Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-01-24
NEWS OF OUR NeleHsoRs.
Happenings of Interest In This and Other
States.

The collision at Columbia, Pa, which re-
suited iu the death Of Conductor J. c. Ryan.
was caused by the engineer and fireman fall
ing asleep in their cab. They had done duty
sixteen hours.
Charles McCarty, noted crook and bank
robber, was arrested in Philadelphia dime
museum while attempting TO pick pockets.
de Is in Moyamensing awaiting hearing.
L. w. Covey, good looking and moneyed
bachelor, aged 3S, has been visiting for two
weeks with Edward Potts, an organ manu-
iacturer at Washington, n j. He started
away, and Mr. Potts l6-year-old daughter
casually remarked to the family that she
would accompany Mr.. Covey to the depot.
The family was startled not long after by
telegram from Phillipsburg, ten miles dis
tant, stating that the couple had been mar
ried and were Off ON their wedding tour
jury sitting in a liquor case at Lancas-
;er, Pa, decided that cider was not a vinous
Or spirituous liquor
Henry Lueke, baker residing on Madison
avenue. Albany, n. Y, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head with a
44-caliber revolver No cause is assigned
for the deed.
Charges are made against Lawyer Howard
aot accounted for 1000 Of 81, 400 which he
collected as assignee Of A. c. Garland.
Unless their scale is accepted 1900 miners
will probably strike at Scottdale, Pa, next
Saturday.
The ninety pound steel rails which the
Philadelphia and Reading railroad has laid
On portions of its Bound Brook route are
probably the heaviest in uss within the
United States. They are necsssitated by the
steadily increasing weight Of engines and the
development of speed which mark the time
we live in.
The weavers employed at Campbelrs mill,
In Chester, Pa, are still on strike for higher
wages. The claim of the hands is that under
the present scale they cannot earn more. than
half the wages they should
A bill is now being framed which, when
completed, will be introduced into the New
York legislature calling for the appointment
Of eight female factory inspectors. Thu
draft Of the bill has been shown to Governor
Hill, and 1t is said he approves Of it.
The station Of the West Shore Railroad
company and the steamboat landing al
Cranstons, n. Y, were burned Loss about
$1,000
At the Connecticut legislative hearing
President Starbuck said the Housatonic road
wanted to build from Milford to Norwalk in
order to parallel the New Haven road from
New Haven to Norwafl1 Counsel for thl
New Haven road opposed the petition.
Morris Bowlett was arrested at TrentoI
FOR embezzling $4,000 from William Dolan s
Co, wholesale grocers of that city. He wa
one Of their statesmen, and failed to turn il
all the cash.
DR.. Charles Bliss fell down a fight o
stairs at his residence, 235 West Fifty-tirs
street, New York, and sustained injurie
from which he died soon after
Richard Croker, the leader Of Tamman,
Hall, New York, is seriously i'll His friend
lear that his nervous system is in danger o
giving out, owing to the late exciting cam
paiga in that city. His physicians have Of
iered him to go south for the winter.
Theodore Wahl, the janitor of a tenemen
house on Allen street, New York, was she
in the abdomen b. a person whose name Ii
refused to reveal, and died from the effects 0
the wound The police were notified tina
Paul Cokor 80 years Of age, of 400 Eas
Eighty-second street, a cigarmaker, had at
tempted suicide by shooting himself in th
breast, and that he had informed the phys
clans at the Presbyterian hospital that b
had shot Wahl