The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1888-08-04
NEWS GATHERED


A severe storm swept over a por-
ton of Iowa on Sunday last. Great
quantities of hail fell, destroying
crops and killing stock. One far
mer had so hogs killed by the hail.
Buildings were also blown down.
Many of the farmers of jefferson
county lost all they had, and in all
probability aid will be asked.
John P. Anderson while cleaning
ont n 150-feet well at Johnstown,
Neb., on Thursday, noticed the walls
crum1ling and called to the men
above to pull him out. When with
in 25 feet from the top the walls
collapsed above him and he was a
prisoner. He has remained there
ever since without food or water and
deriving his fresh air from that part
of the well below. Another well
has been sunk beside the old one
and the men have dug near enough
to him to hear him SPEAK.
A Elrmer named William Chat
man, residing in dorchester county,
Md, foolishly built a fire in his
barnyard few evenings ago for the
purpose of riding the premises of
mosquitoes and went to bed. In
the morning the barn and contents
including pair of horses, a mule
and farming utensils, were destroy
ed.
Louis B. Stackhouse, aged %
yeara, went to Patterson, N. j., from
Newark on Wednesday night to
wed Hattie Grascom. The wedding
party had assembled and the clergy
man was to arrive in half an hour.
Stackhouse and his brid were pre-
pairing for the ceremony, when the
door bell rang, and in walked Spe-
cial Officer John Quinlan, armed
with a warrant issued by Justice Di-
mond. The officer told the bride
groom that he was a prisoner. The
bride was thunderstruck and filled
with grief as Stackhouse was taken
away. The charge against the young
man was obtaining money and
goods under false pretences.
Ben Dutton, a farm hand went to
the house Of John D. Lamont, three
miles east of Dryden, New York, on
Wednesday night and attempted to
kill Lamont and Miss Roat, young
woman employed in the Lamont
family. Dutton fired one bullet al
Lamont, which took effect in tie
face, and four at the girl, all OF
which took effect. Her most serious
injury is a bullet wound in thu
back of the head, and her recover,
is doubtful. After the shooting Dut
ton escaped to the woods. The poss,
headed by Deputy Sheriff Tormor
hunted for him all night and thi
| morning his body was found will
bullet through his heart. A pape
4. was also found at the murderer,
>. side marked strychinine. Duttor
II had been playing attention to tn
i Roat girl, but Lamont considere,
j. him unworthy of her, and at hi
a advice She rejected his suit. Quito
IS sworc +" get even with Lamont fo
interfering and it was in fulfllmcn
: OF his onth that the attempt d
a murder was made. Lamont is
1 cousin Of Daniel S. Lamont, Pres
dent Cleveland's Private Sccretar,
"A Selwynn Taylor, of Pittsburg, Pa
/. a prominent local mining engince
n and coal expert, thinks natural ga
a is giving out lie says "Withil
1t two years at furthcst coal lands vii
T. be selling for what they were con
,e sidered worth before natural GA
to was thought Of This will he du
v largely To the failure of the ga
l. fields to supply the demands mad
N upon them. Gas, like oil, will i
" time exhaust itself. New fields ma
# be opened, but taking all in all,
III think the outlook for coal was nevC
ia more bright since natural gas can
III into use. 1t is not published, but a
~ the large gas fields are playing GU
Murraysvelle has seen its best day
and all the wells in the Beaver an
90 Ohio Valleys are going. The pro-
~ poets for fields large enough to tax
=. their place in case of total failu
yn are not bright by any means. I'll
i'd big natural gas company recogni
y" this as fact, and are expendiI
re thousands Of dollars ON proce
CIV for making fuel gas. Thia is signi
en- icant In my judgment two yea
rn will see an end natural gas as