Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-08-27
IN GEN ER.IL.

for the Mail and cypress, in New York
city, was laid last week with appropriate
ceremonies.
Mrs. Wilson, patient in the insane
asylum at Hamilton, Ont, ON Tuesday
week choked another patient, Mrs.
Stratchan, to death.
Anna Gorosowsky and Catherine
Schmidt, two insane women in the Erie
county, N. Y, jail, committed suicide
by hanging themselves with pieces of
bed clothing yesterday week.
Edward Lambert, Jr., bookkeepcr of
the San Juan Smelling and Mining Com
pany, of Durango, Colorado, and mayor
OF that place, is charged with being
short $4,000 in his accounts,
A dispatch from San Francisco says
that the steamship Elder brings advices
from Chill Of an engagement in Bale
mar on July 10th, when the insurgents
were routed by government troops.
Sylvester Wilson, manager Of female
base ball club, was held in New York
city last week to answer charge of
having committed a criminal assault on
Abbie Sunderland. aged IL years, Of
Binghamton, New York.
While excavating sewer trench, at
Lancaster, yesterday afternoon week,
David Whiteford and August Kircholf
were buried by oave-in and instantly
killed. Urban Groshel, another work
man, made narrow escape.
The state department last week re-
ceived cablcgram from the United
States consul at Martinique stating that
hurricane Tuesday week destroyed
every sail in port. The houses were all
damaged and many lives lost.
A dispatch from Midland, Texas, says
that the first experiment with General
Degrenforth's rain-making balloon yes
terday week was success. Heavy
rain Immediately followed the ex-
plosions of dynamite in the air.
A violent rain and electrical storm
visited central Indiana yesterday week.
At Indianapolis several mon were
severely shocked by lightning, and a
number OF houses were inundated by
the sudden rise Of the waters of Pogree's
run.
The abundant crops Of domestic
fruits, says a Baltimore dispatch, are
seriously affecting the trade in bananas,
and several of the steamers plying be-
tween that port and West Indies will be
laid up until there is more demand for
the banana.
Lemon Ellworth, a widower, aged 2S
years, yesterday week shot killing Mrs.
Amanda Either, widow, aged As
years, at Lancaster, Pa, and then blew
his own brains out Both lived near
Ephrata, and went to Lancaster yester-
day week.
At the meeting of the Reading, Pa,
school board on Tuesday week for
NAL charges were preferred against
Prof. NJ. I. Scheibner, principal OF the
boys high school, of immoral conduct.
After a warm debate the matter was
laid on the table by vote of % to 81.
The Union Pacific depot, express and
telegraph offices, at Carbon, Wyoming,
were destroyed by fire yesterday
week. The remains of John Crompton,
the agent, were found lying in the
ruins, with revolver in his hand. 1t
is thought he fired the place and then
shot himself
The treasury department has in
structed the collector of customs at
Portland, Ore, that two Chinese mer-
chants who arrived at that port with GER.
tiiicates OF naturalization as British sub
jects should be permitted TO land, pro.
yided the collector is satisfied as to the
genuineness of the certificates.
Judge Hanford, in the United States
district court at Seattle, Washington, on
Tuesday, decided that all Cinnamon
found in this country in violation of the
exclusion act shall hereafter be sent 10
the country from which they came.
They have heretofore been deported to
China, but will now, In most cases, be
returned to British Columbia.
A dispatch from Baltimore saws that a
number of three and four masted Amer
lean schooncrs, heretofore engaged in
the coal trade, have been chartered to
carry lumber from Georgia to points in
the United Kingdom, thus coming in
competition with foreign vessels,
which have heretofore monopolized the
lumber trade from southern ports to
Europe.
First Controller Matthews of the
treasury department, has decided that
persons appointed during a recess OF
Congress to newly created offices arc
not entitled TO compensation until they
shall have been confirmed by the
Senate. This decision affects Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General Rathbone,
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Crounse and the members of tue court
of private land claims.
A freight train ran into the rear end
OF another on the viaduct bridge over
Gwynn's Falls, Md, yesterday week
when Albert O. Brendt, brakeman
was killed, and c. W. Ruby, conductor
and G. S. Thompson, brakeman, were
seriously injured. The men were in
the caboose OF the forward train. It is
thought that the engineer of the other
train was asleep, for he did not obey the
rule requiring him TO "slow up'' on
nearing the hrilpe