Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-11-30
NEWS SUMMARY.
EPARATION AND THE WIFET
ERoTHER SHOT DEAD.
Borse Thief shOt-An Offensive Charac.
ter Tarred and Feathered-SI,O 900
Reward for BaIlot-Box Suffers.

W. A. Baldwin, who recently moved
from VlcSsGurg TO Irondale, Alabama,
decided on Monday to go back. His
wife thereupon announced that sho
would leave him. A quarrel ensued,
and A. Is. Moore, the wtfe's brother.
took her part. Both men drew pistols
and began shooting rapidly. Moore
fell dead and Baldwin received two
flesh wounds. His wife was shot in
the cheek.
J At Cornnns, Michigan, on Sunday
night, twelve masked men broke into
the house OF Charles Pripsle, dragged
out boarder named Coleman, tarred
and feathered him, and marched him
to the outskirts OF the town, telling him
TO leave mmedihtsly. The reason given
for this action is tt at the mad long been
an offensive character in the neighbor-
hood"
James Boyle. ss-thief, was shot
dead by Deputy Sheriff. named Mel
SOD, while trying to escape from custody
near Burlington Jun notion, Missouri, on
Saturday. On the dead mans body
were found letters (which go 20 prove
that there is an organized band OF horse
thieves operating in Northwest Mis-
souri and Southern Iowa"
The New Jersey Republican State
Committee on Monday offered reward
of $1,000 for the arrest ard conviction Of
those implicated in what they allege to
have been ballot-box "fxing'' In the
Third Assembly District of Camden
County. The Democrats claim that the
frauda, If any, we're committed by Re-
publicans.
Adam Dreisbsck, \ well-known rail-
road contractor, died suddenly in
Bloomsburg, Pa, on Monday morning,
aged GA years. He wss the builder Of
the greater portion of the Bound Brook
Railroad, in New Jersey, and most of
the extension of the Delaware and Hud-
son road to Lake Chsmplain.
The second trial of Arthur j. Mo-
Quade, ex Alderman, charged with
having received bribe, was called ON
Monday in New York, and the tedious
work of securing jury was begun.
Only two jurors were obtained when
the Court adjourned for the day.
Frank Kerner, accused Of the mur-
der of his wife in Reading, has made
confession, detailing how he strangled
his wife, then dragged her mp stairs to
the bed, poured coal oil over 1t, and set
1t on fire "Ee is an Anarchist in his
ideas"
A telesram from Omaha says that
"Sam" Jones closed "a three weeks
campaign there on Monday" At his
last meeting he raised IS, 100 for the
Y. M. @. A. building. He left on
Monday night for his home in Georgia
to take rest.
John Pugh and Reuben Arnold, while
crossing the Vandalia railroad track, in
East st. Louis, on Sunday morning, in
% wagon, were struck by an engine.
Arnold was KILLED and Pugh was fatally
injured.
Bernard Ryan, aged SO years, per-
ished in his house at Milltown, Me. on
Sunday night, while trying to save 1t
from being burned. he had Just bought
the property with back pension money.
| At Milwaukee, Monday, In the case
! of Carl Musselfeldt, John Rung snd
August Gutz, the Milwaukee Garden
rioters, Judge Sloan suspended sentence
and the prisoners were set at large.
George T. McNeill has intlmated that
be will stand es the Labor candidate
for Mayor of Boston. Seven thousand
signatures have been obtained to the
petition asking him to be q candidate.
A meeting of the coal managers was
held Monday in New York, at which 1t
WAS decided to make no change in the
prices Of anthracite coal.
A slight shock of earthquake WAS felt
in Van Vert, Ohio, at o'clock Monday
evening.