Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-06-02

There were landed at New York Sun
day 4,2s9 immigrants.
Two slight earthquakes stopped clocks
in Ontario, Cal, shortly after o'clock
Saturday morning.
Edward Specrs was hanged Friday at
Magnolia, Ark, for the murder of s. c.
Hunt, in July, 1891.
The street car strike at New Orleans has
been settled, the company agreeing to en-
ploy union men provided such are ayaila-
BILE.
Unknown persons on Thursday poisoned
the well of james Caraway, near Evans
vile. Ind, and Caraway, his wife and
three children were made critically ill by
drinking the water.
AT council of Chippewa Indians, held
at White Earth, Mimi, on Thursday, it
was decided to decline the proposal for an
allotment of so acres, instead of 160 acres
to each man, woman and child.
Six boys were fishing in the Ohio river,
at Woodville, Allegheny county, Fri
| day afternoon, when the bank cayed in and
| they were thrown into the river. -Four Of
| them were drowned.
Nine persons were poisoned at Ligoner,
| Pa. Thursday, by eating cake in which
arsenic was put by mistake for baking
| powder. Two of the victims-children-
| not expected to recover.
| William Purcell and his years-old son
were attacked and perhaps fatally gored by
II bull near East Lynn, Mo-, few days
| ago. The animal afterwards attacked
another farmer and was killed by him.
| The Butchers National Protective Asso-
| citation has decided to locate and erect their
| packing houses and stock pens, to cost half
II million dollars, in Dallas, Texas. The
town contributes $4,000 to the enterprise.
| The jury ut Wheeling w. Va, Fri
| day convicted DIR. George /. Garrison of
involuntary manslaughter. for the killing
of Dir. George Baird in a street duel. more
1 than year ago. The verdict is regarded
as equivalent to an acquittal.
Rudolph Shaffer, prominent contrac-
tor of Huntingdon, Pa, after discussing
| the prevalence of suicides with party of
friends, Saturday, went into the basement
| of the building and shot himself in the
| forehead, killing himself instantly.
Six men are in Jail at Cullerton, Ala,
| charged with participating i'll lynching.
This is the first time in the recent his
tory of Alabama that any member of a
mob has been interfered with by legal
| process" The victims were two white
men. Monroe WINS and his son John.
The body of d. NJ. Carey, late OF the
firm of Paige, Carey & Company, which
| failed recently, was found at Moundsvillc
| ~ miles below Wheeling. w. Va, Sum
| day. Mr.. Carey was accidentally drowned
in Wheeling Creek in February last while
experimenting the building of stone
| viaduct.
A band of Whitecap desperadoes has
visited Tunnel Hill, Ca, and "has been
guilty of every act short of murder. AT
an early hour on Wednesday morning
John Myers was forced from his house
and given $50 lashes u blind negro was
nearly killed and 10 lashes were admins
tered to a negro woman."
Anthony Lokel and Joseph Zealany
were killed by an electric shock while
working ON travelling crane in the Edgar
| Thomson steel works, near Pittsburg,
| Saturday morning. The boom came in
contact with an electric light wire, cut the
| insulation and was charged with the full
| force of the current. Several other men
were klocked senseless.
Patrick Bradley, lawyer of Chester,
| Pa. and quarantine master at the Laza-
retto station, has been placed under $1,000
| bail to answer the charge of embezzling
| about So, 500 from the Home Building AS
ISOLATION, of which he was secretary. 1t
| is charged that he was in the habit of re-
| ceiving dues from members and not credit
| ing them on the books. He has sent his
resignation as quarantine master to the
governor.
The steamer City of Mackinac collided
| VIII lne Jug WasnDuTn III tne river uppO-
site Detroit at midnight Saturday. John
Hurley and Chief Engineer Robinson of
| the steam barge Majestic, who were on
| board the tug, were drowned. The tug
was nearly cut in two, but the engineer
beachcd it on the Canadian shore before it
sank, thus saving the lives of the four
| other men on board. The Mackinac
was but slightly damaged.
| A jury in the federal court at DesMoines.
| ~ Inh
9. Newton, president of the Des Moines &
| Kansas City railroad. of conspiracy to de-
| fraud the government. Newton imme-
diately "banquettcd'' the jury. Yesterday
morning Judge Woolson rcprimanded
Newton, broadly intimating that il he had
the power he would again put him on
trial. and that if he had anticipated such
conduct he would have set the verdict
aside. He then dishonorably discharged
the entire jury from any further service in
the federal courts
Mrs. Alinda Hennessey, a young mar
ried woman living at Jersey City Heights,
was found in the cellar OF her home on
! Friday morning in an unconscious condi-
ton, blindfolded gagged and her arms
tied. Parts Of her clothing bad been torn
off and she was bruised and cruelty cut by
the rope which bound her arms. An nm
known man had gotten into the house
during her husbands absence, late on
\ inUISuay AFTERNOON, anu DOuhu ana
gagged her as described. Ii is believed,
however he was frightened off before he
had accomplished his purpose.
George w. Childs and party arrived at
Portland, Ore, Friday morning, being met
by the mayor and committees of the Typo
graphical Union and other organizations.
After drive around the city, IN the after
noon the party were given reception OH
board the United States cruiser Charleston,
and in the evening Mr.. Childs was given
reception by the Typographical Union.
On Saturday morning Mr.. Childs visited
the Presbyterian General Assembly, and
was introduced to that body by the mod
orator. Mr. Childs and party in the after
noon visited the United States cruiser Bal
| timore.
Colonel Colo of the Montreal artillery
garrison called on General Knapp, the
United States consul general, on Thurs
day and apologized for the outrage com
mitted by some irresponsible members of
his corps in ordering the United States
flag down from various stores on the
queens birthday. lie said that neither
the officers of his corps nor any of the
militia officers in the city sympathizcd
with those who had taken the flags down.
| II the offenders were discovered they
would be severely reprimanded, unless
further punishment was ordered by the
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