Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-11-07
IN GENEsAL.

Phelps, near Franchburg, Ky, exploded
on Saturday, killing three men, one Of
them tbs son Of tho proprietor. Two
others were injured.
Mrs Emily Ingham Stanton, one of
the earliest advocates in this country OF
the higher education OF women and
founder OF Inghsm University, Leroy, N.
Y died in Oil City, Pa, on Friday last,
aged rs years.
Judgments of 1895 9IG in favor OF John
W Mackay, and 3Si 1852 III favor of Ed
ward U. Piatt were Obtained BY default
in the superior court Of New York city on
Saturday, against the Commercial Tele-
graph Company.
W d. Kent, n well. known local poll
tician in Chicago, has been found guilty
under recently enacted law to preserve
the purity OF preliminary elections. The
penalty ia o fine besides term of I'M
prisonuent at hard labor.
Earthquake shocks were felt at Cairo
and jacksonville, H., as i.50 O'Clock on
Saturday morning, and at st. Louis Of
O'Clock. Houses were shaken and win
dows rattlel but no dsmage was done.
At Cairo the vibration WAS accompanied
by "a low report"
A reception and banquet were given
MISC Clara Barton, presid mt of the Red
Gross Society, by her Washington friends
on Saturday night to show their apr.e-
citation OF her good work in caring for
the Johnsto9n sufferers. Many promi-
nett people attended.
General Rsum has issued instructions
TO heads of divisions IL the pension Office
y1sranffprr hot ola lr.t lat
gums of money, after they have been pre-.
pared tor special Adjudication, are not TO
be passed upon. They are to be taken to
his desk, ana he proposes to give than
personal consideration before the pension
eaiiicate is issued.
Judge Thompson of the superior court
in Boston, last week decided in case
testing the legality of towing on Sundays,
that vessels coming to the port OF Bos-
ton have right to come to dock on Sun
day, and that it 10 work OF necessity to
bring the vessels in, whether by sailors
on board or by those i'll another boat
towing her" The prosecution was
INSTITUTED by persons who are dasirous
that all Sunday work OF This character
should BIO suspended"
Joseph Fritz, who resided at Summit
Hill, Pa, and last spring owned fine
farm and country inn, was advised by his
friends, during the Prohibition campaign,
to sell his property, because, they
thought, the proposed amendment would
be carried. He disposed Of tho property
at sacrifice, and the amendment was
defeated. The loss 80 preyed on his mind
that he grew melancholy, and finally
hanged himself last Friday.
The schooner Flora Rogers, which
rescued the mate and four of the crew o.
the waterloggsd schooner Jennie Rosa
line, from Savannah for Providence, OF
the 25th ult., was of Charleston bar OF
Sunday morning, and the rescued mari
ners were taken to Charleston Saturday
Captain Barlow and his wife were sweep
overheard from the wrecked schoone
and drowned, and the colored steward
was crushed to death under the main
boom.
Reports Of another battle between tn,
Hatfelds and McOoys on last Frida.
night have reached Milton, w. Va. JohI
Blnmfeld and Owen Brown of the Hat
field party were killed and half dozei
others were badly wounded. OF the Nc
Coy crowd two were killed and fou
| OLuetb WOunuSu duu ChpLuTeu Oy III
Hatfelds. Ons was fatally wounded an(
was left to die on the field aud the othe
three we're taken to head, quarters, wher
it was decided that they Should Ds tied t
trees and shot.
Admiral Kimberly, in command of tn
Pacific squadron, ID now on his way fro1
Honolulu to San Francisco, in the Alert
Upon his arrival he will be relieved Of hi
command, in accordance with his request
aud orders were issued last week notifying
Commodore Brown, commanding the MOI
folk navy yard TO hold himself in read
ness to take the command. Admiral Kin
nerly is eligible to retirement under tn
40 years. service law, but that he will as
10 BIS retired is not known.
Oar consul OF Kingston, Jamaica. n
! poctB 20 the state department the sale c
, the railway system on that island by th
/ colonial government to syudica.e {
citizens of the United States, subject {
, the approval Of the home government
The railway system was begun in lSi:
/ and now consipts OF 63l miles in opel
/ alton and 1891 to be constructed. Th
lines already built cost 81, AIS, 235. II
: operations of the year ended September
[ 1883, were as follows: Recaiuts, S27s OBJ
) number OF passengers carried, 2S4 %,
expenditures, S17l,979 net earnings
, $lUG,4j2.
statement issued by the TrnasuE
Department shows that during the mont
Of October there was a net increase
I 80 l03, 100 in the circulation and a n,
8 decrease of $3.50 a47 in tho money an
0 bullion in the treasury. The increase i
3 the circulation was in standard silve
. dollars amounting to 80 5ii $50; in pol
3 certificates, S4.26l $50; in National Ban
o notes, SO, 1856, 757; III subsidiary silve
l 1853 529, and in United States note
+ SION 229. There was O decrease
0 1892 GA in the circulation OF gold col
! and decrease OF $2,J67, oil in the Nj
4 tionsl Bank note circulation. The tots
circulation November lat is stated
l,ilt l2l, 100, and the money and I'll
bullion in the Treasury a. $64S $40, IL
s Engineer Seth Twomhly and Coz
g ductor CHARLES Buford were indicted
5 Chicago on Saturday for the killing
i the seven victims or the Rock Island raj
o road disaster ut Englewood. The gran
= Jury did not indict either Master NJ,
Y chgnio pwombly OF Fireman Cloobs VII
q we're held by the eoroner's Jury bacaus
they believed that the master mechanic
B responsibility for ths disaster in real
pointing his sen engineer after he ha
bseu discharged for drunkenness was to
remote to hand an Indictment on, an
L beraUse the 6remen was subordina
Z: acting under orders from his enginee
+ which he was bound TO obey, and |
/; could not be held Responsible. The 81
J, einser and conductor are held in bono
,, OF SlT5, 900 each.
o Br!gadier General Miles, ccmmapdir
|, tho division Of the Pacific, has made h