The Delaware City news. (Delaware City, Del.) 188?-18??, 1889-04-04

pital. A number of laboreTs on tile
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, at
Shamokin. Penna.. got into a fight on
the I'd, and several of the men at
tempted TO escape by running on Il
high trestle. Cusk Dulski lost Us
balance and was dashed to pieces on
the ground seventy feet below.
Thirteen thousand dollars worth Of
smU2gled opium was seized on the
morning of the ID In San Francisco.
1t had teen lowered from China
steamer into the water and taken to
caudle factory. Important arrests are
expected
Investigation of the accounts of
Edward Deshler, Assistant Postmaster
at New Brunswick, New Jersey, shyws
a shortage of $3.50. Thieves entefsd
the old State House in New Haven,
Connecticut, on the evening of the Isl,
and, ep;er'.4@---@wazaassap l-'-~-- ~
Haven Historical Society, carried
away the sword of Admiral Foote,
held by the society as a relic. 1t is a
presentation sword, studded with
Jewels and precious stones, valued at
$4,000.
"A big land slide occurred ON Sec
Ond avenue, at the lower end of Lock
No. l, in PittsbuTg, on the morning of
the I'd. A huge mass of rock and clay
stated at the top of the hill above the
railroad, opposite Pride street, and
slipped down, covering the Baltimore
and Ohio tracks and Second avenue.
Nearly half of Bluff street Slipped
away. and it is thought some OF the
property along that thoroughfare is in
danger. The debris covered the rail-
road and Second avenue to the depth
Of several feet, and reaching for many
rods along the tracks. The telegraph
wires were broken and travel was
stopped entirely. No one was injured.
Mrs. Margaret Kinlein and her
three children were burned to death in
their home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
on the morning OF the lst. There was
every Indication that the mother had
deliberately burned herself and her
children. They all occupied the same
bed, and the smoke from the fire, built
beneath it, smOtherei chem all. The
bodies were horribly burned. Mrs.
Klnlein's husband, wLo was carpen.
ter, died about ten months ago, and
she supported herself and children by
taking in washing. James Calhoun, a
timer, in Chattanooga. Tennessee,
attacked his wife and daughter with a
hatchet ON the 3lst ut. He then cut
! his own throat and swallowed an
ounce and half of muriatic acid and
zinc. 1t IS thought Calhoun and
his wife will die, and that tie
daughter will recover. 1t is supposed
that Calhoun became Insane over
financial matters. Betty Shay, a
white domestic, 81 years of age, was
found murdered in her room at her
employers house in Lexington, Ken
lucky, on the morning OF the lst.
Thomas O'Brien, who was engaged TO
marry Miss Shay, has been arrested.
O'Brlen shot and killed Henry Metcalfe
about year ago. Henry Bell stabbed
and killed Wick Whitcliif, in Curds-
vile, Kentucky, on the 31st ult. They
worked in tobacco factory and had a
quarrel. M. M. Marshal, an old
soldier. was struck and killed IN
"A saloon, in Milwaukee, Wis, by
Thomas Egan, a hack driver, on
the morning OF the 1st. Eagan was abus-
ing a boy and Marshall interfered. Seven
prisoners In the workhouse in Lex
ingtOn, Kentucky, attacked and fatally
wounded the keeper on the evening of
the 3lst ult,, and escaped. a despatch
from Hancock, Dakota, says that old
| William Edwards, u squaw man, who
had the mail contract from Washing
ton to Coal IIarbor, was murdered on
the Both ult by his squaw wife. He
bought the young girl from her parents
for $40. She tried to leave him several
times with younger man, but Ed
wards batlled every attempt. William
Green, crippled violin player, was
fatally injured by his son-in-law,
Pnlip Miller, in Bascom, Ohio, on the
lst. during dispute.
I'm Guelph, Ontario, on the Sd, the
Coroner's jury found verdict OF
wllful murder against William II,
Harvey, who killed his wife and two
daughters several days ago. At a
dance IN &enia, Ohio, on the morning
of the Sd, Sherman Jackson stabbed
and killed Frank Lawrence, colored.
An effort was made by mob of col
ored people 10 lynch jackson, but,
after hard light, the police succeeded
in getting him IN jail. Frederick
Schultz, farmer, near East Saginaw,
Michigan, shot and killed an unknown
man whom he found in his barn on
the evening of the %. Detectives
Baldwin, Robinson and Wallace went
from Charleston, West Virginia, on
the ID, to Tug river, to arrest desp-
erado and mopnshlner named William
Moran, A fight ensued and Moran
was killed, not. however, until he had
badly wounded all three of the detec.
tives.
Mrs. Christian Weick, her son and
two maid servants were sutfocated by
coal gas in their house, near Bethle-
hem, Penna., on the evening of the I'd,
and were found unconscious on the
morning of the 81. MIS-. weiclf is dy.
ing; the others are recovering. A
freight train ON the baltimore ana
Ohio Railroad ran into Cincinnati
and st. Louis express near Rockville,
Maryland, on the 3D., aud number 0t
cars were badly damaged. No person
was injured except Walter A. Cox,
freight engineer, who had a leg broken
and was badly bruised,
Every business house and nearly
all the dwellings in Mt. Pleasant, Da.,
kota, were destroyed by fire on the I'd.
The loss will be about 100000, with
but little insurance. 1t was caused by
prairie fires.
-Emma T. Day. aged 10 years, and
her sister, Henrietta Frances, aged III,
have been arrested in Summit, New
Jersey for incendiaTism, They CON,
fessed that they not only caused the
recent fire in Summit, but had also
caused those at Plalnfield, for which
William Van Ness IS now serving a
sentence in the penitentiary.
The southwest portion Of CLARK IS
sausage factory, in Montreal, three
stories high, was crushed in on the 81
by the weight of snow upon the roof.
Eliza Harding and Kate Byrne we're
buried in the rum under two large lron
tanks, and were unconscious when
taken out. Both were dangerously, If
not fatally Injured.
Burglars blew open the safe of the
FIRST National Bank in Plymouth, Ohio
on the morning of the 3D., and occurred
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