Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-12-31

were teit IN hMhOtu, Ss.,i ,,,s
morning, between 4.SO and $40 o'clock.
M. Pasteur continues to treat the four
boys from Newark, N. j., who we're bitten
by mad dog. Nothing of a unfavor-
able nature has been developed
The buildings at the Peacock coal rhine,
near Mineral Ridge, Ohio, were burned
Tuesday. One hundred men are thrown
out of employment.
James Turner "a nephew Of United States
Senator Brown, was killed by freight
engine in the Western a. Atlantic yards at
Atlanta on Monday night.
The boiler of the Gulf City Oil Mill at
Mobile burst Tuesday morning, killing
four men and iDjuring four others. The
boiler-house was demolished.
Frank M. Westorfield and his wife are
sick of trichinosis in Wilmotte. q suburb
of Chicago. They ate pork few days
ago which had been insufhciently cooked.
The steamer Gellbert, at New York
from Hamburg, reports that on the 18th
inst. she removed II men from the
wrecked steamer Ivanhoe of Gloucester.
It is now stated that at least $50
persons were injured at the burning Of
the Christmas tree in the county hospital
at Chicago on Thursday. None Of them,
however, were fatelly injured.
There was an earthquake at Blooming
ton, ILL.,, on Monday night, accompanied
by q noise resembling the firing Of artil-
lery. Buildings were shaken, but no
damage was done.
Two men, named Cook and Fay, were
killed on Monday night by the premature
explosion of blast in the Pottsville a.
Mahanoy railroad tunnel, at Horseshoe
Bend, Schuylkill county, Pa.
The interior of Mrs. Mark Hopkins
1886, 200 stone barn, in Great Darlington,
Massachusetts,, was burned out Tuesday,
and the walls were greatly damaged. The
horses and coaches were saved.
Thomas Hinson, aged IA years, feloni-
ously assaulted Laura Gallagher, aged 7,
near st. Paul, Texas, on Monday evening.
II is feared she will die from her injuries.
The young ruffian was arrested.
While the Thomas furnace at Niles, o.,
was being blown in Tuesday, Patrick
Cosgrove was killed by escaping gas, and
three other men were rendered insensible,
but they were soon resuscitated.
John N. Parker of the Soldiers Home
at Dayton, o., was found dead in saloon
in that city Sunday. When he entered
the town he had 5000 in his possession,
but only SO cents was found upon his
body.
Thomas King, living in Cologne street,
Chicago, murdered his wife in drunken
quarrel on Friday night by beating out
her brains with chair. He was arrested
on Saturday afternoon and confessed his
crime.
While James Sanders, his wife and
three children were crossing the Kentucky
river, near Richolasville, on Monday
night, the boat was upset by snag, and
Mrs. Sanders and the children were
drowned.
The sum of $11S, 900 has already been
been spent in stamping out the smallpox
epidemic in Montreal, and further large
sum will be required TO meet obligations.
Compulsory vaccination is now being
strictly enforced.
The northeast gales of last Friday and
Saturday, destroyed five vessels of the
Gloucester, Mass, fishing fleet, causing a
loss of eight lives. Great damage to yes
sells and property on shore was done all
along the Nova Scotia coast.
A fire at Collingsville, Ala, on Friday
night, destroyed eight stores, block of
offices, livery stable, a railway station
and the post-ofice, causing loss of
1924 200. The fire started in the post-ofice,
and is attributed to incendiarism.
The oil mill of W. & H. Stead q Co. in
Greenville, EAIississippi, was burned
Tuesday morning, with eight or ten small
dwellings adjacent. Three thousand bales
OF cotton in an adjoining yard caught fire
from sparks and were consumed The
loss is upwards of $250,OO0.
At Sharon, Penna., on Friday, David
Moses, grocer, WINS run over and fatally
injured through the carelessness of James
Higgins. The friends of Moses gave
Higgins a terrible beating and threatened
his life. Moses died ON Saturday night.
The one hundredth anniversary of
Lodge 45, Free and Accepted Masons, in
Pittsburg, was celebrated Sunday with
religious services ut Trinity Episcopal
Church. Bishop Whitehead officiated.
assisted by the rector, the Rev. Samuel
Maxwell.
The towboat Jumbo burst her boiler at
Pensacola on Saturday morning, fatally
wounding the engineer aud fireman. A
passenger threw the captain and deck
hand overheard and then jumped into
the water and saved both, although badly
scalded himself.
The wife of William Mackin, inspector
of provisions in the Quincy Market Mt
Boston, shot herself in her husbands
office in the market building Tuesday,
and is not expected to recover. No one
was present except her husband.
Domestic trouble is supposed to have
been the cause.
d. j. Beggs, victim of the ,murderous
assault at Canton, Ohio, recovered con-
seriousness at noon on Saturday, and his
first words were: "Hang that 49,
Niger! He tried to kill mel" This is
considered almost conclusive of the guilt
of Green, the colored man arrested on
suspicion.
At Newport Mines. Missouri, last Fri.
day morning, Daniel Thompson and
Oscar Morrison, brothers in-law, INDUCED
in friendly scuiiie. Morrison's father,
thinking they were fighting, struck
Thompson terrible blow on the head
with stone, from the effects of which
ne uieu Oh saturday.
Auguest Spies, editor of Socialist
journal, Monday gave his views to
meeting of the Congregational ministers
of Chicago. He said there were half
million Socialists in the United States
who believed in anarchy and resort to
force to accomplish their leveling pro-
gress. When the Socialists revolution
occurred free love would prevail.
There have been 10 cases of small pox
and two deaths at st. Thomas, near
Quebec. The sisters of the convent there
have sent their boarders home on account
OF the epidemic. The measles continue
TO make great ravagos, especially at 81.
Sauyeur. At that place, in one family,
three children died of the disease on SIM.
day. There has been IL deaths from
measles at that place.
A tin cylinder, containing quarter of
q pound of nitro-glycerine, was found on
Saturday morning on the steps of Judge
Lambert Trees house in Chicago, now