Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-10-08
IN GENERAL.

A tribal war is reported to be raging
on some of the New Hebrides Islands
and cannbalism is said to be flourish
ing in consequence.
William II. Dill, president of the FRS
National Bank of Clearfield, Pa, wa!
unable to find the bail required, and OF
Saturday went to Jail.
The preliminary examination O
Maurice B. Stclingcr C'Samuel o.
Posen") for the murder of Policeman
Grant was resumed at San Francisco OF
Saturday.
Mrs. Frank Leslie was married in
New York city, Sunday, to William
g. Kingsbury Wilde of London, eldest
son of the late Sir William Wilde, NJ
D., of Dublin.
A Harrisburg dispatch says that Gov
ernor Pattson twill neither confirm moi
deny the report that extradition paper.
for the return from Canada of Cashier
William Livsey are being considered"
The Hon. Jacob Turner, ex.Congress
man from the Twenty-first Pennsyl-
vanla district, died Sunday at hi.
home in Greensburg, of gangrene, the
result Of an accident. He was &C years
Of age.
Advices have reached San Francisco
to the effect that the British bark Fiji
from Hamburg, was wrecked 100 miles
from Melbourne. Australia, on Septem.
Der 4th, and II out of the 26 persons or
board were lost.
The 400 miners of the Home and
Riverside mines, near Leavenworth
Kansas, who struck forincreased wages
on Saturday, declared the strike off anc
applied for work. Nearly oil of then
were reinstated.
The funeral of General Boulangcl
occurred in Brussels on Saturday and
attracted an immense concourse of PEG
Pile. He was buried beside Nine
Bonnemain. His coffin was literally
covered with floral offerings and wrapped
in the trio. colors.
Chief Justice Green of Guthrie, Okla
homa territory, decided, on Saturday
that "when saloon is run contrary Il
law any person, either an officer or pri
vate citizen, may destroy the business
and no damage can be collected by the
saloon-keeper."
Three of the express bags, several
boxes, ETC., secured in the American
Express robbery between Utica an6
Little Falls, N. y, on Wednesday, were
found Sunday in a field at Harbor
four miles east of Utica. All the pack
ages had been rifled.
An explosion of gas occurred in the
Richardson colliery of the Philadelphia
e. Reading Coal and Iron Company, al
Glen Carbon, Pa, Saturday evening
One man was taken out dead and three
fatally injured. Six men are still i'm.
prisoned in the mine.
The works of the Van Camp Packing
Company in indianapolis were burned
early Sunday morning. Loss, $780,.
900; insurance, $149, 900. -Four firemen
were hurt by falling wall, and one,
Martin Haley, was overcome by the
heat. 1t is feared Haley will die.
A bell from the ancient church at La
Vega, San Domingo, which is believed
to have been brought over by Columbus,
and to have first done duty at the little
church at Isabella. has been loaned to
the government for exhibition at the
Worlds Fair. 1t is now in Washington.
Elevator GA" of the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad Company's system, at
Locust Point, Baltimore, was com
pletely destroyed by fire Sunday
morning, together with all of its ma
chinery and 10000 bushels of wheat.
The elevator was built in 1871 and cost
100000.
Horace Hamlin of Corpus Christi,
Texas, went out early on Saturday
morning TO take walk with his three
children, two-years-old boy and two
girls, aged II and 10 years respectively.
A few hours later the drowned bodies of
llamlin and his two daughters were
found floating In the bay.
Rea, BROTHERS & Co.. the Pittsburg
bankers and brokers, vino were com
PEELED TO suspend owing to the failure
of S. V. White IL Co., were granted an
extension by their creditors on Satur.
day, and will rmume business this
week. Tho creditors are TO receive so
per cent in 10 days and the balance in u
year.
The four years torn of Commodore
Melville as cngineer-in- chicfot the navy
will expire in January next. In iccoc-
milton Of the valuable work performed
by the bureau Of atearn engineering I'M
der his direction, Secretary Tracy has
signifed his intention of reappointing
Commodore Melville for q second term
of four years.
DR.. Sheldon jackson, the United
States general egoat of education for
Alaska, who roturncN tc San Francisco
on the revenue cutter Ensh, reports that
the whaling .lcet were unable to reach
Poi=t Barrow, owing to the leo pack.
The Point Barrow station of the Pacific
Whaling Company secured 100000
worth of whalebone.
A Louisville dispatch says that it is
reported on good authority that d. G.
MaclIey has secured control of the Ken
lucky and Indiana bridge. He will take
possession November 1st. He secures
the bridge, with all its terminal facilities,
embracing the New Albany Belt and
Terminal Railway and the New Albany
Street Railway and the New Albany
and Portland ferry right, with its
wharves, &C., and one steamboat.