Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-08-14

Charles and Daniel Ellison, brothers,
OF Pattison, Texas, quarelod Monday,

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of Pattison, Texas, quarrelod Monday,
and, as result, killed each other.
Congressman Il. O. Mccormick of the
Sixteenth Pennsylvaui, district, has writ.
ten letter declining denomination.
The War department has been In.
formt that the statue Of Lafayette was
shipped On the eamship La Normsndie,
which sailed from Havre on Saturday.
The bodies Of eight murdered infants
have been found at Memphis, Tennessee,
within the past week, and the authorities
have been called upon to make an inves-
tigation.
An outbreak Of smallpox ia said to
have occurred at Hattlesburg, Miss. and
several towns in the state have quarsn-
tined against Hattlesburg. -Four cases OF
sickness have been reported.
Mrs. Louisa Wilhsrn, aged 81 years,
was KILT d on the Delaware, Lackawauna
d Westeru railroad Monday afternoon,
near Scranton, having stepped in front OF
coal train directly in the track of an ex-
press.
The population Of Kansas City, Kan. as
announced by the Census Bureau Mon
day Ia 38, 40, an increase in 10 years of
306 81 per cent. Chattanooga, Tenn, has
~, lO9 population, an increase of 125 70
per cent.
Both the Republicans aud Democrats
of Wyoming held their state conventions
at Cheyenne Monday and nominated
full state tickets. The Democratic con-
vention nominated George W. Baxter for
governor, and the Republican ticket is
headed by Francis g. Warren.
Thomas Sullivan and James Faulkner
were held at Media, Pa, Monday to
answer charge of highway robbery.
They and another man, 1t was claimed,
had been camping in the woods near the
Black Horse Hotel for over week, and
had committed various depredations.
A man named 0xenham was tarred and
feathered and Otherwise roughly treated
at Wyoming, Ont, Monday, for a critn.
iual assault upon an imbecile young
woman. He was to have been lynched,
also, but begged 80 piteously for his life
that he was ordered to leave the town in.
stead.
The concurrent resolution passed by
the Senate last Friday expressing the
wish OF Congress that In remains OF
General Grant should bs moved from
Riverside Park to Arlington National
cemetery was Monday referred by the
Speaker of the House to the library COM
mittee.
A mass-meeting attended by about 200
negroes and few white men was held
in Washington, d. O.. Monday night in the
interest of the Federal Elections bill.
Resolutions were adopted urging the
passage OF the measure, and speeches
were made by Representative Kerr Of
Iowa, General Chalmers OF Mississippi
and others.
Pick Wireman and Cora McMaron of
Bolton, Texas, were shot and killed on
Saturday night while out driving in
buggy. Wiremau was recently tried for
murder and found not guilty, and still
more recently was under bail to answer
another Charge OF shooting. The slow
course OF justice did not give universal
Four women Of Wilkesbarre, Penna.
eloped a few days ago with four italian
labolers of Ithac.., New York. The hus-
band OF one of the women, Peter Loran,
traced his wife to Sterling. In Wayne
county, where he went on Saturday,
and was shot and killed by the man,
Joseph Murray. Lorau aud his wife
had been married 16 years and had five
William Beaver, negro youth, was
arrested near Warren, Bradley county,
Arkansas, charged with a fslonious as
,ault upon two women, one OF them the
laughter OF his employer. On Monday
night an armed mob took Beaver away
rom Sheriff Watson, and locked the
lherlff and his deputy in jail while they
lung the negro. His body was found
Monday hanging from the limb of a
rec in ths'public square.
A terrific explosion of natural gas oc-
,urred q miles south OF Waldron, Shelby
county, Indiana, Monday, 10 acres of
md being torn to piecss, the river fit
ock blown up and large pieces thrown
lalt mile. The dispatch says: "The
,asis burning 10 feet high from the centre
u the river and from so or more points
where the land is torn up. The whole
COUNTRY is in excitement, and no means
re known by which the flow of burning
ss may be stopped"
The Un ted States court OF Cincinnati
las dismissed the action against the
baltimore Il Ohio railroad, brought under
he Interstate Commerce law, in which
he road was charged with violsiing GER
Ain orders of the commission with refer
noe to 'party or theatrical rates." There
'as also an intimation that the Baltimore
Ohio had sold round trip trickets with
ut posting the rates, The dismissal of
40 suit sustains the road In its treatment
theatrical parties and also in the