Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-07-01

NuIohui uieu on mummy, hBeu % years.
Otto Plotz, 81 years of age, was burned
TO death In an clubhouse near Manchester,
N. H., on Monday night. He had been
drinking.
An official test Of the new water works
at Pensacola, Florida, has resulted salts
factorily. The system, IL is said. affords
fire protection to every part Of the city.
A duel was fought Monday by two
brothers named Adam and Alphonse
Reed, ncaI OpelousRs, Louisiana. Adam
was dangerously, If not fatally, wounded.
Six cows which Ind been suffering from
plouro-pnoumonia on a farm near Turkey
Hill, Lancaster county, Pa, were killed
Monday by order Of the state authorities.
Alexander Miller, nh old farmer and his
wife were killed by railroad train atrik-
ing their wagon at railroad crossing near
Lafayette, Indiana, on Saturday morning.
john A. Leddele, wholesale clothier
Of Montreal, committed suicide on Sun
day night by cutting histhroat. Domestic
trouble is supposed TO hive been the
cause.
Willie, n 2.year-old son of Edward
Burke, living ut Baltimore, WINS struck by
n street car Of the York Road Line Tues
day and killed. The driver OF the car was
arrested.
James N. Basemore, who lives neal
Windsor BERTHE county, N. O., was fatally
shot by his son Stone on Monday in i
quarrel. The son then broke open a safe
took $500 and He'd.
Mrs. II. q. Farmer, her 0.year old
daughter, William Brayton and TIVE
children OF @. w. Girsch, were drowned
near Bristol, Il. L., on Sunday, by the
capsizing Of sail-boat.
Robert lIillands md wife of Chillis
quaque, near Milton, Pa, we're killed
Sunday morning by railroad train
which ran into their wagon at crossing
aa they were going 70 church.
william NJ. Wallace, aged abou, 81
years. for several years court crier o.
Perry county, Pa, died Tuesday night n
New Bloomfield from astroke Of paralysis
received earlier in the day.
James Turner and wife, returning HON,
near Winchester, Ohio, Monday morn
ing, were thrown from their wagon by tn,
horse taking fright At n drove Of hogs
Turner was fatally injured and his wifi,
was killed
Philip O'Connor, master Of trnnsporta
ton Of the Hazleton Division of tn
Lehigh Valley Railroad, died Monda,
morning. He was one Of the most prOmi
nent men Of IIazieton and held seyera
offices Of trust.
The Emperor OF Austria has presented
Max Schamberg Austrian consul at Pitts
burg, with an elegant diamond ring
valued ut $4,000, for his services to tn
Hungarians during the recent great strik
in the coke regions.
At Eagle Bond, Miss. on Saturda,
night, Ice Brown, cOlored, shot an,
killed Alfred and Henry Morgan, white
and Cornelius jackson colored. Brow
was porter in store, and the white mel
refused TO let him close it mp.
W. s. MoCollum, dentist, about d
years Of age, committed suicide at hi
boArding-house at Niagara Falls ON Sai
urday morning. lIe had been twic
burned ont within short time. II
leaves wife and little daughter.
At Reading, Pa, Monday, the lie,
d. B. Albright, nm aged minister, for
morly superintendent Of Bothan,
Orphans Home nj Womelsdorf. conyicteI
of cruolly and brutally beating Harr
Kramer an orphan inmate, was sentence
to pay fine of $50 and NIL the costs.
The new steamship, La Bourgoynt
which arrived at New York on Saturda
from Hnyre, made the passage in seye
days, five hours and eight minutes--th
quickest time ON record between thos
ports. Her average speed was Il littl
over Is miles per hour
The family Of +. @. NJ. LautZ, /
Buffalo, ate for dinner on Monday II hasl
of which one of the ingredients was ra
pork, to give the hash flavor Later i
the afternoon the family was taken yer
sick, the servant girl being taken sick /
night. All the sick persons, six in nun
Der, are said 70 he in great danger.
George A. Serens, drummer for ir
goods house in Cleveland, Ohio, shot hin
self dead ia q hnuse OF evil repute
Pittsburg on Sau,y my evening" Ho wi
aDout 30 years OF age kemorse Tor h
treatment Of his wife and his inability
perform certain promises made to an il
! mate Of the house is thought to hay
been the cause of the deed.
Reason Stamper and Mrs. HIATT
Dinkins were married Mt Ashland, Ky. C
Saturday night. While they were rocei
+, ing the congratulations of their friends
woman named Frances Piles rushed
and attempted 20 shoot the groom, but |
disnrmed her, She snid he had promise
; to marry her, and also charged him wit
the murder of man named Black tW
years ago.
On Sunday three men broke into IL
house of Mrs. Dennis O'Donnell, on II
mountain, three miles north of Hazletoi
Ia, and taking out safe, rolled il TO III
loot OF the mountain, where they blew
open and took therefrom 900 in Gas
and numerous vnlunbles. A number {
the neighbors searched the mountains
! but could find no trace Of the burglars.
At n wedding in Paterson, New Jerse,
: on Saturday night, the festivities WEI
J disturbed by Walter Hodgson and otbe
! prying open with clothes poles the vii
dows Of the house in which thew we
held. John Earle and others attemptt
to stop tho disturbance, when fight o
CURED, during which Hodgson stfut
Earle on the head with board and Ear
, died of concussion of the brain. Hodgsc
has been arrested.
A violent thunder storm passed ov,
Halifax, N. s., on Sunday. Several hous
: We're struck by lightning and the topma
OF u vessel WAS broken of by the electr
lind. The lightning struck fire hydra
: on CORVALLIS street, passed into Il
, ground, and badly tore up the street f,
length Of two blocks, throwing larI
rocks to the surface. In another sire
: the lightning struck gutter, thrown
cohble stones all over the roadway.
Tuesday afternoon Fred lutte, age
20 years, son of Charles lutte, a prom
nent steamboat owner, shot himse
through the head at his fathers residenc,
at Lucas, Pa, near Pittsburg. He die
instantly. Previous TO shooting himse
he feed three shots at his sist,
and two at his step-mother. II is also r,
ported that he shot his little step brotbe
through the shoulder. No cause for N
deed has been made public.
News has been received at Guaymal
Mexico, that band of Yaqui Indians a
tackled mule train loaded with freiph
: near Becon, on the 2ith inst, and kille
Two men and captured 30 mules. A lat,
report says that u lieutenant colon
name not ascertained) and 10 soldier
were Killed by Yaquis, near Potain. Ga,
ulh la~ton and his scouts arrived /
\ Eort Huachuca, Arizona, ON Saturdn,
lie reports the killing Of five Mexica
, woodehoppers near the San Augustiu
mime, ~ miles from Magdalena, on u
! sonora river, by hostile Indians.
+ ihere WIS riot Sunday afternoon n
/ fmfport on the Lake Shore, 30 miles eaf
OF Cleveland, Ohio. An excursion part
OF about 800 men, women and chiidre
visited tho place. "a dozen or more men
VINO had been drinking on the boat, visite
saloon on their arrival at Rapport an