Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-01-21
IN GEN ERAI.

Colonel William l.. Dearborn, a we'll
known retired hotel keeper of Reading,
died Friday, aged 50 years.
Augustus @. Abe, carpenter of York.
Pa, was killed Friday by the fall of an
elevator, beneath which he was standing.
The revolt in Ascension, Mexico. has
been suppressed, and l07 captures have
been made. The leaders in the revolt will
be shot
The national convention of the Prohibit
ton party to nominate candidates for
President and Vioe-president of the United
States will be held in st. Louis June 10Th
next,
j.. +. Hendricks, conductor of the
Lehigh Valley railroad and a prominent
citizen of Mahanoy City, Pa, was fatally
injured last Friday by falling from his
train.
The water in the river at Rome, Ca, was
Friday within three feet of being as
high as during the disastrous food of 1855.
me water was seven feet deep in many Of
the streets Of the city
DR.. Q. Ellsworth Hewett is in Jail in
New York, pending suit against him bv
John Q. Bowman, a lawyer of Philadel-
phla Tor 100000, for alternating the aflec-
tons of Bowmans wife.
A dispatch from Fernandina, Fla. saws
that the British schooner Minnie Louise
bound for the Barbados with phosphate
went ashore on Thursday night in North
Breakers and will be total loss.
Evangelist Kane, who is holding
services in Pittston, Pa, has within the
last few days received several ANONYMOUS
letters threatening to kill him If he per-
sists in preaching against the liquor men
OF that town.
Sailing orders were received by the
United States cruiser Charleston, at San
Diego, Cal, Friday. 1t is believed that
the cruiser will first go to Mare Island to
be cleaned of the marine growth on her
bottom and then go to South Pacific waters.
Advices received at Baker City, Ore,
from Canyon City say that Ming How, a
Chinaman. was hanged there on Thursday
for the murder of a countryman. The
drop failed to break How's neck and he
died in commissions, after IL minutes of
terrible suffering.
A petition was filed in the supreme
court of Wisconsin Friday to test the
constitutionality of the gerrymander of
congressional and senate and assembly
districts i'll the last Democratic legislature.
The petition alleges that a large number
OF Republican voters have been disfran-
chised.
A coal train on the Ohio Southern road
became unmanageable on a steep grade
hNai haiiiplluBc sldtlull On i thursday night
and was wrecked Henry Ruse brake
man, was killed; WV. Cochran, engineer,
is missing and supposed to be killed, and
Harry Long fireman, had leg and an
arm broken.
Henry Corbin, a negro, who murdered
Mrs. Genrgetta Harner, at Oxford. Ohio.
on Tuesday last, was captured in a shed
near the scene of the murder on Thurs
day night, and was lynched by mob.
Corbin attempted to commit suicide before
he was captured, but the attempt failed.
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the last seven DAYS,
us reported by Il. G. Dun & Co., number
for the United States 2S7 and for Canada
IS, or a total of $50, as compared with
totals of 49, last week eight days., and 329
the week previous to the last. For the
corresponding week of last year the figures
were Ill, representing 800 failures in the
United States and 81 in the Dominion of
Canada.