Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-09-12

Richard Mansfield, the actor, who
has been seriously i'll in New York.
was Monday pronounced ont Of danger.
The planning mill of the Santa Clara
Valley Lumber Co., at San Jose, Cal,
was destroyed by fire Monday Loss,
$50. 900.
Jacob Van Rye, a steamboat owner,
of Holland, Mich, shot and killed his
wife on Sunday and then committed
suicide.
The Supreme Lodge, knights Of
Pythias (colored) commenced its eighth
biennial session in st. Louis, Mo-,
Monday.
A party OF Salvation Army members
was mobbed at Belleville, ILL.,, ON Sun
day, and compelled to retreat to their
headquarters.
Mrs. Clara Macarthur, the woman
who jumped from the Brooklyn bridge
on Saturday, was Monday fined S5
and dismissed.
The town of Gridley, in Coffee
county, Kan, was completely destroyed
by storm on Sunday afternoon.
Twelve inches of rain fell.
At Galveston, Ind, Monday, Frank
Kemp, Is years Of age, shot and fatally
wounded his father, Daniel KEMP The
cause OF the shooting is not given.
John Lynch, aged Is, was killed and
several persons we're injured at STAPLE
ton, Staten Island, on Sunday evening,
by the overturning OF tally-ho.
A transfer boat of the New York.
New Haven e. Hartford railroad ran
down a sailhoat in the East river Mon.
day, and Mrs. Marsh was drowned.
Louis Cox and Charles Sweet were
killed by n fast train on the Chicago &
Northwestern railroad on grade cross
ing at Crystal Lake, ILL.,, on Sunday.
During the year 1894 japan sent
goods TO the United States valued at
s22, 00s, 1886, and received from the
United States goods valued at $50, :
$40, 130
James DeGroff, aged IA years, Of
Hillsdale, N. Y, was found dead on
the road, Monday, his skull having
been crushed by an iron bar. Martin
Grover, a neighbor, is suspected of
having committed the murder.
A dispatch from Pittsburg, Kan,
says that never have such rains been
known there as have fallen for the
past three days. The whole country is
flooded and the tracks of all the rail
roads leading into the city have been
MdnItl
Fort Scott, Kan, was inundated
Sunday night, severe rain storm
causing Marmaton river, Mill creek
and Buck run to overflow their banks
People in the lower part of the city
have moved out, some of them having
to leave their houses in boats.
A dispatch from Newark, N. j., says:
ga question has been raised as to the
validity of the endorsement of the name
Of the Domestic Sewing Machine Co.
to notes aggregating $500, 600 held by
certain New York banks. These banks
claim that the notes are legal and valid,
as do other creditors of the company.
An incendiary fire. which started in
an unoccupied building early on Sun
day morning, destroyed the business
portion OF Liverpool, N. S., including
IL stores, the "Advance" and the
Times" newspaper offices, the sherifP's
office, number of dwellings, the Con
gregational Church, Trilby Hotel
Music Hall, Jubilee Hall and several
offices. The loss exceeds Sl20, 600.
A dispatch from Phoenix, Ariz., says
that ID. p. Conroy, auditor and general
Office manager of the Maricopa 81
Phoenix railroad, was arrested on Sun
day, on suspicion of having murdered
j. II. Miller, commercial agent of
Maricopa and Phoenix, who was found
dead in the rear OF the company's
offices, on Saturday nigt I, with bullet
in his temple. Conroy claims that
Miller committed suicide.