Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-11-07

News reached st. Johns, Newfound-
land, on Tuesday, of the loss of ID men
and several vessels during the recent
gales along the coast.
An entire block of business houses
in Decatur, ILL.,, was burned on Mon
day night, the damage aggregatihg
from $3.50, 900 to $500, 600.
Six or seven attempts were made by
an unknown incendiary on Saturday
and Sunday to burn the Speed Home
for Infants, in Cleveland.
Fire destroyed the business portion
of Anchor, ILL.,, on Monday, and then
spread to the meadows and standing
corn. AT last reports the fire was be-
yond control.
The steamer Missoula is now five
days overdue at Sault Ste Marie
from Duluth, and it is feared that
she has met with some disaster in
Lake Superior.
The State president of the Ohio "a.
P. A." Charles Wildrain, has been
deposed by the State executive com
mittee for attempting "to use the
order in politics. T"
The Douglass brothers, arrested at
Panama; N. ", on suspicion of being
implicated in the Sherman murder,
were released on Monday owing to In
sufficient evidence.
A New Orleans dispatch reports the
killing of a boy, named John Walters,
by Joseph Hinyup, aged IA years, in
Gretna, La. The young murderer was
drunk when he committed the crime.
W. ID. Morange, an old and we'll
known Albany politician, fell down the
elevator shaft Of the Argus building in
that city on Monday and sustained in
juries OF which he died half an hour
LATER s
William Stevenson, farmer, 35
years old, at Costen, Somerset county.
Nd, was shot through the head at the
polls while trying to vote, Tuesday,
by Samuel Dickerson, colored. Steven
son was fatally injured.
Elk Chief of Police Page of ST.
Cunegonde, "a suburb of Montreal, and
Cyrille Moquin of Montreal, were
burned to death in a fire which de-
stroyed a government dredge in the
Lachine canal on Sunday
A fire at Broadway and Blocker
street, in New York City Tuesday night
destroyed the Empire Bank, the Man
haitian Savings Bank and other
porperty valued at $1,000, 900. Six
Gremen arc reported missing. 80
The banks Of Dallas, Tex, dis
covered on Monday that they took in
81, 600 in counterfeit $40 silver certifi-
Gates during Friday and Saturday last,
the two closing days of the Texas
State Fair and Dallas Exposition.
The Green Springs Sanitarium, Il
miles north of Tillin, o., was burned
by an incendiary on Sunday. The 6G
guests. many of whom were cripples
and helpless inyalids, were removed
but lost their clothes and valuables.
The loss is $50, 900.
In Dallas, Tex, highwaymen entered
the city ticket Office OF the Texas 4
Pacific railroad with drawn pistols and
robbed Il. +. Turner, the ticket agent,
of the days sales Of tickets. The
amount taken is variously stated to be
from $500 to sl5, 900. The robbers
escaped.
A stick of dynamite was found Tues
day on the big bridge of the Boston
a Maine railroad, between HaverhilI
and Bradford, Mass The fuse had
been lighted, and it is believed that a
heavy fog from the river which pre-
vailed through the night extinguished
the light.
The 'Katy'' flyer, northbound, for
st. Louis, and the Santa Fe limited,
southbound, from st. Louis plunged
into each other at right angles, at the
crossing of the two roads, in Dallas,
Tex, on Monday morning. The train
men jumped from their engines and
were not injured.
A dispatch from Bellows Falls, VT.
says that Roadmaster A. G. Conner,
of the Bennington & Rutland railroad,
has confessed to misappropriating the
funds of the company to an amount ex-
ceeding $50, Conner has been in
the employ of the company over %
vars and is 65 years old.
A telegram from Kingwood, W. Va,
says that three heavily armed men held
up stage coach near that place on
Sunday evening. A posse of officers
pursued the highwaymen into Penn
sylvania, where all trace was lost.
They are thought to be part of the
old Cooley gang of outlaws.
An Ottawa dispatch says that it is
understood that the Canadian govern
ment will order the release of the
Gloucester fishing schooner Nicholson,
which has been found guilty of vic
lating the fishery laws, on payment Of
a fine of $1,000, the government waiy
ing all proceedings in the admiralty
court for tho confiscation of the vessel.
1t is thought that Secretary Herbert
will delay final action in the matter Of
the ram katahdin until Congress mccis,
:" in order 10 give the Bath iron works
of Bath Me-, tho contractor, M OPP
portunity TO secure modificstion of
the explicit language of the attract
that il the vessel fail to make Knots
she shall he rejected, instead ol aliow
ing her acceptance. as is customary, at
a reduced price, prnportionaIc TO tho
falling off in gpeed ,f7iIsl