Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1889-07-29


Wesley Elkins, an 1l-year-old boy Of
Elk township, Clayton county, Iowa. on
Wednesday night, murdered his father
and step-mother. He drove four miles
with his baby sister to a nelghbor's
house, and said he had found his parents
murdered, and had fed for self protec-
tion. He subsequently confessed his
crime, saying that he had had 'some
difficulty with his father" whom he
shot The noise aroused his step-mo her,
young aend In order to escape detec
ton.
The people of Haverhill township, four
miles from Lawrence, Massachusetts are
excited over the finding of human blood
marks and traces Of a struggle In an ur-
frequented place, where recently persons
had been attacked while driving at night.
The SPOT where the blood trail euds Is
only few rods from the river. The po-
Ice are investigating the matter.
AT Linneus, Missouri. on Saturday,
the trial OF Joseph A. Howell, school
teacher, for numbering his cousin, Mrs.
Minnie Hall and her four young children,
burning the house over their heads to
OF murder In the FIRST degree. Sentence
was deferred.
Lucy Bedford, aged 50, AMI Emily Par
sons, her nieeeQtvQ, coloreG women OF
Nashville, leu. VOC poisoned on Satur-
day by srsehlc III their coffee. This
younger woman died, and the elder is in
q critical condition. Lucy Bedford is
said to be the richest colored woman in
the South. -Four Of her servants are
under arrest.
John Donohue, Sc years old, was ad-
mitted to the Pennsylvania Hospital yes
terday In an unconscious condition suf-
tering from a double fracture of the lower
jaw and other injuries, said TO have been
inflicted by ar unknown man while
Denohue was lying asleep in the Balm
bridge street market.
James ". Smith, who wns convicted in
a Chicago court ON Saturday night OF o
criminal assault on little girl, and sem
fenced 10 nine years. Imprisonment,
frantically proclaimed bis innocence, and
attempted suicide by stsbbing himself In
tue bteast with pocket kuife, It Ia
thought that he Is not fatally wounded
Mrs. William Il. Schlaysr, Harris
burg Woman, who was t,nrorarily in-
cane from Illness, on Friday gave her
lfoEr. months-old babe doe oi morphine
aAdiaudanum and took . similar dose
herself. The baby died but the mother
will recover.
Josep A. starck, ticket agent at Eas.
ton, Pa, for the New jersey Central
Railroad Company, was on Eriday night
discovered to be short in is accounts. On
Saturday morning he committed suicide
by shooting himself through the temple.
Charles A. Lewis, tie detaultiug pur-
ser OF the steamer City Of Albany, Of eea
Beach, which plies between Newark and
Coney Island, Is sought by tour women,
three of whom claim to be his wives and
the other expected to be.
DR., "A. EsJones, aged II years, we'll
known resident OF Cincinnati, was muir
dered OH Thursday by his colored hostler
The body was found on Saturday in the
man-hole OF sewer near his residence.
james McKenna, aged 90 years, was
stabbed in the lett breast and hip yester.
day morning, in Philadelphia, It is al
legged, by Charles Hagen who was ar
rested. McKennG'e wouri;a are not con-
sidered dangerous
Christian Weinman murdered his wife
at Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday morn
ing, md then slot himself. lie was living
at last accounts.
William H0rtz, charged at LewIstown,
Pa, with for cries aggregatng SIS,
was arrested In Dubuque, Iowa, on Fri
day night.