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

daughter, Nellie. Richard E&6ing, a
young married man, was also arrested
on suspicion of connection with the
case. William L. Scott and4a boy
named George had row with atnegro,
named Isaac Woods, and tw,. Acolored
women. near Greenville, MISSES ppi
on the 14th. The negroes were - ined
with knives and razoTs, and Scott had
shotgun. He shot Woods in the leg,
but the latter closed with him
and cut his throat. Scott died
In few minntes. The bog
George was also badly cut. WI.lia6n
Buffalo, colored, six years Of age, has
been arrested in Norfolk, Virginia,
charged with the murder of Riddick
Harrison, 10 years Of age, also co.ored.
While the two boys were playing tot
gether on February 2Sth dispute took
place between them, when Buffalo
pulled palling from fence near by
and struck Harrison with it. n nail
In the end entered his skull. Nothing
serious was thought OF it until the
14th, when Harrison died. At italian
Canyon, twelve miles from lAustin,
Nevada, on the 14th, Samuel Rumble
shot and killed his father-in-law,
George nosking, and his brother ILL.,
law. aged 10. John King, boy,
hearing the shot, went towards the
scene, and met Rumble holding the
gun. Rumble asked the boy to shoot
him. The boy refused. Rumble then
took the boys horse and rode three
miles to the Hosking house, shot and
killed Mrs. Hosking, and then com
mltted sd.cide. The tragedy was the
result of "a family quarrel over the
division of some property.
"A trestle on the Cincinnati and
Green River Railroad, near Stanford,
Kentucky, gave way on the 18th, under
freight train, and the engine and
two cars fell 80 feet and were wrecked.
A colored fireman and man named
Hughes, who was stealing ride, were
fatally Injured. By the breaking of
an axle OF coal Car, on the evening
OF the 18th, u whole train on the Le-
high Valley Railroad was deralled near
Bear Greek Station, ON the Wllkesbarre
Mountain. No one was injured.
Richard Fisher, his wife and Robert
Juegler were arrested In New York on
the evening of the 18th for counter
teiting. Counterfeiting material and
bogus silver dollars were found in the
den.
during a theatrical performance in
Lafayette Hall, at Martins Ferry,
West Virginia, on the evening of the
10Th, a coal oil lamp fell from the
ceiling and exploded. Little damage
was done by fire, but the audience
rushed, panic.stricken, to the doors.
One woman tainted and was badly
injured by being trampled upon. Miss
Mabel Tuttle. school teacher from
White Haven, was killed by train
while walking on the Central Railroad
tracks near Mauch Chunk, Penna., on
the afternoon of the 18th. A few
minutes before she had been warned OF
the danger by the section foreman.
burglars chloro -olmed and robbed
James Carliu, Postmaster at Cleves
Ohio, on the evening of the 10 h. Al
last accounts Mr.. Clrlin had not
recovered consciousness, and it was
not known how much money was taken.
Christian Weiss, employed in a
bu cher shop on Tenth avenue. New
York, WAS fa'ally stabbed on the after
noon of the 18th by Patrick Meeban, a
l4-year-old chOre boy In the shop.
Weiss had angered AIeehan by repri-
manding HIM for slovenllness. Weiss
rescued several women from burning
tenement on Ninth avenue about year
ago by going on the roof and lowering
himself by rope to the windows where
the women stood, and then lowering
them to the firemen on the ladders.
"A serious cave.in of the surface
ground has occurred at Scranton,
Penna. Eight chambers in the 14.foot
vein and those directly above in tie rock
vein Of the Central Colliery Company
have caved in. These chambers
are almost directly under the
centre of the Hyde Park section.
The north wall of the Wash
burn Street Presbyterian Church
building is much out Of plumb. The
residence of Rev ID. j. Stearns, the
Pastor of the church, and that OF Mine
Superintendent Hughes are thrown out
of shape by the crush, as also are the
dwellings Of Helen Pulver and Wesley
Lanning.
Peter Nearshalsky, the sixth o,
the miners imprisoned in the Black
Diamond Colllery, at Mouut Carmel,
Penna., and who, it was stated, had
peTished, was dug out on the afternoon
of the 10th, alive and suffering
littl3 beyond nervous prostration. He
had been half buried in debris and
suut in for fifty hours.
Edward Swan. OF Lynn, Massa-
chusetts. paying teller of Jhe National
City Bank, was before Commissioner
Hallett, in Boston, cn the 10th, on the
charge OF being deGaulter to the
amount of SG5,595 He restored stock
valued at S33 .450. Swan is 30 years
old. lie has wife and two children,
and has lived beyond his income in the
endeavor to support them in style. He
specuated in stocks. He was placed
under $50, 900 bail. Four masked rob-
bers bound and gagged IL. j. Brown,
night watchman at the Plttsburg Sewer
Pipe Works, near New Brighton,
Penna.. early on tie morning of the
10th, and then blew the safe open with
powder. They obtained about one
hundred dollars.
Blanche Gray, aged 40 years.
notorious woman in Baltimore, died OIL
the evening of the 18th. "Bill" shan
non. in lit of jealous rage, cut hel
throat on the evening OF the 10th.
james Irwin, Superintendent Of
the Carnegie Gas Line, was arrested in
Greensburg, Pa, on the evening of the
10th, charged with murder. During
The afternoon Irwin turned on the gas
on the new line In the neighborhood of
Harrison City without, it IS alleged,
notifying the workmen en- the line.
The extremely high pressure burst a
pipe where half dozen men were en-
gagged at work, and a portion Of the
pipe struck one of the men, whose
name could not be learned, killing him
instantly. Another workman was
seriously Injured. Irwin claims the
gas was turned on by accident. 1t is
now believed that the Flowers family,
whose remains were found IN the ruins
Of their burned house at Hollow Rock,
near Huntington, Tennessee, on the
evening of the 10Th, were murdered
by "Moonshlners, with whom
Flowers had been ''meddling" of late. |
They feared that he would inform
upon them. Lawrence Brill was shot