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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08
rs PERSONS DRoWNED.
Wreck of the steamship Wairarapa on
Grent Barrier Island.

SYDNEY, N. S.. W., November l.-Lloyds
agent here confirms the statement pre-
viously cabled to the Associated Press that
i'll passengers and % Of the crew of the
Union Line Steamship Wairarapa were
drowned in the wreck of that vessel on the
coast of New Zealand.
Further particulars from Auckland. N.
Y, in regard to the wreck of the Union
Line steamer Wairarapa, Captain Mcln-
tosh bound from Sydney, N. $. W., for
Ills bort, which was wrecked on Sunday
night off Great Barrier Island, on the
northeast coast Of New Zealand, show that
the loss Of life is not so great as at first re-
ported.
The first reports had it that liz Of the
Wairarapa's passengers were drowned. but
it now seems that 81 passengers and half
of the crew were saved by the lines thrown
ashore and by the boats of the steamer.
On the other hand, Captain Mcintosh, 5S
passengers and 20 Of the steamships crew
were drowned. AT least those are the ing.
lres which are given out by Lloyd's agent
here
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08
GREAT 90 oxcIL IMpD o. r. M.
Close of the Session Friday at Lewss-
appointment of Committees.

Close of the Session Friday at Lewss-
Appointment of Committees.
Special Correspondence of Gazette and journal
LEwEs, Nov. lat this mornings ses-
sion of the Great Council of Delaware,
lmp'd. o. II. NJ, the following great chiefs
were elected for the ensuing year. Great
Prophet, Joseph Pyle; Great Sachem, VIM,
II. Colbourn Great Sycamore, L. A. Zeb-
lev: Great Junior Sycamore. Eli y. White;
Great Chief of Records, Thomas ii. ~.
Messenger; Great Keeper Of Wampum, II.
V. Eason; Representative to the Great
Council Of the United States, John l.,
Thompson.
LRwEs. Nov. 2.-The Great Council I'm
proved Order Of Red Men of Delaware,
assembled in the hall of OElohama Tribe,
No. 20, Wednesday night. The noon train
brought number of representatives from
different parts of the state. The most OF
the members came OH the evening train
due here at 7.45. y,
Grand Sachem George G.. Byron pre-
sided with an attendance of about lug
officers and member and SO past sachems
were admitted, Reports of officers were
submitted and referred to committee of
distribution who made report referring
the different matters of interest to the order
to appropriate standing committee Tor
action.
After considerable preliminary business
WAS transacted the council took a recess
until $50 yesterday morning.
Council reassembled at $50 IL. m. Among
those arriving on the late train Wednes,
day were Great Incohonee IL. A. Patton Of
Mass, Past Great Incohonee Thomas X
Donnelly and Charles f.. Comfy, Greal
Chief of Records of the Great Council q
the United States of Philadelphia, and IL
Hirst Chief of Records of Wilmington
These high officials made interesting ad
| dresses to the State Council.
Reports of standing committees wer'
presented and acted upon.
The next annual meeting of State Coun
Gil will be held in Wilmington on the las
Wednesday in October, 1885.
At IL noon recess was then taken unit
1.30 p. IN. At the afternoon and evening
sessions much routine business was trans
acted. Appointment of subordinate oil
GERS was made by the Great Sachem a
| follows: &. Sannep James Hargis of Nc
6, Wilnington q. Mishenewa, w. M
Prouse of No. 50. Magnolia; q. Guard o
Wicket, J. II. Olinger of No. 3, Whining
ton; q. Guard of Forest, j. b. Phillips o
| No. 80, Williamsville. The elected an
appointed officers were installed by q
Incohonee Patton. Various resolution
were adopted. An amendment to the by
laws of the Great Councils allowing mile
age and per diem to standing committee
was adopted and the first session of tn
Great Council of Delaware ever held i
Lewes and one of the most enjoyable wa
closed at 10 p. m.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08

The most important feature about that
very common complaint, catarrh in the
head, is its tendency to develop into some
other more serious and dangerous disease:
The foul matter dropping from the head
into the bronchial tubes or lungs is very
liable to lead to bronchitis or consumption.
that destroyer which causes more deaths
in this country than any other disease. AS
blood, local applications can do but little
good. The common sense method of
treatment is to purify the blood, and for
this purpose there is no preparation SUI
perior to Hoods Sarsaparilla. The power
full action of this medicine upon the blood
cxpels every impurity, and by SO doing
cures catarrh and gives health to the
entire organism.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08
rIRr IN iNnrANApoLIs
Valuable Masonic Records Destroyed
Eighteeu "CAdaSers'' IN - Medical COL
icge Cgenntcd.


Valuable Masonic Records Destroyed
Eighteen "GatiaSers'' ia u Medical Col
Icge Crehntpd.
lSDtANAPoLts, ISD., Nov. g. Shortly
after 3 O'Clock this morning fire broke
out in the large Scottish Rite Building
located in South Pennsylvania street,
this city The fire rapidly got beyond
the control Of the fire department and
spread to and destroyed the Indiana
Medical College and the indianapolis
National Gas Block. At z O'Clock the
fire had burned itself out and number
of streams were playing upon the ruins.
Several tiremen were injured, one re-
ported killed. The loss will amount to
several hundred thousand OF dollars.
At 4.30, the walls Of the Scottish Rite
Building fell in, carrying with them to
destruction documents of an Invaluable
character and which can never be re.
placed, even at any cost. BY o'clock
the gas company's building, the Medical
College, which was contiguous part OF
the same, and the Scottish Rite Building
we're a smouldering pile Of debris. A
fireman named Samuel Muir fell from
the third floor of the Scottish Building
and was seriously injured. Fire Chief
Webster was also injured on the arm by
falling bricks. ,.,,
Thc"total loss will amount to little
over 100000. The gas company's loss
is 100000; insurance, $2l 900. Tho
Medical College loss is $4,000, covered
by insurance. The Scottish Rite loss
is 100000, with insurance of about
$4,000.
Among the valuable Masonic mattel
destroyed in the Scottish Rite Building
were the Hacker Library, the finest il
the world, and the Masonic collection
of 1000 photographs.
There were IS human picked bodie
in the Medical College, all of which
| were cremat4d,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08
HIS rAx REOEIPT.
Charles Forrest Makes a Statement Deny
ing Certain Charges.

ing Certain Charges.
Special Corresnondence utGazeue and journal
LAUREL, oct. l5.--This is to certify
that neither q. w. Kenney nor any
other man copnived or assisted me TO
obtain my tax receipt. / got 1t in Will
mington about September goth, from o
Mr.. Bach, to whom gave the amount
he said my taxes would be, and from
whom / got the receipt. After | got
registered here the Republicans began
TO question me because ! had said that
| was not going to vote the Republican
ticket this fall and a man who has been
described to me as Mr.. Smith, got pos.
session of the receipt while ! was drunk,
and understand still has it in possess
sion.
make this statement to refute the
allegation that it was put up job.
got my receipt as Republican, having
been known as such during my residence
in Wilmington, and there was nothing
in the transaction | viewed as crooked
or out of the regular form. MIR. Bach
assured me he got q man to so before
the tax receiver and impersonate me
who afterwards gave him the receipt
and added that this method Of imper
sonation was the scheme he used to ge
tax receipts for colored voters and thus
"shut up Dickey's eye" by af1idavit'
made to order when needed,) for thu
man got the receipt of was in the habi
of doing the same for other voters tina
he did for me.
| Witnesses: CHARLES FORREST.
CYRUS WARD,
Mrs. g. @. KNOWLES.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08
SPECIAL JURK.
Drawn for the WheatIy VS.. p, w. b
Railroad Case.

Railroad Case.
The following special jury was drawn
last Saturday in the parliamentary
office for the trial of the suit of Hannah
Wheatly VS.. the p, w. & b. railroad, to
be tried November 18th. Gray and
Massey for defendant and John Biggs
for plaintiff:
Brandywine hundred-W. E. Hus-
bands.
Wilmington-F. B. F. Miller, John
Hamilton, John Guthrie.
Christiana - Joseph p. Chandler,
Herbert Yeates, John w. Chapelle.
Mill Creek-Walter Grace, w Ell.
Mitchell.
White Clay Creek-E. B. Frazer.
New Castle = Edward McCallister,
Jason Davis.
Pencadcr--George D. Medill, Andrew
E. Eliason, Jacob Cocker.
Red Lion-Clayton NJ. Riley, Samuel
b. Armstrong, George A. Cleaver.
St. Georges-John G.. Armstrong
Thomas e. Hurn, Simeon Lord, Jehr
w. Carrow.
Appoquinimink-A. S. Whittock.
Blackbird-John E. Wilson, William
Naylor.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08

Secretary of the Board of Health w. G.
r, Colquhoun reports % deaths for the
week ending noon on Saturday last as COM
pared with IL for the corresponding date
last year; the deaths are classified as fol-
lows. Males, Is; females, II; white, IL
colored s; adults, 10; minors. II; native,
"a; foreign l.. Deaths resulted from the
following causes: Consumption, menu
branous Group, heart disease, premature
birth. each; accident, asphyxia, Bright's
vulsions, dropsy, CASTRO enteritis, general
debility, inanition, marasmus, mitral in
sufficiency, paralysis, peritonitis, pertussis,
typhoid fever, whooping cough, each.
There were Is births, IL white males and
white females. Eleven marriages were
also reported, 10 white and colored.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08
FRAUDULE Nr c0NVBEANcE.
Action to Recover Large Sums on Account
of Quarry Property.

MILWAUKEE, WIS, Nov. "A. X.
Hamilton of the Hadfield Company has
commenced action against the Menominee
Falls Stone Co. and the Menominee Falls
Quarry Co. to compel them to deliver
their property to him, the claim being
made that the quarres in Waukesha
county. owned bythese companies properly
belong in the assets of the Hadtield COM
pany and that they were fraudulently
conveyed to the corporations named.
The value of the quarries is placed at
SlO0 QUO, and the plaintiff in the suit de-
cIares that after the Hadtield Company
had expended $40, 500 in developing them
and before the assignment on February
LIST, 1890 it was incorporated and that the
Hadlields were the stockholders of the
company, thus defrauding the creditors OF
the Hadfieid Company, as the stone quarry
property was not Scheduled among the as
sets of that company as it should have
been. 1t is stated by Mr.. Hamilton that
the Hadtield Company received no consid-
Grafton for the property of the stone com
Dany.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08

Miss Florence Hannum of No. 7o54
Market street was given birthday party
Wednesday evening. Among these pres
ent were. MIR. and Mrs. Charles Ritter,
Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan, Mr., and Mrs. Pierce,
MIR. and Mrs. Barrett, Mr.. and Mrs. Lay
ton. Mrs. Fitzgerald, Mrs. Shipley,
Misses Carrie Ritter, Annie Q. Bryan,
Elsie Scheu, Bessie Shipley, Bessie Carson,
Nellie Shipley, Pearl Booker, Elfreida
Elsie Sparks, Rebecca Sparks and Mabel
Buckmaster. Mr.. Newman, Harry Win
field, Earl Diggins, Howard Grow, Harry
o. Brien Pierce Strops, Frank Strops
Joseph Carlbury, Charles Carmichael, Yer
non Garrett, Roy Layton, Clarence Layton
Leslie Cook, Francis Scheu, William Ship
lev and Lamont Starr.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08

KNOXVILLE, TENN, Nov. 3.-Great
excitement prevails in Sewer county
over the arrest of several prominent
citizens on the charge of being members
of the Graveyard Host" or White Caps.
Ten days ago White Caps were waylaid
while on a midnight whipping expedi-
ton and several of them killed. Since
then il is said that Isaac Brown and his
two sons have told the sheriff every
thing, including the names of over 100
citizens who belong to the organization.
Those now under arrest are William
Brown, Jesse Brown, Isaac Brown, ID.
4. Davis, Bates Davis, Horace Davis, O.
L, Montgomery, Lon Carnes, John
Norton, Arthur Seaton, John Seaton,
William BANNED, Henry McMann and
William Ware. The three Browns, it
is said, will turn States evidence at the
trial. The other II under arrest gave
bonds. They will appear before the
grand jury in two weeks. AS fast as
sufficient evidence accumulates the
others of the 100 whose names have
been secured will be arrested.
A few years ago the Sewer county
White Caps first appeared. Ten masked
men called about midnight at house
in the Second district where four women
lived alone, dragged them from their
beds and whipped them with hickory
switches. The women were nearly
killed. They had been given notice
that unless they left that section in ten
days they would be whipped.
Since the first whipping there have
been about 80 people whipped in Sewer
county by this masked gang of mid
night marauders. On one occasion they
whipped an aged man and his wife be
cause of something, it was alleged, {
member of the family had done, bu
not of any offense of the old people
Later they whipped negro go years o
age because he had been making
speeches i'll the neighborhood for Con
gresham John G. Houk. The Brown
say the White Caps told the negro tina
if he had not been for Houk they woult
not have whipped him.
OF the 30 who have been whipped b,
the gang in two years, two-thirds wer
women, many of them aged and help
less. Seven or eight deaths have beef
caused by the brutalities of the gang
two of these being their own members
SO that the arrested men will have t
answer to the crime of murder as we
as assault and battery.
Every member took an ironclad oatl
the substance of which was that befor
they would reveal anything of tn
workings of the gang they would suffc
their threats to be cut or be burned /
the stake.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08
rwEsrY-sIxrn ANNfrEssABH.
West Presbyterian Sunday-schooi Rende
HII.0 AFine Musical Programme.

"h' AFine Musical Programme.
As usual, at all entertainments given
by the West Presbyterian Sunday
school the auditorium was crowded
Sunday night, the occasion of the Goth
anniversary OF the Sabbath-school.
The pulpit platform was a yeritable
bower OF ported plants and chrysan-
themums of varied hues. In the centre
was displayed a banner with the
promise $40 You and Your Children"
and on either side, large potted palms
placed ON pedestals draped with the
American flag. On the right an extern
porized platform held the primary
children. An open gate was repre-
scented with the text "Sutfer Little
Children to Come Unto Me-" A railing
made of autumn leaves and vines, over
blue bunting, a bouquet Of flowers rep
resenting each post, was very effective
piece of decoration and much admired.
The programmes containing the words
of the hymns sung had fine cut Of
West Church on the first page.
A professional was the first exercise,
in which the members of the Sunday
school entered singing "See the Gospel
Army" The music, under the direc-
ton Of ]. I. Clymer was exceptionally
good.
Little Children, Praise the Lord,
was sung by the primary department
A very pretty exercise was "Fhe Rain
bow" by seven small girls" The inter
mediate department sang selection.
Superintendent Charles Baird read
the report of Sunday school work done
during the year. There are now on rol
five officers, 48 teachers and 742 scholars
and total average attendance of 372
Amount collected during the year wa
S737.33 and balance in the treasury o
$l23.40. This coming year the member
have pledged themselves to raise ~ ,00
additional to defray expense of new
building. The following deaths occurred
the past year: Joseph Leslie Ahrens
Mrs. Eliza Williams, Miss Lizzie Croziei
Miss Mary Huston, Archie Robinso
and Sidney Kirk. SIN Memoriam" wa
sung by the church quartet. "Sometimt
Somewhere" was recited by Miss Molll
Bonner. The Rev. A. N. keigwin mad
an interesting address TO the youn
people.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08

What Mothers Say.

The keen parental instinct is sharper in
its perceptions than the tutored brain of
the philosopher; therefore, when mothers
nothing like Hale's Honey of Horehound
and Tar for the coughs, colds, hoarsness
and croupy symptoms to which children
from their imprudence are especially sub
iect, no man who understands human
nature will discredit their testimony. For
sale at all drug stores at % and 80 cents
and 81. Great saving by buying large size,
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure i'll one
minute,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08
COHEN An I!MFoRMER,

His Friendship for the jewish People
Did Not Prevent Him From Informing
Ona Member of the Race.
1t appears that the friendship Of Simon
Cohen for the members of the Jewish
colony in this city is not as deep rooted us
Cohen would have them believe. State
when they made inquiry for the where
abouts for Max Gcist, who skipped his
bail and fled to Rhode Island, Cohen
offered for S25 to give the information
that would lead to his arrest.
1t is asserted that Cohen did give the in
formation and that Phillip Plunkett, who
was on Geists bond, paid The S25 to Cohen
for the information lie gave concerning
was Geist's bondsman. Geist is now in
| New Castle iail
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08
rEmpEHANoG MEETING
Sunday Afternoon at the Opera Hous
Large Attendance.

Large Attenuahcts
A gospel temperance meeting under
the auspices of the w. G. I. U. was
held in the Opera House Sunday af-
ternoon, and was largely attended.
The meeting was presided over by the
Rev. S. b. Meeser of the Second Baptist
Church, and a fine programme of music
rendered by the choir of st. PauPs NJ.
i. Church.
On the platform and to the front were
seated Miss Anna Semple, Miss Margaret
s. Hilles, Mrs. G. S. Capelle, Mrs. M. A.
Taggart, Mrs. L. Marks, Mrs. Ell Men
denhall, Mrs. A. Ii. Berlin of the w. Q.
t. u, the Revs. I. L. Terry, @. f.
Hendricks, ]. b. Quigg, w. P. Swartz,
S. A. Morgan, ]. ID. G. Hanna, l.. w.
Layfield and others. The speaker, Mrs
Ella A. Boole, made strong plea fol
adjustment of the saloon, which, she
said, was Misunderstanding, soluble
stroying and law-defying business. The
w. G. r. u, next to the church, is doing
more good than any other organization
We are engaged in raising a great tent
and that tent is Prohibition.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08

Missouri Stookey of No. 92l Poplar
street, was given a surprise party Thurs
day evening. Among those present were
Miss Lulu Pemar, Charles Dickersou, Miss
Doll Grantland, Benjamin Paris, Miss
Ethel Garrigen. James Quinn, Miss
Martha Adams, Thomas Grantland, Miss
Nettie 0verdeer, Earnest Driscoll, Miss
Anna Sparks. Charles Grantland, Miss
Perla Lopez, Miss Lulu Lopez, Miss Emma
Ibaugh, Miss Marion Quinn. Miss Edna
Courtney, Miss Alice Brown. Miss Bertha
Stout. Mrs. Stookey, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Lopez, Mrs. Seryison, Mrs. Quinn. Mrs.
Sergeant, Miss Ella Lopez, Miss Florie
SerVison, Wilburt Horsey, Miss Emma
Sprague, Fred Messick, Miss Goldie Hud-
son, Edward Hendrickson, Miss Ida
Bristoe, Harvey Smith, Miss Olive Muir
phen, Peter 0verdeer, Miss Mamie Fore
man, Charles bickerson, Miss Mary Brice,
| Frank Sparks, Miss Nellie Hazard, Charlie
| Seyfried, Miss Hannah Hudson, William
Morton, Miss Bertha Randall, Harry
| Hobbs, Miss Matte Sheppard, Willis
| Overdeer, Miss Maud Boynton, Willard
| Stout, Miss Stella Boynton, Harry Morine,
| Miss Maggie Dickerson, Leon Easom, Miss
Mollie Horsey, Harry Dickerson, Miss
Sallie Richards, Homer Davis. Miss Lille
Durham, Frank Kelley, Miss Mamie
Kitchens, George Lockwood and Miss
| Florie Barney.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08
ROiRD or TRADE.
The Committees Appointed Thursday
by President Mullen.

by President Mullen.
At the meeting of the Poard of Trade,
Thursday evening, President Mullen APP
pointed the following committees:
Room--William Belts, chairman; John
NJ Rodgers and Joseph Hill.
Water SUPPLY. Newlin Gawthrop,
chairman; Il. Patzowsky, Harry A. Miller,
A. S. Reed and q. N. Trump.
Development and Protection Of Harbor
Captain Willard Thomson, chairman;
George W. Bush. L. I. Warner, Charles
W. Pussy and Captain Edwin kershaw.
Establishment of New Enterprises-A.
D. Warner, chairman; o. G. Purdy, Will
liam Il. Clerk, II. b. Thompson, Samuel
Ii. Baynard and William L. Porter.
Finanee-Preston Lea, chairman; Il. I,
Warner and ]. Parke Postles.
Sewerage-Charles T. Fritz, chairman;
A. G. Thatcher, $. ]. Wiley, George w.
Stone and Enoch Moore.
Legislation-Charles B. Lore, chairman
r. III. Floyd, W. W. Lobdell, W. r.
Smalley, Washington Hastings and Fred
eric Pyle.
Statistical nformation-John c. Farra
chairman J. ]. Satterthwait, William
Lawton, Frank Taylor, q. q. Cameron
and w. z. Taylor. ..
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08

Among those present at the banquet
of the Philadelphia NJ. L. Conference
Historical Society, Thursday evening,
given in honor of the Board Of Bishops
and General Church Extension Com
mittee, now IN session in Philadelphia,
we're the Revs. Robeet Watt of Scott
Church, and J. H. Howard, D. D., of AS
bury. These gentlemen enjoyed the dis
tinction OF being the only invited guests
south of Philadelphia. B.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08

LONDON, Ont, Nov. 2.'-Kobert E'hl'
ford, husband of the late Annie Pixley,
the actress, has arrived in this city with
the ashes Of his wife, whose body was
cronated in England shortly after her
death there about year ago. Fuifurd's
purpose is to inter the ashes beside the
remains Of his wife's only child, son
who died in infancy and whose grave
the mother visited yearly and kept
bright with flowers.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-11-08
FOR FORT DELAWABE.


Made by a Democratic Congress.
The following item of interest is con-
tanned in circular addressed ITO the
Voters of Red Lion hundreds"
II may be interesting to you, to know
that at the last session of the Democratic
Congress $260,O00 was appropriated as
starter for the reconstruction of Fort
Delaware.
The surveying and laying out of the
plans for the work are now being done,
and as soon as completed work will
begin, the funds being available at once.
This is offered for the benefit of oul
Republican friends who have been try.
ing to make large capital out of the
| $4,000, the amount appropriated fol
work on our battery during Mr.. Harri'
sons administration.