Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-05-14

Martin Griner shot and killed his mis-
tress, Annie Kieste, in Logansport, Ind,
on Saturday, and then committed suicide.
The transit of Mercury was success
fully observed at the Lick Observatory,
California on saturday. A number of
photographs were taken,
II. +. Buchanan saloon keeper of
Chester, s. G., on Friday night shot and
mortally wounded policeman named
Wilson because he arrested a woman with
whom Buchanan was intimate.
Frank Noel, young sewing machine
agent committed suicide at Pittsburg on
saturday morning, about | o'clock by
shooting himself IN the breast in presence
of his intended bride. No cause is assigned
for the deed.
Ex-President Grover Cleveland will visit
Buffalo to-day to take part III the 50th an
mvcrsary of the German Young Mems As
sociation, of which he is member. 1t is
expected that his address will be of great
political significance.
A sonth-bound passenger train on tn,
Sante Fe road was boarded by five masked
robbers at Wharton, Oklahoma, on Satur.
day night They detached the engine anc
express car and then proceeded two miles
south and robbed the express car of all the
money 1t contained. II is believed that the
amount stolen is not very large. The rob.
bers are supposed to be the notorious Dali
boys.
Last Friday, the women residing Of
Wade street, in Cincinnati, becoming i'm.
patient Of the negligence of the street
cleaning department, turned out in force
with brooms, hoes, rakes and wheelbar-
rows, and in one hour had the street
cleaned and all ready for the city
cart. They also took a hand at the sewers
Later in the day the board of alderr
appropriated $4,000 for special
cleaning purposes.
BY order Of the Colorado authorities Dr.!
Thatcher Graves il tacitly under arrest for
the murder of Josephine A. Barnaby. 1t
| IS said that Or. Graves confessed sending
! the mysterious bottle to Denver and to
writing the inscription upon it. He
asserts that the bottle contained pure
whisky when it was mailed in Boston,
and that any poison therein contained
| must have been added after the package
| left his possession.
Grandmother Connolly, aged ITO years,
was burned to death in her house at
| Beaver Meadow, Pa, on Friday night.
Recently she became so weak that she
| could not leave her bed. and it was pur-
| posed to remove her to the aimshouse,
where she would receive good care. The
old lady suspected the arrangement, and
rather than submit to the proposed indig-
nifty she set fire to the bedclothing upon
which she lay and was burned to crisp.
AT Cardwell, KY, last Thursday, Jeffer-
son Holiday, Sr., was invited by James
Matherty TO take drink of whisky out OF
q bottle. The old man took large draught,
but remarked that it tasted very bitter, and
expressed surprise that Matherty did not
also drink. AT this Matherty, while osten.
sihly raising the bottle to his lips, let II
fall, spilling the contents on the ground.
After. drinking the whisky Holiday was
seized with excruciating pains, and In an
hour died in great agony. Holiday was The
father Of jefferson and James Holiday
who overlook Calvin Vest while returning
home from Cardwell, last February, and
shot him dead in the presence of his bride
For this they are now in jail 1t is sus,
pected that Matherty may have been hired
TO poison old Holiday for revenge.