Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-02-16

An ice gorge in the Susquehanna river,
extending 10 or II miles from a ppinl
above Williamsport, is causing great un.
easiness in that city.
According to adyiCcs received from Val
raraiso, q Gillian warship will leave that
port shortly for San Francisco with eN-
hibiis for the Worlds Fair.
Andrew Carnegie has been confined to
his home, in New York, for three days
with severe cold. His physician does
not allow him 10 see his friends.
Vera T., Ava, alias bliss dc Barr was in
dctrd by grand Jury in Geneva. H., sat
urdav. She is charged with the larceny of
s73a from Irene Mitchell Of Elgin.
A Stevenson Escort club has been organ
lied at Bloomington, ILL.,, and will accom-
pany the Vice rcsidentccct to Washing
ton ON the occasion Of the inauguration
The steamship Bretagnc, which sailed
for Europe saturday, took out S3.2lO0OO
in gold coin. This makes the total of gold
exports for the current year to date
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A dinner was given in New York city,
Saturday night, in honor Of DIR. William
| r. jenkins, health officer Of the port
| United States Senator Hill was the princi-
| pal speaker.
A mass Of rocks in quarry Of the YER
| mont Marble Company, 1T West Rutland
| fell saturday. Five warkmen We're caught
| Under the rocks and crushed to death, and
one was fatally injured.
| Whtclaw Reid, with his wife and two
children, passed through Chicago Sutllr-
day, on bis way to California, whore no
/ will be the guest Of u. ~ Mills, at the lat
/ ter's home, near san Francisco.
Charles Mold and Henry Bauer, the
| rittSburg anarchists, were convicted, sat.
| urday, Or being accessories Of Berkman,
before the fact, in the shooting of H. &.
FrIck. Motions for Il new trial were filed
A negro who was accused Of having as
sautcd white woman at Forest Hill,
Tenn, was, Friday evening. captured and
taken To the woods" His capturs re-
ported that he had disappeared They
had hanged him.
Lieutenant Vance Company G, Sixteenth
/ Infantry, lately Cuurt-mariiulch and dis
missed from tile service for making an as
sault on the wife pf Lieutenant ,lohnstene
ufthe same rCgimcnt,shut himself through
the head at Fort Douglass, Utah, Saturday.
lie cannot survive.
a. r, Walters freight conductor of the
Union Pacific road. WAS arrested i'll Chi,
cago, saturday, on the charge of robbinp
freight cars. Twenty other arrests are t.
made. 1t is said the gang have been opur.
ating for two years, and that their thelts
| will aggregate $4,000
There is considerable excitement III the
oil fields near Toledo, o., over another biz
gusher, which was struck saturday. II i
flowing over / 900 barrels Il dav and can.
not be shut in. The oil is runuingall over
the country. The pressure is SO strong
that nothing can be done 10 save ii.
John Martin, elected by the Populist
House and the Senate of Kansas 10 tit
| United States senate, was in Washington
Saturday, in conference with the Demo
cratic members Of the Senate commtte OF
privileges and elections. II was decided
that Mr. Martin should not present hil
crcdchtial until after the 4th Of March.
The blizzard in Iowa and South Dakot;
continued Saturday undated. Siuu,
City dispatch says that "il some place
the drifts which cover the railroad track,
are 10 feet deep and extend for mile
while the surface Of the snow is SO hare
, that it sustains the weight OF horses anC
cattle. The storm is general Throughout
, the northwest
Father Sherman in n lecture before tn
, Sherman Memorial Association in st
Louis, Saturday night on the domestic lif
+ of his distinguished father, said anon
: other thinEs, that when President Lincoli
suspended his father from military com
g mand during the war it was purely ON tn
i ground that the general was insane. Tn
I contrary was soon proven,
AdviGes received at Montreal from III
northwest territories show that the col
during the past two weeks has been mn
precc tented. Temperatures OF 90 ami 60
i below zero are reported from Assinibuln
"Alanv people are missing ana til
q mounted police are Oul searching turt hGut
n and a teal famine rNlsts all iIuag Tie lil
/ Of he t'anadiIH t'agitlt railrUaN Gra
Il mills ana other establishment, a.".uu
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