Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1883-11-01

| WIN LID i&buoi 6ubJ put tloy WToucUtV
the weapon from him and threatened to
kill both mother and child II they made
An alarm.
| The cru hfx war at Lakeville, Conn,
has takel another turn. The Protestant
women have taken 1t up and are making
ready to discharge their Catholic domes-
tics and replace them with oolored girls.
This has been decided on in retaliation
for the continued boy oyootting by the
Catholics Of the Protestant storek sepers.
The whole trouble originated in the ereo-
tion of a large oruciix in a conspicuous
place In front of the Catholic church.
The size and realistic appearance of the
cruoifx offended the ssnsibilitiss of Pro.
testants, but the priest refused to re-
move 1t.
A quantity OF dynamite stored in
stone magazine near Brook tunnel, on the
Pittsburg & Connellsvills railroad, blew
up Sunday morning, killing five men
George Reynolds, engineer; Robert Ham
mond, fsgman Dean and R. Birchield,
railroad men, and another man employed
At the tunnel, whose name could not be
| obtained. The magazine WAS entirely
destroyed, but the tunnel was not dam
| aged. Nothing but the result OF the
accident is known, as kll the men close
by at the time were killed. Some of the
bodies were blown To atoms and all
| frightfully mutilated.
Ben Holiday, the railroad and stage
line man, has brought suit in Portland,
Oregon, against his brother Joseph for
the possession OF 100000 900 worth of
property held In trust by the latter for
the former. 1t is alleged that some years
ago Ben, being financially embarrassed,
borrowed $3.50, 900 from his brother giving
deed for all his Oregon property, stipu-
lating that when the amount WAS repaid
the deed should be cancelled. The value
OF the property when decided was about
$400, 900. Joseph refuses to deed 1t back
unless he is paid 4 large sum for the
management Of it while in his possession.
The locomotive "El Gobernador,"
building at Sacramento for the Rock
Island railroad, is said to be the largest
locomotive In the world. The total
length Of the engine and tender is 65
feet and 5 inches driving-wheel base,
19 feet and inches; five pairs of drivers,
feet inches in diameter, with four
wheel truck In front cylinders, 81
inches in diameter, with 9 36-inoh stroke;
total weight of engine, 70 tons eight
on drivers, 81 toms; weight OF tender
Qight), 50,650 pounds. There are two
six-wheel trucks under the tender, max
ing a total of 26 wheels under engine and
tender.
Among the cases recently docketed in
the Supreme Court OF the United States
is that Of the city of New Orleans against
Myra Clark Gaines, an appeal from a
~ lid IL L.
Mrs. Gaines about $2,000,0O0 The
record in the case is the largest ever SUBJ
mitted to the Supreme Court. ait is
bound In one immense volume, which
stands at least two feet high and weighs
over 200 pounds Between the covers Of this
mammoth book are 1000 pages of CLOSELY
written manuscript, averaging more than
$50 words to the page. The cost of print
ing this record will be $4,000, and it
will make about zoo pages OF printed
matter"
Secretary Chandler has authorized re.
pairs to be made to the practice ship
Dale, now at the Norfolk yard, at an esti
mated cost of $18. 5000. The repairs
needed to put the practice ship Constel-
lation in good condition would be so ex
tensive that the naval authorities are in
olined to think that It would be better to
replace her with an entirely new vessel.
The forgings for the gun deck battery of
the proposed new cruiser Chicago, have
been begun at the Midvale steel works.
The battery will consist of eight six-inoh
and two fve-inoh guns. The Navy De-
partment has ordered the torpedo steamer
Intrepid, now laid up at New York, to be
converted into light draft gunboat, for
service in Asiatio waters.
Patrick B Delaney, New York, has
invented telegraphio appliances by which
he says, six operators can send six mes
sages at the same time over single wire.
Part of the six can send messages in one
way while the rest are are sending them
in other direction. This will give wire
three times the capacity which 1t has
with a aquadruplex instrument. Twenty
four Morse instruments can be connected
with one wire by this system. Twelve
messages can be sent simultaneously at
the rate of 20 words minute. He says
that the system has been worked over
wire between New York and Boston. An
exhibition will shortly be given to cleo
trioians and representatives to the various
telegraph companies. The last patents
were issued on October 9th.
The scene Of the murders committed by
the notorious Bender family near Cherry
dale, Kansas, is again the theatre OF in
terest and excitement. For long time |
past the farm occupied by the Beuders |
has been owned and run by J. c.
Murphy. About 10 days ago Murphy,
while ploughing, unearthed sealed tin |
can, which, on being opened, was found |
to contain q lot Of greenbaoks, silver and |
gold, amounting in all to more than |
$50, 000. 1t is supposed that the money
is the proceeds of few of ths many rob-
berries and murders of the Benders. |
Murphy is slated with the "Hnd," and
proposes to keep the money. 1t is said
that his claim will be contested by |
friends OF the viotims of the Benders, who
assert that they can identify portion of
the money. Parties are said to be digging
here and there on the farm with the
hope of ining more money.
A special from Kent, Ohio, reports that
one of the most horrible suicides on
record occurred there on Thursday.
Samuel Biehl, aged "a who had been
working for week at Day, Williams &
Co.'s glass works, was standing by the
furnace in those works just after retort
mad been placed in it, when one of the
Woihhiou toiu nun w bbhpu dpiuo, 90 no
wished to get at the furnace. $50 do l."
Biehl replied, and throwing his pipe on
the ground he plunged headlong through
the ring whence the melted glass is
taken, and passing over the pot landed
on the intensely hot GOALS that surround
it. So sudden and unexpected were thes
movements that no affort could be made
to. RESTRAIN him. The heat was 80 great
that death must have been instantaneous.
A single breath drawn In that fiery fur.
ance would shrivel the lungs. There
were hut few fragments left OF the body.
On Thursday afternoon John Vogel,
carpenter, was at work on the spire of the
new Trinity church, at Waterbury, Conn.
A large timber, 25 feet in hight,
WAS being raised above the top
Of the spire as supporting
column to the rafters of the wood work
which is to be added. The timber was
supported by guys stretching out in
several directions, and it was being
hoisted by puileys from below. For
some purpose Vogel assembled the timber,
and his weight caused one of the guys to
slip, and the timber fell with the work
man to the ground below, a distance OF rs |
feet. The timber changed ends in its
descent, and was buried deep in the earth
close by where Vogel struck. In his fall |
Vogel struck upon the north roof of the
church building. Thence he fell to the