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

John Friez shot and, 1t Is feared, fatally
wounded Miss Georgia Stone, In Baltimore,
Sunday. He was jealous because Miss
Stone was walking with another man. He
was her discarded lover.
George Hane, aged % years, living near
Sudbury, Pa, was found murdered, on Sat-
urday, In g aeld. He had been missing
since Thursday. Money which he was
known to have is missing.
About 800 farmers of Lancaster county,
Neb., met In Lincoln Sunday and organ
lied to protect themselves against the
packers, who are shipping dressed meat
there and selling to local dealers.
Consul Allen OF Kingston, has telegraphed
to the department OF state that an English
war ship has returned from Navassa, bring
Ing nine survivors of the riots, and reports
that all Is in confusion on the island.
A, NJ. Miskinim was arrested In Solomon
City, Kansas, on Friday for counterfeiting.
over $4,000 In counterfeit gold and silver
coin was captured and allthe paraphernGlis
for manufacturing the same.
Captain W. r. Jones, general manager oil
the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, died in
Pittsburg On Saturday hight OF injuries
received through the molten metal Rect
dent at the works last Thursday night.
At Greenbrier, White sulphur Springs,
last Friday night, Joseph Rose, oolored.
being drunk, caught boy named Asaby
and held bis back against hot stove. A
boy named Egan tried tosrelease Ashby,
| and, falling, got revolver and shot Rosa
| dead on the spot.
Two mild cases of smallpox were found
| Sunday among the l73 steerage passen-
| gers OF the steamship Victoria, which
arrived at New York from Mediterranean
| ports Saturday night. The SICK were re-
moved to Riverside Hospital and the other
| passengers were vaccingted.
The steamer City of Kingston, one OF the
| I'D ,vf., e. h.a haan cold fft an
Oregon Steam Navigation Company and
\ will be taken to Portland, Oregon, via Cape
| Horn and the Straits of Magellan. The
price paid was Sl35,000. The same COM
pany is looking TOR other boats along the
Hudson. The Kingston made her last trip
Monday night.
A dispatch from Chicago says that two
English syndicates have expended fifty
million dollars In this country for the con-
troll OF Industrial enterprises. No business
was acquired which has not paid at least
121 per cent year for the past five years.
Grain elevators, Touring mills and brewer
les have been the favorlte Investments.
Further purchases are now being con-
sidered.
The steamer Benefaotor, at Wilmington.
North Carolina, on Saturday from New
York, reports that 25 miles southeast of
FenwIck Island picked up man In dory
belonging to the fishing smack General
Grant of Somers Point, N. J. The mans
name is b. f. Lane. He says he lost an
Choir while fishing of Cape May September
25th, and the fog was 80 thick he was I'M
able to find the vessel.
George Offer, dissipated fellow, on Sat-
urday shot and dangerously, II not fatally,
| wounded his wife in Jersey City. He then
committed suicide. Mrs. Offer Is the sister
of millionaire brewer. She married Offer
. Cher second husband) about five years ago
. and the marriage caused breach In the
family relations, which was widened by
the misconduct OF her two sons by her first
husband, one of whom died while serving
q term in the penitentiary.
, Gibson, Parish d 90. OF Chicago, were
, compelled, on August 31st to apply for re-
I. ceiver because OF a mistake OF their head
bookkeeper In figuring up the firms assets
On Saturday the firm notified the police Il
: arrest as an embezzler Harry F. Clifford
5 the man who, 1t was at first thought, hat
8 merely made clerical error. 1t has beel
' discovered, 1t is now alleged, that Clifford
. tooE some OF the money, and the amour
Of his embezzlement ia estimated at $50 900