Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1880-10-21
RRTTAE BUaINE6s.
A SalOon-keeper's House Sacked
and a Mans skull fractured by
Drunken KtOuRhs.

A SAlOOn-keepers mouse ShcheH
and a Mans skull Fractured by
Drunken Houxhs.
A tragedy, or what may prove tragedy,
occurred Sunday evening Mt the saloon or
Edward Cassidy, Front and Poplar streets,
this being the result not of politics, but OF
whisky. Between 8 and 8 O'Clock Jack
O'Hara, john Savile, Mike Kelley, John
Maloney and another whose name was
not escertaiued, went To tue place and
demanded something to drink lie
landlord was III bed and nia
wife, Margeret Cassidy, was IN charge
OF the place. Ii being Sunday ana The
men already intoxicated. she refused their
demands. The refusal enraRed thfm he.
yond measure, and in their madness they
proceeded 20 ransack the luVur part Of The
house, breaking Windows, kicking /" th'
doors and tearing tho carpet, q iiAla
pointing pistol to Mira. Cnhsldy5 tape
The work Of demolition wns confined to
the two rooms back nf tho bar rupm, the
latter not being sacked for some reason.
In Mre. OAssidy's danger Michael Gunneli
a relative Of hers who was visiting the
house. intertured to protect her, where.
upon the whole five sut upon him and
Knocked him down IL the room, after
which they dragged him cut Into the
back yard aud beat MIN UunprGifully. III
hicting cash over the lett eye ana ifnc.
turing the tkul near thu left tgmpis
Council was left on the gcOund uHcor-
soious and the nssallapts fed
Drs. Brown aud hiaul. were called 10
attend to the injured man and discovered
the Hboye-descrIned wounds, which they
dressed, leaving the patient il, Al uucon.
scious and precarious condition H. hy
| unconscious from . o'clock Sunday night
| until O'Clock next morning, when he Sat
up of his own accord and Won't, a. but
said nothing. lie was lahorirg lDau in
the employ OF the z. ". 4 Is. railroad
company. 1t is now thought he may
| resoyer, AS the skull IL not pressing ON the
| brain
| The Dayton man who rubbed his back
with alcohol and slt down before CRATE
fire to heat il in, is willing to give any one
his experience for fifty cents -DsttOt
Free Press .......
Miss Kate Field. so Mrs. Lucy Hooper
writes, has been the recipient of u grea,
compliment from Worth, who ever max 4
up lady's own materials. Miss FIELD,
however, brought from hOme some Amer,
can black silk which the renowned miiliuet
has fashioned into au elaborate costume. II
is further stated that French silk has b.
come so inferior in quality and American
silk SO superior, that several Pnrslal
ladies have resolved to send 70 AmericH
this season for black silks, de-palriug oi
ever finding again really good and dura
BILE article i'll the Partisan market.
A letter has been received at Ccper
hagen from u young Danish sailor wht
is with Stanley in Africa He writes tina
yellow fever had no weakened the expedt
lion that several of the members were 10
turning back, whereupun Mr.. Stanlel
called them together aud Saic 'Not ont
of you shall allow TO turn back brfOr
the expedition is over Ny motto i
Forward; and even If Thousand devil
with revolvers or daggers opposed us, o
illness, pesti!ence and misery threetene'
us with destruction, not even then shuul
l allow single person TO tnrn hi1 nos
| homeward. "
I A violent storm, the wind almost reachu
, | a hurricane. has prevailed in the Northwor
| and the Lake region for two duyS. and con
tinned Sunday night The Wind attained
J | velocity of between 80 and 10 miles per non
! ut Milwaukee. Telegraph line We're leyclr
, in all directions ana sup" drifts In {" II lac
y deep are reported along the SuutGrrl Hlu'
. sofa railway, he 4uuW wa packed hard
4 the deep cuts along tho railway, and u ira.
9 which left Fuday on Friday night, las ~
i, been heard of since. Reports have her
u received III Milwaukee of horses and catt
u pershing but no human lives are known
y he lost. The storm. which Is said to be IL
!, worst ever known in southern Minnesota an
v Eastern Dakota, WIS still raging last nigh