Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-08-11
IN GENER

Jay Gould has ordered the sale of his
yacht Atalanta for 100000.
Ex-ludge Price died yesterday week
at Darlington, Maryland, aged "a years.
Thousands of acres Of cotton in Fort
Bend, Harrison and other counties Of
Texas have been destroyed by the boil
worm.
The statue Of John p. Hale, presented
to the state of New Hampshire by Sena-
tor William +, Chandler, was unveiled
at Concord yesterday week
An explos!a, occurred in one Of the
departments Of the McAbee powder
works at Verona, Pa, yesterday morn.
ing week, instantly killing A. Moss, o
workman, and partly wrecking the
building.
A dispatch from Phenixville, Pa,
says that fires were lighted in all the
mills there on Tuesday week, for the
first time in years, Large orders from
Homestead have been received at the
Phoenix iron works
The steamer Princess Louise, from
Pictou, for Kingston, Ontario, was
struck by the tug Rescue, through some
misunderstanding of signals The
steamer was cut half through and sank
IN few minutes. The passengers and
crew and mails We're rescued.
The knitting mill and the Roman
Catholic church at Strathroy, Ontario.
were burned Tuesday week. Several
Of the women employees of the mill were
injured, two, it is thought, fatally.
The loss by the fire is $780, 900, and 200
an ttt .,f IL
The Houston and Texas Western
Railroad was last week sold at public
sale, at Houston, to u. S. Jameson Of
Now York, one Of the largest bond
holders and claimants, for $1,000, 900.
The land Of the company, amounting to
$500 acres, was bought for 100000.
The pudding department in the mills
of the Ellis II Lessig Iron Company, at
Pottsyille closed down on Tuesday
week, because the helpers went on a
strike. The men claimed that they had
the promise Of 2 cents per heat from the
ilrm, and when this was refused they
quit work,
Annie Carter, an 1S.years-old girl of
II. Louis, who had just returned home
from boarding school, committed sui
eide Tuesday week by taking strychnine.
Her only reason for the act was that her
father would not pay his grocery bills,
and she, being the soul Of honor, did not
care 10 live with such u parent.
Thomas Graham was shot and killed
at Phoenix, Ari., yesterday week, by Ed.
'rcwksberry. The shooting Was thr
result of a family fuud Of five years
standing, during which time 27 men
have been killed on Graham's side ana
IA on Tewksberry's, Graham was the
last one OF -four brothers, all killed, and
Inwksberry the last Of six.
A masked highwayman ATTEMPTED TO
stop superintendent James A. kincaid
Of the Occidental mine, at Virginia Cily.
New, Tuesday weak Kincaid had Sl0,000
in gold III his carriage, with which 10
pay The employees, and he was well
armed, The robber was wounded, and
when subsequently captured was found
to be William Huds, aged "a years, an
employc Of the mine.
\ dispatch from Anthony, Kan. saws
that the abduction Of one county com.
missioner on Sunday and the absence Of
another leads to the belief that this was
part Of o plan to avoid the issue of tan
levy ordered by the ourtforthe paw
mant of the bonded debt Of the county.
Another dispatch says thatthe abducted
commissioner reappearcd Wednesday.
The abductors thought it would lie
necessary 10 detaln him only one day,
but il transpircd that it would REQUIRE
his absence for nine days to accomplish
their purpose. Thinking il would be q
difficult matter to conceal him that