Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-04-15
Secretary Manning was reported to be still

Secretary manning was reported 10 Dc s1lll
improving yesterday.
Frank Endy, aged 30 years, died In Read
ing, Penna., on Saturday from blood poi
soning, resulting from scratch from the
claw of cat.
William II. Roe has been arrested In
| Huntsville, Tex, on the charge of killing
his wife by giving her strychnine, telling
i her II was qulnine.
George Welkler, son of the proprietor OF
tho Kane Hotel, at Erie, Pa, shot and
| killed himself on Saturday. He was dis
appointed In love.
Five cattle affected with pleuro-pneumo-
mia, on farm near Masonville, Lancaster,
county, Penn, were killed on Saturday by
order of the authorities.
Lizzie Louth, aged 16 years, hanged her.
self in an orchard at Farmers Village, near
Ithlca. New York, on Friday night. No
| cause for the deed is known.
At Mahanoy City. Pa, Monday morning,
]. W. Brown, a painter, shot and MORALLY
wounded his wife and then attempted
suicide. but only slightly wounded himself.
Jealousy was the cause.
John Wagner, farmer of Lincoln, Wis
consln, Monday morning killed James
| Moe, with whom he quarreled about some
land. A mob surrounded Wagner's house
| and threatened to lynch him, whereupon he
committed suicide.
A telegram from Panama reports that on
board the small iron steamer Colombia, at
the Island OF Tumaco. Fifteen persons
were killed and % seriously injured. The
| steamer was completely destroyed.
Louis Reinhart, aged 36 years, a box
maker OF Baltimore, committed suicide
Tuesday by cutting his throat. He had re-
| Gently Joined the Knights of Labor, and
| somehow had got the idea into his head
| that charges had been preferred against
him, and that he was to be expelled from
| the order.
While stealing ride Friday on a
/ freight train running out OF Wheeling, W.
| Va, Benjamin Kennedy and James Rausch,
4 thrown between two cars by the breaking
of coupling. Rausch was fatally and
Kennedy seriously injured.
The court of appeals of Maryland FRI
day decided that Mr.. Robert Garrett, presi-
dent Of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com
pany, need not remove the bay-window
from the front Of his palatial residence nj
Baltimore, despite the objections of his
wealthy next-door neighbor Henry James,
who appealed to the courts for Its removal
About half the boys In the Eleventh ward
school at Troy, New York, struck Monday
afternoon for shorter hours, land refused
| to continue their Studies" They demanded
only one session day, and that to be from
8 o'clock until noon. The boys held al
| open-air mass-meeting, and then procuring
| laths and sticks swarmed through the neigh
boring streets threatening violence to pupil
who did not join them. The reserve from
one police station was sent to the scene t
| give whatever protection was necessary
| The strikers tried to induce the boys In an
other school to follow their example.
A diver who examined the sunken steame
Oregon on Sunday last aseertained that be
You'd question her sinking was caused by
collision. Ten feet below the main dec
and about 90 feet forward OF the bridg
| there il a hole in the vessels side, the iro
I plates being crushed in. The hole is fee
7 deep by 8 In breadth at the widest point. TIL
steamer is broken in two. Llghtshlp No. 2
s | has been placed to mark the wreck. She
o schooner rugged, with day marks, and wi
show red and white light at night. Sh
O Is about 900 yards to the eastward OF tn
wreck in 201 fathoms of water. Vesse
. should pass to the southwark of her, as ii
y wreck Of the Hylton Castle lies between ht
= and the shore.
In Troy, New York. Tuesday mornin,
: when the ianltor arrived at the First war
I, public school, he found a mob OF boys o
= the sidewalk, who told him that the scho,
4 building was not to be opened until the
a demand for one session OF four hours W,
!. complied with. The key holes and loci
i were found filled with mud, and 1t WI
y necessary to break open the doors and pl
!, on new locks. The big boys made efforts
! intimtdate the small boys, and the preseni
4 OF couple OF stalwart policemen was r
NJ quired to maintain order In the vicinit
q Finally all the boys except the leaders
q the strike entered the building, and Il
4 latter will probably be expelled or su
ar pended.
"a About 100 boys, pupils of public scho
ii In Greenpoint, Long Island, made
4. mand on the principal Monday "that /
y usual morning and afternoon recesses be e
q tended from is to 80 minutes, and that
N Friday the afternoon session close half
"A hour earlier than at present." Their
If mands not being granted, the boys refus
~ to return TO the school after the morni
"a recess and picketed the entrance to p
~ vent others from entering. The trouble
ar sumed such threatening proportions h
a. the principal sent for the police, and a s
- geant and several officers were sent to
ct school. Finally the mother OF the oh
n ring-leader arrived and succeeded In 10
an ing her son into the school. After he /
Va gone In the other boys quietly marched
10 and no further trouble was experienced.