Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-02-05
IN GENERAL.

blast furnace at Cleveland, ONO, took
effect Monday.
A young Englishman named Bosan-
quot was bitten by rattlesnake, at
Daytona, Florida, on Sunday, and died
Monday in great agony.
All medicines, such as needed in all
families, should be pure and full of
strength. Go to Fifth and Poplar
streets for reliable preparations
John Tyson, grain commission mer-
chant of St. Louis, announced his sus-
pension on the Exchange Monday,
His liabilities are estimated at 100000
One thousand employees in the steel
mill Of the Bethlehem Iron Company, at
Bethlehem, Pa, Monday suffered a re-
duction in their wages averaging 10 per
cent.
The dwelling Of John j. Russell, a
wealthy resident of Petersburg, Virgil
niN, was damaged by fire on Sunday,
and Mr.. Russell persisted from sutfoca-
tion.
The stage running between Chihua-
hua and Pemos Atlas, Mexico, was held
up or Friday night by masked robbers,
who took $4,000 in silver bullion and
escaped.
A dispatch from Boston says that a
syndicate of importers has been formed
under the leadership Of Jordan, Marsh
& Co., to test the legality of the McKin-
ley bill
Earnest Forbes, colored, convicted of
criminal assault about two months ago
on Bertha Phipps, in Anne Arundel
county, Md, was Monday sentenced to
be hanged,
Engineer Frost and Fireman Russell
were killed and several passengers were
injured by collision on the Utah
Northern railroad, near Dillon, Mon
tana, on Sunday.
Austin Sturtevant, go years old, was
waylaid and sand-bagged in Plainfield,
New Jersey, on Saturday night and
robbed of 800 in cash and q watch and
chain valued at $500.
by the fall of cage in the Pennsyl-
vania Steel Works, at Harrisburg, on
Saturday, John g. Beck and John
Engleman were precipitated from a
height Of a5 feet and killed.
The jail in Friar's Point, Miss, was
burned on Sunday, and three negro pris-
oncrs persisted in the flames. They
started the fire by trying to burn the
door down that they might escape.
HenrySP. Dorwart was murdered by
tramps in Columbia, Pa, on Saturday
night. Dorwart had been working for
farmer, and had been paid Off, and, it is
supposed, went on spree.
John Grass, White Bird, American
Horse, Turning Hawk and Three Stars,
Indian Chiefs, left Rushyille, Neb., Sun
day for Washington, to pay their
respects to the Great Father,
While j. L. Schmidt of Braddock,
Pa, was at supper on Saturday evening,
burglars entered the cellar of his iewelry
store, bored through the floor and in Is
minutes gathered up $4,000 worth of
jcwelry. They left no clue.
There was a collision between two
passenger trains on the Chicago & East
ern illinois railroad, near Chicago, on
Saturday. Gabe Adenade was killed,
and Frank Rosenhaum, John Zeigler
and Mrs. Ell, Williams probably fatally
injured.
John Owens was burned to death near
Laurens, S. c., on Saturday. He went
into Il barn to get some corn, and, it is
Thought struck match, which set some
straw on fire. The flames must have
cut of his escape as he persisted in the
building
Four masked men entered the saloon
of Masherker, Bedermen Il Peck in
Kansas City, Mo-, early on Saturday
morning, and, covering the bartender
aud two walters with revolvers, took
$3.50 from the cash drawer and $40 and
three watches from the bartender and
walters.
+. Gilliland shot and killed II. H..
Howe, in Alpine, Texas, on Wednesday
week, during a quarrel about calf.
al
to arrest Gilliland on Sunday, revolyers
we're drawn. Gilliland was killed and
Cook was shot in the leg.
The Pennsylvania state legislative
committee examined the Mammoth
mine, near Mount Pleasant, on Satur-
day. The members of the committee
say they have learned that an unex-
pected fall of slate liberated pocket of
gas, or fire damp, which rushed out upon
the open lamps of the miners and ex-
plodcd, killing all in the chambers,
Miss Helen Potts, 20 years of age,
daughter of wealthy railroad CON
tractor, died Sunday morning of NOR
phine poisoning at a boarding school in
= New York. The medicine-pills COM
posed of quinine and morphia-had
been prescribed for insomnia by Carlisle
w. Harris, young medical student,
who was friend Of the girls family,
A case of leprosy has been reported to
the Wisconsin state board of health.
The patient is Norwegian woman who
recently came from the old country. She
is a resident Of Buffalo county, and has
had the trouble which is tinanally pro-
nounced lcprosy for is years. The
woman has four adult children, but on
none of them has symptoms of disease
appeared.
Allan Heath, prosperous farmer,
near Corona, Colorado, went into a sa-
loon in Denver, kept by Thomas O'Con-
nor and Michael Ryan, on Saturday,
and was induced to bet $40 that his
check was not good for $4,000 at the
German National Bank. He wrote the
check, and that is all he remembers un-
til he awoke in the rear of the saloon.
The check had been cashed by OCon-
nor. Both swindlers were arrested.
A preliminary examination, held iii
Lincoln, Neb., on Saturday, of Mrs.
Mary Sheedy, Mcfarland and Harry
Walstrom, charged with the murder OF
John Sheedy, resulted in the former
being held for trial on the charge OF
murder in the first degree, and the dis
charge of the latter. Mrs. Sheedy nc
cuses the Rev. Father Walsh, one of the
strongest witnesses against her, OF
making proposals to her which she re-
fused to entertain, and that his testi-