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

A two-story frame dwelling in Holy
oke, Mass, was burned early Thursday
morning. Mrs. Mary Conner, who was
in the second story, was suffocated by
the smoke.
Surgeon William D. Deitz of the Fifth
Artillery, stationed at Alcatraz Island,
CAL, killed his wife and then committed
suicide yesterday week. 1t is believed
he was insane.
James M. Slocum, who killed his wife
in New York on January 1st, 1889, and
who was convicted of murder in the
first degree, was resentenced Thursday
to be electrocuted at Sing Sing in March.
The building of the Western Art AS
sociation, in Omaha, Nebraska, col
lapseed Wednesday night week. Bouge-
reau's picture, "The Return of Spring."
valued at $4,000, and many other val
liable works on exhibition were ruined.
The strike of the employees of the
United Shirt and Collar Company, in
Troy, New York, was ended Thursday.
A uniform schedule of prices is to be
established for all the factories in Troy,
Albany ard Glen Falls. Both sides
made concessions. The girls will return
to work at once.
Mrs. Maggie Mccullough called at
police headquarters in New York on
Thursday and asked the protection of the
authorities. She said that her husband,
who had already put out one of her eyes,
had followed her to New York from
Philadelphia, and had threatened to kill
her.
A freight train crashed into pas
senger train on the Louisville & Nash
vile road, at Warrior, Alabama, Thurs
day. Mrs. S. Reed of Chicago and w.
II. Chaddocl of Admission were hurt.
but not fatally. The fagman failed to
go far enough to the rear, and the freight
engineer was not warned of the train
ahead in time.
Advlces received in San Franciso, from
Toluti, in the Society Islands, report
that wreckage has been discovered, sup
posed to be from the missionary schooner
Phoebe Chapman, which left Honolulua a
year ago, in charge of Elder ]. II. Cuda-
ney, of Nebraska, second advent mis-
sionary. The Chapman was bound for
Pitcairn Islands. She carried crew of
six men. All hands are given up for
lost.
The six-story building of the Western
Refrigerating Company, in Chicago, was
partially destroyed by fire Thursday.
The fire was caused by an explosion of
ammonia gas, used in the ice machine.
The first explosion was followed quickly
by three others, shaking the building to
its foundations. Joseph Bour, Robert
Hawley and George Hendricks, en-
ployed in the engine room, escaped with
slight injuries; Thomas Casey, fire.
man, while helping to get them out was
fatally injured. Loss, 100000.
Mrs. Harrison has nearly recovered
from her recent attack of diphtheritic
sore throat, but Mrs. Mckee has been
taken i'll with q severe case of tonsilitis.
DR.. Frank A. Gardner after examining
the premises carefully decided that
much of the sickness al s.le White House
comes from the almost continuous pres
ence of the large ferns and plants used
in decorating the rooms on the occa-
sions of dinners and receptions. The
boxes in which they grow contain
large quantity of earth which exhales
odors that are not beneficial, and the
plants accumulate an unhealthy amount
of dampness.
Rose Soldosky, milliner, 10 year,
old, has been arrested in Richland
Centre, Wisconsin, on the charge Of
poisoning Ella Maly, a young woman
who died under mysterious circum-
stances on January Sth last. Miss
Soldosky is also accused of causing the
death of Mrs. Mitchell, wife of DR..
Mitchell of that place, in the same
manner. Rose Soldosky was in love
with DIR. Mitchell, the state claims, and
first put Mrs. Mitchell out of the way.
Seeing the doctor was likely to marry
Miss Maly, she then poisoned her. The
bodies of the women were exhumed,
and an examination resulted in the find
ing Of strychnine in their stomachs.