Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-02-20

Governor Beaver mas respltsu John NJ
Rudy, sentenced to be hanged at LaucAu-
ter, Pa, on Thursday, to april 9th.
a jury to try the men accused Of CON
Rpiraoy to corrupt Jurors in the Oronin
Csss WAS completed in Chicago Monday
and the examination OF Witnesses was
begun.
Cardinal Gibbons, on Sunday, before
administering confirmation in st. Johns
Church, Baltimore, visited the Sunday
school and gave the pledge TO abstain
from intoIicsnts to 400 boys.
After q year OF total prohibition Of the
liquor traffic in PlainAeld, N. j., its city
council met Monday night and granted Is
hotel and saloon licenses-the largest
number Plainfeld has ever had.
The Bsecher Manufacturing Company,
makers Of carriage hardware in Meriden,
Conn, have called meeting Of creditors
for the oath instant. The liabilities are
about 800, 900; assets, not known.
Samuel II. Knight, who entered the
service Of the Chicago g. Alton railroad
as pRymaster in 1853, died in st. Louis
on Sunday. For 20 years pas. he was
general agent for .he road in st. Louis.
The hrst through train on the Cape
Fear 4 Yadkin railway in North Carolina
left Wilmington Monday for Mount
Airy, 24B miles distant. The whole line,
which embraces about $50 nailoa, is being
rapidly completed.
! Gilmartin Il Doyle, wooden merchants,
! In New York, have made an assignment,
: without preferences. The firm sold
: largely to peddlers. They did q business
: Of about $9OO,0O0 a year. They say
they assign only to gain time, az they
! propose 10 pay IN full.
Owing to tho strong opposition to tho
, location of landing demo. for immi-
grants on Governors IslAnd New York
harbor, the Secretary Of the Treasury has
practically decided 70 locsta II on Bad.
. los's Island, and will soon make srrangss
= ments for the erection of the neoessesFs9
buildings.
telegram from Han Antonio, Texas,
4 nays that late reports from the smallpox
! iuicts along the Rio Grande show an.
4 Nppalnng mortality list on ranch in
a Dnyel county, where l47 ont OF $50 en-
4 poygg were stricken with this disease acd
\ G5 Of the Number died. There is a
n scarcity OF Physicians and nurses.
"a The Merchants aud Manufacturers
e Association Of Baltimore inten ia to FOL-
/. low up its resolution in favor OF high
|. license, by sending two ccnmitt6es 10
urge the passage OF high license law
by Tho legislature. The members OF the
association favor high license not only on
moral grounds, but rs q means Of bring
n ing revenue to the city and diminishing
10 taxes,
ID John Campbell OF Ndwtown, Conn,
in was taken from his bed by four masked
70 men on Sunday night, tisd TO a telegraph
10 pole and whipped with rawhides until he
" WIS unconscious. Campbell has been in
" the habit Of beating his wife, and has
10 been confined III prison for threshinR her
ID On Sunday afternoon he hit her on thu
le head With some blunt instrument, making
II q dGnSt rous scalp wound.
40 gang OF 80 rlasked men surrounded
4 The houss Of Deuuis Davis, coloEsd ,abou
y six miles from Frederick, Nd, on Sun
u day night, and calling for Ms Rsbecct
80 Bruchsy, 40-yearP-oid white woman
An they accused her OF undue intimacy with
is Davis and threatened to kill her, Sn,
'it opened the door little way wheu SOM
Pe ono shot her in the left breast, iuhlctinf
n- wound which is supposed TO be mortal
y, atFnr g' man, we'll dressed and abou
-. 30 yenrs VI sga, quaTEelsd with cor
Va huctcr Of a ilahiRn Valley train on Eatug
:" DAY lidat md asked to DO allowed 10 ia
Is, on At Lancaster Switch, near Mount Gar
' 'sa nal Tho request was granted. An hou
"A, later HIS inRnKlaa body waB picked up
~ snort distance from th6 station and take,
-'' 10 ~ ndertaker'HestAhlishme in Noun
Carmel, where it lies awaiting identified
ton,
~ The house Of F.. J. Frengie near Cred
II line, Ohio, waf visited on sunday Mol
nv, by two rahhers, Who drew pistols an
"a comm nded Ailonce under plin OF deatl
W OHe % them grabbed Frouglo. snd whe
=" his vito trtd to Essiat him yshe W,
l., cau2bt by tho other. In tho strugg
,s 81 fttngib aud his vito were thrown TO Ii
tns floor. Frengle managed 10 get his r
,on yoiyet from his pocket, but being unnh
,I,1 TO u2e u on the man who held him dow
s,S ns leyeled II at the one who held Mr.
~ FrenRle and ehot him through the hear
80 Inc fellow resled out of tho honse AZ
~'' fell dead, and the ono who held Freup
ran away. Tho dead msn was about
years OF age and we'll dressed. On h
body vas found registered letter :
on ceipt dated February 18Th, aud the pau
we OF Mrs. Anna NJ. DAViny, Beaver Fail
ue- Pa. FFengle was in the habit of keepi
gas considerable mcnay in the house, and
nta the time Of the attempted burglary h.
Use about w, 600 In his possession. &c
zero 49,,
ead VEhe managers Of the WILMINGTON