The Delaware City news. (Delaware City, Del.) 188?-18??, 1889-03-21

The body Of 8 young man about five
feet six inches In height and well
dressed, was on the 10th found hanging
to tree in Rich Hill township, Greene
county, Penna. The face and skull
had been crushed out of human semb-
lance as though beaten with a heavy
hammer. There was no clue to iden.
tilcatl0n.
1T is reported that freight train
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
backed iutO an express train at Desh-
Ter, Ohio, on the morning of the 17Lh,
killing the engineer of the latter train
and dangerously iniuriDg the fireman.
George Leeman and John Peele were
drowned by the swamping of boat at
New Hamburg, on the Hudson, on the
afternoon of the l7th. Thomas Doh-
Iierty, stableman, who quit work dur
Ing the late street car strike in New
York, and who has been Idle since, was
on tue 18th sent to an insane hospital.
The defeat of the strikers proved on
his mind and lie had made several
attempts to throw himself from the
window of his residence.
S--4ze northeast gale continued on
Massachusetts cS:sta-ni {. evening or
tue 18th, with ap ,a:,.as.e.nal velocity of
fifty miles' IN -a51M rNo disaster is
thus far reported. Tie damage done
by the storm on the evening Of the
10th at Asbury Park and its vicinity is
estimated at S50,0Qg.
AT TIN NJ Sanoy City Co.lery of
the Reading e. mpdny, on the 18th,
while David Evans and his sons, David
and Edward, were 'rObbing'' pillars,
The roof fell upon them. The elder
Evans and his son Edward were killed,
David escaping with severe injuries,
An elevator In the machine shops of
Flynn " Enrich, in Baltimore, fell on
the morning of the 18Th from the
fourth fioor, a distance OF forty feet,
severely iniuring three men who we've
upon it. The men were carrying on
the elevator a heavy iron lar, held
vertically, which as the elevator reached
the top struck the ceiling, and the
strain upon tile light rope broke the
cog wheel controlling the drum which
at once gave way, causing the elevator
to fall. a fourth man who was on the
elevator saw the danger and jumped
from the elevator to the fourth floor.
"A despatch from Parkersburg,
West Virginia, says that Detective
Baldwin and an armed posse, who
went into the wilds of Wyoming and
Mcdowell counties to hreak up gang
of Illicit distillers, have been sur
rounded and their lives are threatened.
The moonshlner band is made UP of
noted desperadoes, who for three years
have defied the law. Thirty have been
captured, and it was while attempting
to arrest forty more the officers were
entrapped.
"A despatch from Indianapolis,
Indiana, says that the shortage of John
e. Sullivan, the County a. srk, SO far
discovered, is about S35, ,UUulr the trust
funds. In addition to thI he Sc
cured $4,000 from the County Treas
ury by fraud,
The boiler in Whitney & 1'uttle's
saw mill at Pound, Wisconsin, burst
on the morning of the 18th. wrecking
the building. Otis Clement was killed,
and August Iiegel, Frank Greenman,
Julius Gokey, Henry Dewey, Frank
F0rcea and Philip Go0tlUhfid. were se-
verely injured. 1t is feared some of
the injured will not recover. Josiah
Rhodes and his mother were drowned
while trying to cross the Ohio river in
boat at Pomeroy. Ohio, on the 18th,
Peter NeaIshalskJ, the miner who was
imprisoned for 81 hours at Black Dia-
mond Collery, at Mount Carmel. Pa,
and who was liberated on the 10th,
died Oh the 18th from nervous exhaus-
tion and internal injuries.
Constable HarnIshfeger from Los
Angeles, California, to Garvanza Will
lage on the 18th to arrest B. S.
Sprague, an old man, for beating his
little girl. Sprague shot and fatally
wounded the constable and then opened
nre on his deputies. The deputies
returned to the city and gave the
alarm and a posse started after Sprague.
During the battle Which followed
Sprague was Shot through the abdo.
men and fatally wounded. Sprague is
thought to have been insane.
1T is reported that gold and silver
in paying quantities have been discov-
cred in Sweat Grass Hills, 90 miles
northwest of Big Sandy, Montana, and
that miners in Eclipse Gulch are MAX
ing from $50 to So a day, Men from
all parts of Montana and Dakota are
ilocking 10 the new fields, without
making adequate provision for subsis-
tence. 1t is feared that a famine will
follow, as supplies cannot be taken to
the ground fast enough to feed every
body.