Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-12-07
~ GENER4L.
Scarlet fever is epidemic at Montreal.

Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma were
visited by II snow storm Saturday.
The Haymarket Theatre, in Chicago.
was burnt Friday. Loss, $4,000; full
insurance.
The official count Of the vote in Colorado
shows that woman suffrage was successful
by 6,3iI majority.
The Thornton worsted mills, Tenth street
and Columbia avenue, Philadelphia. were
burnt Friday night. The loss is S235, 600.
Tho United States warship Portsmouth
went ashore at noon Friday in the East
river, New York harbor, during fog
A terrific wind and rain storm passed
over Gorkville, S. c., Sunday afternoon,
unrooiing buildings and doing other dam
age.
The Republicans at Chicago Saturday,
nominated George B. Swift for mayor.
The Democrats nominated John p. Hop
kins.
General William Lilly, congressman-at-
large from Pennsylvania, died at his
home at Mauch Chunk, Friday, aged
" years.
Judge E. C. Billings of the United States
circuit court for the Second district of Lou
isiana, died Friday at New Haven, Conn,
aged "a years.
Major Charles J.. Dickey, retired officer
of the United States army, died suddenly
at Beaver Falls, Pa, Wednesday night,
aged So years.
A fire in one of the vaults in the United
States sub-treasury at Cincinnati on Satur-
day destroyed a number of pension checks
and other records.
BY snow-slide at Glendale, Montana,
on Saturday, Nicholas Bergstrom and two
children were killed. Mrs. Bergstrom and
babe were saved.
Mrs. Russell and her eldest daughter, IS
years old, were frozen to death in the
woods three miles from their home at Pine
City, Mimi, on Friday.
Charles Gunderson, in Chicago Sunday
night, shot and killed Sarah Carr, aged 10
years, the sister of his .betrothed, The
shooting was accidental.
Stephen Billings Ransom, Jr. we'll
known lawyer OF Jersey City, Prohibition
candidate for governor of that State in
1880 died Sunday, aged 20 years.
Mrs. Fryer, better known as pauline
Cushman,n a noted female scout of the
rebellion, died in San Francisco. Saturday,
from the effects of q dose of morphine.
AT Warrington, w. Va. the steam boiler
of an oil well rig, on the lot of B. Il. Garlic
ton, in town, exploded Saturday evening,
wreckiDg six houses and badly injuring
two small children.
Capt. Israel Lacey, owner of the Anchor
pottery in Trenton, n. j., died Sunday
at his home near Bordentown. He was
03 years old and had been in the pottery
business half u century.
Abe Stein & Co.. New York, importers
of goatskins, failed Friday for 81, 900, O00
The leather firm of Edwards & Barrett of
Boston, failed for, 100000 III trying to
carry the former firms paper.
A n a.
entered the house of ID. j. Sherman and
assaulted Miss Sherman, who was alone.
Her brother came in before the assaiant
could escape and killed him with a stiletto.
ii. g. North, a commission merchant of
Denver, was sand. bagged and robbed of
$3.50 and a gold watch, in an alleyway
within few feet of crowd of men who
were reading the bulletins at a newspaper
office.
By the explosion of a saw mill boiler at
Navy, w. Va, on the Norfolk & Western
railroad on Saturday, Allen Brown was
killed, and Will Capley, Henry Capley and
Harvey Lewis were seriously hurt, the last
two fatally.
William Gordon, aged &c years, of Hunt
ingdon. Pa, while performing balancing
act ON the Recovered side railing of the
high iron bridge spanning the Juniata
river there, Sunday evening, lost his euui-
librium. and, falling into the water, was
drowned,
A fire in Baltimore, Saturday night, de-
stroyed four large buildings occupied by
business firms on South Paca street, caus.
ing loss estimated at S400 900. A girl en-
ployed in one of the buildings was danger
ously injured by. jumping from second
story window.
At Meadville. Pa, Saturday, G. D. Bailey
and Ernest Winans were out rabbit hunt
ing. While Bailey, who wore fur cap,
was crouched behind a huge pile of logs,
Winans saw his friends cap, and mis-
taking II for RABBIT, fired his gun. Bailey's
head was blown off.
An unknown colored man, Saturday,
ate a hearty meal in Chicago restaurant
and staSted to leave without paying for it.
He was stopped by Ralph Butler. a waiter,
and in the fight that ensued Butter plunged
a huge knife into the mans abdomen,
tntiicting fatal wound.
Judge Winters, at indianapolis, on Sat
urday, handed down his decision in the Iron
Hall case. He continued the receiver, and
ordered him TO close ZIP the affairs of the
order and distribute It's assets among the
members. In brief. the decision wipes the
order of the Iron Hall out of existence. A
new. trial was asked, overruled, and ex-
ceptions taken.
A dispatch from Omaha saws that the
condition of the bank of the Missouri
river from point above Florence to the
stretch below East Omaha is such that
mass-meeting of the citizens was held on
Saturday, AT which it was decided to call
upon the government to take immediate
precautions in order to prevent the river
from cutting q new channel,