Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-07-30
GRIMES AND oRIMrNALs.

Indicted for Reporting the Late Albany
-. Executfons-Five Years for a County
Treasurer--Fought to the Death In
Prize MnkiIlfl Hlsl
~ The sixisdhddl directors in East Norwe-
glan township, Pa, Edward N. Sterner,
John Tobin. Michael b. Dormer, Thomas
Cullen, Patrick Bowling and Michael Bat
charge Of, stealing the funds of the district.
II Is alleged that they issued fraudulent
orders 10 The amount of 300 or $500 and
appropriated the cash; that they also levied
on the teachers, making them pay from
So to Sl5 for their appointments, besides a
monthly portion of their salaries, and that
in the case. of Lizzie Higgins, one of the
teachers, the mother of the girl was made
to pay by one of the directors TO keep her
daughter in her position.
The grand jury in New York Thursday
indicted Charles o. O. Hennessy, city editor
Of the New York Daily Nems, charging
him with misdemeanor for publishing an
account of the recent electrocutions at Sing
Sing.
G. Mason Moody, the defaulting county
treasurer, was Thursday sentenced at
Greenfield, Massachusetts, to five years
imprisonment.
A verdict of guilty was rendered Thurs
day in the United States district court in
Erie, Pa, in the case of the Rev. II. u.
Sutherland of Hazleton, Pa, charged with
sending obscene literature through the
mails vilifying the Rev. John Donahue,
presiding elder of the district.
Before the public accounts committee in
Ottawa, Ont, Thursday, several of the
permanent clerks of the department of the
interior acknowledged borrowing the
names of other officials, among them that
of the assistant superintendent of the gov
eminent printing bureau, to draw money
for extra work, contrary to the Civil Ser
vice rules.
The boiler of a steam thresher exploded
in Edmonson county, Kentucky, on We'd
nesday week, killing J. Durbin, VIM. Bar
ham and John Massey. Five others were
injured, perhaps fatally.
Herbert L. King and Willard A. King,
children were drowned at Richmond, Va.
Tuesday week, by the capsizing of boat.
Peter Aliff was shot and fatally wounded
in Roanoke, Virginia, Thursday by John
Smith. 1t appears that Smith and his
brother-in-law, Charles Hollins, quarreed
in Aliff's house, and Aliff ordered them
out. This caused quarrel between Alif
and Smith.
Harry Boyd and John Myford, living at
Black Diamond, u mining town near
Monongahela City, Pa, Thursday agreed
to settle quarrel in the prize ring. In the
fourth round Boyd struck Myford on the
neck, just over the iugular. Myford fell
on the ground insensible, and died in an
hours time. Boyd surrendered himself.
Mrs j. Ii. Johnson, 20 years of age, and
her 4-year old grandson were killed at
La Noble, Iowa, on Thursday night, by
being struck by train. They were walk
ing on the track.
Alexander Chambers and wife were
struck by train while walking on the
railroad near Irwin, Pa, Friday morn
ing, and we're thrown down an embank-
ment. Mrs. Chambers was killed. but her
husband escaped with slight injuries
Miss Hattie Lock wood was thrown under
the wheels of street cur as it was round
ing curve In Decatur, Illinois, OH Thurs
day night and was killed. Several others
were injured.
During storm in the mberland valley
onEEliday afternoon lightning struck a
shoe factory in Carlisle and some Of the
female OPERATIVES were injured, Misses
Spangler and johnson, it is feared, fatally.
At Colbert Reserve, Ala, few days ago.
Winnie Thompson, q l0-years-old negro
girl, was quarreling with boy near her
own age. She sent another boy for gun,
and when he came with it told him to
shoot the boy with whom she was fussing.
The latter started to run, and the other boy
pulled down on him" He missed the
running boy but hit the girl, killing her
| instantly.
A mob broke into the jail in Billings,
Montana, on Thursday night, and hanged
| the murderer of Joseph Clancy. The muir
derer was a tramp.
A dispatch from Sedalia, Missouri, says
that evidence has recently come to light in
the case of Tom Williamson, condemned
to be hanged on August 2lst, that indi-
Gates that he was not guilty of the crime
| charged. Efforts are being made to have
his sentence commuted to life imprison-
| ment
murder of James NJ Bradley, was hanged
on Friday in the jail yard at Atlanta,
| Georgia.