Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-12-17
IN GENERAL.


| Western railroad. the first crossing the
Ohio river. above Cincinnati, was opened
| for traffic Sunday.
General Morgan, commissioner Of Indian
| affairs, was given & reception by the
| pupils Of the Indian training school at
Carlisle, Pa, on Saturday night.
A dispatch from Guatemala to the City of
| Mexico says that the principal military
| officers have offered their allegiance to the
| president and thus revolution is
averted."
The Rev. DR.. Ignatius F. Horstmann.
| u. d., chancellor of the archdiocese of
| Philadelphia, has been appointed bishop
of Cleveland to succeed the late Bishop
Gilmour.
a stampede occurred in crowd Mt the
doors ut the opera house at Racine, Wis,
on Saturday night, and three or four
women and children were knocked down
and injured.
| j. L. Williams, a former student at Ann
Arbor and who was taking a postgraduate
| course at Cornell, was Sunday found
| dead in his room at Ithaca. He had
hanged himself.
| A silver vase was presented TO Mrs s.
| s. Cox, in Washington, Oh Saturday, in
| behalf of the officers and men of the life
saving service, as an expression Of appre..
| ClutlOn OIL INC luDDTS OIL DeT ldte nuSDullu
in behalf of the service.
Assistant Secretary Nettlcton has di-
rectcd that sanitary inspector be stationed
at Rouse's Point. New York, during the
prevalence of smallpox in Canada, to pre-
vent the introduction and spread of that
disease in the United States.
A dispatch from New Orleans says that
every parish save West Baton Rouge has
elected delegates to the Democratic state
i convention, and that n careful review of
| the situation shows that the faction favor
able to the lottery will be in control.
DR.. James T.. Massie was arrested in In
diana on Saturday for the murder of J. l..
Kinakee, at 0wentown, Kentucky, on
October 18th. Massie claimed that kina-
| kee had slandered him, and that he shot
him because he refused to make retrac-
ton.
Mrs. A. II. Bruce. Mrs. l.. d. Hatch and
| her little son, and Master Frank Pack
wood. were found murdered on Saturday
| in their cottage, near Smyrna, Fla. They
! had recently gone to Florida, from the
north, to spend the winter. There is no
| clue to the murderer.
Miss Julia A. Ames. editor of the Union
| iSigndi, of Chicago. the official organ of the
! Women's Christian Temperance Union,
died OH Saturday, in Boston. She took
cold at the recent convention of the order
| in that city. Her age is stated to have
been about 30 years.
Two burglars broke into the parsonage
of st; Michaers Roman Catholic Church,
| at Hollidaysburg, Pa, early Sunday
morning and went direct to Father Heine's
room. The priest, hearing the noise,
| opened the door and was fired upon by the
robbers. They then fed. Father Heine
escaped injury.
The temperature in Nevada and the
mountains of eastern California was un-
usually low during Friday night. The
mercury registered go below zero at Hal
lock, Nevada; 26o below at Carlin, 16o be-
low at Elko, and 15o below at Boca, Cal.
AT Fresno and Yuma, on Saturday morn
ing, the temperature was at freezing point.
The newspapers of Chilli, according to
the bureau of American republics, esti-
mate that the expenses of the congress
sional party in the revolution against Bal
maceda reached Sl5,00O,000 of which
Sonora Dona Juan Edwards, the mother
of Don Augustine Edwards, the minister
of finance, contributes sSS5000 from her
own fortune.
Joe Patterson, a negro, of Bosvin, La,
on Saturday murdered his wife and in his
| effort to escape shot and killed Daniel
Wallace and seriously wounded j. b. Lay.
Patterson Sunday returned to his house
and blew out his brains. The mob. which
had been on his trail removed the body of
the murdered woman and sat fire 10 the
house, burning Patterson's body with it.
A San Francisco dispatch SAYS that
General Trina Barrios, the Guatemalan
exile, sailed on the steamer City of sydney
on Saturday, for his native country. The
election will be held in Guatemala shortly
and General Barrios said he had received
plenty of encouragement from friends
He will go home, face all trouble and
battle for the control of the government
as a Presidential candidate.
According to political rumor in Wash
Ington Senator Cullom of Illinois, will be
presented MS candidate for the Republi-
can nomination for the Presidency in the
event of defamation by Mr.. Blaine. The
Republican state central committee of
Illinois, at a secret meeting held a few
days ago, resolved that the Al votes of the
State in the national convention should,
| In the event of Mr.. Blaines withdrawal,
be cast for Cullom.
Further particulars of Thursdays storm
in San Gabriel Valley. north of Los
Angeles, and other points in California,
show that two lives were lost The old
Mission Church at San Fernando was
badly damaged, great masses of the adobe
walls being torn out of place. Several
other churches were wrecked, and that at
San Gabriel suffered some damage. The
| injury to the orange plantations is thought
! to have been very severe.
Judgments aggregating ss27.706 were
| filed ut Duluth, Mimi, on Saturday,
against the Iron & Land Company, of
Minnesota (limited) 1T is understood
that these judgments are filed for the pur-
pose of attaching upon lands, bonds for the
1 payment of which went OH the market at
the time of the Barring failure, which had
an unfavorable influence, and the com
| pany did not sell bonds enough to warrant
undertaking mining operations"
The Chicago Elevated Terminal Railway
Company has purchased for S7.500,O0O the
| right of way and all the real estate hold
ings of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railway within the city limits Of Chicago.
On Saturday the necessary legal announce
| ment was made of the issue of $50 000, 900
of bonds by the Terminal Company for
the building of its line. The company
| proposes TO furnish elevated terminal
facilities for number of roads entering
the city from the south and west.
The Secretary of the Navy on Saturday
| received cable message from Captain
Schley, commanding the. United States
cruiser Baltimore, saying that, as there APP
presence of that vessel at Valparaiso, she
sailed on Friday for San Francisco for the
purpose of being locked and scraped The
Yorktown is now the only American war
ship at Valparaiso, but she will be Joined
there in about 10 days by the cruiser Bos-
ton, which sailed from Montevideo few
days ago.
A dispatch from the City of Mexico says
that the Mexican congress is about to con-
fer on the Federal executive powers to adj
nit all kinds of foreign cereals and live
stock, either duty free or at reduced rates,
| in cuph nunntifina aud m slIrb orposiCro