Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1888-11-08

The Orchard Hotel and several other
buildings in Bloomington, Indiana, were
burned early Tuesday morning.
There were six new oasss OF yellow
fever in Gainesville, Florida, Tuesday.
Thers are now 20 patients under treat
ment.
Joseph Psquetts's sash and door factory
and planning mill in Montreal were burned
on Monday night. Loss, S70, 600; no in
snfance.
During o fight In q digyeputable Chi
nose housa in San Francisco on Monday
between the proprietors and gang Of
hiehbinders, one Ohinanlan was killed
aud two badly injured.
William Parker, the register OF deeds
Of Nelson county, Dakota, has, it is re-
ported, goneY to Manitoba. His accounts
are said to be $4,000 short. His prop
erty ia heavily mortgaged.
Herman Burns has been arrested in
Albuquerque, New Mexico, on the charge
Of having murdered Charles Walker, q
brick mason. Walker Is reported to
have wealthy relatives in Allegheny City,
Pa.
In the case of certain IithoRraphic nd-
yertisements Of pencils II is held by the
treasury department that the goods are
liable to duty rs possessing commercial
value, even IL intended for free distribu-
ton.
The Acknowledgement has invited appli,
cations by letter from Euch lieutenants OF
artillery, infantry, or cavalry, now serv-
ing with their regiments as desire to take
the course Of instruction In torpedo SER
vice at Willett Point, N. Y. next December.
While under the Influence Of liquor on
Monday night Henry Koehler threw him
self into the North Branch OF the river in
Chicago. His wife Caroline tried to rescue
him and was herself dragged into the river.
Both were drowned. Koehler wss we'll
TODD saloon keeper.
The Washington Star Gays that Mrs.
Jessie Bartlett Davis of the Bostonian
Opera Company, returned to her hotel
| after the performance on Monday night
to find that her room had been entered
by a false key and her trunk rifsd of
800 worth Of jewelry.
Oatharine soxs, aged IS; Barbara Ar
mold, aged 40. and Lydia Fetrow, in
mates OF the York County pa Alma
house, were overcome by gas in their
room on Monday night. Two were dead
when found, and Mrs. Fetrow is expected
to die. There was leak in the gas pipe.
The Evening Eemess, Of Los Angeles,
California, publishes statement in
which il ia stated that the zeal name of
the author OF the Murchison letters sent
TO Minister West 10 Francis g. Haley, and
that he is farmer, livipg two miles from
| Pomona. California. The article declares
Mr.. Haley is a native Of New York and of
Irish descent; that he moved to Pomona
four years ago from Ohio. The article
also stated that Haley wrote the letter to
the British Minister upon his own respon-
sibility and without consulting any other
person.
Nearly year and half ago the firing
Of morning and evening guns at military
posts was discontinued by reason of the
fact that the supply Of powder which re-
manned on hand after the late war and
was devoted TO that use had been ex-
hausted. Congress at the last session
made an appropriation for the purchase
of powder for saiutes and signals, and by
a general order issued Tuesday from the
war department, acquisitions for powder
AZ the different posts will nov be filled
and the morning and evening guns Will
again be fred.
lieutenant Commander Newell, COM
handing the United States steamer Finta,
has reported to the navy departm ent
under date of sitks, October 18th, that
affairs remain quiet in Southeastern
Alaska. The Thetis Was then still in Sitka
busiiy Engaged in painting and overhaul
ing her rigging, after her arduous cruise
in Behring Sea and the Arctic. The
bodies of the two Cinnamon belonging to
the Pints, who were reported drowned Ia
the dispatch of October 31st, were buried
with military honors in the Government
cemetery at sitka. On tho morning OF
the 19th another body was washed ashore
and recognized ar one Of the Cinnamon
lost from the Thetis. The health Of the
command is good.
In answer TO an inquiry from our con.
sui al Havre respecting the right OF GER
tain Chinese sailors, shipped from the
United States on American vessels and
paid on and discharged abroad, to re.
ship and return to the United States, the
Secretary Of the Treasury invites atten.
ton to the law on the subject, under
which, he says, the Chinese, having been
landed and paid of are no longer in
any sense, within the jurisdiction and
| under the control of the United States
government, and must be considered as
having departed from the United btstes.
Touchipg certain papers delivered to the
Chinese upon their departure from the
| United States, on the strength of which
they rsimbarksd, this department says
that any other papers thanths certificates
formerly issued land which are now yoid)
could not be OF higher charactsr OF Of
greater force. sl,sssa III. q, .ssskz