Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-08-06
IN GENERAL.

| HllSolOus DuilulnRS nave DbeH killed.
IN GENERAL.
Secretary Proctor left Washington on
Saturday night for Detroit to attend the
Grand Army encampment.
A three-foot vein of lead ore has been
discovered near Bredax, Iowa. Experts
pronounce it of the finest quality.
A commission has been appointed to
count the national bank notes in the
vaults Of the comptroller of the cur
rency. 1t will take four weeks to finish
the work.
Bayless Hanna, ex.Congressman from
Indiana, who was minister to the Ar
gentine Republic during President
Cleveland's administration, died Sun
day in Charlottesville.
The murdered body of a young
woman, about 20 years of age, was
found Sunday morning in q swamp
near Glendale, Long Island. There was
no clue to her identity.
The Rev. DIR. Ebenezer Judkin of
Houston, Texas, fell dead on railroad
train near johnson City, Tennessee, on
Saturday morning. He was brother
in-law of "Stonewall' Jackson.
After consultation between Major
Mckinley and Chairman Hahn of the
Republican state committee of Ohio, it
has been decided to open the campaign
in the Western Reserve on the 23d
instant.
An insect pest, resembling the measur-
ing worm is reported to be destroying
the foliage and killing the hemlock
trees in Potter county, in Pennsylvania.
Thousands of trees are dying from its
ravages.
w. Wilson & Co.'s saw mill, at Mus
kegon, Mich, was burned on Saturday
night. Loss, 100000; insurance, $50 600.
During the fire the boilers exploded,
damaging the buildings in the immediate
vicinity to considerable extent.
John X. Seemuller, promint citizen
of Baltimore, died on Saturday night.
He was director of several banks, OF the
b. & .. railroad and had held positions
on the water board, board of trade, and
many prominent private corporations
and societies.
A daring miner, clad in divers armor
and equipped with small hose, entered
the burning mine at Republic, Mich, on
Friday and penetrated some distance.
lie found the fire burning down to the
sixth level. The damage so far done is
estimated at nearly $250000
1t is reported from Boston that kind
ling wood trust has been formed there.
and the product of all the factories in
Boston and vicinity will be handled by
one firm. The price per hundred
bundles on Friday was 40; the price
on Saturday per hundred was $1.S0.
0rville NJ Anderson and l. Newton
Baker had duel with pistols at Croton
| Landing, N. ", on Saturday evening.
Baker was wounded, probably fatally;
Anderson was not hurt. The trouble
was caused by dispute among women.
the men taking it up. The parties lived
in the same house.
A package containing photograph
letter has been detained by customs
officers at Ottawa, Ontario, for duty.
AT present, it is said. monographs are
passing as ordinary CORRESPONDENCE. be-
tween Germany, France. England and
the United States without interference
from the customs authorities of those
countries.
A dispatch from Durango. Colorado.
saws that news has lust reached there Of
tragedy in the Blue Mountains. Dur
ing dance, Thomas Roach. who was
drunk, started a fight and stabbed Frank
II. Hyde and shot and killed William
McCord. No one in the room was
armed, but bow slipped out and re-
turned with rifle. lie took aim and
fired, but missed Roach and killed Mrs.
Walton. During the excitement Roach
escaped.
John Frog and Jackson Wolfe Semi.
mole Indians, were executed at Wewaka,
/. r., on SATURDAY., for the murder OF
John Harg. The whole tribe Joined in
paying the tributes of respect after the
men had been shot, and they had such a
funeral that would have been accorded
them had they fallen in battle. The de-
cree of the council had wiped out all
blood feud between the families, and the
whole tribe united in the ceremonies at
tended upon the burial.
The Democratic convention of Shaw
nee county, Kansas, was held at Topeka
on Saturday. 1t was the first meeting
of the kind since that of the Democratic
editors, which decided that the party
should not fuse with the Farmers ALT
ance. The Shawnee convention elected
a Fusionist for chairman. over G, k.
Halliday, editor of the Topcka Demo-
crat, who was opposed to fusion, Judge
| John Martin, 1.-The most influential Dem