The Delaware City news. (Delaware City, Del.) 188?-18??, 1889-04-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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NEWS OF THE WEEK. !.
William Pray shot and killed his
wife ana then shot and mortally
wounded himself in Frankford, lIndi-
ana, on the afternoon of the 9Th. His
wife had been compelled to leave him
and refused to live with him again. On
the evening of the Sd Thomas Wash
ington, IA years of age, was riding on
an engine on the coal road Of the Pic.
neer Coal Company, in Kanawha
county, West Virginia, and was put
of by Edward Spriggles, the engineer.
4 Wy isagGton secured pump-randle,
aid, sneaking up behind SprlggIes,
beat him IN the head with it.fracturing
his skull in six places.
Frederick Friedricksen, horse
dealer from Hamburg, Germany, was
robbed of $1,000 while asleep in hotel
at HObOken, New Jersey, on the even
ing of the 4th. A man who occupied
the next room, and who was missing In
the morning, is suspected of the
robbery.
The public debt statement, issued
on the lst, shows reduction of $13,-
sos, $50 during March. Total cash in
the Treasury, S617. .591. 900.
"A freight train on the York River
Branch of the Richmond and Danville
Railroad, ran into a wash-out near
West Point, Virginia, on the evening
of the 9th, and was wrecked. Two
men, % colOred brakeman and the fire.
man, a young man named Durvin,
were killed. Engineer Lynch was ter.
ribly scalded.
"A despatch from New York says
that several hundred men, bound for
City Island on fishing trip, got on Cat
cars on the Pelham Park Railroad, on
the 7th. One of the cars on which 60
men were standing was overturned and
the passengers were thrown in every
direction. Fifteen nen were badly
hurt, and Jacob Halehnger dam
gerously.
Patrick S. Close Thomas Reardon
and John O'COnnell, members of the
Ale and Porter Brewery Employees
Association in New York, have been
arrested on The charge of conspiracy to
blow up Stevenson's brewery in that
city. 1t was damaged by a dynamite
explosion on February 9th. The ln-
dictment is based on a confession of
Henry Fitzgerald, who says he was one
OF the conspirators.
Richard Evans, 10 yeaIs OF age,
was on the 7th attacked by gang of
drunken Hungarlans near PIainville,
Penna., and one of them hit him on
the head with q stone, causing frae-
ture of the skull which proved fatal.
Two Of the rufiians were arrested. a
policeman named John Manning was
shot dead by Sandy Jones, colored,
whom be was trying to arrest on a
warrant at Bessemer, Alabama, on the
evening of the 9th. Jones then fred
at three other policemen and escaped
David Kline, an old shoemaker in Bor-
deutown, New Jersey, is dangerously
| i'll from the effects of drinking coffee
which contained rat poison. His wife,
who has fled, is supposed to have ad-
ministered the poison,
David Hodyshell, Of shermantown,
several days ago, with $500 to pay Off
his employees, and las not been heard
Of since then. 1t is supposed that he
was murdered by tramps on the North
Mountain, near Carlisle, and his body
hidden. Larry Mcdonald and John
Schneider, two Government employees
working on the River Improvement
Commission at st. Louis, quarrelled in
a small skiff In the middle Of the river
on the 7th. After terrible struggle
Mcdonald threw Schneider into the
river and then rowed ashore, allowing
kim to drown. The Connecticut Su-
preme Court OF Errors has refused a
new trial in the case of Jacob Schell,
| the New Canaan murderer, uuder
sentence to be hanged on May 23d, for
the murder of Constable Druker in
January, 1888. Mrs. Kline has been
arrested in Bordentown, New Jersey,
on the charge OF placing rat poison in
her husbands coffee. Kline ia still
under the Doctors care.
"A defective switch derailed the
four rear coaches of a Baltimore and
Ohio passenger train, near South Chi
cago, ON the 7th. James Hanna, OF
Smiths Besin, New York, was killed,
and Henry Houk, of Adamsville, Iowa,
injured internally. Among those who
we're bruised and cut were: Frank
Shelton, Smiths Basin, New York;
John II, Macdonald, Antagonist, Nova
Scotia, b. o. RambO, Shelby, Ohio;
o, II. Straley. Cleveland, Ohio; Mr..
and Mrs. j. f. Wood, Cuba, New
York; Alexander Wood. Cuba, New
York; a. BershIg, Cleveland, Ohio.
Loyons Felgelmassey, IL years of age,
was drowned In the Susquehanna river,
at Marietta, Pa, on the 9Th, while
trying to swim ashore from boat.
Crafts saw mill, near Junction
City, Kentucky, was wrecked by a
boiler explosion on the 9Th. Chester
Hughes, Jack Sheets, Albert Hurley
and Samuel Morris were killed. J.
Ulrich Alton was killed and Joseph
Legros was fatally injured while at
tempting to drive ,across the railroad
track in Fitchburg. Massachusetts, on
the 9Th. a tornado struck a settle
ment at Long Lake, British Northwest
Terrlt Try, on the night of the 3lst ult
Its path was 80 yards wide, and it tore
up trees by the roots blew down
houses and barns. No loss of life lepoi-
ted.
August Anderson, boarding
house runner, was SHOT aud killed on
the !th on board the Norwegian bark
Ernring, at New York, from Brazil,
by the bark's mate, Osmond Tholen.
1t was alleged that the murdered man
was trying TO lnduca the sailors TO
desert. Anderson is said to have