Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-07-31


John orkle had his skull fractured by John,
Meeka in drunken quarrel at Plymouth, Pa
on Monday night
Philip D. Eokman, aeya 9 years, was killed,
by failing down 9J-Fttnt we'll in Dr1irnora'
| township, Lancaster county, Pa, on Monday.
| Mrs. Chnrles York and Der aged mother wrre
| murdered at Bengies, No, Tuesday morning.
| man named Neeka ia accused OF the crime.
Up TO date the numbar OF applications for
4 pensions received In washington under tho
dependent Pensions aof apprpxlma 2B0 00l
Farmers of DHnvlle, Va, report that thero
is a promise Of the firerl orgp Of bright tobacco
! grown In 10 years. SIonAr reports come from
| western North Caroline.
. ANTON Nowak. a C1nvsispd, Ohio nnouider
| Tnetday morning shot and fatally wounded
couple had mot lived together for three years.
The residence OF tbe Rev. David Plumb a
prominent Methodist tninister of Cole, Indiana,
was set on f1re and destroyed by incendiaries
early tuesday mornink. MIR. Plumb was fas
tally burned, and his wits and three childref
persisted In the fiameA
George Huber and william Morrow aget
respectively - and years, we're drowned a
Ptlston, Pa, Tuesday afternoon. They triea
to walk across the rives on the Pttsson Waite,
swift current. Huber tried to save him, bu
both sunk.
Adyces from all sections of Indiana indicate
that serious damage has been done to tbs
crops by the drought Pastures are bUrnes
out and in many sections the new hay is beinl
fed to stock, Wells have become dry and II
Obliged n haul wafer for domestic purposes.
A passenger train On this Erie railway STRUCK
group OF five children on the bridge over thu
Phs .aiG river, Tuesday instantly killing
Jennie Drews, aged l3, Nellie Warren, aged
lO,and Mamie Warren, aged years. jams
warren WAS badly hurt.
Miss Annie Mckinley, sister Of Congress-
man Mckinley, dieu at her nome In Canton,
q, Tuesday. She mad been active as a
public school teacher for so years. Mr.. McKin.
ley LETT Washington yes erdAy for Canton OF
learning of her seripue iilnrss.
The strike OF the English peaking bakers n
Chicago assumed large proportions Tuesday
morning, when all the employees OF the Ameris
can biscuit and Misunderstanding Company, exc
cept six men, went out In compliance with an
order from the central committee of the Inter-
national Bakers and confectioners OF America
disastrous connagratlon occurred at Sagi.
nav, Mich, Tue day, destroying extensive
lumber yards, mills and other property, thu
losses reaching several hundred Thousand doll
lars, late dispatch says the flames wero
still raeinh, and that there was danger OF tho
at Carrollton, whers there are extensive man
ufScturing establishments.
Davo Jagow. the maniac who murdered Paw
master Schultz, OF Wolcottville, ". ", on Sattir-
daT, was arrested Tuesday near Middleport
when he tried to commit suicide by taking
arsenic. Believing that he was dying, he cons
fesBed that he had killed his father six yeara
ago by feeding biru with arsenic. He Is an
escaped inmate OF tho Willard Inane Asylum
Ex-Alderman Michael Dnffy of the beard of
1894 made an application In the superior court
in New York, Tuesday, for an examination
before trials of three Of his fellow ''boodlers,"
in order that he may be able TO frame a com.
share of the bribery fund provided by the
Broadway railroad