Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-07-16
IN GENERAL.


honorary member of the Massachusetts,
Horticultural Society.
A telegram from Boston, received early
on Monday, announced the death Of Mr..
Burgess, the famous designer of yachts.
Adam Mininger shot and fatally
wounded his brother John, in Butler, Pa,
on saturday night. They had been on bad
terms for years.
Willard A. Smith has been appointed
chief Of the transportation department
and James Allison chief of the depart
ment of manufacturers of the Worlds
Fair.
Mrs. Sisly of Lancaster, Pa., confessed
on her deathbed that nine years ago she
murdered her sons wife during quarrel.
The son was arrested for the crime but the
case was never brought to trial.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis has addressed let
ter to the veterans and people of theSouth-
ern states, saying that after much anxious
thought she has finally decided to give to
Richmond, Va, the care of her husbands
mortal body.
fight occurred between circus men and
toughs in Shoals, Ind, on Friday night.
III which James Richep. one of the Shoals
people, was SO badly wounded that he died
in few hours. Several circus employees
were also injured.
Harry Curtiss, IS years of age, was found
dead in bed, in Findlay, o., on Saturday.
An autopsy showed the heart to be para
lyzed,. caused by the excessive use of cigar
cites, he having been in the habit of smok-
ing three or four boxes daily.
The strike of the journeymen painters
in Pittsburg was officially declared off on
Saturday. The plumbers have also sur
rendered. The bricklayers are the only
ones now out. They are on strike for an
advance in wages of SO cents per day.
Coroner Levy of New York says he will
have the body of Harry A. Smiler ex-
humed. It is buried in Woodlawn ceme-
| terry. within the city limits, and the coro-
ner claims that as no inquest was held at
Sing Sing he has the authority to hold one
| now.
| The stores of the Cambria Iron Com
pany, in Johnstown, Pa, at which thous-
ands of their workmen have traded, have
been, sold 70 party of capitalists for
nearly million dollars. The law against
company stores in pennsylvania goes into
effect August LIST.
According to the Washington Star it is
settled that Minister Douglass will not re-
turn to Hayti. Having brought back
| with him reciprocity treaty from Hayti
he said to ne satisfied with his mission
and ready to resign. 1t will probably be a
long while after he retires before another
minister is appointed"
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/ children were found shot dead in their
house, near Silis, Neb., on Saturday after
noon. The children included 2-ycars.
old infant a 1O-years-old boy and two
girls, aged respectively ID and is years. It
is supposed peterbaugh killed his family
and then committed suicide.
Alliance leaders in Kansas are said to be
greatly worried at the action of certain
leaders of the Southern Alliance in calling
the Fort Worth, Texas, convention to re-
| solve against the sub-treasury idea. They
claim that it is q scheme of southern DEM
ocrats to break up the Alliance, and that
prominent Democratic congressman are at
the bottom of it.
During a colored dance at Cahokia, ILL.,,
early on sunday morning, two men quar-
relied as to which should dance with one
OF the women. One of the men drew
revolver and fired at his antagonist, but
not before the woman had thrown herself
across the breast of the object of the re-
volver's bullet. The mans life was saved,
but the woman, whose name is Catharine
brooks, was MORALLY wounded, the ball
entering her back and passing nearly
through the body.
Information has been received in the
City. Of Mexico from Quezaltenango,
Guatmala, to the effect that the mountains
are full of discontinued men who are or
ganizing for war. Revolutionary procla-
nations are plentiful The outbreaks so
far are unimportant, as the rebels are not
united, but union will be effected. Presi-
dent Barrillas is sending troops to QueZal-
tenango, although he claims that no revo-
luton exists. 1t is said that President
Barrillas is preparing for flight.
Nimrod Shepard, a murderer under sem
tence of death, escaped from the Little
Rock penitentiary last Wednesday night
with fellow prisoner and took refuge in
a. mountain cave near White Fork Run.
His hiding place was discovered, and a
posse attempted to recapture him on Fri
day night. The man had armed himself
and drove the pursuers from the cave
with volley of shot. striking and NOR
tally wounding Willard johnson. He was
smoked out, and when taken was severely
wounded.
The agricultural department will soon
send a specialist west to investigate the
grasshopper plague. Grasshoppers are
swarining in innumerable numbers over a
section OF the eastern part of Colorado,
ana are destroying every green thing
above grounds. They cover an area OF
about AGO square miles, with Bivina as its
centre. The grasshoppers are of the small,
wingless kind. Next year they will have
developed into the winged variety, and
and 1875.
Cardinal Gibbons on Saturday received
from the pope the letter regarding the
Cahensley memorial to which reference
was made in recent dispatch from Rome.
In this letter the holy father says that the
fears created in America by the memorial
| are grolndless; that his holiness has no
disposition to ancede to any proposition
Il at might disturb the harmony of the
| American church, and that mo innoya-
| ton regarding the established method for
the appointment of bishops will be
! tolerated"
II. S. Strong and Axel Janssan, head
cook and gunner respectively on the flag
| ship Newark, registered at a hotel in Bos-
ton on Saturday night. They were called
at o'clock, Sunday morning, and re-
sponded to the call, but at 10 o'clock a
| chambermaid entered the room and found
the men unconscious from escaping gas
Janssan was dead and Strong, who was re-
moved to the Massachusetts, General Hos
pital, may die. It is thought that, upon
being called at o'clock, they got up
lighted the gas, took drink and perhaps
had smoke, after which they blew out
| the gas and went back to bed.
| John Reynolds was arrested in hotel
in Chicago Saturday night. while in the
act of receiving a chest from the Union
depot, containing 26O pounds Of opium
| to be a carpenter, and the chest containing
| the drug appeared to be chest Of
carpenters tools. In the top of the chest
were Il few tools, but the release of the
false bottom disclosed the opium. The
| prisoner is about IS years old, and says he
has been in the city but two days. The
officers think, inasnuch as the chest came
| from the west that he is acting in con-
junction with regularly organized gang
on the Pacific slope.
At ! o'clock Sunday morning disas-
trous cave-in occurred at the old slope of
the Kingston Coal Company, near Larks-
vile, five miles from Wilkesbarre. The
village is built directly over the mine.
| The cave-in was caused by the Swapping of