Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-12-24

At Bartonville, in Windsor township
Broome county, New York, every male
resident is reported to be i'll with the
grippe.
Ex-Governor Robert M, McLane is very
i'll with pneumonia at his home in Balti.
moro, and his condition Thursday was re-
garded as very serious.
Miss Francis L. Willard, president of the
National Women's Christian Temperance
Union. is confined to her home at Evans.
ton, ILL.,, by an attack of the grippe
The New York Stock Exchange was last
week compelled to- restore the Gold and
Stock Telegraph Company's wires. and to
furnish quotations, pending the trial of the
case.
Captain Marshall and IL Of the crew of
the steamer Maggie Ross which was
abandoned at sea Thursday week, have been
picked up by schooner and landed at
Marshtcld, Oregon.
Daniel Hand, who gave over 81 600 600
to the American Missionary Association
for the education of the colored people of
the south, died Thursday IN Guilford Con-
necticut, aged 90 years
DIR. Benton Strange was taken from his
house at Valdosta, Georgia, on Tuesday
week by mob, and was logged and given
coat OF ink. The citizens objected to
Strange conduct while on sprees.
At Sunbury, Pa, ON Thursday, the Jury
in the Schultz murder case returned YER
dict of not guilty. Otto Schultz, the de-
PENDANT, killed Felix Wosinski. iii Mount
Carmel, last August, with base ball bat
Roy Richards and John p. Richards,
aged l6 and Is years, respectively, sons Of
the Rev. j. s. Richards, of Ellsworth,
Maine broke through the ice while
skating at Deer Isle, Thursday. and were
drowned.
II. NJ. Ramsey, who, a few years ago,
was principal of school near Sweet
Tennessee, committed suicide at Chatta-
nooga Thursday by jumping into the Ten
ncssee river. He was suffering from de-
spondency
Director Powell of the United States
Geological Survey has been notified that
the French Institute has granted the
Cuvicr prize of $500 to the United States
Geological Survey for the excellence of its
work.
A masked man entered faro room at
Marysville Cal. Wednesday night week,
while aaame was in progress, and, cover
ing the dealer with pistol, demanded all
the money in sight. He was given 1915
and then escaped.
by the explosion of the boiler in the saw
mill OF A. Collect, at Ridgcyille, Indiana,
Thursday. William Wise, the engineer
William Collect, head sawyer, and James
Clawson, were killed and Isaac Nicholson
was fatally injured.
The lottery convention of the l.ouisi-
ana Democrats, ut Baton Rogue, Thurs
day, unanimously nominated Judge s. u.
MeEnery for governor and Robert Wick
life for lieutenant governor. The anti
lottery convention adjourned, after adopt
ing platform.
W. =. Fitzgerald convicted of the muir
der Of policeman named Freed, last May,
was hanged in the penitcntary at Column
bus, Ohio, on THURSDAY hight. His victim
and another policeman were arresting him
for burglary Freed was fatally and the
other officer dangerously wounded.
The supreme court Of Indiana has de-
cidcd that the act of the last legislature,
creating u Metropolitan Police iioard for
Ierre Haute, is constitutional. The city
of Terre Hante did not want the lcgisla-
ton and fought it in the courts on the
ground thatit was unconstitutional.
Many cases Of ship fever and diphtheria
have been discovered among the passen-
gers of the steamer Polynesia, which ar
rived at New York from Stettin OH Deeem-
Der 9th. Five of the patients have died.
and six cases of diphtheria have developed
Some unknown ruilian entered the office
of Government Paymaster Abbott in OF
tawa, Canada, Thursday morning, and,
striking him on the head with a slung
shot, attempted to rob him Of $1,000 in
tended 10 pay employees of the I,idcuu
canal. Mr.. Abbott rallied and gave an
alarm, whereupon the man fled.
a conversation to consider various mea-
sures for the improvement of the naviga-
ton OF the great lakes, and their possible
connection with tide water, met in Detroit
Thursday, representatives of four states
and of a large number of commercial
bodies being in attendance. Thomas W.
Palmer was elected permanent president
A young man named Darlington of
Rockford, H.. has informed the officials
of that place that Charles Missner, form
erly of Elgin, had confessed to him the
murder of Samuel Reininger in Chicago
two years ago. William j.. Purdy was
convicted Of the murder, on circumstan-
tlal evidence, and is now under sentence of
death for the crime.
A meeting of all the bank managers in
Canada was held on Thursday in Montreal
to complete the formation Of an associa-
ton for mutual protection. One thing
they propose to do is to urge the Dominion
Parliament to tax American silver cur
reney, IN imitation of the United States
which has for some years imposed tax
OF IL per cent on Canadian currency.
The business failures throughout The
country during the last seven days num-
bered, for the United States 30T, and for
Canada, Is, or a total of 335 as compared
with 80 last week, and $50 for the week
previous to the last For the corresponding
week Of last year the figures were 4Oi
representing 1863 failures in the United
States, and Al i'll the Dominion Of Canada
A passenger train on the Southern
Kansas road was wrecked near Eherryvale.
early Thursday morning. by defective ties.
An express car, two coaches and sleeper
were thrown down high embanknent
and burned Twenty-six persons were in
jured, three of them perhaps fatally
namely, the conductor, Eli Parsons, Mrs.
Lizzie Mctiuire OF sharon, Kansas, and a
colored boy.
Government officials say the reports that
the President has decided to issue procla-
nation in few days restoring the duties
on sugar, inolasses coffee, hides, &c, inn
ported from countries That have not 1ego-
tiated reciprocity treaties with the United
States under the Mckinley act, are entirely
unauthorized. 1t is expected that an off
cial announcement on the subject will be
made in few days,
Two Democratic state nominating CON
yentions We're held in Baton Rouge, La.
Thursday. The majority convention did
nothing but perfect its organization, while
the minority faction, known us the ''Anti-
lottery Combine nominated Thomas s.
Adams for governor. Mr.. Adams declined,
according to a pre-arranged plan it is said,
and then a full ticket was named, headed
by Murphy ]. Foster for governor
The Decp Wafer WAYS Convention a.
Congress for appropriations for a 20. foot
channel through the Great Lakes and their
connecting waters, between Chicago, Du-
lutb and superior and Buffalo; for surveys
and estimates for u waterway to allow the
free passage Of vessels drawing go feet Of
water through the territory of the United
States from the Great Lakes to the Attain
tic Ocean.