Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-05-13

A violent thunderstorm did damage |
estimated at $l5, 900 in tuscaloosa, Ia, on |
Sunday morning.
Two breaks have occurred in the levee |
at Bayville, La, doing great damage in |
and around the town.
David Little's cigar factory, at Stras-
burg, near Lancaster, Pa, was destroyed |
Monday morning by IN incendiary fire.
DR.. James s. Mackenzie, one of the best
known physicians of Baltimore, died
suddenly Monday morning, aged 81 years.
house in Burlington, Ia, was struck
by lightning on Sunday afternoon, and
one man was killed, another being severely
injured.
fire in Gainesville, Fla, Monday
morning, destroyed all the buildings on
the south side of the square, causing q
loss of $4,000.
Ten children in Brookville, Pa, were
poisoned on Sunday by eating snake-root,
in mistake for sweet myrrh, and it is
feared one of them will die.
The house of John Patten, at Owen
Sound, Ontario, was burned Monday.
Four young men slept in an upper room.
One Of them was burned to death, another
badly injured.
Norman Lounsberry, aged 20 years, a
farmer near 0swego, N. y, Monday
morning shot and killed his 16.year-
wife, her relative, Horace Payson, aged
30, and himself. Jealousy was the cause.
The case of Hugh M. Brooks, alias W.
II. Lennox Maxwell, charged with the
murder of O. Arthur Preller, was called
Monday in the criminal court at st.
Louis, and the task of securing jury
was begun.
A tornado passed through Wayne
county, Indiana, on Sunday night level
ling houses and everything else in its
path, and destroying many thousands of
dollars worth of stock. Two men and
woman are reported to have been killed.
II is believed that the great fire in Hull,
Ontario, on Sunday, was the work Of an
incendiary. 1t appears that Alderman
Laindrey, on the roof of whose bakery
the flames were first discovered, made not
q few enemies in the discharge of his
aldermanlc and other duties, and il is
alleged that some one of these did the
mischief.
The city council of Chicago Monday
night adopted the following "The city
council of the city of Chicago hereby fe-
quests the mayor and advises all future
mayors TO employ all officers of the police
department who were on May 4th, 1886,
80 MANNED as to render them incapable of
performing police duty, in such positions
as they can fill, and we pledge ourselves
and all future councils, as far as we can,
to appropriate for the pay of those so en-
ployed u sufficient sum to make the
annual pay equal to that of able-bodied
policemen"
Another Socialist meeting was held in
Chicago on Sunday, at which the red flag
was displayed and incendiarism venti.
lated, but the gang were cut short in their
proceedings by the police. In saloon
under the hall three anarchists who were
cursing the laws and the authorities, and
who had their pockets stuffed with anar-
chist literature and with lists of groups
and organizers in various parts of Ohio,
Illinois and Massachusetts, were arrested
and taken to the station house. A friend
of one of the prisoners, who called to see
why he had been arrested, was asked if
he, too, was a Socialist. He promptly
avowed that he was, and was locked up
with his friend.
I
recently murdered and robbed or $500 near
Mt. Sterling, Ky.
By sudden and rapid rise In the Monon-
gahela river at Pittsburg Sunday, 50
loaded coal barges were sunk, causing OF
loss Of $50, 900.
Miss Annie Robinson, 20 years of age, and
pretty, was arrested In Parkersburg W. Va,
on Saturday evening, on the charge of hav-
Ing defrauded number OF storekeepeIs
| on forged orders
George Stangel, arrested for wife beating,
committed suicide In the police station al
Long Island City, N. ", on Saturday night.
He was 10 years OF age.
Monroe Cyrus, being drunk, shot and
mortally wounded his father, in Gllmer
with a posse In close pursuit.
Periko Fernandez, Il rich Cuban Of Haw.
thorne, N. j., was shot and killed by his
wife Belle, who then committed suicide OF
Saturdaylnight Fernandez was q member
OF the New York Club.
! Edward Davis, a railroad contractor Of
, Chanute, Kansas, shot himself dead In the
| ladies room OF the Union depot, at Kansas
City, on Saturday night, In the presence OF
his wife and six small children. He had
been drinking freely.
Five or six OF the anarchists who plum.
dered drug store In Chicago on Wednes.
DAY week seized bottle containing carbOliC
acid, and, thinking it whisky, drank the
contents. Two OF them were dead and
three dying at last accounts.
IRE nj Honolulu, on April 18th destroyed
eight squares OF buildings, covering &C
acres OF the Chinese quarter. About 8 ,0OC
persons were mades homeless. The loss Is
} estimated at $l,5O0,00O the insurance al
$3.50 900. Two lives were lost.
IRE at Hull, Quebec, early Sunday
morning, burned over an area Of 10 acres
making $50 families homeless. The only
public building destroyed was the post.
office, which cost about $250,0OO. The
other losses are estimated at $4,000
William j. Blew died ut the county hos.
: pital In Chicago on Wednesday week, and
the physicians think his death WINS hast
ened, II not caused, by fright received
while he was undergoing mock Initiation
ceremonies In now local court of For
esters, which he Joined few weeks ago.
telegram from Harrisburg saws TINT n
proposal has been made to Governor Patti.
son by u leading manufacturing firm which
comedies with his views In relation to the
soldiers orphans. The firm agrees to give
six "sixteeners" trade when they have
completed the usual course of studies and
left school. Governor Pattison would be
lnuch pleased TO nave similar offers from
! other business men.
King Bradley, notorious rough. WINS
elected from a railroad train at Buehtel.
Ohio, on Friday evening. After shooting
, | at the conductor, he went up the main street
OF the town firing at everybody he met
One bullet struck Libbie Crawford. aged 10
years, causing wound from which she
died In short time. Bradley was arrested.
but his brothers released him. He then
He'd, pursued by band OF vigilants.
The Jewish Theological Seminary Asso-
citation In New York Sunday elected the
following officers: President, DIR. &. Soils
Cohen, Philadelphia; First President
Or, ii. W. Schneeberger, Baltimore Second
Wce-President, DIR. A. Wise, New York .
First Secretary, DR.. II. Perira Mendes. New
YORK second Secretary, Dr. b. BRAKEMAN,
New York. The seminary will be opened
next iall It's support will be contributed TO
about 90 congregations, and the annual
income Is expected to be about so 900 per
| annum. 70
A man arrested In Hohoken on Saturday
night on suspicion of being the burglar who
| snot George ). COe, In EngleWood Weakness
day night week, had IN examination Sunday
morning. He gives his name as John HnDT
and sayshe lives In New York. After fhe
nearing the prisoners wounds were OK
amined, and while they were being dressed
Louis Coe, the brother of the wounded man
VINO beat the burglar with the butt end of a
revolver until he fell unconscious nm tho
ground, arrived mt the station, When
brought into the presence OF the prisoner
young Coe at once identified him, Huge
was taken to Engewood. 400
| Inc dominion steamer Lansdowne arrival
at st. John, New Brunswick, on SATURDAY.
with the David j. Adams In tow. The crew
10 In number, reported at the American
eonsuls office and were provided with
louSings until IL can be seen what action
Miil De taken by the Canadian government
IN regard 10 the capture. This seizure II ia
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