Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-10-29
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Treasury Agent Seaman, at Chicago, has
received reports to the effect that there are
10000 Cinnamon in Vancouver and along
the line of the Canadian Pacific railway
who are suffering for food. Vast numbers
OF Chinese are being landed at Vancouver.
1t is thought the Cinnamon have been in
formed that it is easy to get into the
United States.
Two engineers who have just returned
to Yuma, Arizona, from the crevasse
through which the waters of the Colorado
river flowed to form the so-called desert
lake, report that no water is now flowing
into the Salton basin, and that. before
there can be any rise in the river of any
consequence, the opening will have been
filled with sand.
Warrants were issued at Denver, Col, on
Friday night for the arrest of William NJ.
Bliss, ex-city treasurer, and Sidney Rob-
erts, ex-chief health Inspector charging
them with forgery and swindling the city
out of various sums. George X. Raymond
ex-deputy city auditor, and James r.
Hadley, ex-deputy treasurer were arrested
on Friday on similar charges.
A dispatch from Grand City, Tex, says
that two of the men who were summarily
executed in Mexico by order of General
Garcia on the 10th inst, because of their
alleged revolutionary proclivities, are now
known to have been Jlan Bazen and Jose
Angel Vera, who were said to have been
citizens of the United States. Our consul
at Matamoras will investigate the matter.
Lieutenant-governo Jones of New York.
in letter made public Friday, said
Eve must defeat the Tammany ticket bv
voting for men whose politics are opposed
to ours, repugnant rs it is; and when we
have rescued our party from the usurpers
we may hope for its continued progress
guided by the principles laid down BY JEFF
ferson and followed by Jackson Seymour
and Iilden.h
Mrs. Bella Nau of BROOKLYN was. on
Saturday released from private insane
asylum at .An,ityyille, N. l., by order of
Justice Cullen OF the supreme court on the
ground that she had been illegally COM
mitted. She had been in the asylum four
years, and in the legal proceedings it was
shown that she was deprived OF her
liberty in order TO enable her husband to
conduct himself as he pleased
The steel cruiser Boston sailed from the
Brooklyn Navy Yard on Saturday to re-
inforce the United States Squadron in
CHILEAN waters. She carries stores for a
years cruise and ammunition for the
baltimore and San Francisco. She is ex-
pected to reach Valparaiso in about two
months. Her first stop will be at santa
Lucia for coal, her second at Montiyideo.
and her last at Sandy Point, in the Straits
of Magellan.
A state depot of the National Union
Company, the cooperative concern which
grew out of the Farmers convention at
Ocala. has been established in Louisville,
Ky. Options have been secured on IS
stores at various points, and they are being
transferred to agents chosen by the
farmers county organization as fast as
possible. The plan is to make Louisville
the distributing point to stores at every
important town In the state and give mem
bers Of the Alliance rebate on goods pur-
chased.
Near West Newton, Pa, Sunday morn
ing, Officers Jones and Davidson, of the |
Lake Erie railroad, arrested Edward Luce |
for attempting to wreck passenger train |
on. Saturday night by placing q telegraph |
pole across the rails. Luce fled when dis |
covered, and the officers chased him sew
eral miles through woods and swamps to |
his fathers house. The latter mistook the |
officers for robbers and held them at bay |
until daylight. When he recognized David |
son and was told the story he gave the boy |
up. Young Luce said his reason for wreck |
ing the train was that he wanted to see the |
Iun. a week ago he placed tie on the |
track, but was discovered.
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