Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-04-23
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IN GENEEIL.

The Indian who killed the Hulls, near
Rlockport, Idaho, Monday week, has be- n
fond dead by the Indian police, lie saw
his plrsuers and shot himself.
Alter a sensational trial in Chicago j, G,
Cosgrove and J. X. McElligott were found
guilty Of forging rich woman's Will, and
were sentenced to nine and three years re-
spectively in the penitentiary,
The steamship Menowai, which arrived
at san Francisco on Friday from sydney
and Honolulu, reports that the British
ship st. Catharine has been wrecked off
the Caroline Island, and so persons have
been drowned.
AT Little Narrows, Cape Breton, on Fri
day, a blacksmith's apprentice, named
Logan, being annoyed by some boys, drew
red-hot iron from the fire, and seizing
one Of the boys named Mathcson, held
the rod against his abdomen until hole
had been burned in ii. The boys injuries
are fatal.
Newton Ncsbit and wife were eating
breakfast at their home in lie Glare, Iowa.
on Friday morning, when the husband
made rejecting remark. Mrs. Nesbit
drew revolver and sent ball into the
back part of her husbands head. She
then Shot herself twice, the first ball TAX
ing effect in her neck and the second max
ing scalp wound. Nesbit was steam
boat fireman.
Charles ii. Watts. one of the trainmen
injured in the disaster on the Maryland
Central railroad on Thursday, died on Fri
day. This is the fourth life lost. William
Hawkins, the second trainman injured, is
expected to recover. The trestle through
which the train broke was $50 feet long
and in some places so feet high. 1t was
testified at the coroner's inquest on Friday
that the trestle. having been built of white
pine more than 10 years ago, was unsafe.
The annual meeting of the Whiskey
Trust, legally known as the Distilling and
Cattle Feeding Company, was held in
Peoria, Ill., yesterday week. The sales of the
company for the past year aggregated
4i,7fs,l71 gallons, an increase of nearly
100000 gallons over the sales of the pre-
ceding year. The trust has, in addition to
the rebate fund, a surplus of 1926, I'll, after
paying dividends during the year amount,
ing to 81 Dos, 2h5 and expenses of Si69.73l
Constable Mcdonald was taking Sandy
Wilson, prisoner, from West Newton tc
Greensburg, Pa, on Thursday night, on
ali express train. When Jeanette station
was passed Wilson knocked the constable
| from the seat, rushed to the platform and
| jumped from the train. The constable fol
| lowed The train was stopped. The con
| stable 5tds found alive, but unconscious
but Wilson had jumped Immediately in
| front of freight train and was killed
Wilson was charged with assault and bat.
| terry by his wife.
There were number Of deaths on the
steamer Friesland, which arrived at New
York yesterday week from Antwerp. Three
deaths occurred in the Storage from scar
| Jet fever. Two children died and were
buried at sea, and l7-years-old Hendricl;
Slange died in sight Of these shores. Jacob
Dclioer, AZ years old, and native of North
Holland, while being transferred to tho
barge office, dropped dead. Three cases Of
scarlet fever were aboard when the steamer
arrived. All the Frieslands passengers
will be fumigated.
The brig Henrietta G.. left New York fol
Cuba on Friday, and when off Bedloe's
Island First Mate George Iibbey had d
fight with the four sailors, who were
drunk and refused to obey orders. One OF
the men drew knife, and the mate used a
revolver, shooting Frank lSimonson in the
leg and Peter August in the thigh. Cap
| tam Stanley and Second Mate johnson
rushed to Libbeys assistance, and the
sailors were overpowered and placed in
irons. At the Tombs court the two unin.
| lured sailors were held for examination
and the wounded ones were taken to the
hospital l.ibhey was also arrested.
| In Washington, Wisconsin, about ten
days ago man named Bahr hanged him,
sell because of quarrel with his wife, but
before doing so told his children that Mrs
Bahr had poisoned an old man named
Iell, the father Of of his first wife who
died suddenly about year ago. The
children reported to the authorities anC
they arrested the woman, who made full
confession, saying that they poisoned Eel
by putting Paris green in his SOUP. MOI
| long after Xell's death Bahr pounded one
Of his children inhumanly and threw it on
the bed, where it soon after died. He was
never prosecuted for the child's murder.
A large part of the heavy fire-prooi
landings connected with the stairways o.
the Shoreham, Vice President Norton.
new hotel in Washington, D. o.. dronped
on Friday afternoon from the fifth floor tc
the basement The upper landing broke
hrst from its fastenings in the walls, ane
It's descent carried with it all of those be
low, Wprkmen were engaged in lacking
up a misplaced girder which was sun
4 posed to he useful as a support for 4
portion of the hallway on the sixth floor
The jack rested on the stair hallway on
the fifth floor, and as that was simply /
mass of light timber, heavy concrete And
ornamental tiles, the floor resistance wa,
insufficient, and the jack, supports and
everything else, but the workmen, fell on
the floor below, and the sudden imnac,
caused that to give way also. This was
repeated until the mass of timber anc
plaster landed in the basement anf
blocked up the interior entrance To III,
cafe. No person was hurt,