Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-12-18

Tho Will of Mrs. Wheller-WOmaD and
Three Ohiidrep Burned-Negro NJ ur-
derors Lynchsd-A Cold Water Bath
A Deputy M arsnsl Kills a Ltbsrtine.
The will of Mrs. Jane WHEELER, tn
|aged woman recently murdereu in
Cleveland. Ohio, whoee husband Ia in
jail for the crime, was opened for pro
bate on Friday. The b1lk of the prop.
lerty, valued at about g. 30, 900. is left to
Ia nephew in England. 70 the Western
Reserve School Of Design for Women IL
left property valued at $20. 900, and the
tenants who have lived more than fve
years in Mrs. Wheller's houses get $50
each.
The house Of John SwillinP, mar
Atlanta, Georgia, was burned on Thurs
day morning, and Swillipg, his wife
and three children were burned tC
and confessed that he had crushed In
the Bkulls of the sleepers, saturated the
bed clothes with coal oil, applied the
match and left. Citizens ssizsd the
murderer and carried ham off to lynch
him.
Factor Jones and Richard Bullock,
two OF the four negroes who recently
murdered George Taffe in the Choctaw
Nation because he. csp4ht them killing
his cattle and Y EAess3ie released II
/ $40 bail, were cslN. lad iynehsd h5
q mob at the scers OF the nu-0er oi,
Wednesday last. Tho other two,
SANDY" Smith and George Moss, are
In Jail awaiting tsial.
Two brothers named Raem ussen at
tending q college at Appleton, Wis,
we're few days ago taken from their
rooms by party of the other students
aud "treated to g cold water bath. ~
Robert oy ce, suspected of participation
In the hazing, was expelled. Thereupon
five accompliees confessed aud have
been suspended until the spring term.
At Parowan, Utah, on Thursday,
Deputy Marshal Wan. Thompson shot
and killed Edward Dalton, Indicted for
unlawful cohabitation in March, 1885.
Dalton had been arrested, bnt succeed
ed In making his escape. He frequently
declared that he would never be taken
alive.
j. Praak Green, q grocer of Concord
N. O., committed suicide early Friday
morning by shooting himself through
tue heart. lie war 10 have been tried
Friday on charge of betrayal brought
oy young woman. He leaves o wife
and Ave children. = -
The bodies Of Ms Apiopia Kosa and
her IL months infant were found heng-
ing on Thursday evening from the tran
som or their bsd.r1otn door in Chicago.
1t is supposed the q ead woman killed
her baba and CON mi.sed suicide in q fit
of insanity.
AT Hagerstowo, Maryland, on Fri
day, Joseph Woods, colored. was sen-
fenced to eighteen months in the peni.
tentisry for marrying Anna Nicodemus,
white woman, and the same penalty
was imposed on her
The weaycrs who went on a strike nj
the Star Woollen and Worsted Mill,
PEilado phia, returned to work on Fri
day, together with the other hands-15O
in number-who were obliged TO stop
work on account of tie strike.
At Mahonoy City. Pa, on Thursday
ntghf, Ho Medlar, prominent
clhzen, shot aud fatally wounded
Aaron Miller In o saloon. There had
oeen d feud between them for G long
Dennis Q. Sullivan, who in 1879 was
convicted of murder in the second de
gree In killing his wife In ohilsdel ohie
was yesterday transferred from prison
70 tne NorristoTn Hospital, as be had
Two more men, making % in all, were
Friday placed under bail, In Camden,
N. j., to answer the charge of aiding
and aoetting glove contest on last
Monday night.
The passing of sentence on MeQ aade,
the "boodler," has been deferred nntii
Monday, Go allow the prose alton to
reply by affidavit to certain exceptions
taken by the defense.
William 3. Jordan, a merchant of
Uors don, Indiana, committed suicide
ON Friday. He was member of several
secret societies, and had his life injured
for So. 600.
Il. Epperson, who had served two
terms IN the Legislature OF Arkansas
was arrested at Pine Bluff on Thursday
night, on the charge of rebbing an old
man Of $40.
The United States grand jury at st.
Louis on Friday returned ~ indict.
ments against as napy persona election
officers and voters, for frauds at the last
election.