Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-01-08
IN GENER1I,
Eight inches of snow fell at Marshall
town Iowa Thursday

Patrick Mccall was killed Thursday
at an ice house at Schodack Landing, on
the Hudson, by being caught in re-
yolving shaft
The new offices of the United Press,
in the Pulitzer Building, New York,
were formally opened Thursday. General
Manager Phillips made an address.
The Louisville Courier journal yester-
day reduced its price from 20 and 30
cents per week to IA and 90 cents, and
from $40 and $l2 per year to $Sand $40.
The family of Benjamin Sours, at
Luray, Va, were poisoned Thursday by
eating pumpkin pie supposed to contain
rat poison. Sours and one child are
dead.
A mortgage for $t0,0O0,000 given by
the Milwaukee Street Railway Com
pany to the Central Trust Company Of
New York, has been recorded in Mil
waukee.
The shops of the Illinois steel works
in Chicago, except the blast furnace,
shut down last night week. Fifteen
hundred men were thrown out of en-
ployment.
Prof. E. A. W. Morley and Prof. w.
A. Rogers have succeeded in measuring,
by means Of the wave lengths Of light,
the changes in bars of metal caused by
variations of temperature.
The Wallace County Bank in Abilene,
Kansas, closed its doors Thursday. Liza
bilities, about S45, 900; assets, nominally
100000. The assets are almost entirely
in western lands and equities.
a special election held in Concordia,
Kansas, last night week to choose a
state senator from that district, resulted
IN the election OF Wheeler, Farmers
finance ,lii. cahdiaate' over eehaener, Ne
plpliean'
James hahter, mlddle-aged German,
While drunk thursday afternoon, ran
amuck on lhirty-llfth street, New ork,
ana stapped Tour Passers-py with a
p ,! before being arrested Inc
victims are nov dangerously nurt'
AZ Abba, Iowa, on last night week,
while an express agent named Purdy
was arranging packages Tor q train,
three men entered the room, covered
nm with reYoiyers, bound and gagged
NM ana ropped the SAFE OF $ooo IN
Cash,
WINE men were engaged IN plasting
rock on the Bullaio q Geneva extension
OF the Lehlgh valley railroad yesterday
afternoon week, tnere was premature
explosion, Whlch Killed Andrew hunt
ana three Hungarlans ana injured eight
o'n ~,
Inc grand jury IN Kansas Olty, MO-,
mas ionna indictments against council
men hayes ana boWes 1qr Offering 10
accept prloe, ana against Louis irvine,
attorney iof the Eleventh street Incline
Flahe company LOT oHerlng 10 give
pi,oe'
Mrs. - flsher was Drutally assaulted
ana 4eft iof dead by young negro,
whose OBJECT was robbery, near Lang
station, Texas, on last night week.
Inc cuiprlt, being captured by mob Of
cltlzeens, confessed the crime, and was
lyhcheu'
Matte Morrison, % years old, 1t is
alleged, struck Florence Hazleton, W
years old, on the head with stove
litter during quarrel early thursday
morning, fracturing her skull. Matte
was arrested. Both women are Ph1la-
delphlahs.
Charles Klein, colored, was shot in
the abdomen and dangerously wounded
at the rooms OF the Filter Club, Phila-
delphia, early Thursday morning. Chas.
Polk, who was handling the revolver
and claimed it was accidentally dis
charged, was committed.
The colored people in Charleston,
South Carolina. celebrated the emanci-
patton anniversary Thursday with a
military parade. President Lincoln's
proclamation was read and an address
followed. The colored Masonic lodges
also had street parade.
A Christmas tree in the house of
Charles Milske. in Baltimore, was set on
fire Thursday night by lamp placed
under If. and the flames SPREADING. de-
stroyed the house, Mrs. Milske ana her
seven years-old, daughter were badly
burned about fire hands and face.
hand If white cans visited tho bouse
~ Reuben ynnng NJ Rivertnn pa on
Now Years Eve. and talsinG him ont
Administered n logging. Then. exact,
ing 4 nronise from him that he would
in Inc future abstain from use Of stronr
drink thav allowed him Ia denort
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doio b has gi va notina tbst t ~ viii
sh,rt down a., nj ino more coke ' ovens in.
s dafinitaiw nj, yyoaii which Viii thran
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