Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-09-24

Sheifield, Ala, were burned on sunday
night. Loss, $4,000.
Congressman w. G. Whitethorne
OF the Seventh Tennessee district, died
at his home in Columbia Monday, aged
GO years.
Two trains on the Erie railroad coll
lided in tie yard ut West SusqueSanna
Monday morning. Joseph Reilly, of
Ilornellsville, an engineer, was killed.
William Ferrel, esteemed in shs west
Is probably the most eminent meteor
ologist in the world died at haywood,
Kan, last Friday. lie was born in Bed
ford, Pa.
Herbert Thompson, white, and Joseph
Harper, colored, were drowned at
Peoria, ILL.,, on Sunday. They were fish
ing and were playfully rocking the boat
when it capsized.
The Associated Press has received
dispatch from United States Minister
Egan, dated Santiago, September 2lst,
confirming the report of the suicide of
President Balmaceda.
Charles Howard, who attempted to
wreck an express train on the western
division of the Pennsylvania railroad,
was Monday convicted and sentenced
to 10 years imprisonment.
Prof. George X. Bechtel, principal of
the Nottingham Academy, in Cecil
county, Nd, who was attacked with
hemorrhages on a railroad train while
going to Baltimore, died Monday at
the Johns Hopkins Hospital
Hynde & Whipple's livery stable, in
ST. Louis, was burned Monday morn
ing with five horses and rs carriages.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $14,S00
Frank Beeve, driver, who slept over
the office, persisted from suffocation.
The Chicago city council on Monday
extended indefinitely the peremptory
order on the Baltimore & Ohio and Hi
nois Central railroads to vacate the
city's property on the lake front. The
roads, however, pledged themselves to
use all possible diligence in yacating the
city's property.
The fair ground stables in Dallas,
Texas containing 800 stalls, and occu-
| pied by 200 horses, were burned Mon
| day. The fire communicated to the two
large barns of ii. b. Sanborn whose
loss is $4,000. There were seven
horses, besides those of Mr.. Sanborn's,
lost in the flames, including the cele-
ofa.eu trol'ihs morse Welkes'
The latest story about William Tas-
colt, the alleged murderer OF Amos j..
| Smell, is that TWO days after the murder
he arrived At 81, Paul went from there
to Winnipeg and eventually to Turtle
mountain reserVatlon' where lie joined
Wy inuiaIs' wv p now member OF
the uIIle mountain pahd, having
auopteu tiie lhuiah customs ana married
asquaw,
Our government has reached and un-
derstanding with the governments of
Great Britain, France and Germany, BY
the the terms OF which, in the event of
the failure OF the Chinese government to
afford adequate guarantees for the pro-
lection of the lives, property and in
tefests OF citizens OF the four nations,
that duty is 10 pe under taken by the
governments OF the United States, Great
BRIAN, Germany and France, acting
jointly.
A voucher for $S242 in favor of
Phoebe Couzins for salary from April
LIST to April 18th, as secretary Of the
board of lady managers of the Worlds
Fair, approved by Bertha II. NJ. Palmer,
president of the board was received ut
the Treasury Department Monday.
Miss Couzins, il will be remembered, was
removed from the sccretaryship on
April 18th. The voucher will be paid,
and will close her connection with the
Worlds Fair.
The extra session of the Tennessee
legislature was ended Monday ON.
side of the passage of the Annr6nriation
bill, by which the Demncrots min
several additional seats N boih houses
and the adoption of some local laws
the session has not heen fruitful of i'm,
nortant results. The convict leosa svs.
TEN and the question of ARRANGING fo,
the building of a new neni,entiarv y,ore
left in statu ouo. owinr d thc stubhorn.
ness of both houses.
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men, Monlah ana chilo' II Is no
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tney came; man named Eawar'
hckermah heara cries ana Went IN
poat 70 tneir relief, put before ne reachet
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sank. Ackerman saw the parasol hel'
~ me woman as she was sinking. IN
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