Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-06-16
The Crescent paper mill, at Hartford
city, Indiana, was burned Sunday, loss,

The Crescent paper mill, at Hartford
city, Indiana, was burned Sunday, loss,
$SS,000.
The Kentucky House on Saturday passed
a general bill for the regulation Of cleo
tons. On election day no intoxicant is TO
be sold or given away.
The new Pacific Mail steamship Peru
was launched at midnight Saturday night
from the shipyard of the Union iron
works at San Francisco.
John OConncll, Jud Washer and Jerry
Laughlin have been arrested in Chicago,
charged with thefts from the Adams Elk
press Company i'll that city aggregating
$4,000.
The ship st. Leo sailed from Brooklyn
on Saturday with cargo of breadstuifs.
meats and infants food, in addition to
800 tons of flour, for the starving Russian
peasants.
The yacht Alva, on Saturday ran down
a row boat in the East river, at New York,
and its occupants, Nicholas Michaes, a
saloon-keeper, and his house keeper, Mary
Simonin, were drowned.
Mary Belchcr of Michigan, has been
declared insane by the Chicago courts, the
cause assigned being the taking of the
Keeley "curc" at Dwight, where she was
treated for the morphine habit.
The bureau of the American republics
is informed that, according to a contract
now before the congress of Mexico, be-
tween the department Of public works,
and Mr.. Austin Corbin, the latter agrees to
prosecute aud complete the Vera Cruz, port
works for the sum OF s5,6l500O.
Jack" Bliss, who was known as the
"king of the Rustlcrs," was killed on the
4th instant, near Arland, Wyoming, by a
sheriff and posse. He was barricaded in q
stone fortress % miles from Il mining
camp, and supplied himself with food by
pillaging miners cabins. The officers took
him unawaros.
Louise Baudet has brought suit in the
United States court ut Helena, Montana,
against Daniel Bandman for a half interest
i'll his extensive ranch and personal prop
| erty. The two Were partners in theatrical
venture, and Miss l3audet claims that one
half of the money Bandman invested in
Montana belonged to her.
The steamship Gaelic, at San Francisco,
on Saturday, from China and Japan, re
ported that over 900 Japanese immigrants
intended TO leave on June 18th for Hawaii,
and that large number contemplate com
| ing to the United States. Fifty-thrcc
japanese laborcrs have been deported at
San Francisco during the present month.
A dispatch from Seattle, Washington,
says that the local customs officers, after a
| desperate fight with \ gang Of Cinnamon
| on Saturday afternoon, seized so pounds
Of smiiggled opium i'll Il wash house.
| Three Chinese, one Il woman, were badly
| wounded by the officers. One of the OIL
GERS was cut by dagger used by the
| woman.
A cable dispatch received in Long Island
| City ttn Saturday reported that Louis An
derson the dcfauliing express clerk Of tho
Long island Express Company, who ran
away with package containing $1,000,
was arrested in st. Thomas. West Indies,
as he sicpped ashore from the steamship
| Sesua' so, from New York. He had
| 81 10y in his possession.
| Two criminal assaults upon white women
werei made in Guthrie, oklahoma. Sun
| day, by negroes A youth named Holley
assaulted Mrs. Charles Moore and was ar
rested. A mob surrounded the jail and for
| a time a race war seemed imminent, the
| negroes coming to Holleys assistance. The
prisoner was finally taken to Wichita. The
second case was that of Mrs. James Genkin,
who was assaulted by an unknown negro,
| who escaped.
| Alexander Whitley, who was recently
arrested in Stanley county, North Carolina,
| for the murder of u companion in Arkan-
sas several years ago, was taken from the
| jail, at Albemarle, on Friday, by mob OF
| 100 men wearing red masks, and was
hanged to tree. Whitney protested his
| Innocence. The sheriff of Clark county
Arkansas, arrived at Albemarle for Whit
ley two hours after the lynching, his in
tention being to take the prisoner back Ia
! Arkansas for trial.
A mob of 800 union lumber men at
tackled number of the yards and docks at
Tonawanda, n. Y. on Saturday, for the
purpose of driving off the men at work.
The police fired into the air in the hope of
frightening off the strikers, but the latter
returned the fire, wounding two of the
officers, one fatally. A number of the
men at work were roughly handled. Later
in the day the authorities succeeded iii
arresting nine of the strikers and sent
! them to the Lockport jail.