Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-05-14
IN GENER4L.

| A party of campers was surprised by a
| cloud-burst near Liberty, n. NJ, on Nom
| day night, and one of them named L. ].
Wilcox was drowned.
During thunder storm on Monday
night five horses on the farm of Malvern
Jones, at Elk Landing, Maryland. were
killed by lightning while standing under
tree
The Swedish bark Relga, in ballast from
| Tonsberg for Quebec. has been totally
wrecked on the Newfoundland coast. She
had a crew Of II, of whom only one was
| saved.
The steamer Joppa arrived at Baltimore
Tuesday She had on board the crew of
the schooner William Henry, which was
abandoned in sinking condition off the
mouth of Choptank river. The schooner
was loaded with railroad ties, and was
bound for Philadelphia
As result of the recent White Cap ont
rage near Ducktown, Tenn, the younl
bride who was whipped has since died.
The whippcrs were women. They ARA
under arrest, hut their friends will fight
against their going to jail. Three of fhe
men VINO We're fired on will die of theii
wounds,
-Four children of William and Sarah
Fenton, whose ages range from TO h
years, were found starving, in rags. and
covered with vermn in a tenement in
Brooklyn ON Tuesday. They had eaten
nothing for three days. Their mother was
drunkard and their father had disap-
peared
The United States district attorney ut
Philadelphia has been instructed by Attor-
ney General Miller to institute proceedings
against the owners of the steamship Maine
under Section 10 of the new Immigration
law, Tor allowing the escape from custody
of an immigrant returned to it by the local
immigration officials for deportation.
A number of men were engaged in IN.
loading a threshing machine at Fort .Jen-
nings, Ohio, on Monday afternoon, when
u passenger train came around u curve and
the engine struck piece of timber which
projected over the track, The men were
thrown under the train, and Henry Miller,
Henry Slotman and Louis Lence were
killed and several others injured
L. f. Burgess shot and fatally wounded
samuel q. w. Atwood, at Pleasant Valley
Church, near Alfalfa, Tennessee, on Mon-
day afternoon. The men had quarrelled,
and the matter was being heard by com.
mittee in the church. When the commit.
the retired for consultation the men decided
TO night. Marion smith, by interfering, re-
ceived stray shot through the hand, The
shooting occurred in the church, which
was filled with people, but none were hurt.
burgess escaped.
In Kiowa county, Kansas, on Monday
Johnnie Bonner aged years, and his SIS.
ter aged 8 were playing at "burying.D
The boy sat down In hole which thew
dug, and the girl piled up the earth until
Il reached the boys chin and he was
tightly Embedded. At this juncture an old
sow and her brood appeared, savagely at
tackled the girl, and drove her away. The
SOW then turned on the boy in the ground
and sank her teeth in his face and skull
several times. BY this time the screams
OF the children brought assistance. but
when the boy was taken from his position
he was dead.
Under the Mckinley tariff Cuban cigars
are taxed 400 per pound and % per Cent
ad yalorem duty. The old duty was $3.50
and 20 per cent respectively. A special
agent Of the treasury department has dis
covered that Cuban cigar makers have
been for some time making their cigars
light. They wrapped the cigars much
looser and slightly smaller, with the result
OF saving two to three pounds in every
thousand cigars. This makes saving II
from ~ to $l2 per Thousand cigars, and
the practical result is that the increased
duty does not bear any harder than ,hc
old tariff, and the government is NOT get
n.ng the revenue expected from The lu5acco