Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-12-24
IN GEN ELL.

Olaf Albertson was convicted at Seattle
Monday of conntcrfeiting 1000 crown
notes Of the Swedish government.
Nearly all of the eastern half of the
town Of Truckec, Cal, was destroyed
by fire on Sunday, causing q loss of over
$4,000
Two SONS Of Frank johnson, while
skating on Trout run, near Shamukin,
Pa, Monday, broke through the ice and
were drowned.
The Rev. George w. Stacey, aged Sc
years, an old anli.savery agilatnr, and the
friend Of Garrison and Phillips, was
stricken with paralysis, at Milford, Mass,
Monday.
William llancy, aged IS years, was shot
and killed i'll disreputablc resort near
Hubbard, Ohio, Monday morning, by
Rose l5oliner Ii is claimed the shooting
was accidental.
a dispatch from the city of Mexico says
that Catarina Gar2ia, the revolutionist, has
proposed to the government to lay down
ms arms Tor $4,000, or fora consulate IN
the United States.
Tall Hall, the Kentucky desperate who
IS charged with so many murders, was
taken from Memphis, Tenn. Monday
by six armed officers, who started with
him for Virginia.
The Democratic Club Of New York city
Monday appointed n committee of % to
60 to Washington and urge the Democratic
national committee to hold the national
convention in New York city
j. >. Little, Il cothier Of East Plains,
Georgia, was intercepted BY the police in
Jersey City Monday and semitic his home
lie was on the way tol New York hotel
to invest 5000 in counterfeit money,
A dispatch from Staunton, Virginia,
says that sam McManlls, who has been Il
terror to people in the western part Of
Augusta county, while at deer stand
Monday, was shot from ambush and
killed.
The department of agriculture has pre-
vented the shipment abroad of horse meat.
made up at a Long Island abattoir as
'corned beef, for export. The meat was
taken from broken down, crippled and
diseased animals, some ef which were
even glandercd.
w j. Summers, the railroad agent at
Liihora, Georgia, who disappeared a week
ago, returned to his home on Sunday
night He claims that he was kidnapped
by two men, who kept him prisoner and
robbed him Of $500. He says he succeeded
in hiding, about his person, $500 which
the men did not get.
Bernard Ready and Henry Linnen, who
were employed in the Exeter shaft of the
Lehigh Valley Coal Company, at Pittston,
Pa, were hoisted up the shaft Monday
| for the purpose Of removing several huge
pieces of ice that had formed on the sides
of the shaft When they had assembled
| some $50 feet one of the massive icicles
became detached and fell upon them
Ready was instantly killed and LINEN
fatally injured.
A,.dispatch from Augusta, Me-, says that
Mrs. Nancy Britt Kennedy, the Oldest
woman in that city, died on Saturday. At
an early hour she got up and commenced
| praying that she might die, and continued
| her prayers for nearly three-quarters of an
hour, when she fell to the floor dead The
deceased is the woman whose age has been
extensively reported as iis. Her exact
age, however, isnot known.
In October, 1880 the city Of New Yorl,
| lent Edward NJ. Field $4,000 on property
in West Fifty-third street, valued at $780,
600 He defaultcd in the payment of IN
terest last month, and the city chamber
lain has begun suit ill the supreme court to
foreclose the mortgage. Counsel last
day applied for leave to serve the sum
mons and complaint on Fields brother.
The court so ordered, holding that there
were reasonable grounds for believing the
defendant to be Of unsound mind.
The Buffalo express on the Lehigh Val
ley railroad, struck rock which Ind
rolled from the mountain side at Rock
port near Slatington Pa. Monday morn
ing. The engine was demolished, and
Michael Lebellc, aged 40 years, New
Jersey Central engineer, who was riding
oHthe engine on his way to work, wss
crushed to death. The fireman was badly
hurt, and the passengers were roughly
shaken up, though name were liuri
Whilethe south bound Buffalo cxptess wss
running around tho wreck tho train was
derailed, but no ono was injured.