Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-05-20
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IN GEN ERAL.

Tyson ~ Brothers, grain commission
merchants in Baltimore, made an nssign
ment Thursday. Their liabilities are esti-
mated at S175, 600, their assets at less
than one-third of that amount. .-..=
Francis 7. Hurd, attorney general of
Indiana, has been declared insane and
placed in an asylum. His mania is un-
grounded jealousy of his wife, an esti-
mable lady of 81 years of age.
A banking house of Boston last week
received cable dispatch saying that
quantity of forged Bank of England
notes of the denomination of Gl00 have
been sent to America for circulation.
Notes of that denomination should be
carefully traced before acceptance.
ladder on which John G. Becker and
Edwin Stirzel were at work Thursday at
Baltimore painting the front of IL house
became misplaced and both were precipi-
tated to the ground. Becker wis killed.
Stirzel's back was broken and he will die.
AT Pottsville, Thursday, the jury in the
case of Mrs. Sarah O'Niel, on trial for
murder, returned verdict of not guilty
on the ground of mental irresponsibility
On the night of September Goth last, ut
Silver Greek, Mrs. 0'Neil, in fit of
jealous and drunken fury, attacked her
husbands aunt, an old woman, with n
Ratchet, crushing her skull ard severing
her head from her body. She then
dragged the mutilated corpse from the
house and threw it into the highway.
The general superintendent of police of
Chicago has sent a photograph of Parsons
to the police of all theprincipal cities and
towns in the United States, with the fol-
lowing circular ARREST for murder and
melting riot A. Il. Parsons, about SO to
40 years of age, i've feet eight or nine
inches high, slim build, 40 pounds
weight, dark hair, tinged with gray, dark
moustache, dyed black; known through
the country us a labor agitator, Socialist
and anarchist, and one Of the leaders and
iuceudiary orators who caused the riot
and massacre in Chicago on Tuesday
night, May 4th." .....-.
The state department hHs received from
our consul at Paso del Norte, Mexico, a
preliminary report in regard to the kill.
| ing of Captain Crawford u. s. A., by
Mexican soldiers, on January 9Th last. He
| says that there is no way of obtaining
definite information owing TO the absence
of witnesses TO tho tragedy, but adds that
il is conceded on both sides that the at
tack was made by irregular Mexican
troops employed by the state of Chihua
hua, through an unfortunate accident
and withou malice. He says further thai
the deprcdations committed in Mexico by
Indians nurtured by the United Statei
government, is grievance that canno
well be overlooked.
Thursdays storm did much damage L
the beaches ut Long Branch, Ocean Grove
Asbury Park and other places along tn,
New Jersey const.
Jacob Hertline, builder, died Frlda,
IN Brooklyn of hydrOphobia. lie was bit
ten by dog on March 9th, the animal no
being supposed mad.
Eliza and Maggie st. Dennis, while walk
ing along the railroad track to school, wer
run over aud killed by train at North
bridge, Mass, Friday.
John Most, the anarchist, Indicted for In
citing to riot, in New York, was Frida,
| released 10 81 900 bail, subscribed by som
Of his friends. He complained bitterly o
having been handcntfed and asserted tina
he lost $3.50 ut the time he was arrested.s
man named Louis Lingg was arrestet
In Chicago Friday night. The police claim
he is the man who threw the BON b into IL 81
ranks last week. His capture was made OIL
information furnished by one of tho Arbeitt
Zeit,ing employees. The police say there /
no shadow Of doubt of the mans guilt.
The ship Ice King, from the Philippin
Islands, March 9th, for Boston, was sum
by collision with an unknown steamer Ma
It'll, of Point Lloyds. The Ice King was O
1,195 tons burden, and was built In Eas
!, Boston In 1877, but was recently owned 4
New York by Mckay Il Dix. She had
cargo OF about 1900 tons of sugar, con
signed to the Boston sugar refinery. TIL
: ship was valued at about 53O,0n0, and he
!. cargo Mt about $4,000. Her officers an
, crew arc reported to have been saved. He
: cargo is Insured in Boston and New Yor
offices.
At Pittsburg, Friday morning, W,
, Hoblltzell agent Of a dynamite company
! began to break up q lot of old iron by usin
dynamite on a lotion anvil. A terrific OK
plosion followed and huge pieces of til
= anvil wero scattered about In every dlrec
, ton. One piece weighing 800 pound
3 wrecked house occupied by Mrs. Mona
[ mara, one block distant. Another piece q
{ over 200 pounds crashed through the dwell
! Ing of Emil Erstman, also block away
! Itstruck a bed In which three children wer
sleeping. They were covered with debri:
but escaped serious injury. Another house
3 occupied by Mrs. Luny, 800 feet away. wa
also wrecked. Only one person was iniure
"a woman walking along the sidewalk
square distant, who was injured SO badly 1
the leg that 1t may have to be amputatel
Hoblitzell was arrested for violating n cit
! ordinance.