Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1881-04-07
IN GENERAL.

Charles and John Miller, brothers.
We're shot and killed in disreputable
house in Cincinnati on Saturday night.
A two-story brick building in course
erection in Baltimore tumbled down last
Saturday evening, injuring four men, one
fatally.
The Shreveport * Texas railway has
been purchased by Colonel Thomas A.
Scott, and is to be completed in Is
months.
The terrible accident at Norfolk, Vir-
ginia, on Saturday by which four men
were killed and several others severely
injured by escaping steam was caused by
II defective elbow or pipe.
There will be no strike Of tho brick
| layers in New York the employers having
conceded the advance to $3.50. The
| house painters OF that city have de
mandcd So per day, beginning on the 18th
| inst.
About 80 suits have been brought in
san Francisco 10y wealthy persons and
corporations to restrain the collection of
taxes on the supplementary Tan list.
| The amount of property represented in
the list is 500, 900
A cyclone in Randolph county, Ala,
on Wednesday week, demolished the
house OF John Embrcy, killing him and
his wife and two children. Much damage
| was done by u tornado near Danvilc.
Virginia, the same night
| The body of Colonel |. n. Ross. for
merry a State Senator of Ohio, and Colonel
of the Nineticth Ohio Volunteers during
the war, was burned Thursday in the
crematory, at Washington, Pennsylvania
1t is the twelfth corpse cremated in that
place.
Forty-siX freight brakemen were dis
charged Thursday from the New York
Central Hudson River railroad, in con
sequence of the adoption of perfected
system of signalling, which allows II
reduction of the number of brakcmcn on
Il train.
A bill proposing an amendment to the
constitution of Pennsylvania, prohibiting
forever the sale and manufacture Of in
toNicating drinks within the State, has
just passed second reading in the
House of Representatives of that State by
a vote of 9S to IS.
passenger train ON the st. Paul,
Minneapolis X Manitoba railrQQd ran into
a delayed freight train, near Ruthsay,
Minnesota, on Thursday, and the caboose
took lire. One man was burned to death
and six others Were seriously injured.
William S. Bates, United States mar
shall, was fatally stabbed, in bar room
hight, near Somerset, Ky, ON "Wednesday
week. Another marshal, named Cooper,
was killed the same night in Littlrton, 10
miles distant from Somerset. Both mrn
had been active against the ''moon-
shiners.''
Mrs. Anna schaal, good looking
widow, was found dead i'll her house IN
Chicago, on Friday night, with bullet
wound in her breast. She had threatened
to commit suicide through jealousy, but
Edward llccan, with whom she was
intimate, has been arrested, On Supirion,
for murder.
gang of rowdirs, headed by Isaac
Stockton, whose brother was killed Il
short time ago in a saloon quarrel, is
committing rObhrIirs and murders in the
country around Rio Arabia New McNirn.
Ihe local authorities and a vigilance com
mite" having alike proved powrIlrss 10
cop" with TIA" gang, Governor Wallace
has ofdert u out the militia.
Thomas GrraturrN, only son OF Mrs
Eliza GredtorcS, til" New orl, artist. was
Killed at Durango Coz on March llth,
hy Il notorious gambler, The latter
escaped lynching by Night Mir. q. found
the gambler abusing Il woman, intcrlrreti,
aud soundly thraslci the rutlian, but
the latter shot him with hr was helping
til" woman tu her feet. Mrs. tirratorcN
has just received the news.
just before the beginning of the second
act of ''Felicia,' in the Union Squar
Theatre, New York. ON Saturday night,
til" sudden appearance ol smoke and Il
cry of fire caused a panic among the
audience, and u general rush for the
street. The ushers threw open the
doors, and the bIilding was cleared III n
few minutes, many of the audience losing
opera glasses and articles of apparel, but
none, 50 far as known, suffering serious
injury i'll the crash. The tire started ina
closet in the basement, and was rN
linsuiShrd with little damage.