Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-09-20


struck and instantly killed man who
WAS lying OH the track al Fraziers cut,
near Haine's station. The engine va
thrown from the track and entirt ly Gis
abled, one cylinder hsad being blown e'iL
and other damage dnae. The track
blocked, and wreck trt in was neces-
sary to clear it. The man killed was a
watchman named Cunningham, who is
supposed to have fallen asleep while on
duty. .-.=.
Royal M. Bassett Of Brmiug ham, Conn :,
authorizes Ill emphatic dsniai Of the
story published in one of the New York
papers in which he ia said to have had
an interview with the "man with the
black mustaehe," who figured 30 exten
Bively In the Jennie Cramer trial. Mr..
Bassett is accredited with saying that he
met this black mnstsohed man In Bel
gium, and that this person told him tnat
Jennie Cramer had heen poisoned in the
Mslley mansion and that he had helped
to throw her body into the water The
whole story is pronounced fiction by Mr..
Bassett.
Mrs. ancy Il. Glenn was released from
the Indiana penitentiary yesterday week,
where she had been serving tour years.
term for perjury. The day WAS the
fffteenth anniversary of the murder of
Jacob and Nancy Young, crime for
which Mrs. Glenn was tried five times,
twice sentenced to be hanged, aud finally
released on legal teohnicality. Mrs.
Clem's husband stuek to her through all
her trials until last spring, when he pro
cured o divorce. Since tlien she has
broken down perceptibly and has talked
OF making confession which wonid
implicate her husband in the Young
murder, but has not done 30.
DR.. A. w. Chenowitz of Pineville, Mo-,
was on his way from his store to his
residence on Thursday night, when he
was fired upon and killed by an unknown
assassin. There is great excitement in
the county over the affair, and should
the assassin be caught now the murderer
might be supplemented hy lynehing.
As yet 1t seems there is no clew to the
criminal, but the general belief is that
the murder ia the outcome of the
"whiskey war" DR.. Chenowitz was an
outspoken advocate of temperance
principles. Recently number of ar
rests have been made of parties for sett-
ing up and maintaining illicit distilleries,
and these parties and their friends think
the Doctor had something to do with the
arrests.
Reuben Tiff, farmer living near
Elmira, N. y, volunteered in 1864 to
look after the family OF Howlsn Evans, a
farm laborer, who went into the army.
Evans family consisted of wife and
three children. Evens sent his bounty
money and his savings from his
pay to Tiff, and the latter took
such good care of it and the family
that, when Evans returned from
the army, he found himself without wife,
children, money or home, Tiff having ap-
propriated them all. Now Evans brings
q suit for the recovery of his money, and
Tiff, while acknowledging the receipt o.
$76l from Evans, offsets the same by
presenting claim for boarding Evans
children, after having robbed him O
them.
Argument in the case OF the last will o
Henry Cock, "a miller of Port Washington
Queens county, N. Y, took place Thurs
day at the general term OF of the Supreme
| Court, Brooklyn. Deceased made thret
wills, in each o which he left his property
which Ia valued at ahont $50, 1000, Il
| different persons. The last one came III
for probate first, according to the rule
! and was contested. On behalf of th,
contestants it was claimed that Johr
Macksy, who, with his daughter, Mrs
| Freelove Lewis, were mads heirs to the
| largest portion of the property, hat
| exercised undue influence over thu
| deceased. Witness testified that Mackey
| Possessed mesmeric powers, but on tn,
o.her hand it was claimed that he had no
exercised such powers in bringing abou
the will. Decision was reserved.
The New York Herald devotes who'll
page to an account OF United State
diplomacy in Peru, Chill aud Bolivia
Since the Chill Peruvian war began tn
| United States has employed II ministers
one special envoy aud sn assistant envoy
| in those counties. The public has beel
| informed of what some OF these envoy
accomplished under the management Q
| Secretaries Evarts and Blaine, and tin
| Herald now processes to give ful
account of what has not been accom-
plished under the management OF Score
tary Frelinghuysen. The result thereo
| has been that a peace is ON The eve Q
conclusion with General Miguel lgie7ias
in behalf of Peru, and that Chill ha
negotiated IT without the mediation of til
United States or Difference to the advic
of our State Department, which continue
to recognize Cslderou- Moutero govern
ment at Arequipa.