Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-06-04

in Hado City, Texas, Tuesday week. They
were both counting the same girl.
George Ditch, who felonously assaulted
Miss Anna Gerger, near Peoria, Illinois,
has been arrested. The girl is still alive
! but no hopes are entertained of her re
corery. Often was taken to Pekin to pre-,
vent mob from lynehing him.
Early yesterday week II Bollermier
while on his way home, in Nashville, Iii.
| nuis, was robbed by two negroes of
| $4,000. The negroes were captured at
Louseburgh, but they had seereted $4,000
of the money. The remainder was recov-
| cred
The Farmers Repicu says that through
out the country the condition of winter
wheat has not greatly changed. In some
sections drought and insects have pro-
duced a small apparent decline but this
decline has been largely offset BY recent
copious rains,
A four-roomed frame dwelling in To-
| peka was burned yesterday week. In the
ruins were found the charred remains Of
Mrs. w. 4. Uptegroff, aged %, and her
three children, al girls, aged from 10
months to live years. All the surround
ing circumstances pointto deliberate and
carefully planned triple murder and sui
eide.
William Alvord has been arrested in
tialena, Kansas charged with killing Mrs.
Blanche Mckee and her six months Old
child, The bodies were found hanging to
4 tree in IA woods near talcnu When
Alvord learned that the bodies had been
found, he attempted suicide by hanging
himself in his cell but was cut down in
time to save his life.
In the supreme court in New York last
week Judge Patterson dismissed the suit
Of Harry Allen against the Vanderbilts for
nan 4 million dollars, on the ground that
the plaintiff had moi proved the real CON
tract by which w II. Vanderbilt was
alleged to have agreed to pay Aliens
mother more than any other child re
ceivcd, in consideration Of waving objec-
tons to the probate of the will of the COM
mCnlOrc.
Assistant Secretary Netteton, of the
treasury, decides that Hollyer Pettison and
Wife, of sweden, detained TT New York Us
poNgamistS fall within the prohibited
class u Immigrants, and he has therefore
ordered their return to theeountry whence
they came, at the expense of the steam
ship company which brought theHl over.
This is the first time that polygamsts have
been deharrrd.
During fight with canvasmcn Of
circus ut Nlahonny City, Pa, on Tuesday
week, two men were shot another had Ills
skull broken BY thrown Stone and
number We're more or less injured Patrick
Quinn, aged l5 was one of the victims,
and will probably die. "Jockun Reescr
had his skull fractured. The fight origi-
mated on account Of gambling conducted
in one Of the tents. None Of the slluwmen
were hurt.
Mrs. Jennie Hinnichs, aged II years,
who arrived at Baltimore on the steam
ship Mucnchcn on the 10Th instant, has
been ordered to be returned to Germany,
because she is suffering from the tuber-
eul2us disease known as lupus, which is
held TO come under the terms of the law
excluding aliens suffering from loathsume
or contagious disease. Her son, who lives
in German Valley, Illinois, is willing to
support her, but treasury officials hold |
that the law is mandatory.
The American express robbery at Car.
roll Ia, on last Saturday week, has taken
u sensational turn. Clerk Matthews, whg |
was found tied and gagged, has confessed
robbery was planned by himself, Craig |
Niswonger and Arson Scharliweber, two |
Young mon Of Carroll He went with |
Superintendent Garner, Of omaha, 10 an
old vacant house west of the town and |
hauled out from cunccalmcnt 81. iOU which |
lacked only Sjt'l Of the amount stolen.
Niswonger and ScharnWcbcr were placed |
under arrest,
The Secretary Of the Treasury last week
telcgraphed 10 the commanders oil tile rev.
enle cutters ituaIi and Bear 10 sail at once |
for Alaska. While it is impossible to OBJ
tain positive Information rs to the charnc- |
ter of the instructions to the revenue
officers it is generally understood that they |
do not differ In any essential particular |
from the instructions Of last year thus in |
diGating that the administration has not
changed lis attitude in regard 10 the CATCH |
ing of scllS in Behring Sea, and that our
revenue vessels will undertake Ia limit |
such operations to the company having
such right
In New York last week, tho Jury in the
ease of PGsque!ina Robcfticlln, charged |
WIN the mur'er Of her fathIess lover, |
Nicolo lfcero, rendered verdict of not |
guilty. Pierre had forcibly wrongcd the |
girl, and then offered her loaded re-
volyer, telling her if he did not marry her
She was to avcise his crime BY taking his |
life. After many ppstp9nementS OF the |
ceremony he said that he was going to
Italy, and that She could make Il living by |
her beauty, and expressed regret that he |
had spared her younger sister, Atthis She |
Shot him dead When the clerk asked the !
usual question of the foreman he almost
shouted mot guilty and the Jury shouted
mot guilty not guilty" Men jumped
upon the seats, waving hats and handller-
chiefs and yelled and cheered. MANY
prominent adles, who have watched the /!
progress Of the case with profound inter
est, wcpt for joy and embraced the be.
wildered girl, who is in delicate condition.
a dispatch from st. Johns, Newfound-
land, says the French war ship at st.
Georges Bay refused to allow Americans
to take or buy bait there. Under the
treaty Of ISIS Americans have the same
rights as the British on the French shore,
and they have never before been inter.
fered with by the French. The consul has
telegraphed to Mr.. Blaine for instructions
day it had not yet been made clear to the
1t was said the state departmenttheo other
department whether the war ship had pre-
vented our fishermen from buying bali or
whether it has prevented the French in
habitants from selling it. These are two
very distinct and different propositions.
In the first case, ii might be taken as an
assertion Of authority over American oiti- |
zens, while, in the second case. the French
authorities might be exerting an undeni-
able authority over French subjects. Until |
the real state of the case is known there is