Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-02-26
IN GENEB4iL.


injured.
The creamery store and post-offlce at
Red Hill, Chester county, Pa, the prop
erty of Miller Bros, was burned on Sun
day night. Loss, $4,000.
A fire occurred in tenement house in
Brooklyn, New York, on Saturday night,
and six persons, three adults and three
children, were burned to death.
Senator Blair on Monday, from the
committee on agriculture, reported the
bill for the establishment of division
of silk culture in the agricultural de-
partment.
The body of Professor Bancroft of
Brown University, who disappeared on
the morning of December 9Th last, was
found Monday in pond at Cranston,
Rhode Island.
The two-masted schooner East New
market of Baltimore was wrecked near
Pages Rock, in York river, on Saturday
night, and the mate, LAMAR Hubbard,
was drowned.
Patrick Sulliver was shot and killed
by Oliver Riley, in Salida, Colorado, on
Saturday night. Riley was arrested,
but was taken from the Jail by a mob
and lynched.
w. F. Kershaw, cashier of the Nc
Donald shoe factory, in st. Joseph, Mis-
souri,, was sandbagged on Saturday and
bank to pay off the men.
The Salt river valley, in Arizona, is
suffering from the severest flood in its
history. The damage is estimated at
| $l25,000. Five Indians are known to
be drowned, and it is rumored that
white family have met the same fate.
A train on the Allegheny Valley rail-
road ran into landslide, near Franklin,
Pa, on Saturday. The engine and eight
cars were thrown down an embank-
ment. Fireman William Tegert was
killed and Engineer Day and Brakeman
Martin were injured.
A house in Perry, Wisconsin, occu-
pied by Marcus Holgarson and family
was burned on Friday. The oldest child
was cremated and another has since died
from its injuries, while the mother, who
rushed into the fire for her little ones,
has become blind from the effects of the
fire.
The annual meeting of the Funeral
Benefit Association of the Order of
United American Mechanics was begun
in Washington, D. c., Monday. Dur
ing the last year 249 death claims,
aggregating $4,000, have been paid.
The total membership is stated to be
S,0S6.
The Pullman company Of Chicago,
has announced reduction in the price
Of putting freight cars together from $12
to $40. The men engaged in this branch
of work, to the number of $50, have quit
work. They have offered compromise
at S11 per car, which the company has
refused.
In the case of William Protzman, who
died in Des Moines, Iowa, under Chris
tian Science treatment, the coroner's
jury on Saturday found that Protzman
"came to his death by reason of having
practiced upon him the teachings of an
association of persons calling themselves
Christian Scientists, and from no other
cause"
The Nebraska house of representa-
tives has passed bills to make two cents
per mile the maximum passenger rate to
be charged by railways; to require rail
way companies to give stations the same
name as the counties through which
they pass, and to make railway COM
panies and corporations liable for per-
sonal injuries to employees.
Knight Dickerson, upon whose body
foot square of skin, taken from the
arms of his brother knights of st. Ber-
nard Commandery, knights Templar,
was grated three weeks ago, died at
Emergency Hospital in Chicago, Mon
day afternoon. Much of the grated
skin became properly attached, but the
patients vitality was exhausted.
While entering the harbor at San
Francisco, Sunday, the American ship
Elizabeth, from New York, was wrecked
on the rocks at North Head. The cap
tain and II sailors were drowned. The
life-saving crew, commanded by Captain
Henry, started for the wreck, but could
not reach it. The captain was washed
overheard by big wave and drowned.
John A. Williams, leader in the train
robbery at Spur Switch, Texas, in June
last, and who was placed on trial at
Lind on last Thursday, was convicted
on Saturday night and sentenced to 80
years in the penitentiary. Napoleon
McDaniels,one of his partners, who was
given a similar sentence last September,
and afterward escaped, is still at large. |
A despatch from Aspen, Colorado, |
says that the heavy fall of snow in the |
mountains has made travel very danger
Gus. On Saturday slide caught train |
of mules within few yards of the Little |
Rule Mine, carrying nine of them down |
the mountain ana killing six of them.
The mules were loaded with valuable
ore from the Little Rule, which cannot /
be recovered
The Trdc6lLGr of Arkansas City, Ar
kansas, said editorally last Thursday
that letters had been received from Con-
gresham Perkins and others, saying
that settlers in the Cherokee Outlet
could legally hold their homesteads. AS
a result, every quarter section for Is
miles south of the Kansas border is
occupied. At the lowest estimate 10000
settlers have gone in.
A collision occurred on the Baltimore
u Ohio Southwestern railroad at Rem
ington, o., Monday. Passengers were
thrown in heap and it was found that
five persons were injured, but no one
killed. Miss Retta Clayton, of Fayette-
Vile, o.; Miss Mary Fox, of st. Martin,
o.; w. ii. Foy, of Jacksonville, o.; Mrs.
Phil Hall, of Jacksonville, o., and Will
liam II. Gallagher, conductor, were in
iured.
The contractors for the grading of
Jackson Park, in Chicago, in prepare
ion for the Worlds Fair, resumed work
Monday morning. About 100 men
we're set to digging in the trenches,
when mob of about 5000 idlers gath
,red about and ordered them out. The
mandate was obeyed with alacrity.
The contractors called for police protec-
ion, and a squad of blue coats soon APP