The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-10-24
Condensed General News.

farmer,accompanied by his wife, two
children and Mrs. Steck, started from
Osawakle, Kansas, for home in Il farm
wagon, after making number of pur-
chases, among which were ten pounds
of powder. A short distance from town
Lander in lighting a pipe dropped Il
spark on the powder, which ignited,
throwing every one out of the wagon
and killing Mrs. Lander instantly. The
four others cannot live.
Nine people were killed and fourteen
wounded by passenger train running
into the rear car of an immigrant train
in New Jersey on Sunday night. The
telegraph operator mistook the figures
on the tally-sheet, and hence the result
The operator has been arrested and
charged with manslaughter. The scene
was too sickening to describe.
A Mr.. Simpson, of Pearson, Ga, claims
to have made 81 this season by swap
ping knives.
A woman at North Danville, Va, gave
to the building of local church until
her last dollar was expended, and then,
work having come to stop presented
the church fund with her horse and
buggy.
The Flood Rock explosion was felt at
Harvard observatory, 100 miles distant
in an air line. A saucer of mercury was
placed on the solid stone floor, having a
speck or flaw in it, on which was
brought to bear microscope of $50 mag
nifying power, the spider line coinciding
exactly with the flaw The vibrations
lasted about two minutes, the greatest
swaying of the mercury being over a
space of 1-50Oth of an inch.
A one story and half brick cottage at
Vernon place, Chicago, was destroyed by
fire on Monday morning, and four of
occupants were burned.
Hundreds of women like to teach
school awhile and then marry write to
Leadville to inquire as to their chances
in Colorado. The teaching business
seems to be overdone at present but
there is steady demand for female
help at from 500 to $40 month.
By the bravery of one man shocking
holocaust was prevented in Holman
Bros paper box factory, in st. Louis.
The fire broke out in the basement, and
the building was five stories high upon
the third, fourth and fifth floors seventy
girls, 10 to 20 years of age were working.
The fire gained Roadway rapidly, and
many of the girls would surely have
met death, but for the timely arrival of
a brave man who FASTENED the panic
stricken girls to escape, which they all
did.
A young and beautiful widow of New
York committed suicide by taking a
dose of carbolic acid, because she had a
quarrel with her lover.
Two passenger trains collided near
Williamsport, Pa, on Tuesday evening
Two men were killed and several serious
~ wounded
If women only did their work in the
easiest and most systematic way, some
thing like men, how soon they would
rule the world
On Monday night, at Rising Sun, Nd
the dry goods store of Thomas Worrell
the drug store of L. r. Kirk, the hard
ware store of Haines & Kirk and thu
hotel of VIM. Il. Grayson were broker
into and robbed of the contents of thu
money-drawers and quantities of valua
BILE goods.
The action of Mr.. Ross Winans thu
Baltimore millionaire, who owns sucl
an extensive deer park in Nothern Scot
land, inclosing a roadway on his proper
ty at Gulsachan, so angered the peopl,
in that vicinity that they mobbed anC
stoned him on Sunday last. Mr.. Winan
has offered reward of $500 for the cap
ture of the culprits.
The news comes from England, to
deeply uninterested public, that Mis-.
Tennie c. ClaAin has espoused a wealth.
draper, who is a Viscount in Portugal
IT'S we'll And now 1T is possible 70
Miss Clafin and her sister, Mrs. Wood
hull to subside into silence, let them d,
So and earn the thanks of Nation
which for years has been worried by the
ceaseless cackle of these two tough oil,
hens.