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

Jersey, was struck by o drill engine
while crossing the Pennsylvania Rail
road on the morning of the 9th. Henry
Book and Thomas H. Spun were dam
gerously and Charles Erickson and
Frederick Seeger badly hurt. Several
other passengers received trihlng in-
lurles. John DAILY, the gateman at the
railroad, was arrested.
William Kenny, well.known
Tammany politician, In New York,
was found dead at the foot OF the
stairs of his house, on the 9th. de
had been taken with fit while ascend
ing the stairs, and, falling down back
ward. broke his neck.
james Clemmo, employed in caulk-
ing vat at the Mineral Bath House
in Port Huron, Michigan, was over
come by gas on the morning Of the 9th.
Stephen Porter. colored attendant,
who went to his rescue, was also over
come. DIR. Stephenson, the proprietor,
assembled ladder and looked in the
vat. He became UNCONSCIOUS almost
instantly, but fell outward sustaining
painful though not serious injuries.
Clemmo and Porter died soon after
being taken out.
Mrs. Mary Kline was committed
TO jail in Bordentown, New Jersey, on
the 9th, for trial on charge of having
placed poison in her husbands coffee.
William p. Fox, shot and killed a
colored man, named Walls, in Paris.
Kentucky, on the 9th. Walls was
drunk and tried to strike Fox with
club. Policeman Woodvllle was shot
In the thigh by burglars, in Chicago,
on the morning Of the 9th. WOt dville
managed to draw his revolver, and
fired shot which struck one OF the
burglars in the head, infiicting a fatal
wound. The officers wound is not
dangerous. Lewis Conklln, colored,
aged 40 years, was murdered in Port
Jefferson, Long Island, on the 9th, by
bis wife. They bad quarrelled, and
Mrs. Conkiin hit her husband with an
axe.
The house of Robert McBane, an
aged farmer, near East Liverpool,
Ohio. was entered by two masked men
on the morning of the 9th. They at
tempted to chloroform the inmates,
but were unsuccessful. They then
knocked three small children almost
senseless and locked them in small
room. Mrs. McBane was locked In a
closet, and Mr.. McBane was knocked
senseless with FIRE shovel, The
thieves escaped with a small amount of
silver. a neighbor, who called few
hours later. found the mother and
childIen almost suffocated IN their
close quarters, and Mr.. McBane almost
dead from the loss OF blood. Lewis
Patterson, a wealthy farmer living
near Centreville, Pa, was robbed on
the evening of the 9th by three masked
men. There was nobody in the house
with him at the time but his mother,
80 years old. The robbers burned Mr.,
Patterson's feet and face IN an unsuc-
cessful effort to make him tell where
his money was hidden. They then
searched the house, AMI departed
after securing $43 IN money and Mr..
Patterson's gold watch. Two strang-
ers visited Daniel Keller, an old farmer,
at Shamokin, Penna., on the 9th, and
after proposing to buy his farm, en-.
gagged him in a game Of cards. Keller
became so interested that he procured
o47O0 and put it up as stakes. The
strangers seized the money and covered
Keller with a revolver while they got
of with the cash. One of the fellows
represented himself to be the son Of j.
Il. Packer, Of Sunbury, an old friend
Of Keller, A despatch from Sault
ste, Marie, Michigan, says that Will
liam kintella, a capitalist, was on the
evening of the Sth beaten by foot pads
and left for dead, after having been
robbed of 5000, There were five men
in the gang and they all have been
arrested.
Two passenger trains on the At
lantic and Pacific Railroad collided on
Ith, near Peach Springs, Arizona. They
ran into each other at sharp curve on
high embankment. Both engines
and three cars fell down the bank into
a stream below. The engineer was
fatally injured and a laborer stealing
ride was killed. The passengers were
badly shaken up, but escaped danger
GUS injuries.
"A telegram from WinOna, Mlnne-
sofa, says that farmers in that vicinity
have almost universally completed the
seeding OF small grain. The ground is
in excellent condition, but there is
some complaint that seed is germinat-
ing. slowly on account Of cool weather.
Preparations are being generally made
10 plant au unusually large acreage of
corn.
AS Robert Schideler and wife were
driving to Manson, Iowa, on the 9Th,
spark from Schideler's pipe ignited the
clothing of hia wife, and, as the wind
was blowing stiff gale, she was soon
enveloped In flames. She jumped from
the carriage and was burned to death,
Notwithstanding the efforts made by
her husband to queneh the flames.
Schideler's hands were burned to the
bone, and it is feared they will have to
he amputaled, and his physicians say
he may die. Mrs. Schld9ler was 65
years old, and her husband 70.