Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-10-03
IN GEN ERAL.

The final inspection Of the Runboat
Petrol has been ordered for the 30th in
slant.
yirginius J. Luster, an American oiH-
zen, was tried and acquitted Of murder OF
Panama.
The Kansas City, No., syrup refinery
was burned Thursday. Loss, $50, 900;
insurance, $50, 900.
George Munson, q Detroit faro dealer,
was shot and killed in Public Literary
Park Thursday night. The murderer Is I'm.
known.
The reservation on North Carolina upon
which Geronimo and his band are now
stationed will be purchased by the gov
eminent.
A. II. Kellam has been appointed COL
lector OF customs for the port OF New
Haven, Conn.
Sidney Weir, young Englshman on
trial at Harrisburg for the shooting OF
Henry Miller and Frederick Kinder last
May, was convicted on Saturday OF murder
In the first degree.
William Loughridge, ex-congressman
from the state OF Iowa, died on South
Mountain, 10 miles above Reading, Pa, on
Thursday night. He had gone there for
tho benefit OF his health. He was 63 years
old.
A train or the Lewisburg and Tyrone
railroad struck a COW while rounding
curve near Belleionte, Pa, on Friday,
aud the engine and baggage car were
thrown down TN embankment, Nearly all
the passengers we've bruised and hurt, but
none dangerously.
The steamer Oranie Nassau arrived at
New York Oh Friday from Port-au-Prince
and was detained at quarantine under the
lar nall
infected ports to wait ten days from the
date or sailing before entering New York
The Orauje Nassau made the voyage IN
eight days.
drunken couple went to the Baptist
parsonage In Newfoundland, N. j., on
Thursday night aud asked to be married.
The minister refused, and they smashed
the windows In the door and demolished
the ornamental fence. After keeping the
minister and his family In terror all night.
they disappeared.
Five persons were drowned In South
Watuppa pond, near Fall River, Massachu-
setts, on Friday, by the upsettlng of a boat.
They were: Louis Dubois, aged So years;
Nathalie Dubois, his niece, aged SO; Mrs.
George MiehGnd; her daughter, Leah
Michand, aged 7, and RosAnna Levitere,
aged 3. Dubois Is said TO have been drunk,
and an empty whisky bottle was found In
the boat.
Governor Fowle, OF North Carolina, In
replying to a letter from the Secretary of
War, suggesting the removal OF the Indians
at Mount Vernon Barracks to the mountain
section OF North Carolina, expresses disap.
proval Of the proposition, as that region Ia
In process Of rapid settlement by the whitet
and suggests that the Indians be located
on the abandoned land OF Vermont.
Mrs. Della Preston. aged 40 years, cook
on canal boat shot and Killed John Had
SELL steersman, aged 29, on the boat at
Schenectady, New York, between l and 2
O'Clock Friday morning. HadselPB body
was later In the day picked out of the
canal, where 1t had fallen beside the boat.
Mrs. Preston says Hadsell tried to force bis
way III the cabin and she fired the pistol
without taxing aim to brighten him.
Major Moses veale, who was unanimously
nominated for clerk OF the quarter sessions
by the Philadelphia Democratic city con-
vention, In communication to the chair
man OF the Democratic convention, has de.
clined TO accept the nomination. He says
he was not consulted about the nomination
that he did not want It, and felt that he
had stood up enough for the purpose OF
holding the organization together. The
feeling OF depression which Major Veale's
destination emphasizes is universal among
old Democrats.
The UtSh Commission, In session at Obi.
cago, on Friday adopted elaborate Ieeolu.
tons advocating Chicago rs the location
for the Worlds Fair. The members of the
commission include g. l.. Godfrey OF lowe.
Il. =. Robertson OF Indiana, ex-senator
Saunders OF Nebraska, General j. A. Mo-
Clernand of Illinois, and Meesrs. A. b.
Williams and Elijah Sells. Yesterday Z. j.
Lehman gaveu check for 100000 for the
Worlds Fair, and John V. Farwell. james
Il. Walker, Oorson. Pierce SCOT & Co.,, and
hlandel Btothers each subscribed S25, 900.
Four other iifms between them put up
s5D. 600. This, with the previous snbscrip-
lion OF 100000 by Marshall Field, makes o
total of $500, 600 subscribed by the dry goods
! merchants of Chicago. 1t Is expected that
J sI0O,U0O additional Will be subscribed from
other houses In the same line within day
or two.