Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-08-20


Louis Henke, first baseman of the
Atlantic baseball club, while trying to
reach first base at game played in At
lanta on Friday afternoon, came in COLI
sion with Mari, first baseman of the
Nashville club, and suffered rupture of
the liver, from which he died on Satur-
day afternoon. Henke was from Cincin-
natl. He leaves wife and one child.
Michael keenan, Sunday afternoon
fell into drunken sleep in q cart in the
yard of saloon in New York. William
Feeney entered the yard aud began to
annoy Keenan,. The latter violently
pushed his tormonter backwards, and
Feeney, falling upon the stones had the
bnse OF his skull crushed in, and died
instantly. Keenan, gave himself up.
AT meeting of anarchists on the lake
front in Chicago, Sunday, little Irish
man SAID there was no cause for all the
trouble between capital and labor, and
That a man could live on dollar n day if
he dld not spend his money for beer and
whisky. lie was jaered and knocked
down several times, and was finally res.
cued by the police.
While in mid.lake, between Milwaukee
and Grand Haven, early on Friday morn
ing, the steamer City of Milwaukee broke
her walking beam and was damnped Ia
the extent of about $780, The shock
of the accident awakened the 30 or more
passengers, who rushed frnntically from
their state rooms and were with difficulty
prevented from inaugurating serious
panic.
The house of Susan Ashley, colored. at
Graham, Ga, was burned ON Saturday.
and the charred bodies of her four chill
bred were found covered with mattress
on the middle of the floor. The fire
broke out during the temporary absenc.
OF the mother, and MS the house was omen
and she left the children playing outside.
1t is suspected that they were murdered
anil the house set on fire.
At Shawnee, Ohio, between l and Q
O'Clock Sunday morning, an attempt
was made to assassinate the family of
Hugh Kinney by throwing bomb into
the house. The windows were shattered
the wallis wrecked and large holes were
torn in the floor. Kinney and his wife
, were severely wounded by the explosion.
there was bad feeling against Kinney
among the miners, who considerd him an
informer.
Delegates representing the Irish Ma
tional League of nearly all the states in
the Union met in Chicago ON Sunday
morning. The object of the meeting pas
to consider the best methods of re.estnb-
llshlng the organization with which thew
are animated ON firm and enduring basis
A message from Mr.. Parnell was rend
anu an address was adopted by the exec,I'
i've announcing the pOstponement of the
next national convention of the lenoua
until january, 1856. In the evening 4,
mass meeting was held, ut which Alex.
ander Sullivan presided and spoke, and
addresses were also made by Senator
Riddleberger and others.
A telegram from Reading renorta tl,ot
on Friday evening son of ]. n Jobn.n,,
of Tuckerton, aged Is, lnborer on tba
Reading x Pottsville railroad. drove int
, ,ne creek, which empties into the Schnyl-
kill, with two horses and cnrts H. w,
on tile 's'ck OF one OF the horses, and after
eetVilg IN lew feet the current was too
poMurIni, owing to heavy rains and the
swollen state of the stream. IN. horse,
los' theif roofing, and both We're carried
W. INTO the river, and, with the young
--i 'SAN NAoNhtu
Two women and two children died in
Ooiumbla county, Florida, on Saturday
afternoon, from eating poisoned water.
melon II appears that two planters of |
tnat county have watermelon patch
Whlch mas been raided almost every NIGHT
hNaSllerated Mt being robbed repeateily |
one OF the planters ON Friday plugged n |
NUMBER OF the melons and put in encl,
some poison. He forgot to tell his nn,t
her, and on Saturday one of the poisn,ed
melons was pulled and eaten by tile mi.
ters family. His wife, two children and
= slster-in-law died in n few hollrs WLen
nrst attacked they thought il was cholera
and failed to send for n doctor
until 1T was too late.
me signal bureau in Washington Inns
instructed It's agents in tho northwest in
view W the ravages of grasshoppers in
ioiit'lo' 10 telegraph at once obserya.
lions Oh injury or movements, instead of
, ~, Them monthly as heretofore
| loiossof hliey also sent an agent to the
leIi, whose reports confirm preyious
Not only are there LARGE
numbers OF tins destructive Rocky Moun-
Jun species at work, but the common
lalto anu hon-migrating species are also
n n more numerous than usual. Al
'ort i'uford and Poplar Pine agency the
ocusts are very abundant, and are dam
glhg me crops. On July goth, during
ne middle of the dry, large proportioS
u the Rocky Mountain species left
owards the east or southeast.
In January last the Rev. J.
,Suliiyan, pastor of ST. Josepb's Romana
,atholic Church, in Canullus, N. Y. was
, ~ in his Office of priesthood Inv |
,,ishop McNierny, who appointed tbe
,ev. William A. Ryan to the pastorate
'ather oSullivan claims that he has moi {
nd an ecclesiastical trial and refnses ~
cave the pastoral residence or To deI;var
he keys of the church to his snccessor {
miner Ryan went to the church vester.
ny and celebrated mass, and after The
lrmon denounced Father O'SnlI;van
mo was present, His mother. who wos
$50 present, became excited and rnnp;nr {
the aisle to where her son sal, asked in G
'ua voice II he would stand it. Father
yam called meeting of the conoregation {
lter the service to take action IN tba q
inter Father O'Sullivan entered the
lnctnary and said he would preside As c
was about to be removed by force tbe v
Getting was adjourned by Father RYAN }
no lett for Albany to see the bisbon' v