Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-12-25
LATEST NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
Shot While Wrestling a Pistol
from a Suicide.
THE VALUE OF EDITORIALS
A Candidate Asks Damages
at $1,000 Each.
Family Poisoned with "Rough on Rat" /"
The Snow Storm in West Virginia.
More Pay for Switchmen.

At a meeting of the directors of the
Baltimore &C. Ohio Railroad Company
yesterday week President Mayer was re-
elected.
In fight at Bowen, Mississippi, on
Tuesday week, VIM. Blue, David Mckee
and Robert Applewhite were fatally
wounded.
The poet Whittier was SO. years Of
| age yesterday week. He passed the day at
his winter home at Oak Knoll, Danvers,
Massachusetts.
county, Mo-, is short $4,000 in his
accounts. He has assigned all his prop
erty to his bondsmen.
Part of coal wharf at Halifax, Nova
Scotia, cayed in on Friday, and five men
were drowned.
The latest reports of the Wheeling q
Lake Erie railroad wreck, at Bolivar,
Ohio, shows that six persons were
killed.
The American Marble Company, in
Atlanta, Georgia, was placed in the
hands of receiver Friday. Assets,
| $150,000; liabilities, 100000.
The treasury department has decided
that certain Photographic lantern slides
| imported for the Society of Amateur
Photographers of New York are entitled
| to free entry.
A house owned and occupied by Mrs.
Ann Mcclure in Newark, N. j., was
burned Friday, and Mrs. Mcclure and
her grandchild, Annie Donovan ,perished
in the flames.
Haven Bellware was Friday con-
victed of murder in the second degree in
Hartford, Connecticut, for the killing of
Frank e. Miner. He was sentenced to
| imprisonment for life.
George Winn, superintendent of the
fire alarm telegraph at Allegheny City,
fell from a pole on Friday and was
killed. He was repairing a wire and it
is supposed received an electric shock.
Charles A. Bond, wife and five chill
dren were poisoned on Friday in
Clarkesburg, W. Va, by colored do
mestic, who put rat poison in their
coffee. They were in dying condition
last night.
An engine and five cars ou the Shen-
andoah Valley railroad were wrecked
| on Friday near Buchanan, Va, by rum
ming into landslide. O. II. Atwood,
| fireman, and Edward Houston, brake
man, were killed.
McNellis s. Campbell's store, in Chi
cago. was robbed of silks and Irish
linens valued at $4,000 ON Thursday
| night The burglars drilled through
three feet of solid masonry making
hole large enough to admit mans
body.
The railroad switchmen in all the
larger cities of the northwest have been
.k.l -. r.
larger cities this amounts to S5 per
month In the smaller towns the ad-
vance has not been fixed, but it will be
somewhat less.
The miners convention at Altoona,
Pa, on Friday adopted resolution that
after January 1st, the price of mining
coal in the districts represented shall be
so cents per net ton, the present price
being so per gross. Should the demand
be refused strike is expected.
The steamer Belgic arrived at San
Francisco on Friday from China and
Japan. The deaths resulting from the
powder explosion at TAPPING numbered
more than 800. The catastrophe was
caused by Chinese workman in the
roof of the powder mill lighting his
pipe.
M. r. Phelan dropped dead in the
street in st. Louis on Thursday night.
He was 81 years of age. Mr.. Phelan
was the publisher of the Western Watch
man and brother of Father Phelan,
the editor of the paper. He has for
many years been prominent figure
locally, especially in Catholic affairs.
He has served two terms as a member of
the lower house of the state legislature
and one term as senator. He was con-
sul-general at Halifax, Nova Scotia,
under President Cleveland.
At Burlington Junction, Missouri, on
Thursday night, G. e. Dyche, proprie-
tor of the Commercial Hotel, shot him
self, with suicidal intent. He did the
act in the hotel parlor, and, in trying to
wrest the revolver from him, Mrs.
Coombs, his mother-in-law, and F. M.
Baker were both shot. Dyche was shot
in the breast, and is probably fatally
wounded. Baker was shot in the groin,
the ball passing downward to the
tleshy part Of the leg. Mrs. Coombs
finger being shot away. Domestic trou-
bles and jealousy are assigned as the
cause.
Myron Van Aullin, who was Repub-
lican candidate for district attorney in
Ou6ellb OOuAb}5 AtSN JIM Aoop
and was defeated by a large majority,
has brought suit against the Utica
Observer. He alleges "that each of go
editorials damaged him $1,000, making
$22, 900 in ALL" He also alleges that he
is damaged $4,000 additional by his
defeat, accomplished by complications"
and claims 100000 besides, making
$42 900 in all for injury to his profess
sional reputation. The Observer opposed
Van Adkins election on the ground
that it was sought by gamblers and the
worst classes of the city.
A towboat has gotten through to
Point Pleasant, West Virginia, from
Coal City, 60 miles up the Big Kanawha
river. Its officers tell their tales of the
great snowfall all along the upper river
md into Elk and Coal river valleys.
The West Virginia branch of the Ohio
Central railroad has abandoned all
rains, and the Chesapeake & Ohio is
learly as bad. Every telephone wire
n the entire valley is down. Not n tel
,graph wire is working. At St. Albans
he roofs of three houses were crushed
n and four people badly hurt At
Buffalo child perished in the snow on
he way from school. Five children are
eported lost, and are probably dead by
his time, on Thirteen Mile creek.
More than 100 families, mostly miners,
ire showed in near Roncevert, and their
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