Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-08-20
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The funeral of the late Mrs. James X.
Polk, widow of President Polk, took
place on Sunday from her home in
Nashville, Tennessee.
A riot took place near Shinndon, w.
Va, on Sunday night, in which Benia-
min Stout was killed and Manly Champ
fatally injured. Two others were badly
hurt.
The war department has decided upon
the appointment of board of army
officers to select a site for the western
terminus of the Hennepn canal Gen,
rope VIII be chairman of the bourd,
A dispatch from Fort Dodge, Iowa,
says that, while many Of the farmer
have sold their crops to the agents
eastern elevators, the bulk of the cro,,
will not be marketed until month later
than usual this year.
The Lebanon rolling mills, the Leba-
non Iron Company and the Lebanon
bolt and nut works, in Lebanon, Pa, re-
sumed operations on Monday, with
nearly a full complement of men. Many
of the old hands returned to work.
An unknown colored man was run
over and cut to pieces Monday by a
passenger train on the South Carolina
railway, between Dixie and Clarmont
stations. lie was seen lying on the
track, and, from old wounds, is SUP
posed to have been foully dealt with.
W. FL. Ellis Of Texas, who is com
cerned in the scheme to colonize u large
number of southern negroes in Mexico,
was in Chicago on Sunday aud ts.a
scheme was favored by all but the COZ
ored politicians. He claimed to have
the names Of 5000 people who desire to
go to Mexico.
-Four hundred cloakmakers and tailors
employed by Julius Stein g. Co.. New
York city, who struck last week TO com.
pei recognition of their union, returned
to work Monday, there having been
concessions ON both sides. The cloak
makers at Freedman Bros shop are
still on strike.
The steamer City of Washington.
which arrived at New York Monday
from Mexican ports, reports that early
in August, when she left Vera Cruz, the
hospitals were filled with yellow fever
patients, and II was common sight to
see a string Of funerals half mile long,
stretching from the gates of the city to
the cemetery.
A coroner's jury at Ashland, Penna.,
empanelled to hold an inquest upon the
remains of Anthony Dougherty, who
was killed on the Lehigh Valley Rail
road, on Saturday, failed to agree upon
a verdict There were indications of foul
play, and Lawrence Burns, who is sus.
pccted OF being concerned in Dough
ertys death, is missing.
Harvesting is well under way all over
the northwest, says a dispatch from St.
raul, Mimi, and the minimum product
OF Minnesota and the Dakotas will be
l5,00O,OOO bushels. The lack of storage
facilities will compel the great majority
OF the farmers to dispose of their grains
soon, and transportation facilities will
be taxed to their utmost
A man and woman were attacked Nv
two highwaymen in Detroit. Mich On
Sunday night The young man made
Piucky resistance, but was felled to the
ground The police appeared, however,
IN response to the woman's screams,
anu' returning the fire of one of the
rooDers, MORALLY wounded him. He
gave inc name of Edwin Granger.
four men entered The house Of Fred
erick Grotwald, a junk dealer, on the
outskirts OF Lancaster, Pa, on Monday
morning, and bound Mrs. Grotwald and
almost choked her to death. Neighbors
VINO came te her assistance were driven
oil with revolyers. One of the des-
peradoes was subsequently arrested and
gave his name as Michael Davis of Phil
adelphia. - - m
IN the United States circuit court at
boston, Monday, Judge Nelson granted
.he United States until December LIST
within which to introduce Testimony be.
fore the examiners in the suit OF the,
United States VS.. the American Bell
Telephone Company. This is the suit
70 repeat patents granted to Alexander
uraham Bell for inventions on the tele-,
phone, on the ground that he obtained
them by fraud, i