Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-12-16


IN GENERAL.
George Sparks aud Monroe Smith, both |
color"d charged with arson and iobbery, |
were taken from the Jail nj Ringgold,
GrorSia on Ftiday night nud lypehed by |
u mob
W. J. Dyer of Philadelphia, 81 years of |
age and blind, who bad been giving vocal |
entertainments in public schools 1T
WilkeBbarre, died there on Saturday |
morning. He had with him grandson |
8 years of age.
Mrs. Mcclure and her soHand daughter
were suffocaied to death by coal gas in
their house at Maplewood, Illinois, on
Saturday night. They closed all the
doors and windows tightly on retiring,
and forgot to replace stove lid after re-
plenishing the parlor fire.
Volney b. Chamberlin, pork packer,
was convicted in Cambridge, Mass, on
Saturday, with cLncealing the assets of
the insolyent firm Of Lincoln. Chamberlain
& Co., Of which be was a partner, and
also with perjury in falsely swearing to
the purchase of government bonds.
Thirty tramps, who have been camped
doah, Pa, went into the town on Satur-
day night, got drunk, created q riot in
saloon and fatally wounded three men,
one of them the saloon keeper, James
McKeone. Nine of the tramps were
arrested and four of them committed to
Jail.
J. O. Hill, a resident of Edgewood, near
Pittsburg. collected So, 600 on Friday and
took the money home to keep over night.
His daughter, having severe toothache,
got up early on Saturday morning, and
went down to the library to warm herself.
Her father, thinking burglar was in the
house, followed her down stairs with q
revolver and fired, wounding his daughter
severely, if not dangerously, in the neck.
The court of appeals of Kentucky on
| Saturday decided that the lawyer, John
j. Oornelison, who some time ago COW
hided Judge Reid of the superior court
at Mt. Sterling, for making an adverse
| decision against Cornelson, will have to
go to Jail for three years, in addition TO
| paying fine. 1t will be remembered
that Cornelison's victim, Judge Reid, was
SO mortified at the cowhiding that he
committed suicide.
At Lancaster, Pa on Saturday night,
James, alias "Reddy," Jacobs, fatally
stabbed his brother in-law, Ellsworth
Quigley, and the latter died Sunday
morning, Immediately after the stabbing
| Jacobs disappeared, and has not vet been
apprehended. 1t appears that the quar-
rel originated from Quigley protesting
against Jacobs abuse of his children. In
scutlle that ensued, Quigley thtew
/ II he lntf n
knife, and with the remark '.I'llf fix YOU
inflicted terrible wound.
Judge Gresham, at Indianapolis, on
Saturday, granted a temporary injunction
restraining the Chicago & Atlantic Rail,
road Company from denying express
facilities to the United States Express
Company under existing contracts, and
also restraining the railroad company
from granting express facilities 10 other
companies. The Erie company applied
for leave to be made party defendant, and,
upon suggestion of the court, all the par
ties will prepare answers to be submitted
to the court for final hearing at an early
day.
An explosion occurred on Saturday
morning in the fuel room of the factory
of j. A. Woodbury., in East Cambridge,
Mass, by which the apartment was
wrecked aud eight men were injured, one
named Frank Silver, perhaps fatally.
The building is in the form of hollow
square. aud is used by several firms
engaged in furniture making and planning
The power is 'tsIiii he'd by 4,jl hnrse
power engine. lha iuel ,oom was tull Of
phayipu- md e is Thought TINT 4 spai
| got into il in some way and when the
doors were opened aud air was admitted
the explosion occurred.
The upper floor of the A. F. Shapleigl
& Cantrell Hardware tCompany's store il
st. Louis, fell in with great crash OF
saturday afternoon. aud carried down
the third and second floors. The ruin!
caught fire, and in short time nothing
} was left but mass of burned and ruinet
goods and machinery. The house carried
u stock valued ut tI00, 600. The insurance
amounts to $500 900. Three of the III
mates of the building john Mahan
porter; Arthur W. Palmer, clerk ant
Charles e. Reid elerk-are missing an,
believed to have persisted. Another EN-
ploye had a leg badly crushed.
On the Goth ult., tray of diamont
rings, valued at $1,000, was stolen fron
l d.
! York, by well-dressed young man VIII
appeared as q would- be customer. Sun
, day the-culprit was arrested ut a chea
rate east-side hotel and was locked up
/ He has light hair and moustache, an
? says he ia William Wauser, % years old
! machinist by trade, and recently arrived
{ from Chicago. He has confessed an
l some OF the stolen property has been IT
| 10 h. krn u
dropped the former in neighboring hal
way and pocketed the latter.
In Baltimore on Friday evening, co
Ored man took to the Maryland Universit
a the body of white woman and left
o with the ianitor, saying he would ca
a again for Sl5-the price agreed upon fo
e the subject for dissection. Later develop
n ments Indicate tuat tine woman, who wa
about 60 years of age, was dissipate
character named Emily Brown, VIII
4 boarded with colored family, and thi
q she had been murdered for the price h,
= body would bring for the dissecting tabl
! Sunday John Ross and Albert HarkiI
- were arrested and confessed the Grim
!. saying they had committed it at tho il
o stigAtion of Janitor Parry.
4 The comptroller of the currency hi
written to New York bank officials wi
had requested the retention in office /
Bank Examiner Serbia, that it is imposs
I BILE to comply with their request" E
!, adds that he is the best Judge of the maj
i ner in which Mr.. Serbia has performe
= his duties and says: "If the precedel
y should be established that the examin,
4 holds his office by tenure of popularity
: the favor of bank officers or a public Sci
= timent averse to official changes, thei
Il would be, in my Judgment, a fatal bio
"a struck at the efficiency of the whole sy
N tenn of examination and there would
u introduced principle that would actual
- cripple the service and eventually desire
its value, both to the public and Il