Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-08-18
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u. ;. cruiser No. II was launched Thurs
| day from the shipyard Of Harrison l.oring,
N south Boston, and was christeneu
| Marblchcad.
The grain elevator and mill of Thomas
! .. Chase Il 10, in New York, was dc.
stroted by fire Friday. The loss will
reach Sljj,QUJ.
Henry Mctihec colored, 81 years of age,
was hanged in Houston Tex, Friday,
! for the murder OF officer George Fem,
while resisting arrest.
The work Of thoroughly inspecting the
| New York tenement house districts in
search OF smallpox was begun Friday.
| One case was discovered
Eighteen Indians were drowned recently
| while hunting sea lions near Queen Chaf-
| lutlc Islands, British Columbia. Their
canoe struck a rock during u tliicl, mist.
The figures on South Dakotas prospcc.
tive yield, given OH, by competent men,
range from iO,DOO, 900 10 GO,OJO,uD0 bushels
Of wheat besides immense quantities of
other grains.
| \ New Orleans dispatch says The strict
enforcement of the auti-lottcry law and
| the consequent exclusion Of lottery matter
| from the mails has reduced tile revenues of
the post office Sl03,0D0 per annnm.
| The window glass manufacturers and
| workers having umicably settled the wage
| question upon the basis of last year scale,
operations will be resumed at once. The
resumption will give employment to 3 5OU
men.
Henry Gottleib, well.known lawyer of
| New York, Was arraignci Friday on a
| charge of forgery. II is said that the police
| have over 50 cases of forgery and swiudling
| against him, all committed within six
| months.
\ special force of deputies, armed with
| Winchester rifles, has been sent by the
| sheriff of Fayette county, Pa. to capture
| the members uf the notorious Cooley gang
which has terrorized the community for
some time past.
Several thousand fish in a pond on the
outskirts of Pottstown, Pa, including carp
10 inches long and catfish 10 inches long,
were found floating on the top of the
water. II is believed that water from Gin
ders dumped near by killed them.
Patrick Quinn, the telegraph operator at
| Delaware Station, Pa, ON the Delaware,
| Lackawanna y Western railroad, who was
| shot and seriously wounded by Miss
Hattie Acres of Crespo refused to prose
cute his assailant, and she was on Friday
released.
Thomas Morgan of Carmichaels, Pa. on
| Thursday shot and killed his father, John
Morgan, and at the same time accidentally
shot and fatally wounded his sister CalliG.
| The shooting arose over the childrcn's
opposition to their fathers prospective
marriage.
Alton stitch of Shenandoah, Pa, while
| driving drove OF sheep across the I.ehigh
| Valley railroad Friday, stepped out of
| the pay of II west-bound passenger train
and was struck by another train coming
east and had both legs cut off and was
| terribly mangled.
FIh,. = IL, L.. n
| Dam, New York, was struck by lightning
| Thursday night and his daughter and
| grandchild and Harvey Edwards, rela-
| tive, were killed. The other inmates re-
| ceived severe shocks. A dog crouched
under table was killed.
\ heavy stone wall in the tank room of
the Hartford City, Indiana, glass works
Gaved in on Thursday, killing five men
| and badly iniuring two others. The fall
ing of the wall was caused by the pressure
| Of heavy filling placed behind the walls
| and by defective masonry.
| A chattcl mortgage for 1921, 200, given by
| the New York, Lake Erie Il Western Rail
road Company TO John Lowbcr Welsh
| trustee, was recorded in Newark, New
| Jersey, Friday. The mortgage was
| given to secure payment of a lease for 100
| Wickcs' refrigerator cars until August,
| 1893.
hdviccs have been received in Washing
| ton that our minister tn Chill, Mr. Egat,
has definitely agreed with the Gillian gov
| crnment upon Il convention for the settle
nlGnt OF all tnadjustcd claims Of citizens
OF the United States against Chill by
means of Il claims commission to meet iii
Washington.
y Ncwarh, y. j.. dispatch says that the
Chicago stock yards case was decided by
the vice chancellor Friday in favor Of
the defendants. The case involves several
| million dollars worth OF property. The
successful defendants are the L. l.. WILDLY
Company, the Chicago junction railway
and the Union Stock Yard Company.
seven cases Of diphthcria have occurred
at a hotel in Madison, Wis, and Il dispatch
from that city says the members OF the
board Of health are afraid to close the
hotel because it is claimed thai United
States senator Villas, the owner If the
liotel, has declared that he will bring sut
against them for damages should thcytuke
any steps III that direction
The North American Loan and Trust
company Of Huron, in the circuit court at
Miller, ;. d., Thursday took execution
PAPERS ON 100000 acres of land belonging
IT, the Colonial and United States Mort
gage Company of Hull, England, and will
sell the same Ia satisfy Il Si5. uOO Judgment.
The land is situated in Hand, lieadic,
sphinx, klngshury and BruOkings counties,
Another batch af convicted election in
spccturs were Thursday brough! before he
county court in jersey City for sentence
Judge l.ippincott, however, announced
that owing 10 4 disagreement Of the court.
no sentence would bu imposed at present,
and he continued the defendants on bail to
appear for sentence on September I'd. The
dlsaErceng judge is Kcnney, the other
Judge, Hoffman, being absent i'll Europe.
Charles NJ. Barrett, 80 years of age
resident Of New Brighton, Staten Island
shot himself dead in Il hotel IN Jersey
,ity Friday. He was IN ndilister in the
insurance office of Higgins Cox 4 Barrett,
New York, and Il member of the Man
haitian ana staten Island Athletic Clubs.
lie did not handle any of the firms
money. So his act could not be attributed
r. irregular accounts. II is supposed that
the heat suddenly crazed him lis he had
been Suffering from pains in the head.
\ dispatch fru;a EImirn y, T., saws
that "IelcSraph Operator NanDuHor, who
Was appointed To one Of the vacancies
caused by the discharge Of several Della
ware, lAckawanua 4 Western operators in
that city, was elected from his boarding
house Wednesday night, the proprietor re.
ruSing him board. lie mDnntedau engine
later u 60 to lfOrsehcads for the night.
but as soon as the engineer discovered Van
l'"hors Identity he told the operator that
none but union men could ride on that
engine"
Heavy rains have been falling for sew
eral days throughout southwestern Texas,
covering the drought regions on the lower
Rio Grunde, and extending into northern
Mexico where it has not raned for three
years, and whore much suffering existed.
Nashouts on the railroads are numerous,
aud loss OF bridges are reported at many
places, wntcr.Spout washed away the
tracks of the Southern Pacific in one place
and stranded several farm houses This