Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-11-14

Killed outside the State
IN GENEEdL.
Rear Admiral Robert Wilson Shu-
fel1t U. S. N, died in Washington
Thursday, aged 73 years.
A heavy snow storm quenched the
forest fires in the neighborhood of Black
River Falls, Wis, Thursday
The Torrens Land Tile system was
adopted in Cook county, Ill, Tuesday
week by majority of II, 259.
Mrs. ID. p. Bowers, the known
actress, died Wednesday morning in a
Washington, D. G.. ,aged 65 years.
A San Francisco dispatch says that
the Fair will contest has been settled
and the estate amicably divided among
the heirs.
An estimate places the total damage
by marsh and forest fires in five coun-
tics, Lake, Porter, Laporte, st. Joseph
and Pulaski, at $3.50, 600.
The long drouth in the Kankakee
region in Indiana was brought to an
end on Wednesday night by rain, the
first which has fallen for 60 days.
The liquidating trustees of the Stan
dard Oil Trust in New York Thursday
declared special division of per cent
in addition to their usual quarterly
division.
The New Jersey census compilation,
Just completed, shows the population Of
the State to be 1,672, 942, an increase
since 1890 of 22S. 900. Newark heads the
list of cities with 2l5,sl6
At Whitehall, n. Y, Wednesday, the
canal boat w. Ii. Swift, loaded with
hay, was burned and the captain, Larry
Sutton, and the steersman, James
Burke, were burned to death.
The furniture factory of the Woodson.
johnson Co., in West Lynchburg. Va.
was burned Wednesday. Loss, 800, 600 I;
insurance, S32, GOO. The fire is be-
lieved to have been of incendiary
origin.
While in a drunken frenzy William j.
Barry, aged 36 years, in New York, yes
terday, tried to murder his two sons
as they lay in bed by beating them over
their heads with cleaver. 1t is thought
the children will recover.
The steamer Portia, from New
York, arrived at st. Johns, N. F., on
Wednesday night On the voyage an
insane passenger named Buckingham
Jumped overheard and was cut TO pieces
by the steamers propeller.
Judge Hughes, in Wheeling, w. Va,
Thursday decided that the State law
taxing cigarette dealers was constitu-
tional. United States Judge Goff re-
Gently declared the law unconstitu-
tional under the Interstate Commerce
act.
Adam Kunkle, wealthy farmer of
Millersburg, o., was swindled out of
81, 300 Thursday by couple of individ-
uals with a gold brick. When 1t
dawned on him that he had been swim
dled, he bought revolver and killed
himself.
Tho house Of Nils Dabhert, in West
Superior, Wis, was burned on Wednes-
day. One daughter, aged ), was burned
to death, and another daughter was
seriously burned. Mrs. Dahlbert, who
was i'll with typhoid fever, is in criti-
cal condition, the result of shock.
A dispatch from Cape Charles, Va,
says that the annual inspection of tho
Now York, Philadelphia & Norfolk
railroad was made Thursday by the
president, A. j. Cassatt, Vice Presi-
dent William A. Patton of Philadel-
phia, and the Board of directors.
About 90 firemen were more or less
injured in the fire at Broadway and
Bleecker street, in New York City, on
Tuesday night The men who were
missing have been accounted for and
i is believed there was no loss of life.
The total losses are estimated at $780,
600.
(hiaf Hoga,, ,e +ho coo.o1 s,.-.,:. -.
been informed that his officers in Chi
cago have captured 10000 counterfeit
United States stamps and the plates
from which they were printed. The
stamps were made by the "Mrs. Mack
gang, nearly all of whom are now in
custody.
John b. McGoldrick, clerk of the New
York City court and secretary of the
Tammany Society, is reported in
dangerous condition, as the result of
stab wound received, as alleged, early
Wednesday morning, at the hands of
William Bowling, bartender. Dowl-
ing ID under arrest.
A special train arrived at DEVILS
Lake, N. D., Thursday morning, on
the Great Northern railroad, with 10
special policemen, Is new conductors,
% brakemen ard three firemen. The
arrival of these men in expected to
break the strike, as the delayed trains
have been sent out with the new men.
The yards are patrolled by deputies.
The Chickasaw Legislature has
passed bill totally repudiating inter
marriage citizens of the Nation-that
is, white men who have married squaws
and declaring them non-citizens,
without any rights whatever. Tho ex-
ecution of this law will be bitterly con
tested, as the 'intermarriage citizens
are by far the wealthiest in the nation,
Gen. Neidas Augusta Bello, the new
consul general of Venezuela in the
United States, arrived in New York
Thursday. Regarding the boundary
dispute, he said: Gan the people Of
Venezuela regard the difficulty with
England as matter to be settled ami
cably by arbitration. British occupa-
ton of territory claimed by Venezuela
as her own is de facto circumstance
which has nothing whatever to do with
the question of rights. That question
can only BIO determined by interna-
tional arbitration. 1t is the firm re-
solve of Venezuela never to yield any
part of the national domain to a for