Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-03-19

Funeral services were held in San Fran
cisco Sunday over the remains of the
late Senator Hearst
Montreal and vicinity was visited on
Sunday by tornado and blizzard. A
number Of buildings were badly dam
aged.
By the explosion of a saw mill boiler
at Wayside, Wis, on Saturday, Henry
Nohru was killed and several others
were badly injured.
A. Minor Griswold, widely known as
"The Fat Contributor" editor of Ts1as
SJtiRgs, died suddenly of apoplexy, at
Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin, on Satur-
day.
Col. L. L, Thompson, leading Dem
ocratic politician, has disappeared from
Little Rock, Ark. His friends fear he
has become insane from business re-
verses and the death Of his wife.
The residence of General +. b.
Fowler, in Brooklyn, New York, was
burned early on Sunday morning, and
his son, William, 22 years Of age, was
suffocated in his room on the third floor
p. r. Barnum closed contract with
architects at Bridgeport, Conn, on Sat
urday, for the erection Of building to
cost Sl25,000, as u gift from him to the
historical and scientific societies of that
city,
William H. Crawford was hanged in
the Jail, at Decatur, Illinois, on Satur-
day morning, for the murder of Mrs
Colonel Matthias, in August last. He
cut her throat because she resisted his
advances.
An express train on the Flint and
Pere Marquette road, in Michigan, was
run into by II freight train at Brick Run
Station on Saturday, and the sleeper
was wrecked. Several passengers were
injured, Il. +. Sumner, Of Kansas City,
seriously.
The British steamer Curlew sank at a
wharf in the East river at New York
on Sunday. One Of the vessels sea-cucks
on the side was left open and water
poured in until she went under. She is
a small vessel.
Divers at work on the steamboat City
Of Richmond, which was recently
burned at New York, on Saturday night
found the bodies OF two colored men in
the hold Of the vessel They are sup
posed to be those CT Halscy b. Hill and
Samuel Lambson, two cOlorcd walters,
who have been missing since the lire.
A freight train on the Catawissa rail-
road was wrecked near Beaver Valley
on Saturday night, the cowcatcher OF
the engine striking brake beam which
| had fallen on the track from preceding
train. John Fisher, engineer, and James
Wood, fireman, were killed, and Clinton
Harder, brakeman, had his legs broken.
II is reported from Gainesville, Texas,
that many of the negroes who cmigrated
! from that state and Arkansas to Okla
homa are returning home in large num-
| bcrs. "They are very indignant at the
manner in which they havs been inn
1 posed upon by the agents of the emigra-
| ton company which prevailed upon
| them to 60 to Oklahoma. Those who
returned report that the negroes who
are unable to leave the territory will
/ call upon the company for assistance
and, if refused aid, mob violence is
| feared"
Frederick w, Hall and Miss Kate
| Warren were married in Ottawa, Ont
on Friday night. Whileat the wedding
supper friend of the young lady beck
| oheu 10 lle groom 70 come 70 tIle uOOl
of the room. Hall Immediately grew
white and replied nervously, as it me
you want?' Hall went out, and was
then and there charged with having a
wife and family in England. Aftel
some hesitation Hall admitted that he
had been married, but claimed that he
had been divorced from hls wife. The
matter becoming known, the greatest
excitement prevailed, and in the midst
of it, after the ncwly-made bride had
given back the wedding ring, Hall dis
appeared.