Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-05-12
IN GEa ERAL.

| anu is not expected 10 recover.
l.. D. Slaughter and Thomas Bailey
negro murderers. were hanged at the
county Jail at Little Rock Friday.
Eight hundred workmen are idle in
Decatur, Illinois. as result of strike OF
carpenters to gain 27d cents per hour pay.
Huntingdon county, Pa, is without a
dollar in its treasury and the legal limit OF
assessment on real estate has been reached.
The section hands employed by the
Wabash railroad between Chicago and st.
Louis arc out on strike. The men have
been receiving slips, and now demand 81 80
day.
The Flint Smith Lumber Companys
boom on the Flint river, Michigan, gave
way on Saturday and 1000, 900 feet of pine
logs were lost.
The salt works of the Buffers and Peters
| SAT- and Lumber Company, Huntington,
Mich. was burned Sunday, causing q
loss of $4,000.
Joe Partrie was killed by brick thrown
by some unknown person while he was at
tempting to quell riot among Italians in
Altoona Sunday.
Burglars broke into the post office at
White Plains, New York, Saturday morn
ing, and stole large amount of stamps
and many registered letters.
The, Massachusetts supreme court on
Saturday decided that the oleomargarne
law was constitutional, being but the exer-
else oil the police power of the state.
John Bruno, the French Canadian who
is serving a 30 years sentence in the New
hampshire state prison for murder, is en-
deavoring to starve himself to death.
James Gilmartin, a longshoreman, was
killed in lodging house i'll New York on
terday by being stabbed by a colored man,
over whom he had emptied pitcher of
| water.
Henry il. Barr, general agent of the
Philadelphia g. Reading railroad at Ches-
ter. Pa, was arrested Saturday, charged
with the embezzlement of $500 of the
company's funds.
The Michigan Salt Company has reduced
the price Of salt 10 cents u barrel at all
western agencies, including Chicago, Mil
| waukee and st. Louis. This cut is to meet
New York and Ohio competition.
The infant child of Levine Booder of
Bethlehem, Pa, Friday secured a bottle
OF carbolic acid that had been left standing
N a window, and poured the contents over
| ITS body. 1t died a few hours afterwards
in great agony.
One span of the Memphis and Charles
ton bridge, over the Tennessee river, at
| Florence. Ala, collapsed Friday. A crew
OF hve men were precipitated into the
river. Two were seriously injured and
brakeman Hamlet was killed.
Private dispatches received at Santa Fe
announce that Jay Gould is quite i'll, being
confined to his bed in his private car at
albuquerque N. NJ, and that he will not
| probably be able to reach Santa Fe, as was
his intention when he left FL Paso.
Henry NJ Miller, the ex-treasnrer of
crawford county, Pa, who deposited $780,
| 900 of public funds in the Delamater bank
Ihe Gay before 1T failed, was arrested on
Thursday in Chicago on charge of en-
bezzlement and taken to Meadville.
The sash and blind factory Of jenkins &
Co., A7 Canal street, New York, was de-
stroyed by fire early Sunday morning.
The loss was S34, 900. The factory was adj
Joining Earle's Hotel, and the guests were
all aroused and gotten out without a
panic.
A Montreal dispatch says: "The migra-
ton OF French Canadians TO the New Eng
land States is large. 1t is stated that for
two months, the. regular trains on the
Grand Trunk railway carried each week
about LOCO French Canadians to the
United States"
At the 6Sth anniversary of the American
sunday-school Union held in Washington
Sunday, the annual report, presented by
Rev. DR.. James NJ. Crowcll of Phladei-
phia, showed that 1,664 new Sunday
schools. with 7,0lS teachers and 59,55l
scholars had been established during the
past year.
AT lratt's Mills, Alabama, Friday morn
ing, DIR. u. Il. Siddell and G. l.. Miller
broke INTO store and were confronted by
band of detectives. Siddell was shot and
Killed as he attempted to escape, but, before
dying, confessed to having been the leader
of the band that robbed q Georgia Pacific
railway train last March
The business failures occurring through
out the country during the last seven
days, as reported to X. G.. Dun a. Co..
number for the United States 1856, and for
Canada %. For the corresponding week
of last year the figures were 342, represent
ing 2l2 failures in the United States and 30
in the Dominion OF Canada.
Colonel George w. Bushyhead, dele
gate to the Baptist convention being held
IN Atlanta, Ga, died Saturday. Colonel
Bushyhead was an ex-chief of the Cher
okec Indians of the North Carolina reser-
Walton; He was cousin of the famous
Bushyhead of the Cherokees of the reser-
walton in the Indian Territory.
An unsuccessful ATTEMPT was made to
rob an express train ON the Missouri, Kan
sas " Texas railroad, near Burton, Texas,
Thursday night. AS the engineer slackened
speed in obedience to a red lantern signal
he saw masked iuen in the bushes and
started his train ahead. The would-bc rob-
pcio ilitu otfcrdi SllUtS ht the Train.
Advices by the steamer Empress Of
China mention that the defalcation in the
Chinese "Compradore' of the Hong Kong
and Shanghai Bank has caused several
Chinese banks to close their doors. This
has shaken confidence in Hong Kong
securities and brokers estimate the net
decrease in local stocks at SIS, $50, 900.
Charles Hunt, an optician from Phila-
Sdeiphia,, attempted to commit suicide,
Thursday night, in front Of the house in
Reading where his wife lived. Mrs Hunt |
had applied for divorce and when she |
refused to live with her husband he cut |
his throat with razor and shot himself |
in, the. mouth. His injuries are not con
sidered fatal.
Charles Tanetin, stevedore, plunged |
into the furnace of tugboat at San Fran |
cisco. Saturday evening, and roasted him |
self to death. Shortly before dark Tame |
tin tried to jump into the bsy from tbe
dock, but was restrained. Then he asked |
permission to goin the fire room and warm |
himself. Iiefore the engineer could catch |
him his body was cracking on the bed of |
red hot coals.
dispatch from Douglass, Wyoming.
says that Jones and Walker, two trappers
who were the only known witnesses
against the cattlemeR now in custody at
Fort Russell, so far as the charge of murder
IS concerned, have disappeared. They
were nominally in custody of deputy
sheriff, but on Wednesday night went
out for walk and, so far as the authori.
ties know. ARE still walking
The Massachusetts supreme court on
Friday rendered decision that payment
cannot be enforced for bill for intoxicat-
ing liquors sold and delivered in Boston,
but intended to be resold in Maine. The
court holds the contract void because the
seller OF the liquor not only knew what
use was to be made Of them, but facilitated
a inn, of ha H.. |