Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-06-25
IN aENERAL.

| reported almost complete, and will yield
not less than 25 bushels an acre
John Humphreys was killed by light
ning while looking out Of the window
at his home in Knoxville, Tennessee,
Sunday morning
The number OF deaths in New York
city last week was 052, against 743 for
the previous week; 20 deaths from sun
stroke were reported
Myriads OF hop lice have appeared in
1 the Puyallup Valley hop fields, Wash
ington, within the past few days, and
threaten to destroy the hop crop of the
entire valley,
The Chattanooga Southern railway
has been completed from CHATTANOOGA
to Gadsden, Ala, distance Of ~ miles,
and q regular train service commenced
i Monday.
Houston O'Benehajn, of Roanoke,
Va, on Sunday shot and MORALLY
wounded H. \, Trout, at Troutvlle,
about 10 miles from Roanoke, and then
committed suicide.
One hundred families rendered desti-
tute by the fire at Seabreht, New
Jersey, are being fed by the relief COM
mttee Wearing apparel for women
and children is wanted
The mayor of Atlanta, Ga, has vetoed
all beer licenses The city has TWO
classes Of license, one general, for which
$1,000 d year is paid, and the other for
beer saloons alone, at $3.50.
a sand bank on the lake shore at
Erie caved on some boys on saturday,
killing Freddie Andrews, aged nine
years, fatally iniuring Eddie Coleman,
and seriously injuring Sly others
Richard Sholer shot and MORALLY
wounded Leonard Hilton, in I,tsburG.
sunday, as a result of quarrel over
a game Of craps" 1t i said Hilton
tried 10 get away with the stakes, which
amounted To 50 cents
Max Freeman, Philadelphia detec.
tive, was badly injured on Friday night
While endeaVuring to arrest man sup
posed 10 be Gideon w. Marsh, the fugl-
tive president Of the Keystone National
Bank, near Asbury Park, n. j.
\ constable at Eads, n village in
hldwa county, Col, on saturday night
attached the locomotive on the Missouri
express and detained the train three
hours, until his claim Of $3.50 and costs
was paid by the railroad company.
Seven Of the firemen Of the steamship
Vera, Of the Bremen Line, were ar.
rested on Saturday, on the arrival of the
vessel al New Work, for mutinv on the
high seas. They will be returned on the
Werra and tried on the other side.
Miss ;. B. Packard died in Washing.
ton sunday. She and Miss II i. Giles
were the founders Of Spelman seminary,
Atlanta, a successful school for colored
girls, and the ladies were on their way
north Ter their usual summer vacation
Two train Jumpers We're found in
car at Downingtown, Pa, on Saturday
morning, one lying on top Of the other.
The latter was found to be dead. The
man, when arrested, claimed he did not
knew the dead body was in the car at
all
\ fatal disease, says a dispatch from
Minneapolis, is attacking the fish in
the lakes in the vicinity Of 81. Paul, an
enormous number Of dead fish having
been found floating on the surface oil
the water The matter viii Be invest,
gated
Al North Winston, North Carolina, I
saturday night, John Smith, railroad I
bridge builder and colortd woman, /
named Mary Coins, We're shot and Killed (
by three men, who had pursued smith F
70 the woman's house, where he took (
refuge.
The controversy over the cicht.hdur |
law in Kansas was brought 10 an issue 4
on saturday hN the refusal Of the drcc.
tors of the state penitentiary "a comply
with il. Proceedings will probably he
begun against the board, in the
supreme court.
Severe local storms passed over por.
tons Of Kentucky on SATURDAY., blowing
houses down and doing other damage
Al Boaz, a widow named Miller was
rtrhaPs fatally injured, and at Louis
pert Dave Ray, colored, was crushed to
death by falling barn.
William Myers and Mrs. Harding Of
Mckeesport, Pa, We're found on Satur
day night, the former with a bullet
through his brain ana Mrs Harding
dangerously wounded. The woman saws
Myers did the shooting because She de.
clined 70 elope with him
An excursion train 81 fifteen cars,
which left Cleveland on Sunday after
noon on the Nickel Plate railway for
Oak Point, jumped the track near
Dover, Ohio, and seven cars were
wrecked. One man was killed ana
more than thirty persons were injured
The supreme court Of Indiana has dc.
clded the contest between the two state
boards of agriculture In favor Of the Old
hoard, which the legislature attcmpted
10 abolish, Tho court holds that The
charter Of the old board Is perpetual and
cannot be disturbed by any legislation