Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-05-27

early on Saturday morning.
General Lewis s. Partridge, prominent
Democrat of Vermont, and postmaster OF
Norwich, died on Friday night.
A cyclone has passed throug Shuqualak,
La, on Monday, tearing up trees, de-
molishing fences and injuring crops.
Abraham Payne, one of the most prom
inent lawyers of Rhode Island, died sud
denly in Providence on Saturday of heart
disease.
The celebration of the 250th anniver-
sary of the settlement of Springfield,
Mass, Tuesday, was attended by great
throDgs.
Mrs. Alexander Wilson was killed by
lightning at Corona, Long Island, on Sat-
urday evening, just as she was entering
her house.
II. s. Bitter of Pennsylvania, has sue
cessfully stood the examination for admis-
sion to the Naval Academy at Annapolis,
Maryland.
Snow fell Tuesday at Kane and Clar-
endon, in the western section of Penn
sylvania, there being quite storm at the
latter place.
The house of man named Shipe, near
Sunbury, Pa, was struck by lightning
Sunday evening and two children were in
jured, one dangerously.
Holmes II. Puryear, convicted in Prince
George county, Va, of the murder of his
wife in June last by poison, was Vuesday
sentenced to be hanged on the Goth Of
October next.
The judicial committee of the city
| council of Chicago has decided that
Rosenfeld, whose drug store was sacked
by mob on the 4th inst, has no legal
claim against the city.
William Alexander, for eight years as
sorting mail clerk Of the post-office at
Louisville, was arrested Sunday for
robbing the mails. He was caught with
decoy money packages.
Claudius b. Patten, aged 55 years, cashier
of tine State National Bank at Boston, on
Saturday committed suicide by throwing
himself under train at Savin Hill, on
the Old Colony railroad.
Several large barns and number Of
sheds Mt Brighton, one of the suburbs Of
/ Boston, were burned on Friday night
Incendiarism is suspected. The totaI
loss is estimated at $4,000.
Governors Lee, of Virginia, Wilson, Of
West Virginia, and Foraker of Ohio, wert
introduced to the members Of the Chamber
of Commerce ut Cincinnati ON Saturda,
afternoon, and made speeches, which
were loudly applauded.
The four newly-elected bishops of til,
M. Il. Church South were consecratet
Thursday at Richmond. They were W
W. Duncan of South Carolina, Charles b
Galloway of Mississippi, E. II. Hendrix o
Missouri and Joseph s. Key of Georgia
Louis Lingg, the young man arreste,
in Chicago on suspicion of having mad
the Haymarket bomb, has confessed tina
she was a horn anarchist and came h
this country from Switzerland with th
intention of spreading anarchistic doc
trines.
The ancient wreck near Provincetown
Mass, exumed by the sea near Peake
Hill Bar Life Station, is without doul
that of the British 6i.gun ship Somerset
7 which at the battle of Bunker Hi
| covered the landing of the English i
/ Charlestown.
The body of Thomas futile, aged 8
years, resident of Woodbury., Baltimo1
county, Md, was Thursday found in LAX
: Roland, very much decomposed, havin
apparently been in the water about
: week II is not known whether he fe
. into the water from accident or otherwis,
, The Mail printing office, at Toronto
was damaged by fire on Saturday nigf
to the extent of about $4,000. The fiji
/. started on the first floor, occupied b
! Alexander a. Gable, photographers, an
spread to the Mail editorial and compo
: ing rooms. Thomas Carroll, watchmal
i was badly burned while trying to Q,
. tinguish tho flames. .......
John G. Callahan, painter, of Wasl
; ington, has begun a civil suit for SIS, OF
damages aginst certain members of Il
a Journeymen House Painters Assembl
a Knights of Labor. The cause for actio
n is alleged conspiracy on the part of Il
q defendants, which through boycottir
:. and other means, resulted in the ruin
= the plaintiffs business. ..-
i Henry Bender and Truman 0rmsb
:, met and quarreled in house of lillian
g in Harrisburg early Sunday mornin
3 Both were drunk, and, after leaving h
@ den, they again met at the CumberlaI
c Valley railroad depot. Here the fight W
n renewed, and the couple rolled on d
J. railroad tracks, where they were struck
IS shifting engine. Both were severe
}. injured, Bender, perhaps, fatally. Orm
}, bee is said to bearesident of PHILADELPHIA
IS Eugene Taylor, farmer, aged 35 year
u Wednesday evening week, at Greenfel
y Mass. sprinkled strychnine on candy aI
IS gave it to his 2t-year-old son. who Iii,
70 soon afterward. Taylor also swallowed
1t quantity of the strychnine himself, b
y rallied from the effects and then cut
g throat with pocket-knife, but n
fatally. He has been Respondent, i
n wife says, over the loss of money
it speculation, about the time of their ms
e riage, in 1882.
y AT Carrollton, KY, Monday mornin
y William Whitehead fatally shot Lau
y HARDWOOD and then shot himself. Tn
= had agreed to die together because the
a parents opposed their marrying.
a. George W. Biddle of Philadelphia al
n WilliamL. Putnam of Portland, Me-, In
n beeu retained by the United States 20
3 eminent to represent its interests in L
=. trials arising from the seizure of the tis
a. ing vessels David j. Adams and Ella
,e Doughty by the Canadian authorities.
f, The Dominion steamer Lansdowne
ID rived at st. Johns on Saturday with t
y new schooner Terror in tow. She will
10 once be commissioned fishery protect,
Or police vessel. The schooner General Mi
10 dleton was to sail from st. Johns Mo
lie day for cruise in the Bay of Fundy.
81 Near Pittsburg, Pa, early on Sund
" morning, the infant of Michael Feeh
r was taken TO a neighbours house to
N christened. During the absence of I
ie parents the three other children got ho
Us of the oil can, poured oil in the CRATE al
a set themselves ON fire. Two of them we
L burned to death, the other is not expect
d. TO recover.
- At Springfield, Mo-, Monday mornin
~ John Russell, in fit of insanity,
of tempted to kill his wife and child by C,
u ting their throats. He cut his wi
~ frightfully, but she escaped and gave t
alarm, and when the neighbors arriy
70 ut the house, they found the would
no murderer on the floor with bullet in |
n brain. The woman and child may
cover. u-..-
y Bauamaker's.