Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-08-03
IN GENERAL.

Oneida county, August 18th.
The last patient in the typhus fever hos
pital on North Brother Island, New York |
harbor, was discharged yesterday week.
Two young children of William Gaynor,
d farmer, near MLncie, Ind, fell out of a |
haymow yesterday week and were killed.
Twenty-seven persons in Louisville who
drank milk procured from the dairy of |
Frank Moser, were poisoned yesterday |
week.
Ticknor & Co., publishers of Boston,
who succeeded to the business of James r.
Osgood d Co., when the latter failed i'll
1885. made an assignment Thursday.
Seventeen locomotives of the Union Pa
cific railroad we're selZed at Council Blutfs,
Tuesday week, on claim for county taxes
of 1891, amounting to nearly $4,000.
The Champion Wagon Company of
Oswego New York, the chief industry of
that city, employing over 100 men, has
ordered reduction of 20 percent in wages.
Complete returns from the Eighth Con-
gressional District of Pennsylvania show
that Howard Mutchier, DEM, was elected
to Congress over Frank Reeder, Rep, by
nearly 400.
Dir. Atkinson of the Pennsylvania State
Board of Health, stated Thursday that
Wazeek Prosch of South Chester, died on
Wednesday of sporadic cholera, due 10
unmitigated filth and unhealthy food"
The residence of Daniel p. Eells, at
Riverbush. near Cleveland, o., with its
contents, including valuable works OF art,
books and relics, was destroyed by fire on
Wednesday night. The loss is 5000. 600.
Dr. George Fisher committed suicide in
Rochester N. T.. Wednesday night, by
drinking an ounce of hydrate of chloral.
He left on his desk certificate of his own
death filled out in his own handwriting.
Gen. George w. Morgan, who was the
only surviving general Of the Mexican
war, died Wednesday, at Fortress Monroe,
Va, where he had gone from his home in
Mount Vernon, O., for his health. He
was rs years old.
Adyices from Hong Kong, received at
San Francisco, Thursday, give details OF
terrible explosion AT the government pow
der magazine, at Canton, June oath, which
killed many persons, in1uring over 800 and
| wrecking 400 houses.
Leo and Clio Mendoza, trapeze perform
| ers, had fall in the Olympic Theatre. in
| Chicago, Tuesday week. The rope used at
the close of their act to reach the stage
broke. Leo sustained internal injuries.
| Clio escaped with bruises.
| During violent storm at Coney Island,
Yesterday week, T. L. Loomis of Brook
| Ign, while bathing, was struck and killed
by lightning. Two men and one woman.
| who were in the water at the time, were
dangerously injured By the same electric
bolt
Clarence NJ. overman, late president and
cashier of the Citizens National Bank at
Hillsboro, Ohio, was arrested Wednesday,
charged with embezzling 100000 of the
banks funds, and with making false en-
tries in a report to the comptroller of the
currency.
AtSt. Louis. yesterday week, Jacob Helms
and Henry Kaiser were convicted of the
murder of Edwin Il. Brown, a wealthy citi.
zen. Brown was stopped by three footpads
OH the street near his home, on the night OF
March I'd, and so brutality beaten that he
died within an hour.
NJ. S. yanburen and three horses were
blown to fragments by an explosion OF
nitro-glycerine, which was being placed
on wagon at Samples Station, near Pitts
burg, Thursday morning. Several person:
were injured. Two brothers of Vanburen
who stood near by, escaped in wonderful
manner.
A dead body, supposed to be that of w
H. Irving Of Winthrop Beach, Mass; wa!
found on the lake shore at Chicago Thurs
day. The condition of the body Indicated
that the man had filled his mouth with
powder and ignited it, The police think
there is ground for a suspicion that thu
man was murdered.
The steamship Oceanic, which arrived
at San Francisco from Hong Kong
brought news of the wreck, on June l4th
Of the Russian cruiser Vitiaz, on reef of
/ the coast of Corea, during typhoon, il
days. Two officers and Ia OF the crew werl
drowned, or are missing.
L. S. Francis, cashier of the Pittsfielt
5 National Bank, in Pittsheld, Mass, sho
and killed himself Thursday. His conduc
of the business of the. bank was not 'ap
proved by the directors, and in addition
Francis had domestic troubles, q legal sep
aration being recently arranged between
himself and wife. He was 81 years old.
A telegram from Cincinnati says Judg,
Wilson issued an order Thursday the effec
> of which IS that cigarette dealers may con
; tinue selling their wares after August LIST
| without putting up the special tax, unit
further order OF court. The wholesale AM
retail dealers combined to test the Law
, The retail tax is 500 and the. wholesal
!, tax $500 per year.
The latest advices received in 0ttawf
Ontario, from Sir John Thompson, who
still in Paris, state that the British are nc
I now SO hopeful of winning the Behrin
, Sea case as they were a shoa time ago.
+ is also thought here that the attitude G
! the British government i'll connection wit
. the Siam difficulty may tend to injur
: their case before the arbitration board.
!, The steamer Santiago of the New. Yor
v & Cuba Mail Steamship Line, which lei
4 New York on July Doth, for Guantanamo
r &c, via Nassau. stranded Oh the oath il
! slant at Egg Island nine miles north c
Nassau light, and has 10 feet of water i
her forward hold. She will have to di
charge the rest of her cargo before she ca
t be tioated. The passengers and crew al
d safe.
/ William G. Taylor, a negro. wa
i executed in the electric chair at Aubur
4 prison, New York, Thursday, for the mu
der of Solomon johnson, fellow prisone
Taylor was not killed at the first conta'
: of the electric current and the chair brol
i down; when the authorities tried to tur
on the current again it was found that Ii
armature of the dynamo had burned on
After an hours delay, during which Ia.
u Tor lay unconscious, but breathing. I'll
l. city electric light current was connectt
l. with the prison apparatus, and Taylc
u was killed.
n Several of the New York banks Thur
y day decided to extend to the large e.
u change houses whatever aid may be niece
sary TO facilitate the importation of gol
Owing to the low rates OF exchange. Sc
"A eral large houses considered it q fayorab
q time to purchase gold, and to this end thu
q approached the banks to ascertain if Il
"a necessary accommodation would be e
70 tended. The banks replied that eve
d facility would be afforded them, and {
the strength of this nearly s30O0,OOO
IN gold was ordered for Saturdays shipme
from the other side.