Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-04-07
Children Cry for Pitchers Castoris


Judge Peter Wood Grain died yesterday
week in Baltimore, aged 81 years.
Stephen Rockefeller Il New York saloon
keeper, was yesterday week killed by
discharged bartender, William Meyers.
Chief Burgess Bloser, of Neville, Cums
berland county, Pa, has declared the salt
of newspapers on Sunday Illegal, and for
hidden il in that town.
A 5-years-old son of William Oliphant,
of Paterson persisted yesterday week in
fire in his fathers barn. lie is supposed
TO have been playing with matches in the
hay.
The Rev. Joshua Shultz, well-known
Sehwenkfelder preacher, fell dead in
pulpit during "a funeral service near Palm
Station, Berks county, Pa, yesterday after
noon week. lie was over 80 years Of age.
Additional charges have been received
by Governor Pattison of Pennsylvania
against the management of the Warren
State Lunatic Hospital. and have been re-
fcrred to the state Board of Charities.
Judge Sherman, in Boston, last week
sentenced William Hamilton, C. A. Barn
ley and G. A. Fraser, who pleaded guilty
to receiving $4,000 stolen from the Order
Of the Rising sun, To five years in state
prison.
The mines of the Aspen Consolidated
Mining Company, at Aspen, and the mines
at Telluride, Col, ara to be shut down in q
few days, according to a dispatch from
Denver, owing to the low prices received
for silver.
Joseph Lyle, an ex-soldier and ex-con-
vict, and ali inmate of the soldiers Home
at Dayton, went to his home at Findlay,
O.,yesterday week and fatally wounded his
divorced wife and one of his daughters
with a Ratchet.
Five workmen in the sulphur mine 10
miles from Lake Charles, Louisiana, were
sullocated by gas Tuesday week They went
to the bottom of an unused well for the pur-
pose of taking out some pipe, and us soon
as the plugs We're taken cut the gas over
came them.
The steamer Newport, at New York
| last week, from Colon, brought MS passen-
gers "A number of Chlians of the Balnaceda
regime, among whom are Espenosa, for
merly minister OF war, j. Mckenna, one
Of the cabinet, and DIR. Cooper, surgeon Of
the Chilian hospital.
Thomas Edwards, farmer, at Madison
| Cross Roads, Ala, was murdered and his
| house burned over HIN on Tuesday week
| Peter Martin and John Mullins, neigh
bors, are accused of the crime. They arc
supposed to be in hiding in the mountains
of Jackson county
The steamboat City Of NorwallI was in
collision with railroad transport boat in
the East river, at New York, yesterday
| week, and her bows were crushed IN.
BY the presence Of mind of her captain the
steamboat was beuchcd on Blackwell S
Island before she hal time to sink.
Philip Scarlet shot and killed Robert
Atwood, at Knoxville yesterday week
Atwood said that Scarlet could not hit
him 10 steps away, and the latter took
up a gun and sent q bullet crashing intu
Arwood's brain. The men had had no
difficulty, aud Scarlet says he thought
the gun was empty.
The President yesterday week sent to the
| Senate the nomination of Frank l..
Coombs Of California to be minister tn
| Japan. Mr.. Coombs is not yet 10 years Of
age. lie is n college graduate and by pro-
fession Il lawyer. He served several terms
in the California legislature and was
speaker Of the last House.
The schooner Maria. one of the British
sealing fleet, put into san Francisco yester-
day week. She was III days from st.
Johns, New Brunswick, and was badly
crippled, On the 9th instant u blow carried
away her niaintopmast, and on the 2dtli
another gale sprung her loretopmast head
In the afternoon James Anthony fell from
the powsprit and WAS drowned.
A dispatch from Chamberlain, S. d..
says that ''stockmcn west of the Missouri
| river are making actiVe preparations fOi
the spring roundup. All report stock in
fine condition and losses through the win
ter so small as not to be worth mentioning
II is believed shipments this season will g,
the heaviest ever made from the stock
ranges Of western South Dakota
A certificate Of incorporation Of tn,
United States Rubber Company, capita
81, Goo, 900, was filed yesterday week at New
Brunswick, N. j. "The object of the com
pany is to manufacture and deal in rubbe
goods, buy material for manufacturer
and shares of stocks and patents of othe
rubber companies. Every rubber com
panty of any size in this country is in tn
combination, which has bought control
ling interest in the stock, except ma com
pany in Bostoa.'