Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-04-23
IN GENER4I,

The steamer Olympia, from Palermo, ar
i rived at New. Orleans on Sunday with 40
Sicilians on board.
During fire in Boston on Sunday tn
roof of the burning building fell withou
warning and imprisoned about % men
After some difficulty they were all rescued
Nearly all were hurt, but none fatally.
By premature explosion in one of til,
Shafts of the Argentine mine, near Aspen
1 Col, on Saturday, three miners NAMED
Reed Kennedy and Mahoney were killed
and two Others were dangerously injured
The spinners' strike in Clark's Thread
Mill at Newark, N j., was on Saturday
afternoon, declared off, the company offer
ing to take back most of the men, as de
sired, The strike was begun on December
Sth.
Nellie Spaulding, aged % years, was
4 arrested for drunkenness in Buffalo on
| Saturday morning Fifteen minutes after
she had been placed in a cell she com.
lmitted suicide by shooting herself in the
| head.
Mrs, Harriet S. Allen died on Sunday at
the residence of her son, DR.. j. NJ. Allen,
in Chester, Pa, in the Tooth year of her
age. She was the widow of the Rev BEN
| jamin Allen, rector of st. Paul's Protestant
Episcopal Church, Philadelphia.
During a slight fire in hotel in Chatta-
nooga on Sunday Charles Werner, a hose
man, who was putting a stream into u
third story window, received shock from
an electric light wire and fell dead to the
ground in presence of crowd of specta-
tors.
Late on Saturday night the body of an
unknown woman, with her throat cut
from ear to ear, was found lying on the
sidewalk at klnety-siXth street and Fourth
avenue, New York. The police have under
arrest Albert Bolts of Baltimore, whom
they say is the murderer.
By the explosion of neglected change
OF powder in quarry near Norristown.
IN, sunday morning, two Italians were
wounded. 1t was testified at the inquest
that the men wished to go to church, but
thatthe foreman threatened with dismissal
all who refused TO work.
Four Americans and one Italian we're
drowned i'll Laurel creek, near Addison.
w. Va, on Friday last. They were cross
ing the swollen stream on a foot log when
it turned and all were thrown into the
water. None of the victims were known
there by name, and at last accounts the
bodies had not been recovered.
EIn Rochester, New York, on Sunday.
While J. Frazer, an actor, was walking
the sidewalk by an Italian named Tony
Frank. Upon Frazer demonstrating the
Italian said "the road was good enoueh'
for Frazer and, drawing knife, chased
him for some distance, until overpowered
and arrested.
The body of Alexander Dunn, the sun
posed abscOnder from Trenton, N. j., who
disappeared on March 21st, was found in
an arm of the Delaware river four miles
haIn nov.
Wilson, while fishing. A remarkable CO.
incidence is brought to light. Twenty
years ago Isaac Dunn, father of Alexan- |
der, drowned himself in the same stream |
and his body was also discovered by the |
same Wilson and on the same day OF the |
week, Sunday.
In Madison county, Iowa. few days
ago, Edward Carter James Smith and
Robert Carter were carrying on drunken
revel at the house of Thomas Smith when
a quarrel arose, in which Smith was
Knocked senseless, and was carried into the
yard and buried under a lot of rubbish.
The gang then continued its carousal. In
the meantime Smith regained conscious
ness, and, securing a shotgun, emptied
both barrels into the gang of jewellers,
fatally wounding Edward Carter.
A building inspector made an examina-
Jon of the Railways of the Shoreham
Hotel, in Washington, on Saturday to
lscertain the cause of the accident on
Friday: He found that in the construc-
ion of the building mortar was placed
lgainst the joists. supporting the floors,
md that the resulting dampness rotted the
lmbers SO that when the workmen who
we're putting in girder on the fifth floor
o stiffen the landing let the girder fall to
he floor the landing gave way, and its
and weight carried the other [
loors with it in its descent.