Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-05-28
IN GENERAL.

William Peeless and Charles Chap
man had fist fight near Hammond,
Wis, on Saturday, in which Peeless was
killed.
A train on the Pennsylvania railroad
ran into party of Hungarian laborers
near Gap on Saturday afternoon, kill
ing one and mortally injuring another.
Thaddeus McFadden and Z. Shirley,
brothers-in-law, living near Fort Lawn,
5. c., fought with pocket knives on
Saturday McFadden was killed and
and Shirley was badly cut.
Two passenger trains on the Cincin-
natl Southern road collided at Melville,
Tennessee, on Saturday night. Engineer
Charles Chaplin and Fireman Robert
Clark were killed.
The Sullivan Saddle Tree Company's
factory, inside the walls of the state
penitentiary at jefferson City, Mo-, was
destroyed by fire on Saturday. The loss
is estimated ut $4,000.
In Greensburg, Pa, on Saturday, the
| jury in the case of Captain Loar and
deputies, charged with murder at the
Moorewood riots, returned verdict ac-
| quitting all the defendants.
Three thousand and forty-nine immi-
| grants were landed in New York on
Sunday. Ten Italians who had arrived
| on the Marsha We're detained, as they
had served in prison in Italy for various
offences.
Derato Medina killed his wife in Rio
| Grande City, Texas, on Friday and then
| fed to Mexico. He swan the river amid
a shower of bullets. Two weeks ago his
wife deserted him, and a soldier at the
/ Hnrrn ol-c 90 /, Al,
| of it.
A fire in the house of Felix Lawler.
at Minneapolis, on Saturday morning,
resulted in the death Of Eta Lawler, a
! girl of 6, and John Francis Lawler, aged
] month, who were burned to death.
Mrs. Felix LAWYER was very seriously
burned.
Burglars attempted to rob the store
of Dengler & Seiders at Churchville,
near Harrisburg, Pa, early on Satur-
day morning. Mr.. Dengler opened a
window to listen and was shot in the
breast by one of the thieves who stood
guard outside. Dengler's wound, it IS
feared, will prove fatal.
John w. Halteman, 1s years old, Of
North Coventry, Chester county, Pa,
who went into Isaac Hamburg's pawn
shop in Philadelphia on Saturday to
pledge revolver, was accidentally
shot in the left breast by Mr.. Hamburg
While the latter was examining the
weapon Ills recovery is doubtful.
The Dalton brothers and gang, who
robbed the Santa Fe passenger train at
Wharton station, were captured in the
Sac and Fox reservation, 60 miles east
of Oklahoma City, on Friday, after a
l9-hour fight by deputy United States
marshals, aided by detachment of the
Fifth Cavalry. One of the Daltons was
killed and one soldier was wounded.
Mrs. Margaret Mulhane, whose re-
mains were inferred in New York on
Sunday, weighed $50 pounds. The corpse
was carried from the house by 10
brawny men and an undertaken wagon
bore it to the cemetery, no hearse being
large or strong enough. A double grave
was needed, and it required the strength
OF 10 men to lower the body safely.
The bark Lottie Moore arrived at New
York Sunday in 81 days from Pisagua,
with cargo of nitrate of soda. While
laying off Pisagua February 9th the
bark was exposed to the fire of the mem
of-war which bombarded the city. Sew
eral shots pierced the bark's spars and
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house. No one on board the bark was
injured.
A cloud burst over Culver Gulch,
near Boise City, Idaho, on Saturday
night. great volume of water 10 feet
high gathered in the deep and narrow
bed of the old creek and swept down
INTO the town, flooding a great portion
of it with several feet of water. Con-
cid A mn fra mas Jn,, e., IA. TT,..4.l
States government building and parade
grounds.
A wind and rain storm passed over
sections OF Berks county, Pa, on Satur.
day morning. At Kutztown the roofs
OF the'state normal school building and
the Rev. j. j. CHEESEMAN'S residence were
somewhat damaged. At Reinholds.
vile, Levi GenZmer's barn was struck
by lightning, destroying the building
and an adjoining structure, with their
including 10 head Of cattle.
While party of vigilants, who had
just captured cattle thief near Dun
ming, Nebraska, were taking the pris-
oner to town, on Friday night, they
met another posse of yigilants. The
night was very dark, and each party
mistook the other for thieves. Fire
was opened on both sides, and before
he mistake was discovered, Judge
Aikens, treasurer Of the county, and
McAlvey, the cattle thief, who was in
lis care, were killed. No arrests have
been made.
According to the San Francisco Chroa-
Gle the collector at San Francisco has
'eceiyed sealed orders from Washington
cative to the sealing industry in Ben
ing Sea this year. The orders are to
Je delivered to the captain of the rev.
niue cutter Rush and will not be opened
until she proceeds to sea. The North
american Commercial Company does
lot yet know how many seals il will be
llowed to kill, but the Chronicle says it
las learned froll authoritative sources
hat the number has been limited to
900, and that the season, which begins
une 1st, has been extended to Sep
ember *1st, instead of August 21st, as
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