Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-08-13

"Jack" Estes and "Tom' Long, Who
fought duel near Frankfort, KY, l'M
Monday, died of their wounds Friday. y
A Frenchman, named RIVERS, moroccoN
| finisher, was fatally burned in Salem,
Mass, Friday, by the explosion of chemi.
Gals he was mixing.
Another body that of Charles o. West,
| was Friday found in the ruins of the West
| Shore wreck, near MonteZuma, N. Y. This
makes the number of the dead 10.
Secretary Hanscome, of the Knights of
| Labor, has issued special notice, request.
ing all branches of organized labor TO use
only union-made boots and shoes.
Martin Phillips, who was arrested on
suspicion of having murdered Hannah
Robinson, at Glendale, Long Island, was
released Friday, having proved an alibi.
Mrs. Josephine A. douglass, wife of the
physician who attended General Grant in
his last illness, has received an appoint
ment in the treasury department outside
of the classified service.
Adelbert Gohsen, convicted in Fergus
Falls, Mimi, of the murder of Rosa Bray,
has made statement that his brother,
Anderson Gohsen, did the killing and that
he saw it. The brother has been arrested.
The Republican convention of Crawford
county, Pa, on Thursday declared for )
James g. Blaine for President in 1892.
Crawford county is the home of Chairman
Andrews of the Republican state commit
tee, close friend OF Senator Quay.
In Buffalo, New York. Friday, United
States Commissioner Hershbeck rendered
decision in the case of two Cinnamon,
Wosig Lee and lure Tan, recently arrested
for violation of the exclusion act, to the
effect that they must be sent back to China
by way of San Francisco.
William Coleman was arrested in New
York Friday, the decomposed remains
of his wife having been found in his.
home. There were evidences of fiere1
struggle about the room. The man said he
had been on debaueh for several days,
and thought his wife had been dead five
days.
The coroner's inquest ON the victims OF
| the West Shore railroad disaster, near Port
! Byron, N. ", on Thursday, has resulted
IN verdict that Conductor Tobin and
| Tlagman Connolly, of the freight train,
were guilty of criminal negligence in not
having Tagged the express train. Both
men have fled.
Captain Judah Berry. of the schooner S.
! G. Tryon. who mysteriously disappeared
recently white the vessel was at Philadel-
| pllia has arrived at his home in West Har-
wich, Mass, in a bad physical condition
and out Of his mind. II is thought that
his mental trouble was caused by inuLiity
| to meet an overdue note.
Abel Margins, rich watclms kcr Of 81.
Petersburg his wife and three children,
have arrived at New York. He told tho
officials at the barge office that he had re-
ceived orders from the project of the city,
| General Gresner, to leave the place and he
had to depart and leave his property be-
hind. He had 500 with him to begin life
| anew.
The American Dental Association. at
Saratoga Friday elected the following
officers DR.. w. w. Walker of New York,
president; DR.. S. G. Watkins of Mont
Clair, n. j., vice-president DIR. George II.
Cushing of Chicago, recording secretary.
and DIR. II. A. Fuller of St Louis, treas
urer. The next annual meeting will be
held at Niagara Falls
John HUFF, planter, near Willis, In
dian territory, Il few days ago shot and
killed his insane brother. who lived with
him, and mortally wounded his own wife.
The lunatic attacked his brother, and
Huff, in self-defence, shot him three times
with rifle. One of the bullets passed
through the mans body and struck lIufts
wife, making q fatal wound.
The business failures occurring through.
out the country during the last seven days,
as reported by K. q. Dun Il Company,
number for the United States 207 and fof
Canada "a, or total of 81, as compared
with total of 2i7 last week and 25i tho
week previous to the last. For the CORE
spending week last year the figures were
POS, representing 10 failures in the United
oAhtcS anu III llie lJoIllIllOI Oh AuntlLu.
| In Blunt $. d.. on Thursday the mer-
curry stood at 100 in Che shade, and the
wind was blowing q gale. A spark from
locomotive set fire to the prairie west of
the town, and the entire population turned
out subduethe flames, which weretravel-
ing with fearful rapdity north to the grain
fields Of Sully county. The train hands lent
assistance and by strenuous efforts the fire
was placed under control. THE whole
country is like finder box and every one
is on the alert for fire.
| A dispatch from Yuma, Cal. says that a
report was brought there by the tocopah
indians that the earthquake on the 5oth
ultimo resulted in changing the course of
| the Colorado river. 1t left its old bed and
now flows through crevasse 90 feet
wide and 1000 feet long. The report
is not generally believed, but one result of
the recent earthquake was the renewed
activity of the volcanoes in the Cocopah
region. The earthquakes also caused a
great tidal wave at the head of the Gulf of
California.
Dr. G. B. Grove shot and perhaps NOR
tally wounded a colored man named Frank
near Marion, Alabama, on Wednesday
week. Frank had driven DIR. Wilkerson
to see patient whom DR.. Grove was at
tending and went to sleep in the hack at
the gate. DR.. Grove went out to bring him,
into supper. In waking up the negro he,
startled him so that he pulled his pistol
and shot at Grove, the latter responding
in kind, with the result as above. DR..
Grove shot and killed a man named Glass
few weeks ago.
II is reported that the business branch of
the Kansas alliance has completed ar
rangemcnts by which it will handle three
quarters of the Kansas wheat crop of
50,0O0000 bushels. Half the crop will be
stored in the big elevators In Kansas City,
Chicago, st. Louis. Cincinnati, Baltimore
and other large cities for an indefinite
period, or until the owners desire to sell.
arrangements have been made In the
east to secure an advance on the wheat
stored Mt 70 per cent of the present value
of wheat. This new move by the alliance
practically corners the Kansas CROP"
Friday week the residence of William
Davis, prominent farmer in Henry
county, Alabama, was burned, and the
family narrowly escaped with their lives.
On Sunday Ella Williams, colored, was
arrested and confessed to saturatine The
house with oil and setting fire to il out of
revenge. Her confession implicated VIII
liam Williams Willis Lowe and Eliza
Lowe. colored. Thursday they were ar
res' cd and while the officers were taking
them TO jail at Abbeville, mob overpows
cred the officers and took the prisoners and
shoE them to death. Their bodies were
thrown into the river near by.