Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-03-05
IN GENERAL.

lars is to be built at Huntsville, Ala
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Daniel Porter, the murderer of Edwin
D. Smith, escaped from the jail in
Quincy, Ill, on Sunday night.
Sim Stevenson has been arrested in
Peoria, ILL.,, for killing man named
Simon, whom he stabbed to death.
Isaac Dowell shot and killed ]. II.
Wharton, near Council Grove, Kan,
Monday. They quarreled about a
farm.
Over 150 clerks and laborers have
been discharged by the Chicago, Bur-
lington, & Quincy railroad, at Burling-
ton, Iowa.
A fire, causing the loss of nine lives
and over a million dollars worth of pro-
perty, occurred at Bangkok, Siam, on
January 10Th.
Over 300 weayers at the Wanskuck
mill, in Providence, Rhode Island, went
on strike Monday because Of reduc-
ton in wages.
Advices received by the Indiana
Board of Agriculture state that there is
a good prospect for more than an aver
age crop Of wheat.
land, Pa, shut down on Saturday fora
affect 300 men and boys.
Joseph Stangel, who shot his half
sister at their home, in Thorpe, Wis,
cut his throat on Sunday to escape
arrest. He may recover.
jefferson Cobb, Charles Cobb and a
man named Dowdyawere killed Mon
day by the explosion of boiler in a
saw mill, near Charleston, Missouri.
AT Gray's Station, near Barboursville,
KY, on Sunday, Abner Mitchell killed
John Woods and in turn was shot to
death by John Ingle. It was an old
quarrel.
As a result of the decline in the price
of silver, nearly 100 bars have been
taken from the mint in Carson, Nevada,
and sent to China, where higher price
prevails.
Lizzie Clark, an old colored woman,
was found murdered in her house, in
Harrisburg, Maine, Sunday afternoon.
She had been knocked in the head with
hammer.
A thief threw stone through the
show window of Rosenthal's jewelry
night, and, seizing tray OF diamonds
made his escape.
The treasury department Monday
made the first purchase of silver for the
current month. The amount offered
was 74S,000 ounces, and the amount
purchased 100000 ounces, at S0.9St.
John Tucker, trusted employe o
the Singer Sewing Machine Company
in Elizabeth, N. j., was arrested Mon
day on charge of defrauding his EN-
ployers by means of oyerdrafts and falsi
entries.
A dispatch from Salt Lake City says
a regular exodus of Mormcns from
Utah to Mexico is quietly taking place.
The Mormons have tract of land in
the State of Chihuahua, 125 miles long
and 25 miles wide, which they are settl-
ing up.
Two Of set of 80 boilers at the Read
ing Company's Henry Clay Colliery, at
Mt. Carmel, Pa, exploded Monday
morning, displacing eight others. Martin
Horan, Samuel Haas and George Zim-
colo were slightly hut. The boiler house
was wrecked.
The Universalist Church at Eastman
the Methodist church at East Harwich,
the Congregational church at Yarmouth,
and churches at West Barnstable and
Cotuit, Massachusetts, with number of
dwellings, barns and outbuildings, were
damaged during the lightning storm on
Saturday night.
Two weeks ago statement was pub
lished to the effect that number of
Japanese women had been sold at auc-
ton in San Francisco, presumably for
immoral purposes. The Japanese min
lister at Washington who caused an in
vestigation to be made, has received a
report that the story is absolutely with
out foundation.
Counsel for the publishers of the New
Orleans States and Mobile Register, con-
victed of violation of the anti-lottery
act, Monday moved in the United
States Supreme Court for leave to file
petitions for writs of habeas corpus and
certiorari on the part of the publishers,
in order that the constitutionality of the
anti-lottery law might be tested.
The child of Anton Rudolph, at
Oneida, Kansas, is in deplorable con-
dition from the effects of binding raw
pork on its neck. The little one was
suffering from sore threat, and the
parents bound it up with a piece Of
bacon which was infected with trichine.
From a slight abrasion in the child's
neck grew a fearful sore, which has
spread around the neck and over the
treast.
George Name, editor of the Sentinel,
in Hazleton, Pa; ii. r. Sutherland, a
local preacher and j. r. King we've
arrested Monday, on a charge of send
ing obscene circulars through the mail
rejecting upon the character of the
Rev. Peter Donohue, Methodist clergy
man, and presiding elder of that district:
They were released on bail. A civil
suit was also brought against Suther-
land, which he settled.
a question has been raised as to the
legal power of Governor jackson of
Maryland, to appoint q United States
senator in place Of Senator Wilson, de-
ceased. 1t is claimed that the governor
has no power to make the appointment
after the 4th of March, no matter how
great might be his desire to do so. The
second term for which Senator Wilson
was elected would not begin until March
4th, 1891, and he had never been sworn
in as member of the Senate for that
term. 1t is asserted that the Le!isE-
ture, and not the governor, has the right
to say who shall succeed.
Police Sergeant Blackburn, waa re-
Gently had leg broken, is able Ia WALL
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