Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-10-01

There was a snow storm at Leadville,
Colorado, on Thursday night. 1t showed
all night, but Friday mel ed rapidly.
The Wisconsin Methodist conference, in
session in Oshkosh, Friday favored the
admission of women as lay delegates to the
conference by vote Of 100 to 80.
Judge Hudson, at Laurens, s. O., on Fri
day sentenced ten negroes to be hanged on
October 23d, for the murder of another
negro, committed a few months ago.
The boiler of Berlin's saw mill at Bear
Creek, near Tionesta, Pa, exploded OIL
Thursday, killing j. Elva Berlin James
Conger and Charles b. Grove, well-known
lumbermen.
]. NJ. Lamar committed suicide at Little
Rock, Arkansas, on Thursday night by
swallowing morphine. He was thenephew
of Justice Lamar of the United States
Supreme Court.
The steamship Norwegian has arrived at
Montreal from Glasgow. In the Gulf of
st. Lawrence she came through heavy
snow storm, and at Belle Isle the land was
covered with snow.
England and Germany, through their
government representatives, have asked
Director-general Davis of the Worlds Fair
to give them each 100000 square feet of
floor space for exhibits,
The six-story wholesale grocery and
liquor store of s. Guckenheimer Il Sons,
in Savannah Ga, was burned on Friday
with its contents. The loss is estimated ut
about 100000; insurance, S2i0,000.
United States officers made raid on the
Chinese laundries in Grand Forks, n. D.,
Friday and captured three Cinnamon
who had been smuggled across the line
from Manitoba They also secured con-
siderable struggled opium.
man utbn rauiatara1 NJ hntaI Is,
Washington, d. c., on Thursday night as
A. G. Gage Green Bay, Wis, was found
dead in bed on Friday morning. His death
is supposed to have resulted from q mar
cote taken to make him sleep.
Near Quincy, Kentucky, on Thursday,
Thomas Carr, aged 80 years, farmer,
killed his wife, his sister and himself. lie
| began his butchery by attempting to kill a
| Mrs. Evans, and his wife, interfering, was
the first victim. His sister was Killed
because she started to alarm the neghbors.
A passenger train on the Baltimore e.
Ohio railroad ran into an open switch ut
| Linden station, near Pttsburg, on Friday,
| and was wrecked. Frank Mnloy, fireman,
was fatally scalded, and Thomas Burton,
engineer was badly hurt. Professor Luckey
| of Pittsburg, and some other passengers
sustained slight injury.
Lem Sing, In Sing, All Chew and Me
| NOW, CHlnunell, were captured IN water
town, N. VI, Friday, after chase Of %
miles across the country from Cape Vim
cent by Inspector Hiram Smoke, they
having violated the exclusion law. All
| Chew is a Canadian citizen. The Others
| will be returned to China.
Dispatches from 10 different towns in
| Northern Wisconsin say that the rain OH
| Thursday night checked the forest fires.
Drummond had close shave, hundreds
of men fighting the fire at one time The
damage will not be Us heavy as ut first re.
ported, as most oe the fires were confined
to districts burned over last spring.
Anna Dickinson is still u guest at the
home of DIR. Frederick w. Seward, near
Goshen, New York People residing in
that vicinity have dispelled the idea that
Miss Dickinson is insane, and regard it ms
a well worked advertising dodge. She re-
Gently delivered lecture ut Goshen, and
it is announced that she will take the lee.
ture platform during the coming season.
The total loss by Thursdays fire in Min
neapolis was Si67, 800, and the insurance
Sllf700. Fireman Mitchell is thought to
be fatally Injured but the others injured
will recover, although Assistant Chief
Canterbury will be crippled for life and
Captain Fosters recovery will be long de-
layed on account of serious internal
injuries. -----4----' -