Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-06-04
IN GENERAL.


letters.
John O. Pinnix, crazed by failure il
business, killed his two little children ant
then drowned himself, at Caswell, N. O..
few days ago.
The semi-decennial census of Chatta
nooga, just finished, gives that cityn popu
latiOn of 25, 10l, an increase of more thar
100 per cent since 1880.
Thomas Eddings, an American locomo
tive engineer, lodged in Jail ut Monclara
Mexico, for running over and killing d
Mexican, has been released.
The first salmon ever captured in Chesa.
peake bay, was caught on Friday near the
mouth of the York river. 1t was brought
to Baltimore and weighs III pounds.
Two women-Amelia Denny, aged Is
years, and Mrs. Martin Prettyman--were
burned to death in Wheeling, w. Va, on
Friday night, by attempting to light fires
with coal oil.
AT Martin, Tex, the Brazos river at
last accounts was higher than it had been
for 40 years. Great damage had been
done to the crops, and much live stock
had perished.
The Rev. Oscar +. Brown, who disap-
peared from his home in New York few
days ago, returned Thursday morning.
He did not explain his absence, and he is
believed, from his appearance and man.
ner, to be insane.
Several men were struck by lightning
while standing on a bridge during q
thunder storm at Henderson, Kentucky,
Thursday afternoon. All have recovered
except one-Zachariah L. Moore of
Chicago-who is in critical condition.
Frederick A. Palmer, ex-auditor of
Newark, N. j., died Thursday in the peni-
tentiary at Trenton of heart disease. He
leaves wife and child. In 1882 he was
sentenced to imprisonment for 90 years,
having, on-his own confession, embezzled
5000, 900 from the city.
Tornadoes visited Nortonsville, COTS
and Frankfort, in northeastern Kansas,
between 10 and 10 o'clock yesterday
week, doing great damage to property.
Several dwellings were blown to pieces
and other buildings wrecked. Five per-
sons were injured, four it is feared
fatally.
Colonel L. d. Polk, of the Polk
Chemical Works, New York, who owns
remedy for diphtheria, has gone to Paris
Roads, Pa., where the disease, in q
malignant form, is epidemic. He does
not charge for the prescription and says
he can cure any case if his directions are
followed.
Within the lust week new mnlnly has
appeared among the cattle on farm at
Say brook, near Bloomington, III. A
number of apparently healthy animals
have fallen dead in their tracks, as if from
heart disease. The disease seems to be
contagious, but its nature il not yet de-
tcnnined.
The steamship City of Rome, which
arrived at New York Thursday from
Liverpool, reports that on the 25th inst,
Mt 4.3O p. m., during n dense fog, she
collided with and sank the French fishing
barque George John, which was lying at
anchor. She rescued two of the crew,
but the remaining twenty-five were lost.
Richard Hands, night clerk in Henry
V. Crawfords drug store, at 100 Hudson
street, New York, was found murdered
Sunday morning, i'll n little room in the
rear of the store, where he was accustomed
to sleep. His body was sitting in chair
with the skull crushed in and the throat
cut. Money which had been taken in the
store ON Saturday was gone.
A violent storm of wind, hail and
thunder passed over the northern section
of Lancaster county, Pa, Sunday after
noon. The wind tore strong trees up by
the roots and threw them across the road
ways, and in several instances tobacco
barns were picked up bodily and de-
molished. The hailstones, which were
very large, fell to an unusual depth.
A telegram from Charleston, West Vir-
ginia, reports that, yesterday week,
the brake band of the Kanawha Mining
Comphny's decline, 800 feet long, up
steep mountain broke, and two carloads
Of miners were carried up the mountain
nj frightful speed. Nine jumped out,
four remaining in the cars. Three were
killed, one fatally injured, and most of
the others We're slightly hurt.
The body of Abraham Brumm, aged 20
years, who attempted to murder Catharine
Bohn in Hanover, near Wilkesbarre, Pa,
Monday week, because she refused to
marry him, was found by his own dog in
the river Mt Plymouth Thursday morning.
II appears that Brumm, thinking he had
killed the girl, fled to the river, and,
wading out in the stream, put bullet
through his head.
General Booth of the salvation army, is
expected ut Toronto in July. He has
ordered the Toronto detachment to form
n brigade for service in the northwest
among the Indians and half-breeds.
Several Montreal salvationists have signi-
fed their desire to join the brigade. A
large number in Toronto have volun-
teered and n selection will shortly be
made. The brigade will proceed to the
on the arrival of General
Booth. In Kingston, Ontario, Thursday,
Cadet Bell of the salvation army, was
fined I'll and costs, with the alternative of
10 days imprisonment, for blowing
horn on the streets. He chose imprison
ment and shouted 'halleluiah" us he
passed behind the bars.
William @. Smith, postmaster of Holden.
Mo-, committed suicide Friday by shoot
Ing himself. shortage of 5000 had lust
been discovered in his books.
A man named McCourt, 81 years of age,
from Welland, Ontario, committed suicide
ut Niagara Falls, Friday morning, by
jumping over the precipice just below the
now suspension bridge.
John Motter, n wealthy farmer of Han
cock county, Ohio, killed his 12-year-old
son on Thursday, in u barn. The boy was
sent twice to find bolt, and saying hc
could notsee it the father, in fit of passion,
struck him in such manner us to break
his neck.
John Irwin, aged 81 years, was found
on Thursday evening on the road
near Warriors Work, d village 20 miles west
of Huntingdon, Pa. He was last seen with
John Laporte, II young man about the same
age, with whom he had got drunk during
the day. Laporte, who is a son of Judge
Laporte, was taken 20 Huntingdon by his
father Friday, and was lodged in jail.