Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-04-16
IN GENERAL.


assaulted white woman, was taken from
the Jail at Hazlehurst, Miss, on Sunday |
evening, and lynched by mob.
The hardware and orockery store of |
Gates a Murchison, in Wilmington, N. |
c., was burned ON Monday night. The |
loss is nearly $50, 900, covered by insur- |
ance. Incendiarism is suspected.
John Benson, the absconding lawyer of |
Lebanon, Pa, charged with embezzle- |
ment of $1h, ZOO, principally trust funds,
was arrested near Harrisburg Tuesday |
morning. He died in few minutes.
B. F. Pullen, ex-mayor of Paris, KY, |
was found dead in his room at n hotel in |
Lexington, having committed suicide by |
taking laudnnum. He had lost all his
property and suffered from depression of
| spirits.
The Miami Savings Bank Mt Marshall,
Missouri was robbed of $4,000 on Mon
day night. Three street peddlers, who
loitered about the place for three days
before the robbery and then Disappeared
are suspected of the crime.
In Baltimore, Tuesday. while David
Mcleod, walking along the street, was
| passing some buildings in course of cree
ton, II heavy pine plank WINS caught up
by the wind and hurled against his head,
knocking him scnseless. He died in four
minutes.
About rs school children gathered on
the platform of new roller coaster in
Toledo, Ohio, Tuesday, the cars of which
were being tried for the first time. The
floor gave way and the children fell 20
feet Three boys were seriously injured,
one fatally; 6 or 3 others We're more or
less hurt.
The state house commit sion met in
Trenton, N. j., Tuesday, and decided to
rebuild the burnt portion of the capitol as
far as possible. The vaults will be placed
in the cellar instead of on the first floor
1t is believed the governor contemplatcs
calling an extra session of the Legislature
TO secure nm appropriation.
A fonr-story stone md brick building,
Nos. 80 and S5 Wabash avenue, Chicago,
occupied by Mclean X Retterer, dealers.
in hardware Dean Il Foster, druggists
sundries, and Smith Il Patterson. drug
gists supplies. was destroyed by fire
Tuesday morning. The losses aggregate
nearly $2OO,0OO insurance. $l9O,OOO.
while seven men were engaged in
clearing the bri k out Cf the smoke stack
Of II mill ut Oseeola, Michigan, Monday
, afternoon, the bottom give way aud they
We're buried in the ruins, being covered
by about 40 feet of debris. Five men
were killed and two injured. Both of the
: latter will recover.
A coroner's jury in New York Tusday
found that Joseph Cohen died from acute
! spinal meningitis, aggravated, il not pro-
D duced, by the prolonged excitement of
mind and body consequent upon his par
ticipation in the six-dnys' roller-skating
match. They recommended that the leg
islnture prohibit contests for longer than
four hours.
dispatch from yicksburg, Miss, says
n w. l.. Long and u boy named Frank
v Clements went fishing ION Monday. The
o boat upset and the boy was drowned
d Long was rescued in an exhausted condi,
+ ton and taken to Mrs. Clements house
: During the night the house was burned
i Long escaped to an clubhouse, where h,
! was found dead Tuesday morning.
h The legislature of Ohio Monday after
r noon gave an informal reception to Sen
n ator Sherman, and he spoke briefly
4 acknowledging the compliment from I
Democratic body. In the evening. ut
% reception given by the Columbus boart
of trade, he said the country would havt
ut to go through the same struggle to max,
Is n silver dollar equal in value to the golt
:, dollar that it did to resume specie pay
81 ment.
At Pittsburg, Tuesday, in the case O
~ a. james E. H. lane of Hot Springs, Arkan
~ sas, against the executors of the estate {
q james II. Brown, II deceased millionnir
of coal merchant to receive $40, 900, nllege,
ct to be the balance due on n gambling deb
of S53 900 contracted Mt Hot Springs il
Vs. February, 1882, the jury rendered vel
dict i'll favor of the defendants. Il
," charging the jury the Judge stated
should be remembered that under til
laws of Arkansas gambling debts wer
invalid.
mt A special dispatch from Springfield
Mo-, says that last month in the yicinit
ne of Forsyth, an unknown person explode
sh n stick of giant powder ON the roof of I'll
ms cabin of n man named Payten. Sever
he inmates were seriously hurt. Blu
nd Matthews, n neighbor, was suspected
ice and Tuesday he started in wagon I
las remove from the county. While pnssii
ssh thicket the party were fired upon
'O9 Matthews was MORALLY wounded nnd
lr- little child was instantly killed. Tw
ng sons of Payten have been arrested ON su
I'M picion of having committed the murde
ne At Danube, i'll Herkimer county, Ne
nus York, on Monday night, German name
iat Humpf cut his wife's throat while 81
sse with her four days old baby wns in bet
re- He then saturated the bed with keroseI
mt and set it ON fire. Neighbors saw Il
gh flames and extinguished them, rescuiI
10 the wife in critical condition. Hum
iel was found in the garnet with his tlro
10 cut, but alive. He attacked the part
'gs savagely with an axe, but before he cou
ne injure any one of them he fell dea,
!, Is Humpf was insane and was to have bet
IN sent to lunatic asylum yesterday.
ia The mine commission appointed
.a, Governor Pattison, to provide means
l,a proper Legislation to secure the health M
'',o safety of men employed in the bitumino
Ia coal mines of Pennsylvania, met Tue
~ day in Pittsburg. Senator Ross of Greer
in county, was elected president, and
M franklin Mutt of Clarion county secreta
Spo of the commission. Representatives we
M. present from all parts of the state. II
'o' commission is composed of five membe
- of the house, three of the state senate, s
mine operators and six miners. A b
Will he drawn up and presented to Il
yer Legislature which, it is thought, will G
nat sure future safety to miners.
KIN n A horrible discovery was made Tur
I'M IN day in the Southern Hotel, ut st. Luui
ha The murdered and decomposcd body of
'H .o middle-aged man was found in IL trunk
~: one of the rooms. The room had be,
III occupied by two men registered rs Walt
va, va II. Lenox, Maxwell, NJ. D., and C. Arth
Preller, both of London, England. Ma
vi, on well left the hotel last Sunday week, b
~. as he had paid his board regularly /
,,,,. notice was taken of his departure, and
~, a., was thought he would return. The od
,an from the trunk led to its hcing opene
oS when the CHASTITY discovery WINS mad
md On one side of the trunk, over the he,
Nv Of the corpse, was printed in large lette
'ne the words; $50 perish all traitors to Il
great cause"