Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-06-18

Two children of William Stewart, play-
ing with matches in a barn at Fostoria
Ohio, Friday SET it on fire and persisted
in the flames.
General Howard has ordered trial by
CONTINENTAL Of Lieutenant James A.
Swift, Ninth Cavalry, on the charge of
declining to pay his debts.
Mrs Daniel Smith died at her home
near Ashland, Pa, Friday, aged so
years. She lost her only child on April
10th, and after that date refused to take
any food.
Mrs. Agnes Sweeney, II years old, who
was Blind was burned to death iii Phila-
delphia Friday by her clothing being
ignited, it is supposed, while she was light
ing her pipe.
At Uniontown, Pa, on Thursday, John
A. Esser superintendent of Tricks Leis-
enring No. ] works, was convicted of
forcing men, by threats and intimidation,
20 80 to work during the strike,
Mrs. Harrison accompanied by her
grandchildren, will go to Cape May Point
on Thursday next for the summer. The
President is expected to be ut the seashore
most Of the time in July and August
A burglar entered Thomas Whites resi-
dence, in West Philadelphia, early Fri
day morning, chloroformed Miss White,
and, after a struggle with Mr.. White, got
away with two watches and several hun
dred dollars worth Of jewelry.
The bill appropriating $4,000 for the
entertainment of the q, A, X. at Detroit III
August next. which was vetoed by Gov.
Winans, came up in the house Of repre-
sentatiyes on Thursday, and the veto was
sustained by strict party vote.
A tank of gasolene on the tracks of the
Louisville q Nashville railroad exploded
at Wilder's station, near Newport. Ken
lucky, early Friday morning. The eX-
plosion was heard in Newport, Dayton and
Covington. No person was hurt.
letter received in Beaver, Pa, says
that Rudyard Kipling, the novelist is
dying of consumption. By order of two
he was two weeks ago taken
from London to Italy, where it was hoped
the climate would prove beneficial
The court.martial in the case of Com
mander Lyons, who is charged with negli-
gence in stranding the Triana while on
the way to rescue the crew of the Galena,
wrecked at Gayhead, has found that the
officer was not guilty of the charge.
Two horses afflicted with CHAMBERS have
been found on farm near Fagleysville,
Berks county, Pa, and another similarly
affected has been found in stable liz
Reading. They have been ordered killed
and their owners will be paid by the state.
JbpCHll ipllNllAAllEllIt Wnpt IL is ulItEHil, i
has been defrauding people in all parts of
the country, under the title of the Pacific
Portrait Company was Friday held in
bonds for larceny, in New York, upon |
of Mrs s. J. Brooch of Philadel-
phia,
During storm at Cape May, N. j.,
Friday afternoon, lightning struck the |
lighthouse tower, boring small hole in |
the dome. and passing down to the cottage |
fpI NIT IL
feather bed and painfully burning one |
foot of Harold Eldredge, son of the assist
ant keeper The light was not injured.
]. b. Clark and j. D. Ware of st. Louis
were on Thursday night robbed of 81 200
md $500 respectively ut the Albion Hotel,
IN Hot Springs, Arkansas. The robber
was discovered and wounded, but escaped
q the woods, leaving trail of blood. The
thief of police of Little Rock has arrived
4 Hot Springs with II bloodhounds to run
lim down.
The Gar OF Russia has presented to the
Stanford University complete collection
IF Russian and Siberian minerals, taken
rom the st. Petersburg Museum. The
is valued at about $50, 900, and
comprises some 800 specimens. Mrs.
stanford will, in return, send the czar
collection of California minerals and pre-
.ious stones.
A dispatch from Peoria, ILL.,, says that,
the fact that the Whisky
trust has secured control of the Schufeldt
md Calumet distilleries, its troubles have
lot ceased. Arrangements have been
made for the establishment of bonded
warehouses; in Pekin, where a syndicate
With S250,o00 capital proposes to erect
antitrust distillery.
The President has sent gold medal to
'aptain X. L. Salter of the British ship
Marlborough, for his humanity in rescue
ny the crew of the American schooner
'eilie, Potter, in the spring of 1880 He
as also sent gold watch and chain TO
uleiman Girby, Turk, for his bravery
nd humanity displayed in etfecting the
escue of passengers Of the steamship
'chihatchoff at Joppa, in 1891.
An employe of the Cutting Packing
'ompany at Cooks Inlet, Alaska, writes
? his father in Astoria, Ore, under date
+ May 18th, stating that great numbers
+ Indians are sick with la grippe, and are
wing at an alarming rate The week be-
ore the latter was written 20 died within
radius of five miles of the cannery. A
illage few miles distant from the can
cry was depopulatod, with the exception
{ two children, and no one left to bury
ne dead.