Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-10-07
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eruption for the third time within ear.
Cattle purchased in Chicago are reported
to be dying of pleuro-pneumonin ia Fau-
quier, Prince William and Loudoun cDun-
ties, Virginia.
snow-storm prevailed Thursday at
Marquette. Mich There was heavy sen
on Lake superior and vessels sright
shelter at Marquette.
a druggist Of Omro, Wisconsin, named
Henry, was fatally poisoned Thursday
morning, by swallowing some carbolic
acid in mistake for beef extract.
Twenty five of 100 bulls sent from a
Chicago distillery before the quarantine
to Tripplett's Ranch, Kankakee county,
Illinois, have died, presumably Of pleuro-
pneumonia.
| Andrew Lncas, colored, died Thursday
in Brantford, Ontario, at the alleged age
of 1873 years. He was born in slavery,
in Tennessee, and was General Jnckson's
body servant.
The Cliff House in Lenox, Mass, and
its cottage were burned early Thursday
morning. Loss, $4,000. The house
was crowded with boarders, many of
| whom had narrow escapes, and they lost
largely in clothing, money and jewelry.
AT Bingon, Lehigh county, Pa, Thurs
| day, Mamie Wagner, years of age, was
playing on the railroad track at the depot
when fast express train came along.
| The ohiId's mother, Mrs. Mary Wagner,
rushed out to save it and both were
killed.
A committee appointed by the Metho.
dist Episcopal conference now in session
| ut Connelsville, Pa, to investigate the
charges oflying and dishonesty preferred
against the Rev. DIR. l. O. Pershing, late
president of the Pittsburg Female Col
lege, reported last week that tho charges
had not been sustained.
James Platt and Georgs ID. Bard we'll,
each about 90 years of age, have con
fessed that they set fire TO the Manson
Academy buildings at Springfield, Mass,
last June Their connection with the
crime was discovered through Bardwell
being arrested for burglary. Plntt said
the buildings were fred for the fun of
the thing, and with the idea of creating
some excitement.
The hurricane which ragged in south
western Texas from the 2lsi to the 23d
instant, besides blowing down more than
200 houses in Brownsville, leveled more
| than 300 i'll Matamoras on the Mexican
| side of the river. In both cities about
| $50 families are homeless. The roar por-
tion of MatamoraA was flooded to depth
| of from three to eight feet. 1t is remark
ablo that no loss of life is reported in
either place.
The annual report of General Miles en-
bodies the story of the surrender of tiero-
nimo. II has been received by the Acting
Secretary of War and by him laid hefort
| the President. It is understood that ten
Miles reports that he accepted thu sur.
render of the savage chieftain, aErts ing,
among the conditions, that he should NOT
| be surrendered TO the civil authorities OF
Arizona for trial and that he shOuli be
taken away from that vicinity.
The order of the secretary of the navy
changing the Washington nayy-ynrd into
an ordnance foundry went into effect Fri
day, The yards and docks department
will not be intorfered with Some neces.
| sary unfinished work in the steam ongi-
necring department will be completed.
All the employees in other bureaus num-
bering about 200, are to be discharged.
Doubtless the majority of those dis
| charged will be re-enployed rs soon as
the ordnance work is wcll under way.
Mail advices from Yokohama, rec eiyed
in San Francisco, say the cholera is still
| raging throughout Japan. The proper
tion of deaths to cases is very heavy. Be-
tween August 2Sth and September 9th in
elusive, n1ue days, tj, j46 new cases were
| reported. The deaths dnring the snme
period numbered S,472 Over 63 per
| cent of those attacked died An exsmina.
| tion of the wells in Toxic was niade, and
the water of 740 ont OF I.t7T were con-
| denined ms unfit to be used for drinking
purposes.
At Canton, China on August 57th,
| Chinese girl aged Is years underwent
| the 'tI.iug Chr execution, which is that
one pjeco after another of the victims
| body is cut away until the body is divided
into coo pieces The victim, MS in this
case, always dies from loss of blood be-
fore the horror IL completed. The girl
was charged with poisoning her husband
and three relatives. Although it was
shown on examination that she was limo
cent of the crime, tho people Of the dis
trict insisted on her execution, which the
yiceroy finally ordered.
The Secretary of the Interior is con-
sidering a proposition TO allow certain
| Indian tribes in the west the privilege
of utilizing the grass upon the surplus
lands of their reservations, by allowing
them 70 take cattle from neighboring cat.
tlemen to pasture, the Indians to herd
and cnre for the cattle and to receive just
compensation therefore, but no white men
20 be allowed upon the reservations The
scheme is warmly endorsed by the Indian
bureau officials, and ii is probable that an
order authorizing certain tribes to enter
into contracts with cattlemen Ms outlined
will soon be issned.
a colored man pawned coat in Boston
| Tuesday week, and in one of the pockets
there was afterwards found a written con-
| fession of n murder committed in Cinein.
| natl in 1882. The paper was signed evil
liam II. Downes.n The man was arrested
and at the police head quarters admitted
that he stabbed man named Tobie Cain,
| in Cincinnati, in the month of October,
| and that CHin afterwards died. Downes
| said he was arrested for the murder, but
on the testimony of Gains wife and sister
/ no was acquitted Tie confession, he
said, was prompted by troubled con
science. He wrote it about six mouths ago
to send 10 Cincinnati judge but, after
wards changed his mind.
A telegram from 81. Louis says that the
| Knights OF Labor in the wost shave de-
/ GidGd that strikeB like the boycott must
| 80, and that it should no longer be
recognized az necessity in the order.
While this Important decision is not pub
Iirly announced, yet the information
comes from uuquestiored authority" The
St Louis delegates to the Richmond con-
geption, il is understood are instructed
/ in favor of law which will dispense
entirely with the strike systt III. 'Arbi
| lration will hereafter he the policy of the
western Knights in all questions Of wages
md labor that require adjustment. Tho
| st. Louis knights may ask the Richmond
convention for committee whose special
duties will be 10 investigate and settle all
| difficulties of this character, with sugges-
| tions from Grand Master Powderly."
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