Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-04-18
IN GEsEsAL.

Rachel Simms, colored, died at Dayton
Ohio, on Friday. aged 1l3 years.
Prof. James Dwight Dana. of Yale Uni
versity. died at his home in New Haven
Sunday, aged 50 years.
Secretary Herbert has awarded the CON
tract for building all three of the sen. going
torpedo boats 10 the Columbian Iron
Works Of Baltimore.
young man. supposed to be James
Duty, jumped from the centre OF the
Brooklyn bridge into the East river, on
Saturday, and was killed.
James w. Scott. editor and publisher of
the Chicago Tn,cs.Hcrald died suddenly at
the Holland House, in New York, Sun
day afternoon, of apopleXy.
Nelson Calhoun. a negro in custody Mt
Corsicana. Tex, for assaulting Il married
woman, was shot to death Friday by /,
posse Of citizens, US he tried TO escape from
the officers.
John Quigley one OF the five men who
escaped from the Matteawan ASYLUM for
the Criminal Insane on "Wednesday night,
was recaptured Friday in an empty
coal car at New Hamburg, n. y.
Kinney Gore, white, was logged BY
White Caps and ordered to leave tho coun-
try, ut While City. Fla. on Wednesday
night. Hewas suspected of being impli
Gated in the operations Of band OF cattle
thieves.
burglars blew open the safe in the post.
office ut MONTPELIER, Ind, early Friday
morning and stole about $500. Shots were
exchanged by the police and the burglars,
and it is believed that one OF the latter was
wounded.
The will of Frederick Douglass was ad.
mitted to probate by Judge Hagner, in
Washington, OH saturday. and letters of
administration were granted the widow
and Lewis IL. Douglass. n son OF the de-
ceased. Bond was fixed at $4,000.
\ catboat was capsiZed in the harbor at
Baltimore last Friday and Reese Evans.
" years old was drowned. Charles Smith
was the only occupant of the vessel who
could swim. lie saved the other three
men, placing them Oh the overturned boat
| one ut a time.
Secretary Lamont Friday approved
the project submitted by the Mississippi
kiver Commission for the improvement Of
the Mississippi river from the head of the
Passes to the mouth Of the Ohio river
under the appropriation of March ID,
1888, of 81, 665,UO0
Reports from Montezuma, Mexico, give
meagre details of Il desperate tight near
Coyame, between the rebel leader Santa
Teresa and a small detachment of Mexican
troops. Six or eight of Teresa's men and
20 soldiers were killed. More troops are
| going from Chihuahua.
John L. Jones. ex-tirst assistant melter
and refiner of the mint in Carson City,
| New, was arrested on Saturday on the
charge of feloniously taking and carrying
away gold and silver metal, the property
| of the United States, to the value Of
| $4,000. Bail was fixed at S95 GOO.
John Quarles and David Butler wero
convicted ut Atlanta, Ga, on Saturday, of
conspiracy to hang Henry Morley, an in
| former on illicit distilleries in Murray and
neighboring counties. Several indictments
are still pending against White Cappers
charged with Henry Worley's murder.
President P. II. Penna of the United
Mine Workers, has issued manifesto 10
the miners of Che country, in which he
declares that it is impossible now to settle
the wage question by interstate agree.
ments, or even by agreements, and urges
that each district Xix the scale for itself,
The steamboat Continental ran aground
as size was about to pass through He'll Gate
early Sunday morning. She struck the
sea wall at the northern end OF Wards
Island, on what il known as Niger Point.
Her prov was lifted up by the rocky.
| shelving shore, and was driven throulfh
| the sen wall which surrounds the island n
distance of 20 feet. Wrecking tugs failed
to pull her off. Her passengers were taken
off and forwarded to New Haven by rail.