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

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Marie and Viretta Reeves, maiden
sisters, living near Parkersburg, w.
Va, on Monday night killed one
burglar and MORALLY wounded
another. One of the women, see
ing man in her room, seized re-
volver and sent bullet through his
brain. The other sister, being
awakened, sprang upon the other
burglar and shot him through the
groin as he was about to jump from
window.
A 12-year-old boy of Clinton town
ship recently took $40 from his
fathers trunk and left note saying
that he would be back in year,
when he would return the money.
He was caught in the depot. Since
then his father has been in the habit
Of sitting on the boys bed till he
has gone to sleep. A few nights ago
the lad got up after his father had
supposed him asleep, and, with two
pals of his own size, he robbed
house a mile away of ST. lie was
caught.
John Anderson, the man who had
been confined in q well under several
feet of sand at Johnstown, Neb., was
rescued Sunday last. SO intense
has been the excitement and sym
pathy for the unfortunate man that
business OF all kinds was very much
neglected. Farmers left their fields
and merchants their stores and flock
ed to the scene of the accident, offer
ing to lend a helping hand. The
women showed their willingness to
help also by cooking and sending
food to the workers. He was in the
well over a week.
A dispatch from Cincinnati says
DR.. Ernst Weissenbacher, professor
of geology in Heidelberg University,
Germany, after a visit of scientific
inspection TO the natural gas wells at
Findlay, O., in the course of which
he experimental with delicate in
struments, has come to the conclu-
sion that great internal fire of
temperature of over 5000 degrees is
raging underneath that city and vi
cinity. From the tremendous
cracking which is heard by the in
struments he thinks an early catas-
trophe not only possible but proba-
Bile.
While laborers were engaged in
excavating for a new building in
East Dubuque, Iowa, Monday, they
came upon number of skeletons,
all of grown persons. One of the
skulls has a bullet hole in it. A
quarter ola century ago the site was
occupied by frame clearinghouse
and old settlers remember stories of
myterious disappearances Of strang-
ers about that time. All the bones
found were those of middle aged
men. The parties who kept the
house at that time have long ago
disappeared. Further search is
being made. 1t looks as if another
Bender tragedy had been enacted
there in earlier days.
Quite romantic marriage took
place at West Point, Ga, the other
afternoon, the contracting parties
being DR.. e. Hill and Miss Matte
Pratt, of that city. The ceremony
took place on the yellow waters of
the swif-rolling Chattahoochee
The bride and groom were seated in
a light yawl boat, and the latter
deity piled the oars, bearing his
lady to the rocks about half a mile
above the landing. The hour was
splendidly suited to the occasion.
The sun was just hiding its glorious
outlines below the horizon when
Rev. w. R. Briscoe pronounced the
solemn words that bound them to-
gethcr irrevocably.
Robert Henderson, the Idaho
capitalist who blew out the gas in
his room at the Ogden House, Chi
cago, on Tuesday, died on Saturday
at the hotel. His case is considered
remarkable by the physicians in
that he lived for so long q time after
being overcome by the gas. The
doctors as last resort adopted a
form oftreatment on Saturday which
offered some slight hopes of saving
Henderson's life. A vein in the
) patients arm was opened, and about
fifteen ozs. ofblood were drawn. This
was replaced by the same quantity
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