Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-01-03
I'm GENERAL.

1 Policeman Henry Fehle died In st.
Louis on Friday night from hydrophobia.
He was bitten in the leg by dog in last
September.
Commencing january 7ih, the New
York and Florida special Pullman vesti-
bule train, via the Atlantic Coast Line,
will be resumed.
In Greeley, Colorado, early on satur-
day morning, mob broke open the jail
aud lynched murderer named w. ID.
French. None of the lynohers are known.
Jacob Kohler found can of nitro
glycerins near Toledo, Ohio, Sunday,
and attempted to open 1t with pick.
He was blown high into the air and
killed.
Several small buildings in Sumter,
South Carolina, were burned on Satur-
day, and several persons were severely
injured ~ powder explosion in one Of
| them.
Delegatss from all counties In Wahing-
ton territory will meet nj Ellensburg on
January Sd to frame state constitution
and TO rnemorialize Congress for a speedy
Admiration into the union.
Tbs dwelling OF Michael McGuife in
Pittsbnrg, was damaged by fire last night
and his 8. years old daughter, Mary, per-
tshed in the fames. Thu fire was started
by the ignition of Christmas tree.
The family of Ira Warford Of st. Elmo,
Tennessee, four in number, were poisoned
Sunday by eating head cheese. At last
accounts WsrfDrd aud his wife are
dangerously sick. but The children are
expected to recover.
4 White Caps viDited John Morisouor,
proprietor o. the only saiooa Ia hawson,
b o., and after damoliahing the saloon.
/ whipped Morisonery until he begged for
+ mercy eud swoso he would never go into
tho saloon business again.
Amoa ). s;ilRsll, a merchant of Han.
nibal, Missouri, was murdered by bur
glars at q O'Clock Sunday morning. The
weapon wss an axe. which with Stillweii's
pocket. book and S35 was found in an
alley In the rear Of the house. A.
There was riot in the now town of
Jeanette, near Greensburg. Pa, fun
day afternoon, caused by WHISKY, tho
majority of the rioters being eoiorad meth
William Sa!vin, white, was fatally atRhsed
and number of colored men severely
wounded.
Joseph Solomon, jobber in laces and
Mnaa goods in New York, shot and fatally
wounded his wife Sunday night and then
committed suicids. Solomon was AZ
years old and his wife 80. Thu couple
have fivs small children. Jealousy
prompted the deed.
Thomas Vines, assissant time keeper OF
the Adams Il West Lake Manufacturing
Company of Chicago, disappeared on Sat.
urday evening with the weeks pay of 700
men and boys--about $4,000. 1t Was
done up 10 700 packages ready for deliv-
cry 20 The employees.
Mrs. Schofeld, wife Of Major General
schoftld, did aSunday morning in
Washington OF paralysis OF the hesrt.
See had heen suffering from bronchial
catarrh, but was not thought to be in
danger until hear. failure superyened, an
hour or two before her death.
The first engine an6 cars posed over
the Poughkeepsie bridge on saturday.
Oonnnection with the New York and
Massachusetts railroad was made in the
morning, and the train passed over in the
afternoon. Pie bridge will probably be
delivered to the company to day.
John Cochran, boy, went into sewer
in Pfttsburg, Sunday afternoon, with q
lighted match TO hunt for natural gas
leak. An explosion followed, which
fatally burned him and set FIRE to the
Saw-mill run railroad bridge. The
flames wers eItinguianad after the bridge
had been badly damaged.
Marcus Poliasky Of Chicago has gone
to Michigan, where, with others, he pro-
poses to incorporate new company for
the purpose Of constructing railroad
! tYv In A..
nabia. The new road will be known es the
Escanabia, Twin City and Western road,
and will be M opposition line to the
Minnesota, Sault Ste. Marie and Atlantic
road. II will be $50 miles long.
Early Sunday morning near Ripley,
O., Mrs, Turner and her little daughter,
also daughter of George O. Lloyd, three
Brooks brothers, and man whose name
ia unknown, all colored, attempted to
cross the river from Kentucky to Ohio In
o small fiat bcttomed boat. At some
diatanee from the shore the waves from
two passing steamers cspsized their little
craft. and all seven were drowned.
Encouragement Kirkpatrick on Satur
day filed an application before Judge
simonton, in Harrisburg, asking for a
writ of quo warranto, citing the Western
Union Telegraph Company, tho Baltimore
IL Ohio Telegraph Company and the Bal
timore & Ohio Telegraph Company Of
Pennsylvania, into court to show cause
why they should mot forfeit their stock,
liues and franchises for violating the CON
stitution of the state by consolidating.
Tho attorney general alleges that the
Western Union, on October 9Th, 1887, pur-
chased the whole OF the capital stock of
the Baltimore 4 Ohio for SIS 600 600,
directly in violation of the constitution,
which forbids the purchase of competing
lines, and for this he asks that the three
companies be cited to appear in court and
show cause why their stocks, lines and
franchises should not be decreed for
feited. The court granted the writ, max
ing it returnable January 10th. Y
A meeting of Oklahoma "boomers''
from southern Kansas was held in Wichita
on Saturday, at the headquarters of
"Pawnee BILL It was decided to start
for Oklahoma on February Let, s'as by
that time it would be known what action
Congress would take on the Springer
bill" An address to the government and
people as to their plans and purposes was
ordered Published. Pawnee Bill pro-
duced 5000 letters of inquiry from all
over the United States, and said that all
the companies now have enrolled over
5000 people who will be ready to move
at the date named, Their agent in Okla
homa was present, and SAID that thou
sands of people were eamped along the
lire awaiting orders to advance. A
squad of soldiers are now Just outside of
Oklahoma City, and Z Troop, Fifth Cav
airy, will be ordered there Monday. Many
M hn hau l,asw
upon wheels and moved them upon choice
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