Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-08-20
IN GENERAL.

Ihe kev. John Henry hopkins, 5. L.
d., distinguished clergymen of the
Episcopal church, died Friday in
Troy, N. Y, aged II years.
A severe electrical storm was re-
ported Friday from Nova Scotia,
many buildings having been fired by the
lightning. At Truro young man
named Taylor, aged 1s years, was killed.
A man who gave the name of e. E.
Poleng, "held up three men in Day
ton, Ohio, gambling place, on Friday,
with the help of two reyolvers, and got
away with the Shank" amounting to
$196.
The treasury department has directed
that Chinaman named Cheng, alias
Woo Lee, who was convicted at New
Orleans of unlawful entry, be delivered
to the collector at San Francisco for de-
portation to China.
III. f. Cox of Philadelphia, guest at
the Glen Summit Hotel, near Wilkes
barre, Pa, attempted suicide on Friday
by cutting his throat. He did not sue
coed in severing the jugular vein, but is
in critical condition.
The bankers of Indiana, according to
a uioPhtdh llOnl ludlhlbBOltot DuNt oil
nounced their determination to resist
the proposed effort of the state board of
tax commissioners to compel them to
expose the accounts of their depostors.
While men were digging sewer ditch
in Danville, Virginia, on Friday, the
walls caved in and five were buried
under the earth. Samuel Perkins was
killed and Spencer Ewell. fatally in
jured. The others were injured, but
not fatally.
A suit has been brought in Pinevile,
Kentucky, to enioin payment for 100000
acres of land, lying principally upon
Red Bird Fork of the Kentucky, which
were contracted for by certain develop
ment companies and syndicates. The
plaintiff is Archer Hartman, a wealthy
promoter, and the claim is for s 4 1858 900.
Michael O'Melia of Jersey City, N. j.,
was last Friday committed to answer
charges of criminal assault upon his 15-
year-old daughter, Mary O'Melia. He
had brought her before a police Justice
on a charge of running away from
home, when the charge against him was
made out.
By a collision between a light engine
and freight train, on the New York,
Ontario & Western railroad, Friday
about two miles below Guilford Centre,
New York, Albert Booth, engineer OF
the freight train, was killed and Fire
man Hatden Davis was seriously in
iured. The wreck delayed travel two
hours.
The business failures throughout the
country during the last seven days, as
reported by II. G. Dun g. Co., number
202 in the United States and 90 in
Canada, or total of 227 as compared
with 231 for the previous week and
247 for the week before that. The mum.
Der for the corresponding week of last
year was 1877,
A dispatch from Calumet, Michigan,
says that at shaft No. 2, of the Tama.
rack mine, on Friday, the engineer, by
mistake, pulled the cage, with fifteen
miners, to the top of the shaft house.
All were injured, but none fatally. The
cage was iammed between the guide
timbers, or else it would have dropped
5000 feet to the bottom of the shaft.
r. Dudley Frayser, prominent bust
ness man of Memphis, Tenn, was on
Thursday summoned to one OF the city
hotels to see John A. Morris of New
Orleans" When he reached Morris's
room he was confronted by two revolt
vers and forced to sign a check for $500
after which he was chloroformed. The
man did not succeed in getting the checl;
cashed, but disappeared with Mr.. Fray
ser's watch and $50.
The funeral of George Jones took
place Friday morning from All
Souls Church, New York. The Rev,
DIR. Heber Newton OBLIGATED. The pail.
bearers were George w. Childs, Robert
Bonner, Augustine Smith, Thomas O.
Acton, David NJ. Stone, John Scott
Boyd, Henry A. Morgan. j. II. Thomp-
son, Theodore l.. Peverelly and Charles
Miller. The interment was in Wood.
lawn Cemetery.
The funeral Of the late James Russell
Lowell took place at Cambridge on Fri.
day, the services in the Appleton
Chapel of Harvard University, being
conducted by the Rev. DIR. Phillips
Brooks, Bishop-elect of Massachusetts,
and the Rev. William Lawrence, Dean
of the Episcopal Theological School, al
Cambridge. The pail bearers We're Or.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Christopher p.
Cranch, John Holmes, Prof. Charles
Eliot Norton, Prof. Child, c. F. Choate
George William Curtis, William Dean
Howells, Prof John Bartlett and Presi.
dent @. w. Eliot of Harvard University
While the interment was being made In
the family lot at Mount Auburn, the
church bells throughout the city of Bos.
ton were tolled and flags were displayed
at haf-staff.