Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-12-11

The wife escaped with slight pistol sho
wound in the left arm.
| Life Imprisonment was the verdict of I
| jury in Chicago on Saturday night in TIL,
case of Mamie Starr who poisoned Mr.
and Mrs. Francis Newland, while en-
| ployed by them as a domestic
Francis Whelan, Patrick Kennedy, Johr
| Miller and John Green, election officers in
jersey City, convicted of ballot-box stufflnf
at the general election in November, 1885
were Friday sentenced to Is months i'm
| prisonment each.
In New York Friday Judge MARITIME
dismissed the Indictment of grand larceny
and conspiracy against Eva Hamilton
Ann II. Swinton and Joshua Mann, on the
ground that Robert Ray Hamilton, the
only witness, is dead.
The difficulties existing in the hat trade
IN llanbury, Conn, were settled Friday
evening. The old agreement between,ssthe
manufacturers and trimmers was renewed
and harmony prevails in all departments
The factories will be open to-day.
It is reported from Chattanooga that II
!. Kimball has sold to English capitalists
for S5,o00,000, a threefourth interest in the
property of the kimball Iron Company.
about 80 miles from Chattanooga. The
property is rich in timber and minerals.
Colonel A. ]. Snyder, representing a
syndicate of IA cattlemen, has offered the
Cherokee nation St0,000,o00 for the $780,
900 acres of land known as the Cherokee
strip. It is said the government has of
tered the Indians S7,000,000 for the land.
In Uniontown, Pa, Friday, the case
against Superintendent Lane of the ill
fated Hill Farm mine, at Dunbar, charg-
ing him with criminal responsibility for
the deaths of the miners, came before the
grand jury and the bill was ignored.
The court Of appeals of Maryland Fri
day upheld the validity of the high license
law and the action of the liquor COM
mission for Baltimore in refusing to John
Adam Trigeser, a resident foreigner, but
not naturalized citizen, retail liquor
license.
The case Of John Dean and Reuben
Bowers, charged with robbery and as
saultng Mrs George Merkett, went to the
jury in Uniontown. Pa on Saturday The
jury returned a verdict of guilty on all
three counts in the indictment, robbery,
rape and arson.
Count Herman Won Dalwig, Prussian
nobleman, who was the sponsor for one of
the children Of the present Emperor of Ger
many, was run over and killed by train
at san Antonio, Texas, on Thursday. He
was on his way to his ranch at Helotes. He
was d years of age.
A telegram from indianapolis says that
the Association of Wagons and Carriage
Wood stock Manufacturers, comprising
four-tifths of the firms engaged in the
business, has determined to raise prices to
wagon and carriage makers 10 per cent
The new scale will go into effect January
LIST.
The British steamer James Turpie ar
rived at New York Friday from Mediter
ranean ports. She encountered terrible
storms, had her cabin, engine room and
stokehole Hooded, started the forecastle
deck and sustained other damage. The
cargo was badly damaged
As two employees of the Ontario paper
mill in Watertown, n. ", were lowering
the flood gates at the flume on Friday q
long lever which they were working
slipped from their grasp, swung around
with great force striking the men and in
iiicting injuries from which they died
Their names We're Soper and Mclaughlin.
William Oemig, who lived with his
father, Christian 0emig, i'll Sioux City,
Iowa, was shot dead by burglars ON Friday
night. The old man was beaten into in
sensibility. The father and SOM although
comparatively wealthy, lived alone in
Wretched quarters, but was rumorcd that
they had considerable money in the house.
The robbers secured nothing.
The French steamship La Champagne,
iIbII 4NtN lblh iuT IluNTt, ana the brltlhn
steamer Lisbonense, from Paris for New
York, collided9on Friday morning, two
miles cast OF sandy Hook. No lives were
lost and no person is known to be injured.
Both vessels We're damaged, the lisbonense
most The Champagne put back TO New
York, although she was not in apparent
danger, her captain preferring not to take
any chances,
Schedules in the assignment Of Decker,
Howell y Co., bankers in New York, were
filed Friday and show assets, cash in
banks stocks and bonds in hand, 81, pa
GOO stocks and bonds in loans, bills re
eeiVable, book accounts, &e., 80, 800 26O.
from which there is deducted as estimated
depreciations on ultimate realizations,
s762,909 leaving S7,536357; total IS, 76o,-
35l. Liabilities secured and unsecured,
81, 430, 333.
Isaac Van Brunt has been convicted in
Newton, Kansas, Of the murder of George
Broer, a farmer, by placing poison in his
food. He confessed his crime, stating that
he went to Broer's house, and while Broer
was preparing supper he put poison in his
food That night he slept in the stable.
waiting for his victim to die. in the
morning he went to the house and found
dead. lie covered him up, ransacked the
house, took ms team and departed. He is
wholly uncorcerncd oyer,his fate
The collector of customs ut New York
has been Informed by the treasury depart
ment that package Of goat skins damaged
70 the extent Of % per cent while in
bonded warehouse by spontaneous com
bustion, induced by chemicals used in
dressing the skins and the heat of the
warehouse is moi entitled to any allow
ance the damage sustained not being con-
sldered the result OF accidental fire or
other casualty within the meaning of the
law.
A letter from Heatherton, Nova Scotia
says Of the storm ON Monday last: "The
storm did terrible damage around here. A
vessel of 50 or 90 tons went ashore about
two miles from Heatherton and all hands,
sis Or seven, We're lest in sight of the
people on shore, who could do nothing for
them. She sailed from Loclipou, n S.
BaNhcld wharf was swept away. while any
bridge that the tide could reach was de-
stroyed. The tide swept III Ponqtet river
over two miles further than 1t ever did be-
FORE a.
Joseph r. Abbott, confidential clerk of
SAGE K Co. lumber dealers Of Albany. New
York, committed snicide on Thursday b.
swallowing laudanum. II is said lc was a
detauter for *SU,G9o, and that his gull had
been discovered by the firm. some time
ago Sage 4 o., sold to q. n. Riley q a.,
q PhliadnlpiH:l, cargo Of lumber worth
S4oW0. The money was paid by Riley Il
Co, TO Abbotl wh6 said nothing 10 The
firm, but pocketed the aasll and represented
that the sale was on time" Abbott was
A. years Of age and leaves widow and
four children
a telegram from Montreal says the 10
minion Cotton Mills Company. Of which
4. \, Ganlt is president, and Mayor
tiranier vice president, has COMPLETED the
amalgamation Of the miuc graz cotton
mills Of Canada. These mills which were
built 1t cost Of n. 100000 have been pur
chased out and out by the company for
w 10000 and will come ulider the new
Of the smaller mills will manufacture eS-
clusieely for export to China, West Indies
and south America, The capital Of tile