Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-08-28
IN GENERAL.

Inc business portion OF femDrook,
KY, was burned Monday. Loss $l5,-
O0O; insurance, $1,000.
A dispatch from London states that
United states minister strongly denies
the report that he is about to resign his
Office.
The Knoxville Southern railroad, from
Knoxville to Atlanta, Georgia, 22O miles,
has been completed and trains are run
ming regularly.
The Ness City Sugar mill, at Ness City,
Kan, was burned on Sunday. Loss,
$l5O,OO0, only partly insured. Incsn-
diarlsm 10 suspected.
The large brick farm house OF Samuel
Shearer, in Mount Joy township, Lsncas-
ter county, Pa, was destroyed by lire
early on Saturday morning.
Ex-Governor Oden Bowie OF Maryland,
has disposed of his racing stable at sara.
toga to the Sire Brothers. Belle Dor
and Belle Meade were among the horses
sold.
The Rev. B. L. Rawlins, ID. D., of Mt.
Vernon, Indiana, has been appointed to
ana has accepted the assistant sditorship
OF the western Christian AdgOcate, Gin
cinnRti.
The agent of Henry Nj. Stanley, the
great African explorer, hns written let
ter IN which he states that Mr.. Stanley is
very far from being restored to perfect
health.
Andrew Bolton, q young sailor Of the
man-of-war Boston, was stIbbsd to d5ath
in brooklyn at 2 o'clock on sunday morn
ing. John Parkint0n was arrested for
tbs crime.
Mrs j. u. Wilson and Mrs. Charles
Jacobs were injured by runaway acct
dent at Rock Island, Illinois, on Satur-
day, the former SO badly that she died in u
few hours.
Conservative railroad men estimate the
prospective loss to the Old Colony Rail
road Company by the Quincy accident,
aside from the damage 10 rolling stock,
at half million dollars.
In bar room fight ut Frankfort, KY,
early Sunasy morning, U. Il. Burnett,
government engineer in charge of tue
WORK in tine Kentucky river, was stabbed
several times and wall PROBABLY die.
john Lake and James Dorsey were
struck by New York Csntral train ut
PUughkeepsie, New York, sunday, ard
thrown n distance of 80 feet. LAKE was
Killed, but Dorsey escaped with slight
injuries.
At q meeting of oolored people of Lulu,
Mississippi, on Saturday, 10 consider a
plan of emlgr ting in & body to Okla
hoIua, a committee was appointed to 10
there and report on the prospects OF that
country.
Joseph Keltzman, tailor in Cleveland,
OHIO, became nugEy with his son, ageu Ia
years, on Saturday, and tlIFeW y heavy
pair OF shears at him. O.!e of the points
entered the boys side and ne died in
short time.
The steamer Riol mond Hill, from
London, arrived at New York SUNDAY
with several OF tine oAttlsmen
looked up Letween decks as prisoners,
they having stolen part OF the cargo
during the voyage.
The ship owners of Melbourne and Sydney
have issued a letter refusing to to acceds
to the demands OF the union seameu or
to employ them. They claim i would
cost them $500, 900 per annum to comply
with the UNIONS demands.
Several cases OF leprosy have been dis.
covered at Englishtown, Cape Breton.
The victims have bsen constantly $3.50.
ciating with their nelghbors, and it is
feared that the disease has besn oommun-
lcated to great many people.
dispatch from Yarmouth, N. s., says
that the steamer Latharna, from Phila-
delphia for Glace bay, in ballast, stuck
on Soldiers ledge on Friday, in g thick
fog, bilgei, filled with water, and will be
a total wreck. Her crew were saved.
The engine and eight cars of a fire. ght
train on the Texas Pacific road were de.
rallied near Fort Worth, Texas, on Satur-
day, by running over some cattle. A
named j. p, C0yle, was killed
aud two other train men were severely
injured. --...
There were three murders and two
nurdsrous assaults in Cincinnati be.
tween 8 o'clock on Saturday night and
o'clock Sunday morning. Two of them
were caused by drink and grew out OF q
desire for revenge and one was the result
Of quarrel about rent.
Mrs. Gate, living in Buckingham,
Quebec, went berry picking on Friday
asst, and left her child in charge OF two
BOYS, desf mutes Of unsound mind,
named Newton. On her return she
,ound that the deaf mutes had killed the
,hild and partly eaten its body.
A rsnches named Quinn, living 10
miles west Of Livingston, Montana, on
killed his wife and iiys chill
iren with an axe. The bodies Of Sill were
horribly mutilated. Several men tried to
capture Quinn, but he would allow no
'ne to approach him, and was killed by
,ne CT the me in self-defenoe.
News has been received from Halifax,
Nova Scotia, OF the loss Of the bark |
Aspatogan, while on voyage from PORT
If Spain, Trinidad, for Philadelphia.
She toundered. The crew were reao ed |
md landed at Porto Rico The Aspatogan
vas 664 tons register, ani was owned by |
Alfred II. Durkse of Philadelphia.
At negro settlement near Goshen,
nd, Saturday night, Sam. W.iaon, col
,red, called hrs. Msthsrs, a young and
pretty widow with whom he ia infatuated,
o her door, and on her refusal to consent
o marry him stot her through the heart,
Filling her instantly. lie then shot him
elf, ipficting fatal wound. This is
he third murder in two months in that
ocality.