Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-11-13

were landed at New York on Saturday.
Their destination is Yankton, South Da-
kota.
Governor Campbell of Ohio, is so seri-
ously i'll that visitors have been forbid
den. He is threatened with typhoid pneu-
monia.
Frank Keller of Linton. Indiana, Sun
day accidentally shot and killed his wife,
while cleaning a revolver which he thought
was empty.
A fire at fremont Pa, on Saturday
night, destroyed five buildings occupied us
dwellings, bakeries and stores, causing a
loss of 81, 600.
Chief of Police Berald was discharged
from custody in Montgomery, Ala, on
Satnrday,on the charge ofiustiliable homi-
eide, for killing w. w. Cottrell.
A reign Of terror is reported in the Chi
nese quarter Of San Francisco, two Chinese
secret societies being at feud and resolved
on mutual assassination,
Official returns from all but seven coun-
ties in Indiana, and unofficial returns from
those seven, give Matthews, d., for secre-
tary of state, l0,035 plurality.
Mrs. Joseph Shrock and five children
were poisoned in Canton, Ohio, Friday
by eating head cheese. The mother and
one daughter, aged 5 years, are in critical
condition.
The Dominion cabinet council has unan-
imously decided that Birchal shall be
hanged on the 14th inst, and the COVER
nor general has signed the order for his
execution.
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad is build
ing a cutoff line near Relay Station, which
will permit five minutes reduction in the
running time between Baltimore and
Washington.
John and Harry Winters were terribly
burned about the head in Huntingdon,
Pa, on Saturday night while assisting III
Democratic jubilee, A coal oil barrel
exploded.
Col. Thomas Is. Price, president of the
Gazette Printing Company of Sedaia, Mo-,
was shot and MORALLY wounded on Thurs
day afternoon BY Judge Higgins of the
Pitts county court.
Joseph jackson, one of The Rube Bur-
rows gang, committed suicide in the Jail
at Jackson, Mississippi, Monday morn
ing, by jumping from the third floor OF
the corridor of the court to the ground, 80
feet below,
Hiram Bassett, past grand master Of
Masons, died on Thursday, in Millersburg,
KY, lie had taken every degree known
to the order, and was considered .the
Mason of the highest degree known in the
world" He was 10 years of age.
In the suit Of the people against the gus
trust, in Chicago, on Saturday morning,
Judge Mcdonnell fined the trust $40 and
costs, and entered an order forever debarr-
ing it from holding any STOCK, even a mi
norlty, in any other gas company or cleo
trio light company. The case will be APP
pealed to the supreme court.
A Chicago paper says: The fact has
| finally leaked out that when they were
here last week the Baltimore u Ohio
people virtually completed negotiations
for new entrance to the city. They pro-
pose to come in over the Calumet Terminal
Line to a connection with the Wisconsin
Central ut the latter's new depot ON Fifth
avenue and Harrison street.
During Democratic procession in Fair
| mount, Ind, on Saturday night, q negro
armed with club and a revolver, ran into
the ranks and commenced firing and
striking right and left. A. l.. Powell was
killed. -Four negroes were wounded. The
negro who started the riot was shot twice
in the back and then arrested
The notion firm of Schweitzer & Beer, in
Chicago, went into the hands of receiver
! Monday. Assets, $50 900; liabilities over
$4,000 Carl Beer one of the partners
died recently. 1t is charged that he misap-
propriated the firms funds, and the courts
are asked to apply his real estate and life
| insurance in settlement.
A deputy sheriff in New York has re-
turned unsatisfied the executions on the
three judgments, aggregating over 5000
GEO, which were obtained against the
Duchess of Marlborough last week. The
duchess has no property there, and the in
come from the estate of her late husband
cannot be levied upon.
Daniel Burnham, a well-known architect
| of Chicago, was, on Saturday, appointed
by the worlds fair directory to be chief of
construction. with salary Of $1,000
year. He will have general charge Of the
organize the bureaus of architecture, en-
gineer and landscape gardening and sani-
tary arrangements.
The Chattanooga Times publishes the fol-
| lowing: Hon. II. Clay Evans, the present
congressman from this district, and de-
| feated by the Democratic nominee last
| Tuesday, will be member of President
Harrson's cabinet, succeeding Secretary of
the Navy Tracy, who will be rendered the
seat on the Bench of the United States SUI
preme Court, made vacant by the death of
Justice Miller.
The board of agriculture of Ohio has
been advised of an epiz0oty or hog cholera
in many counties of that state, notably:
Franklin, Darke, Butler Prehle and
Others, in which swine are dying in large
numbers. The state health department
has received no information Of the cpl
zooty, although stories are atloat that
large numbers of the diseased hogs have
been slaughtered and shipped to Philadel-
phia.
The Reading Railroad Company has
fled in Trenton, New Jersey, articles of
Incorporation for new road to be built
from point on the Bound Brook railroad
1000 feet west of the centre of the crossing
on the Easton & Amhoy division of the
Lehigh Valley road in Somerset county,
and to terminate at q point on Arthur Kill,
on Staten Island Sound % feet south of
Tuft Point in Middlesex county. The
length of the road will be 20 miles. The
capital is S2000,00o.
A. c. Evans wealthy manufacturer of
Springfield, o., and member of its city
council died on Saturday from the effects
of swallowing opium. lie had been on a
prolonged debauch in Cincinnati, frequent
ing disreputable houses and harrooms
there. After fighting with negro in
saloon, he was given the option OF leaving
the city or going to the workhnuse. He
then returned home, and was placed by
his wife and daughter in a sanitarium.
From that institution he escaped on Fri
day evening and went home wild with
opium
Mrs. Angelina Conrad, middle-aged
widow, who owns q farm and lives with
her eight children at Brookville, KY, is
prisoner in New York. She was arrested
on Saturday night in company with
Walter Willard, one of the most notorious
and successful green goods" swindlers.
She says she was induced to 60 TO New
York and meet Willard by the offer Of
$4,000 in good United States bank bills for
5000. She claims to be respectable
Christian woman, and says that she would
not have accepted the offer if she did not
really believe that the money She was to
receive was good and lawful.
The whaler Charles Morgan, which has
arrived at San Francisco rennrts the loss