the past year, an
1t there is surplus in the treasury {
a $3S, 4S0.
d The total collections of internal reyenu
during the first six months of the tisci
d year were $59, 549,6ll, an increase c
n ~, OPS, 464, compared with the collection
IS during the same period of the last tiscl
q year. There was an increase of 1916, 81
IT on spirits, an increase of $685., 565 on t.
y bacco, and an increase of S437, SO1 O
e fermented liquors, and a decrease {
o $74, AIS on miscellaneous items. The r,
y ceipts during December, 1885, wer
o 1858, 241 greater than the receipts durin
D. December, 1884.
On the l4th instant young son {
Seward Apologize of New Brunswick, \
j., died of hydrophobia, from the bite {
N a rabid dog. Another son of Mr.. Appl,
gate now shows signs of the dreadft
N disease, although he was not bitten b
the dog. II is thought the explanatio
Il lies in the fact that the boy and hi
e brother who died had boen eating cand
- together when the deceased was attacke
= by the disease. They were taking turn
n in sucking the candy, and in this way Ii
~ surviving brother was inoculated by I'll
y saliva of the other boy.
/. A well. young man, calling hin
ID self j. Whitney, recently went to Kansf
3, City and opened an office for cattle bus
N ness. He also opened accounts wit
5. several banks, and deposited number {
- drafts signed by Omaha banks, and ager,
,e eating $4,000. Two weeks AGO i
a. cashed these and left Kansas City. III
" drafts were sent TO the Chicago Clearin
b. House and paid, but when they reache
Omaha they were found to be forged
The Chicago Clearing House has caile
upon the banks there to make good d
=. loss, but this they decline to do, and
" :, law suit will probably result"
NJ The county poorhouse at Jackso,
n Michigan, was burned about 1 o'cloc
re- Sunday morning. Five of the inmat,
as whose ages ranged from 60 to 92 wear
a persisted in the flames-three of the
II were insane, one deaf and one blind. III
ne rest of the inmates, about 35 in humble
n. were driven out without clothing in
es temperature of TO- below zero, and son
q. Of them will probably die from exposnr
es One Of them was William Mills, the ma
gr who first issued Sanders Spelling Boo
a. He was reputed at one time to be wort
4 $250,000.