Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-18

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county, Virginia, will, il is now thought,
approximate 100000.
Thomas Atkinson and wife of Upper
Dublin, Montgomery county, Pa, cele-
brated their golden wedding recently.
In Rhode Island the losses by the recent
flood are $4,000 at Geneva, $50, 900 NC
Bellefonte, and $70, 900 at Woonsocket.
The Right Rev. j. P. Baltes, bishop of
the Roman Catholic diocese of Alton,
Illinois, died Monday. morning after u
long illness.
Daniel Glass was killed and Charles
Heist severely injured by premature
blast in railroad quarry at Tuckerton,
Berks county, Monday.
Nellie Smith, young girl living Mt
Bordentown, was shockingly burned
about the head and body on Saturday by
her clothing taking fire from stove.
Deputy U. S. Marshal Long, whose
headquarters are in San Antonio, Texas,
mysteriously disappeared ON the 4th lust
and has not been heard of since Then
Foul play is feared.
In the Senate of New Jersey Monday
a special committee OF three were ap-
pointed TO investigate the alleged sale of
oleomargarine and other limitations of
butter in the city of Newark.
The wrestling match at Chicago Monday
evening, between Evan Lewis Of Wiscon-
sin and Matsada Sorakichi, the Japanese,
was settled in half minute by Lewis
dislocating the Jap's left leg.
Patrick s. Gilmore gave two concerts
with his band of 100 musicians in New
York Sunday for the benefit of the
Parnell fund. 1t is believed the net pro-
ceeds will be about $4,000.
A saloon kept by a man named Hawley,
at West Pennington, Trumbull county,
Ohio, was wrecked by dynamite Sum
day morning. The people had been at
war with Hawley for some time.
l.. A. Hopkins, the cashier of Chaplin
&c Gore, liquor dealers at Chicago, is
missing. lie had charge of the cash on
| Saturday, SO, 500 in money and some
| papers, which have also disappeared.
Two brothers, Jefferson and Samuel
Ellis, became engaged in q quarrel on
Sunday at Chattanooga, Tenn, over IL
| trivial matter, when Jefferson drew IL
pistol and shot his brother, killing him
instantly.
George @. Cannon, the Mormon leader,
was arrested at Winnemuca, Nevada, on
| Saturday afternoon, and taken to Salt
Lake City, to answer the charge of polyg-
amy. He had been in hiding for nearly
a year.
j. B. :Mannix, ex-assignee of Arch
bishop Purcelrs estate, was Monday re-
leased by Judge Johnston, in Cincinnati,
on writ of habeas corpus, the bail in his
case being reduced to $50, 900 and bonds
men obtained.
| What is known among miners as "dead
work" which means preparation for new
work, is being prosecuted vigorously by
the Reading Coal and Iron Company at
its collieries in the vicinity Of Sbamokin,
Pennsylvania.
The hearing in the New Jersey Central
railroad case before Judge McKennon, ut
| Pittsburg, was concluded on Saturday
On motion of counsel for the Reading in
terest the decision in the case was post
poned for 80 days.
The United States Court of Claims Mon
day decided that naval officer on duty
on board a training vessel, which remains
IN port, is entitled to sea Fay. In 1882 the
Secretary of the Navy decided that such
officers were entitled to shore pay.
Christopher Golden, merchant of
shenandoah, Pa, was attacked and
brutally beaten by two roughs while
walking home, on Sunday night. He liz
in precarious condition. 1t is supposed
robbery was the object of his assailants.
| A fire in St. Georges, Ontario, early on
Saturday morning. destroyed Cummings
Hotel, the Masonic Hall and two stores.
causing y loss of $4,000. Two boarders
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several persons were injured by falling
walls.
A rock estimated at five tons in weight
rolled down from hill near Norristown
yesterday, and lodged so close to the
track of the Sohuylkill Valley railroad
that train passing room afterward had
the steps torn from two of the coaches
by it.
An express train ON the Ontario 4
Western railroad ran into washout near
Liberty, Sullivan county, New York, on
Friday night. An engine and two cars
were thrown from the track, two train
hands killed and three passengers
dangerously injured.
A fire at Lancaster, South Carolina, Oh
! Saturday, destroyed the Crockett House
two stores and building occupied by
two families. The fire was started by 0
man named 0durnier, who went to bed
drunk with matches in his pockets Hii
, body was found in the ruins.
A. Dadowsky, grocer, and ON un
known man, tried to GROSS the New York
! Pennsylvania 81 Ohio railroad track a
Woodland Hills avenue, Cleveland, o.
! in wagon. The eastern express strlicl
the wagon, killing both men and thu
: horse and wrecking the wagon.
The schooner Lizzie Dunn, from Balti
more for Providence, was driven OF
: Shoywanee reef, Montauk Point, Wednes
: day week, during the storm. The crew
were rescued and taken care of at thu
life-saving station. The vessel, which
I was loaded with coal, will be total loss
At wilkesbarre, on Saturday, Henr.
! Klose, Frederick Walters and Charlie
I Sharp, convicted of the killing Of Charlie
:, Fischer, were sentenced. Sharp received
= sentence of five years and one month
! and Klose md Walters each four year
= and one month at hard labor in tn
] Eastern Penitentiary.
il Joseph Reed, aged 10 years, a stone
v macon, while lying in drunken stupo
i. on the track of the Williamsburg brancl
n of the Pennsylvania railroad, near Caro-
Is Creek station, at an early hour Monda
d morning, was run over by passenge
ii train. Both legs were cut off and he die,
is in the afternoon in the Blair county aims
house.
3, In the New Jersey state senate lat
IL evening MIR. Nichols presented a petitio
g. signed by 10000 persons, protestin
o. against such proposed amendment {
y the general railroad law Us would preveI
ID the Baltimore Il Ohio Railroad Compan
ct from bridging the Arthur Xii. In IL
~ house similar petitions were presented
q Messrs. Low, Taylor, Hutchinson an
Ve Chamberlain.
7. "Samn Jones and "Sam'' Small, Il
~ "evangelists," closed a series oil reviy
IL meetings in the Music Hall in Cincinna
7i Sunday night. The floor and stage Of Il
es hall, and the Odeon, adjoining, we
no packed with people, the number in Il
\, hall being estimated at 5000. Jon
~ preached in the hall, Small in the Odeo
20 It is said that about 10000 peor
y. throhged the streets unable to ga
~ admission.
,rs John B. Mannix, ex-assignee of t
va estate of Archbishop Purcell, was arrest
To in Cincinnati on Saturday on a charge
'he having embezzled $3.50, 900 of the esta
his He was committed in default OF $l1O,O
ma bail. Some time ago an examination il
ali Mannix's management OF the affairs
Ill the archbishop's estate revealed the fl
"a. that large sum had been lost in pr
chase of stock which afterward depre