Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-06-10

Bishop Nicely OF the Protestant Episoo-
pal Diocese of Maine, is reported to be 80 I
II that his recovery is doubtful.
The town of Kington, Michigan, was {
almost entirely destroyed by fire on Sun !
lay night, onlyo one store remaining. Loss
B25, 900.
John G., Gordon, aged 30 years, and
Albie Montferrand, aged Ia, were drowned
In the Merrimao river at Lowell, Massa-
on Sunday.
The main nail factory of the Laughlin
at Martins Ferry, Ohio, was
burned on Monday night. Loss $SU, OOOi
covered by insurance. l.
Bodwell a Aliens elevator, the Knicker-
booker ice house, and several adjoining
buildings in Pittstown, Maine, were
burned on Monday. Loss $250,OOO.
A coroner's jury at Paterson, N. j., has
found Mrs. Vale, midwife, guilty Of
causing the death of Mrs. Emily Rueck-
wardt by malpractice. Mrs. Vale has fled.
Hamilton Moody, formerly mayor Of
Beauregard, La, Tuesday accidentally
fell between two cars on the Illinois
Central railroad ut Brookhaven and was
killed.
Joseph Conroy Monday pleaded guilty |
to the charge of outrageous assault in
New York, and were sentenced each to 10 |
years in the penitentiary.
In Milwaukee Tuesday morning, 40 of |
the men recently indicted by the grand |
Jury for rioting and conspiracy were
arraigned in the municipal court and
held for trial, the bail ranging from
81 900 to SO, 1000 each.
While Elmer Osenback and Forrest
Mark were driving across the Lehigh
Valley railroad at Allentown, on Sunday
night, their team was struck by train
and both were killed. They were about 20
years of age.
By an explosion of gas in the mineral
spring Colliery at Wilkesbarre Monday
morning, six men were badly burned, two
OF whom are not expected to recover.
Those believed to be fatally injured are
Patrick Joyce and John Reese.
The fourth general assembly of the
| Society of st. Vincent do Paul, and the
first of the kind held in the United States
| for ten years, opened Tuesday in Wash
ington. Cardinal Gibbons was present,
and made brief address to the delegates.
The Virginia House and the Washington
House buildings ut Rawley Springs, IL
miles west of Harrisonburg, Virginia,
were destroyed by fire early Tuesday
morning. The loss is ESTIMATED at $ 130, 900,
while the assurances aggregate only
$13, 900.
| Alfred l.. Burgess, charged at New
York with having attempted to poison his
wife, Mary E., because he was in love
with the woman's sister, Anna Mulhol-
land, was Tuesday convicted of assault
in the first degree, and was remanded for
sentence.
Among those who are to deliver ad-
dresses on the occasion OF the unwilling
of the statue to Daniel Webster at Con-
cord, N. H., next week, will be William
NJ. Evarts of New York, Congressman
, Bingham of Pennsylvania, and General
b. +. Butler, Robert q. Winthrop and
Richard Olney of Boston.
The wall of building on East One
! Hundred and Fourteenth street, New
York, fell Monday while repairs were
p gcing on in the adjoining lot. Edward
I Kelly, 90 years old, and John Bigger, 25
were crushed TO death, and james Kava
I naugh, aged Al, received internal injuriei
( and subst quently died in the hospital
: The wall had been condemned.
1 The trustees of Johns Hopkins Uni
Q versity, at Baltimore, have appointed
Prof. l. II. Wright of Dartmouth College
Il to be Professor of Classical Philology an,
@ Dean of the Board of Collegiate Advisers
Among the persons appointed Fellows il
the university for the ensuing year i
t. Cyrus Adler, A. b., University of Penn
# sylyania, in Semitic languages.
II The ninth annual meeting of the Penn
sylvania State Pharmaceutical Association
z began Tuesday in Lebanon. The fol
" lowing officers were elected; President
l. James A. Meyer, Harrisburg First Vice
l. president, W. l.. Turner, Philadelphia
10 Second Vice-president, J. w. Miller
IS Allegheny City; Treasurer, Joseph L
a Lemberger, Lebanon; Secretary, J. Miller
g Harrisburg.
:. The Marine Hospital Bureau has IL
~ ceived information from Venice unde
~, date of the 9th instant, that during th
\ last IA days there has been daily averag
:. of Al cases and 90 deaths from choleri
~ tho maximum number of cases being 81
- with SO deaths. The bureau has also r,
ceiyed information from Florence, Ital
v, dated June Sd, that two deaths ha
y occurred there from cholera and MOI
y were expected.
ne The bucket shops of s. s. Floyd 4 Co
ID at Little Rock and Hot Springs, Arkansas
IN have been closed by ruling of IL
Or supreme court of that state on an appe,
40 of n suit brought against Floyd by IL
ne Pulaski county authorities last fall. Jude
To Vaughn of the circuit court, decided til.
Id the running of bucket shop in Arkansi
was q misdemeanor, and fined j. nj. Fo
o. tenbury, Floyd's manager, 800, an
IL ordered that the premises be vacated. III
" ruling of the lower court was sustaine,
Is A passenger train on the North-easter
to railroad Monday broke through IL
IN Santee river trestle, midway between s
,ia Stephens Station and Santee river bridg
as South Carolina, smashing up the coach'
Mt and killing six passengers. The kille
CO are; John l.. Cole, DIR. G.. G. Kinlo
oe Charles Inglesby, Jr., and Miss McIver
ct Charleston, Miss q. L. McWhite of Mariol
at and Miss Hannah Wilson, residence n,
a. known. Conductor b. G. Mazyck an
nv Mail Agent +. w. Bennecker were bad
as injured. The disaster is supposed
ed have resulted from the insecure faster
H. ings of rail on changing gauge.
vn Judge Gildersleeve, in his charge
q the June panel of the grand jury in Ne
m York, Monday, cautioned them again
81 allowing their proceedings to be mac
cd public, and instructed them that the
ry would have important duties to perfor
en- during their session, and referred to Il
of Broadway railroad bribery cases, Il
M work in which matter, he said, was n
lis yet completed. Bride givers deser,
as punishment more than do bride receiver
les he said, and too much zeal and indust
to cannot be shown in bringing them
lat justice. He also told them that the
rs attention would likely be called to cas-
Or wherein men are charged with resortii
lst to unlawful methods to obtain what tn
if considered their rights.
Oscar Hoffman, a prominent chemist
W Baltimore, committed suicide Friday
OF taking hydrocyanic acid. Pecuniary OF
re- barrassment is alleged us the cause.
On, William II. Adams was Friday shot n
OK killed by Charles W. Whipple, In Brilp
tly port. Connecticut. Adams was n board
~ Mt Whipple's house, and jealousy was
les cause.
lily At leading, Pa, Friday night, Frank n
Charles Fable, brothers, aged 10 and
,ss years respectively, had quarrel mt tn,
Ia home, when Frank fired three shots IN
IN. his brothers stomach and lungs and tn
arr shot himself In the head.
tve While playing In his fathers yard
ior Brockport, N. Y, on Thursday afiernoc
ide Leonard Conklin's 6-year-old son, Rose,
ms. picked up small shot gun, and one of
lief companions called out jokingly to him
nfi shoot. He presented the gun at Jimr
viii Curry, aged years and fired, killing h
l uIn