Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-09-26
IN GENERAL.
Fred. Douglass will sail for Hayti on the


Fred. Douglass will sail for Hayti on the
2sth.
Matt Quay favors Chicago for the worlds
fair Of 1892.
The FIRST snow OF the season at Newburgs
New York, fell Thursday afternoon.
The general court.martial at the New
York navy.yard has been dissolved.
The damage by fire to the steamboat
Nashua, at New York on Saturday, Is esti-
mated at $4,000; fully insured.
E. s. Norton, of Ashland, KY, has been
promised the chieitainship o; division In
second comptroller's office, at Washington.
The U. 8. s. Pensacola has been detailed
to convey the solar eclipse expedition to
st. Paul de Loando. She will sail early In
October.
Charles T Scott, of West Virginia, the
newly appointed pardon clerk, department.
of Justice. was qualified and entered on
duty again.
Snow began falling on Mount Washing-
ton Thursday morning and by night was
several inches deep. The SUBMITS near
the Crawford House are white.
The two anthracite blast furnaces Of the
Keystone Furnace Company, which failed
recently, were Thursday sold In Reading to
the Reading Iron Company for $loO, sub.
ject to q mortgage OF Sl75,000. This gives
the Reading Iron Company control OF four
furnaces, besides its numerous mills. In
two weeks all four furnaces will be In blast.
As result OF the inquest on the body Of
Thomas e. jackson, Killed In prize.hght
In Days saloon In st. Louis on Monday
week, Edward Ahern. the surviving prins
cipal, has been held without bail to answer
charge OF murder, while the referee. sec.
onds and tImo-keepers are held as access
sorles and abettors.
News OF great destruction by heavy
storms comes from Mexico. Steamels
Porfdio Dlas and AlRta have probabl7
been wrecked, The town OF ChioinJepie
suffered from a cyclone, landslide and
an inundation 10 succession, but oil the ip-
hRbitants escaped with their lives. The
destruction OF cattle and crops has been
great.
In Seattle, Washington Territory, on Fri.
day, CHIEF Justice Banford sentenced
Charles Clark, James Davis and Barney
Martin to terms In the penitentiary aggre-
eating SO years. CLARK, Davis and Martin
are the three prisoners who made such
desperate attempt TO escape from jail on
September 9th and nearly killed Jailer Far"
raher In so doing.
Thomas A. ]. Clemens, editor OF the
National Times, an organ OF the colored
people OF Washington and Alexandria. has
called q convention OF Independent colored
voters Of Virginia to meet in Richmond on
October Let. The call is signed by COM
mittee OF seven. Clemens says that he Is
assured OF the attendance OF at least 10
delegates. II is expected that the conven-
ton will endorse the Democratic candidate
for governor.
The Association OF American Physicians,
in session at Washington, on Friday elected
the following officers for the ensuing year,
and then adjourned: President, 3. O.
Busey Of Washington; First Tiee-psesident,
VIM. Pepper OF Philadelphia; Second Vice.
president, Henry Al. Lyman OF Chicago:
Recorder, I. Minis Hays OF Philadelphia;
Secretary, Henry Hun OF Albany; Treas
urer, ". w. Johnston OF Washington; Mem
her of Council, g. Baumgsrten OF 81. Louis;
Representative on Executive Committee OF
Congress OF American Physicians and Sur
geons VIM. Pepper OF Philadelphia.
A disaster occurred on Friday morning
on the electric railroad which runs to the
summit OF Mission Ridge, near Chatta-
4 nooga. car containing passengers, half
! of them ladies, had nearly reached the
| top, when the electric current failed and
car started down the mountain at great
speed. Failing TO stop the car with the
brakes, the motor man shouted to the pas
sengers to jump of. All did SO except five
| or six who remained on the car with the
motor man and conductor and escaped un-
| injured as. when the load was partially re-
| moved, the car became controllable and It
was stopped before reaching the foot of the
Ridge. All who jumped from the car were
| injured. several dangerously, and one, Mrs.
Mary Adams OF Casey, Illinois, fatally. She
died IN the afternoon.