Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-12-31
IN GEN EEL.


tnarleS Behrcnut OF ScflDncr, NeD.,
while intoxicated Friday stabbed his
brother with butcher knife, fatally injur-
ing him.
A vessel has been chartered at Baltimore
to carry cargo of corn to Russia to re-
lieve suffering there. She will sail for
Baltic port.
]. Lawrence Getz, city controller and ex-
member OF Congress aud of the state legis-
lature, died in Reading, Pa, Friday,
aged 20 years.
Ten deaths from the grip were reported
to the New York board of health Fri
day, six men in tenement houses and four
in private houses.
Cashier Guyer of the suspended Tyrone
Bank, at Tyrone, Pa, has made staiment
showing the banks assets to be Sl35, 500, 55.
and the liabilities S97, 5l5.65.
Martin Carey. aged i6 years. driver
employed in No. s shaft of the Pcnnsyl-
vania Coai Company. al pittston, Pa, was
killed yesterday week By falling under Il
moving car.
The first 12-nch gun ever made at the
Washington naval ordnance foundry was
tested 1T the proving grounds mt Indian
| lead OH Tuesday week The results were
very satisfactory.
Mrs. III. H. Stevens, of Chicago, was
burned to death ut Joliet, Illinois. yester-
day week through the ignition of some
gasocnc, with which She was cleaning
some dress fabrics.
| Thomas Wogan, manager of a New York
saloon. was shot and killed at an carly
honr Friday morning by Joseph Selling,
| VINO vas III the place, and who, for some
reason or other, was elected Selling was
! arrested.
| A dispatch from Council Bluffs, Iowa,
says that Kinball & Champa, who failed
| There some time ago for 9300UUu have
been arrested ON the complaint of eastern
stockholders, who charge the defendants
| with EN- bczzlemcLt.
n. r. Foss, owner Of The Clinton dyna-
mite works ut liaverstraw, New York,
| which exploded Il few weeks ago Fri
day gave n Christmas present OF 1000
each to the four widows who lost their
husbands in the disaster.
| Bertha Progner, aged %, 4 servant, of
| Allegheny, Pa, committed suicide Fri
day. She first tried to hang herself, but,
railing IN that, cut her wrists with knife,
and finally hanged herself with clothes
line from hook in the cellar.
A dispatch from Concord, n, H., says
| that Isaac u. Sawtelle, the convicted muir
derer of his brother Hiram, was stricken
with apoplcxy on Thursday night, and
has remained in an unconscious condition
ever since. He is in critical condition.
William NJ. Ireland, who was at one
time deputy postmaster at Philadelphia,
and who was chief clerk in the Third
Assistant Postmaster-generals office during
| President Grants administration, died in
| Washington on Thursday night aged 5S
years.
| Baker & IIamilton's agricultural imple-
ment warehouse. in sacramento, CAL, was
| destroyed by fire yesterday week. Loss,
nearly $4,000. About million grncart-
ridges were in the building, and their ex-
Plosion kept up a lively fusillade during
the fire.
n, G. Dougherty, the superintendent of
the schools Of Peoria ILL.,, was attacked on
the street on Thursday night by Maggie
Harrigan. who fired two shots at him, one
OF which pierced his ear. The woman was
formerly teacher and had been dis
charged for INSTRUMENTATION.
Mrs. Ada Thorpe Lotus, who, according
to the statement Of Rudolph " Martinsen,
OF New York, came To this country for the
purpose of removing President Harri-
son, was sent to the Bloomingdale Asylum
yesterday week from the Bellevue Hos
pital, having been pronounced insane.
The Massachusetts Executive Councilyes-
| terday week advised the pardon OF James
Dunlap,t the bank robber, who was sentenced
to 20 years imprisonment in 1878 for the
robbery of the Northampton Bank. With
remission of time for good behavior his
term would have expired in February,
1894.
Peter Fisher of Crawfordyillc Ind. be.
came suddenly insane while the streets
were thronged with people on Thursday
night and before the police could reach
him he had drawn knife, slashed at sew.
eral people and caught Fred Schweitzer by
the ear and severed it from his head at one
stroke.
The commission in lunacy appointed to
inquire into the mental condition of Ed
ward NJ Field, met at White Plains, n. Y,
yesterday week. Mr.. Field was too i'll to be
removed from the Ludlow street Jail, and
was, therefore, not present. After hearing
expert and other testimony, Field was adj
| judged insane. The jury found that his
personal property amounted to $4,000.
Reuben J. Rhoads, the night watchman
in the Berks county jail, who pleaded
guilty to gross negligence, resulting in the
release of two prisoners, Beatrice Collins,
notorious counterfeiter, and John Miller,
burglar, was sentenced to one wear impris-
onment and $500 fine ut reading, yester-
day week, and Warden Mensch, under
whose administration it was alleged the
JAIL has been the scene OF gross irregulari-
ties, was removed from Office.
Another British pensioner. Thomas Nc
permott, aged 81 years, appeared at the
Office of the British consul in New York
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this country with f2l2, which was paid him
to rclinquish pension of 10 pence q day.
He asserted that 800 veteran pensioners Of
the English government had applied for
similar payments for the REIMBURSEMENT
of their pensions and that they intended to
emigrate to the United States.
The special train bearing tho remains Of
the late Senator Plumb reached Kansas
City early Yesterday week. where dele
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the governments OF Kansas and of Kansas
City, and the pall-hcarers. received the
casket and transferred il to the train FOR
Topeka. When the latter place was
reached the remains were taken to the
capitol, where they were viewed by thous-
ands OF people.
A fire occurred in q frame tenement at
-, Joseph, Mo-. yesterday week. Just as the
last of the residents had gotten safely ont
of the building Two terrible explosions
occurred, totally wrecking the rooms Just
vacated. After the fire was cxtingtiishcd
an investigation disclosed the fact that two
dynamite bombs had been secreled be-
tween the walls Of the building, bed
saturated with kerosene was also found at
the place fired. No reason is assigned for
the deed.
A dispatch from Jupiter, Fla, says that
the sailing vessel Drisko, from some West
Florida port with a cargo Of lumber con
signed to Stetson a. Co., of Philadelphia,
was beachcd on Tuesday of Cape Cana
veral. The Drisko collided with some
flonting obstruction or wreckage in the
gulf, causing bad leak. Inccssant pump
ing kept her afloat until Tuesday, when
bcaching became absolutely necessary.
The vessel and cargo will be a total loss.
The three.story brick dwelling of A. f.
Pritchard, on Smallman street, in Pitts
burg, was blown to pieces shortly before