Delaware gazette and state journal., 1895-12-12
IN GENER1L.

IN GENERAL.
The Cleveland Cliff Mining Co..
which employs 1000 men in its mines
at lshpeming, Mich, has increased
wages from 8 to 10 per cent.
Benjamin Young was burned to death
In tenement house fire, caused by the
explosion Of lamp, at Gloversville,
N. T., on Wednesday night.
Three men who have been for two
months Systematically robbing freight
cars in the Erie railroad yards at Cleye.
land, o, wero caught on Friday night.
During the past few weeks excursion
parties OF Scandinavians, numbering
5000, sailed from New York to enjoy
their Christmas holidays in the father.
land.
fire in the notion house Of II. Wolf
d Co., in Chicago, Sunday, caused
a loss OF between 5000, 600 and 1900, 900
on the stock and about $50, 600 on the
building.
The Rev. Joseph +. johnson, rector
of Christ's Church. Detroit, has been
elected bishop of the new diocese Of
the Episcopal Church in Southern
California.
Dr. X. j. Fox, n prominent physi-
clan OF Linneus Kan, who was found
guilty of stealing the body of Mrs.
Gates. was Thursday sentenced TO the
penitentiary for three years.
At Luraville, Fla, on Saturday,
Joseph Fields murdered his wife be,
cause be found man with her, anc
stabbed bis little daughter. The lattei
was not seriously injured. Fields es.
capped.
Judge Murphy, in San Francisco,
on Friday, denied the motion for a new
trial in the case Of Theodore Durrant,
convicted Of the murder of Blanche
Lamont. The defence will make an
appeal.
Five skeletons found on Friday in an
abandoned cellar near Larned. Kan.
are believed to be those of party of
land buyers who disappeared IN 1880.
They are said to have come from Penn.
sylvania.
A Tacoma dispatch says that "tbe
Canadian government has LET a con.
tract for the carrying of mails from
Juneau, Alaska, TO Forty mile creek.
which is the territory claimed by tho
United States. "
The st. Louis committee appointed
TO secure the Republican National Con.
vention for that city has secured pledges
amounting to $40, 900 to fund TO meet
the expenses The Chicago committee
has raised $50, 00o
A thousand pounds of nitro. glycerine
exploded in the magazine of the Humes
Torpedo Co., near Butler, Pa. Wednes-
day morning, and two men were blown.
TO atoms. The magazine building was
utterly demolished.
A dispatch from Ashland, Ore, saws
that the Ager klamath Falls stage was
robbed on Thursday for the eighth
time within eight months. The high
waymcn ritled the mail bag and robbed
the sole passenger, a woman, of her
purse.
Judge Winters, in Chicago, on Fri
day, denied the writ OF prohibition TO
restrain Justice Lee from issuing apy
moro warrants against the boss BARRIERS
for keeping their shops open on Sunday.
This is victory for the JNlrncymen'
BARRIERS Association. a'em.
Judge Metcalf, at Lockport, N. w.
on Saturday, senctenced ex Bank Presi
dent Joshua S. Helmer to three years.
imprisonment at hard labor, for deceiy-
ing the State bank examiner. An an
peal was taken, pending which Helmer
was admitted to bail
A verdict of manslaughter was re-
turned in Chicago Thursday against
George Cough, an attendant ut the
Dunning Insane Asylum, for the mur-
der of George Pucik, a patient, last
August. The prisoner was sentenced
to seven years. imprisonment.
At Kalispiol, Mont, on Wednesday,
I. B, Bickers, one of the A. r. U. men
arrested at the time of the attempted
strike on November 4th, was found
guilty of destroying property and inter
fering with tho Great Northern road,
and was sentenced to six months in the
county Jail.
Peter Conlin, who, on the retirement of
Thomas Byrnes, was made acting chief
of police of New York, was on Friday
appointed chief by the Police Commits
sioners. The appointment was made
after Mr.. Conlin had passed civil SER
vice examination in which he had no
competitors.
B. f, Boomer, on trial in Waukon,
Ia, for fraudulent banking, receiving
money on deposit after his bank was
known to be insolvent, was found guilty
on Saturday and sentenced TO five years
in Anamosa Penitentiary and TO pay
nne OF "a, uUu. lt was charged that he
had defrauded depositors out of neari
$40, 600.
Reports of destitution from Il
northern coast of Newfoundland CON,
lipue to be received at st. Joints. \
Messages received Thursday state that
the inhabitants of White Bay are
in condition of almost actual starya.
tion. Traders are afraid TO visit Ger.
tain localities seeking fish, fearing that
their stocks will be taken by the stary-
iI1 people.
A switch engine of the New York
New Haven e. Hartford railroad. liar.
lem River branch, while on its wav Ia
Van Ness. early Sunday morning, left
the track on the curve south Of The
Port Morris station, ran down an EN-.
hankment and turned over, Instantly
killing Thomas Fitzgerald, engineer,
3s years old; Fred Naples, brakeman
40 years old. and Thomas McNally'
brakeman, 40 years old. There we're
three other trainmen in the cab of tho
locomotive, but they escaped with
slight injuries.
A Gem-Parker- l picked nm
a number of curiosties when / was
abroad. Look at that umbrella-I
boupht that in Ton,las - pt