Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-12-16
IN GENERAL.


cuse, N. Y, Monday morning.
Hugh b. Ross, a travelling salesman Of
Owassa, Mich, committed suicide NJ
Rochester, N, Y, on Sunday, while sufer-
from delirium tremens.
A permit was granted in Baltimore
Monday for the burial of Henry Jones, col
ored, aged l1S years. II is said the REQ
ord papers of his freedom verify his age,
The county courthouse ct Poplar Bluh,
Mo-, was burned early Tuesday MORN
ing. Loss, sac, 900. No insurance. Inc
records we're saved.
1t is announced officially that the hey,
B. J.. McManus, rector of 81 Johns
Church, in Baltimore, has been created
monsignor by the Pope.
Hugh Mitchell, ex.deputy sheriff OF
Rusk county Texas, was shot dead py
Matthew Whseless IN 0yerton on Sunday
evening. There was feud between them.
An accommodation train on the Fan
Handle railroad Monday morning
struck three section men ut Minlcks STA
ton, Pa, killing Patrick Howard and So
verely injuring the others.
Charles Robinson, the war governor OF
Kansas, has been appointed superlnten-
dent Of the Haskell industrial School Tor
Indian Children at Lawrence, Kansas,
vice Arthur Grnbowsky, resigned.
At ,Willimantic, Conn, Tuesday John |
Nesbitt, who was arrested for criminaliy |
assaulting his IL years-old adopted |
daughter two years ago, pleaded guilty |
and was sentenced to three years III state
prison.
Anthony Comstock Tuesday at New
| York caused the arrest of Il. ID. Mann,
| publisher of Tom Topics, on the Allega
ton of indecent publications. The de-
PENDANT was paroled in charge Of his
counsel.
Charles Brown and Cora Sihley were
married in Manistee, Mich, last Saturday
evening. About two hours after the cere.
mony the bridal couple we're leading q
dance together, when the groom fell dead
of heart disease.
The total value of the exports Of
| domestic breadstuffs from the United
| States duriug the ii months which ended
ON November Both last was $135, O76, ga,
against $119, 572 1868 during the cores
ponding period of 1885.
In New York Monday, on their con-
viction of robbery, William Miles and
Martin Mcdonald, young criminals, were
sentenced TO Sing Sing for 10 years each.
The aggregate value of the booty OBJ
tQined by them was less than So.
Christian Homeyer, a well.known resi-
dent of Glendale, Long Island, was early
on Sunday morning shot and fatally
wounded by one of tour men, supposed
to be burglars, while standing on the
stoop of his sons hotel at Ridgewood.
A telegram from Washington says that
the Rev. John A. De Ruyter of st. Au-
gustine's Catholic Church, oolored, and a
member OF tho st. Josephs Society Of
London, has received orders to go to
Cashmere, British India, for missionary
services.
Willie Arnold, the 13-year-old son OF
William A. Arnold, wealthy citizen Of
Reading, Pa, who disappeared several
weeks ago, ami was supposed to have
been kidnapped, has been found near
Stroudsburg, Il Ia believed he wandered
away with ttamps.
The grand jury al Baltimore Tuesday
indicted Anderson Perry, John L. Ross
and Albert Harkius, all colored, for the
murder Of Emily Brown, OH Friday last,
whose body they sold 10 the Maryland
Univerbity tor dlssecting purposes. Each
pleaded not guilty.
At Putnam, Connecticut, on Sunday,
the wife of Adelbert Fairchild, after quar-.
reiliug with her husband administered
morphine to herself and child during ner
husbands temporary absence. The child
is dead, but the woman has been restored
} to consciousness. She shows symptoms
of insanity.
In Baltimore, last week, Sheriff Fielder.
man was presented by the grand Jury toi
having attempted TO bride John +. Bur.
CESS, colored, to vote the Democratic
ticket Mt tho last charter election. Burgess
was tho witness against the accused, and
Monday, after n full investigation, III,
acouser was committed to answer the
charge of perjury.
Governor hfarmaduke, of Missouri
Tuesday pardoned Charles Logan, sery
ing term in the penittutiary Tor CRANE
, larceny, as u rewhrd for bravery. Nv,
weeks 900 . tpgemSa ~ the Fa0pe We,
: attached by convict HHlhoa whGgta be-
!, lin in this neck with sh )u knife l.lpai
!, at the risk OF his life threw himself upol
the would be murderer and saved tn
! foreman's life.
a Charles NJ. Crosswell, ex-governor 0
t Michigan, died Monday morning a
t Adrian, in that state, aged 81 years. II,
: was born il. Newburgh, New York ant
/ removed to ichigan when Is years o
( age, He stl ed law, and, after film
}. various mum lpal offices, was elected !
y the state senate, where he served sewers
Il terms. In 1876 he'was elected governor
d and in 1878 reelected.
!, August Debdke quarreled with his viii
/ in Cleveland, Ohio, Tuesday morning
: and beat her on the head with sma
10 hammer until he thought she was deat
3 He then committed suicide by cuttin
i bis throat. The woman may recover
q Debdke deserted his wife several month
" ago, and returned Tuesday to effect
a. reconciliation, but she refused to liy
Is with him. Both were advanced in year
~ A telegram from Auburn, N. Y, say
y that Monday afternoon some Italia
laoorers, employed on the canal improy,
~ ment Mt Port Byron, attacked four Amer
y cans. Lester Burgess was struck ON IL
u head with pick handle and prohabl
Y fatally injured, man named Pratt W,
- fatally stabbed, Charles DaGyhirsh W,
:" seriously stabbed, and the fourth ms
:, was slightly cut. Four of the Italia,
~ were captured.
"a. The annual meeting of the New 70,
m and Brooklyn bridge trustees was hel
A. Monday. 1t was reported that busne
had increased during the past fiscal YEA
The receipts from tolls were S743, 53s
the number Of passengers carried on Il
railway was 24,029, 2G7; gross receip
from all sources, $S42, $40; expenditure
IN including the payment of 1870, 600 to II
an two cities, $i.l12,972 No appreciable d
aa terioration of the bridge has taken plac,
70 The legislature will be asked to authori,
or the abolition of all tolls on the brido
os save Tor passage on the railway.
in In Washington Monday Judge Oh
81 delivered an opinion in the cases of Joh
T., Hltz, president, and Dir. Charles pro,
d. tles, cashier, convicted of and sentenc,
at 10 hVe years III the penitentiary for maj
ho my ihlse entries IN the books of d
Ia, herman American National Bank, owe
he ruling the Judgment Of the criminal con
Iv and holding that the omission of the ave
hent that the bank WAS doing busine
rendered the indictments defective. OV
Az cases against them are thus render.
defective, and they cannot again be trie,
~ the lullt Of time having expired.
The will of the late Richard Perkin
Al OF Boston, makes the following bequest
ae massachusetts Institute of Technolog
$lOO,OO0; Museum of Fine Arts, $50 az
Boston Society of the New Jerusale,
ek $50 900; Massachusetts New Ohnr,
~ nnion' $lU,ooo; Young Mems Ohristis