Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-12-25
IN GENER4L.

| MIR. and Mrs. Henry Watterson cele-
brated their silver wedding at their home
N Louisville, Ky, on Saturday night.
a new 50-foot rifle gun was tested by the
| government engineers at Sandy Hook ON
| Monday, and shells were thrown 10 miles
| out to sea.
senator Hearst Of California has been
| confined 10 his house since his arrival in
| Washington. He was in bad health when
he left California.
The late Matthew Thomas left his entire
estate, amounting to $4,000, to the city
| II Cincinnati iii trust for the benefit Of
| SlcNlicllen University.
James Russell was killed and William
| brown fatally wounded by Thomas Ar
| nold. 4 discharged negro, at Bessemer
slabama, on Saturday night.
During a fight between Huns and slavs
70 liens Greek, mining town near Johns
| town, Ia, TN saturday night, two men and
one woman were fatally hurt.
| i radwalladcr shot and killed JASPER
| lGIaF, ~ Manchester, Ohio, on Saturday
| M then committed suicide. Lazur was
| . years Old and tadwallader 20.
| II was reported in Milwaukee Monday
| hat Bishop Kat2er If Green Bay, had
been appointed Archbishop Of Milwaukee
70 succeed the late Archbishop fIeiss.
\ dispatch from Evansville, Indiana
] says that during fight on the steamer
| Zig sandy IN saturday, the cook killed
Two men and wounded another fatally
| The latest cstimNtcof the loss BIZ the fire
| in Athul Massachusetts, is Sl5um0. Five
| Iircmcn were injured, two MORALLY It is
rumured that man is buried in the ruins
Osborne Bros lumber ward and the
! flousalonic freight li0liae in Danbury
| Lonn6tidut, were destroyed by an inccn-
diary IRE ON saturday night, Loss, $5O,00O
| The Fremont, iilkhorn e. Missouri
! Valley railroad has been completed to
| Deadwood South Dakota, and trains will
begin to make regular trips about the 18th
inst,
While freight train was stopped at
| Oiney, H., on sunday, two masked men
| entered the cnbOpsc and robbed the con
ductor and brakeman Of their watches and
money
Madame lieaGchcmin of st. Perpetue
| Quebec, died mI saturday morning from
injuries in the inter-Cnlonial railroad dis
aster, on Thursday. She is the seventh Of
the dead.
Several members Of the family Of Noah
| Lunz, q farmer near Gcrro Gordo, ILL.,,
| were burned on Saturday night by the ex-
| dl0sion of a coal oil lamp, a 3-year-old
child fatally.
Two unknown men robbed passenger
on the BALD Knob railroad of 800 on Sat
urday when near Memphis. They intimi-
dated the, other passengers by displaying
their revolvers.
An electric motor car in Omaha, Ne
braska, jumped the track Monday and
turned bottom up. Mrs. Dennis 0'Halloran
and Mrs; Aggie McNaughton, passengers,
were badly hurt,
At Washington Court House, Ohio, on
Friday night, John Kinney fatally shot
/ wh bp hoH ful bon no
dance. He thought she was dancing too
much with other men.
William Laid, deputy United States
marshal, shot and killed his wife in Paris,
Texas, on saturday night, and then shot
himself. He is still alive, and may recover
Ladd had been drinking.
James Perrin of Floyd county, Iowa
has been fined $50 for whipping his adopted
child with, a horsewhip. He cut off a
piece of the boys nose and otherwise
mutilated his face and body.
Two colored Ministries, whose names are
supposed to be Fisher and Morgan, from
papers found on them, were struck by
train and killed as they We're driving across
the tracks at Middle Village, Long Island
last evening.
John w. Mackey has again authorized
General Manager Ward to give every en-
ploye of the Commercial Gable COMPANY
in this country and Europe, on the 23d of
December, half a months salary as a
Christmas present.
a peculiar disease has attacked the horses
in Jefferson and Swanee counties, Kan,
and scores have died within the past 10
days. The disease has also made its an
pearance in Missouri and is proving fatal
to horses in several counties.
DR.. Joel 7. Justin, the inventor of a
shell Whereby dynamite can be thrown
from an ordinary gun without fear of
premature explosion of the she'll made
three successful tests at his range in Madi-
son county. New York, on Saturday.
A fire in Athol, Massachusetts, sunday
destroyed the Masonic and Central blocks,
causing a loss of about $l35,O00 The in
surance is $4,000. -Four firemen were in
iured one perhaps fatally, by falling walls,
and a fifth had his skull fractured BY fall
ing from Il ladder.
1t is reported in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
that Scotch syndicate, with james Logan
at ITS head, has secured control of the
Forest Milling Company's plant, together
with five other oatmeal mills in the vicin-
lty. 1t is also understood that they will
also make an effort to secure control of all |
the oatmeal mills in this country.
While u gang of men were blasting on
the line Of the Norfolk & Western railroad
in Wayne county, West Virginia, on Sat |
urday night, several sticks Of dynamite,
which had been put near the fire to thaw |
out, exploded Two men were Killed and |
10 injured, several dangerously.
G. II. Robinson n nercbant or IIo,olto,
Kansas, went hunting on Friday last tax
ing his wagon and team. AT night the
team returned with Robinsons dead body
~ the wagon. There was bullet hole in
his breast. It is supposed he was muir
dered by cowboys among whom he had
many enemies.
Judge Baker at New Orleans has over
ruled the motion to quash the Indictment
III the case OF me Italians charged with the