Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-01-29
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lest citizens OF san marco, texas, shot
and killed his wife on Sunday.
The Rev. A. Harris, a Jewish rabbi,
fell dead in his pulpit at Richmond,
Virginia, on Saturday, just after preach
ing sermon.
John Doyle, 80 years of age, worth
less character, has been arrested In
Springfield, Ohio, charged with muir
dering his mother.
August Darlington, aged IL years, was
killed in ST. Louis, on Saturday, by fall
ing though an elevator shaft from the
fifth floor of building.
Dennis McCarty, II years old,Hwas
stabbed in the neck and severely
wounded Sunday in Philadelphia by
Frank Wilmer, 10 years old.
A despatch from Salt Lake City,
Utah, says that Lucy, the eighth wife
of Brigham Young, is dead. Only'seve
of his wives are now living.
Levi Eichholz was arrested in Dills-
burg, Pa, on Saturday, for violating
the lottery law. He had sent money
for lottery tickets to New Orleans.
Sever Serlcy, ex-county treasurer, was
arrested in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin,
on Saturday, charged with being de-
faulter and embezzler in the sum Of
$10,500.
Paul Mitchell of Butler county, in the
reformatory at Huntingdon, Pa, was
stabbed and probably fatally injured on
Saturday, by Henry Larkin, fellow
prisoner, from Philadelphia.
William M. James was on Saturday
convicted of involuntary manslaughter,
in Lancaster, Pa, in killing Barton
Kline, in November He was sentenced
to 10 months imprisonment.
The lockout of the stone cutters in
Chicago by the stone contractors has
been settled. Differences that arise here
after are to be settled by arbitration.
Work will be resumed by the men to-
day.
Part of the wall of the new Inter-
mediate Building of the Pennsylvania
Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, at
Chestnut Hill, Pa, collapsed on Satur-
day night No one was hurt. The
damage will amount TO about $1,000.
A house in Bluefeld, West Virginia
was blown up by dynamite on Sunday
night, by unknown persons. Several
persons were injured This makes the
fourth house that has been blown up
within week. The town is terrorized.
A drug trust, with proposed capital
of $60,0O0,OO0, is matter which it is re-
ported has been submitted to some
wholesale drug manufacturers in De-
troit, Mich, by promoter from New
York, who represents capitalists in New
York and London.
According to the report of the chief
of the bureau of fire, Philadelphia,
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gregated $350,567 and on contents
81 ,l43,2 72. In the bureau there are 531
men. Seventeen new engines have been
added in the last three years.
During snow storm in Nashville,
Tennessee, on Saturday morning, small
fish were seen to fall. They were about
an inch long and resembled the carp.
The greatest number fell on Broad
street. Some were found on Union
street, several blocks away.
The Rev. Mr.. Klinedworth, promi-
nent Lutharn pastor in Galena, Illinois,
on Sunday forbid his parishioners to
join either the Grand Army of the Re-
public or the Mutual Benefit Associa-
ton, as being secret societies, to which
Lutheransm is opposed.
General Miles has selected the follow
ing Indian chiefs to go TO Washington:
Young Man Afraid : of His-Horses,
American Horse, Fire Thunder and
Hump, of the friendies, and Little
Wound, Big Head, He Dog, Two Strike,
High Hawk and High Pipe of the hos
tiles.
The mine workers convention con-
cluded It's sessions in Scottdale, Pa, on
Saturday night. 1t was decided to no.
tify the coke operators Immediately that
they will have TO meet the scale COM
mittee before February I'd to form new
| labor agreement or strike of 10000
men would be declared on February 10th.
An electric motor car on street car
line between Indianapolis and the
suburb of lrvington jumped the track on
| Saturday and turned bottom side up in
a ditch. Mrs. Mary Brown and Miss
Minnie Frederick, of lrvington, were
badly, and perhaps fatally injured, and
Conductor Thomas Kennedy was seri-
ously bruised. The car was a complete
wreck.
James Cruzer, his wife and daughter
have been arrested in Winnebago, Min
nesota, for assault upon Matilda H. Lent,
II school teacher, with intent to kill The
wife is the one directly accused. She
made the assault upon Miss Lent with
heavy school bell, on account Of whip
ping the school teacher had inflicted
upon her child. 1t is feared Miss Lent
cannot live.
B. T. Hopkins, broker who disap-
peared from his home in Clifton, Staten
Island, last week, while temporarily in
sane, was found at Ettingyille on Sun
day night by a constable. While in a
saloon he eluded the constable, and cut
two gashes in his throat and several cuts
on the breast over the heart with pen
knife. He was taken to hospital in
critical condition.
There were two fatal fires in Jersey
City on Saturday. BY the first, caused
by the explosion Of lamp in the cellar
of a tenement, Il man named Gooseman
was burned to death. BY the second,
which broke out in a hardware store
and was attended by an explosion of
turpentine, two firemcn, Chief Engineer
Henry Il. Farrier and Stoker Daniel
Dinan, were killed. Two others were
injured.
Il. A. Street works at biography in
winter and prospects in the summer.
Some time ago he located placer claim
in Lemni county, Idaho, and bought up
adjoining ones until he had 1000 acres.
He reported his find to ex-senator
Tabor, who sent exports TO examine,
and on their findings he paid Street
100000 for his property. 1t is now re-
ported that the placer property is worth
fully $15,000,000.
William Faulk, living at Laurel sta
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