Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-11-23
IN ENERAL.

The Rev. DR.. Charles +. Deems, pas
tor of the Church of the Strangers, in |
New York city, died on Saturday, aged |
70 years.
An infant child of Joseph Hance of
Passaic, N. j., fell from third-story
window Sunday. AN examination by
physician showed that the child was
absolutely unhurt.
BY head-end collision of freight
trains on the Pennsylvania railroad at
Newark, N. j., early Sunday morn
ing, David Green of Philadelphia, an
engineer, was killed.
The Page flour mills, grain elevator,
containing 10000 bushels of wheat,
coopershop and warehouse, at Fergus
Falls, Mimi, wefe destroyed by fire
Wednesday. Loss, 100000.
The United States Secret Service off
GERS during the past year secured 205
convictions, mostly for passing counter
felt coins, and captured counterfeit
money of the face value of $3,s67 lis.
A dispatch from Jacksonville, Ind,
says that Clark county is at present
infested by daring gang of burglars,
whom the authorities have been unable
to capture, although blood hounds have
been employed.
AT Doylestown, Pa, Wednesday, the
| grand Jury returned q true bill against
Wallace Burt, the half-bred Cherokee
| Indian, for the murder of Samuel Nj.
Rightley and wife. The trial will be
held in January.
David Harris, a wealthy iron founder
of Pittsburg. who had been missing
since March LIST, 1890, was found on
Sunday in town in Ohio. He said he
had been in California, but refused to
explain his absence.
Frank Dougherty, aged IS years, OF
Pittsburg, was shot in the abdomen on
Saturday night by his mother, who
claims that the affair was accidental.
The police authorities doubt the truth
fulness of her explanation.
The building of the Western Ware
house and Storage Company, at Kansas
City, was burned Saturday night; loss,
100000 Three firemen were injured,
and Fred Ricketts,, foreman of one of
J the ladder companies, is missing.
DIR. Harry of Gap, Lancaster county,
recently purchased farm in that
, vicinity. In making repairs to the
buildings he found an iron pot under
the kitchen floor filled with gold and
! silver coin, amounting to $4,000.
Captain Edward L. zalinski, United
! States Army, said in Washington, Sat
= urday, that the Brazilian government
:. had offered him $4,000 for one months
e service on Ell Cid in instructing the
s men in the use of the dynamite gun.
. Edward Page, indicted in Roanoke
Va, for being implicated in the lynch
. ing OF the negro Thomas Smith on tn,
. night of September goth, and the first tt
be brought to trial, was acquitted by thu
i jury Wednesday after short delibera
: tion.
IS Judge O'Brien, in New York, Mon
Il day signed the order dlscharglng from
i custody Charles w. Gardner, forme
IS chief detective of DR.. Parkhurst's so
= ciety, whose conviction for extortioT
Z was reversed by the general term 0
Il the supreme court.
IS Joseph Messer, clerk In the Bostol
: Industrial Home of Boston, Mass, an
s. George johnson, a waiter in the sam
: institution, quarreled Saturday nigh
when the latter plunged large mes
% knife into Messer's breast, penetratin
~ ~ the lungs. Messer died on the way to
II HOSPITAL. johnson is under arrest
er The exports of domestic merchapdis
at in October were valued at $50, 913 ,80s
" as compared with $s6,e29, 1871 in Octc
ie Der, 1899. The imports were $5l Gal 10;
Y as compared with $71,999,550 in octc
Il Der, 1899. The excess of exports owe
Al imports In October, 1899, was $15,961
of $3.50, and in October, 1893, 1856, 044 ,033.
ae The British steamer Mohican, Capital
s. Cook, from Swansea, arrived at Ne
y. York on Saturday morning. 81
re brought the captain and crew of ii
u Norwegian bark Lady Lisgard, whic
was abandoned at sea on the 13t
p % instant in latitude 42.36 north, long
ht tude SAB west. While the wreck holt
re together it will be very dangerous In h
,r. path of vessels.
EFF The coroner's jury at Chicago, whic
M investigated the collision Of the Roc
a., Island road at Eggleston last Wedne
W. day week, by which 10 people we
by killed and 80 injured, returned verdi
en- Wednesday recommending that the CO
Dir ductor, hagman and collector of Il
We suburban train be held for ma
no slaughter, and censuring the Ro,
lls Island road for running trains so clio
VI together.
nm The German steamer Markomanni
at Halifax, reports that on the 18th j
ed slant she fell in with the steamer D
is minion, of the Dominion Line, on fiji
sh The fire was gotten under control I
tx following day, after destroying ever
IN thing but small part of the after II
az per deck and main deck. The Domini,
VI was on the way from Montreal to Avo
ses mouth, England, with cargo of Gait
he all of which were burned and their CT
fse cases thrown overheard.
ire The Supreme Court of the Unit
ioa States, Monday, in an opinion read
"a, "a Justice Field, held that the great lal
-he of the United States, and their conne
AZ ing waters, were included within
ant term "high seas" as used in the statu
re providing punishment for crimes CO
~ mitted thereon. The case came up
ne appeal of the United States from
'u os Judgment of the circuit court of
If United states for the eastern district
D0,- Michigan. Justices Gray and BroN
,tal dlssented.
eed There are 244 life-saving stations,
re- being on the Atlantic, 40 on the lax
Ar 10 on the Pacific and one at the Falls
aaS the Ohio. During the last fiscal y,
Inc the number of disasters to vessels witt
.ide the field of the service was AIT. Th
not were on board these vessels 1866 p
lies sons. of whom 3,542 were saved and
in lost. Value of property imperiled '
me $8,Q95 ,0T5, and the amount saved '
Hea S6,449,505. The number of vesE
!, is totally lost was ss. The cost Of mair
lust nance of the service during the year
lslr2S1 1913.