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

The select council of Scranton, Pa, last
Friday expelled Couneilmen Golden, Nc
Grail and Kelley, charged with soliciting
| brides.
The new steamboat Herbert, making her
| initial trip from st, Louis to Chattanooga,
| heavy laden and towing 20 barges, sank
Thursday The accident was due to negli-
gence on the part of the officers, whofalled
to obey the head pilot
Frederick Ilonfenerich committed suicide
| in The Putnam House iii New York Thurs
day. He had mailed u note TO his wife, as
follows. "My dear wife When You get
| this shall be dead | cannot support you
| on al5a week. | am sick and discouraged,
and want to die
The British brig Edith, at Baltimore on
Thursday, reports passing May 81 one mile
south Of henwick Island Light-ship, u
sunken wreck, with mast projecting about
10 feet above the water A yard was still
attached to the mast. she could not aScer-
tain the name of the vessel.
The tobacco rebate claims, it is said, in
wolves an immense amount of work in the
| treasury department one claim now on
file requires the addition of columns of fig
urcs aggregnting IS feet in length. There
| will be 30 600 rebate claims in all, one-half
of which have been examined and certi
| fed.
An attempt was made Thursday near
| Urhalla, o.. TO wreck the Newport express,
on the Eric road 4 steal rail weighing
G0l pounds was laid across the track. The
locomotive, going 60 miles an hour, struck
| it and fortunately cleared the track. a
man named snyder, charged with the
| crime, has been arrested.
-Four children Of man named Purdy,
two boys and two girls, whose ages ranged
from to 3 years, left East Fawas Mich
! isnn Sunday week in u small sall-boat for
| Port Austin, 81 miles distant, and have not
been heard OF since then. A violent storm
! has ragged on the lake since Sunday noon,
and they are given up for lost.
In Pittsburg, Wednts lay week, Bril- get
| GavMnaugh, employed at the Hotel
| SchOsser, thrust under the nose of l.Orenz
Creig, another employe, rose which had
been sprinkled with red pepper. Creig
snatehed up Il bottle of cayenne from the
table and rubbed handful in the girls
eyes. The sight is hopelcssly destroyed,
Hugh Burns. policeman in Chicago,
shot and fatally wounded his daughter
| Ida, oil Wednesday week, Burns is the
father of eight children, the one shot
being his only daughter, she was the OBJ
iect Of his love and PRIDE and he was
never tired Of dilating on her beauty tt
his friends, When arrested he delivered
III his revolver and remarked that ii lac
had some more cartridges lie would kill
himself and his other children. He is
violently insane.
An election occurred in Waynetown, In
diana, ON Monday week William Sinm.
and Frank Hollowell tied for the office Of
treasurer, each receiving 32a votes. TC
decide the question as to which one shoulC
hold The Office foot race took place or
Wednesday between the men. The race
was 300 yards dash, and several Thousand
people We're on the ground betting on tn,
outcome. Simms seemed sure winner
until he tripped and fell, when within
three yards Of the goal. Hollowell fel
over him. but, crawling over the line, wor
the race amid howls and cheers of thu
crowd. Ilullowell was duly sworn in.
An explosion Of gas occurred Thursday
morning at the Ocean coal mine, neai
Clarksblrg, w. Va. There was no idei
that any Of the men would come on
alive, but rescuing party started imme
diately after the explosion, and 81 of thu
men were got out alive, they having beer
i'll u part Of the mine remote from th,
chamber where the gas was ignitcd. Tn,
other four, Joseph Feather, aged so, Con
: nellsvlle, Pa; William DouEherty, 81
bridgeport Nathan Gaines, 80, Clarks
burk; Charles Welsh, %, Clarksburg wer
all instantly killed. Feathers body wa
recovered through rush made by tn
rescuers, but the Others could not b
reached The body had the clothing en-
tirely burned off The mine at once tool
fire and Is burning furiously, and there j
no hope of obtaining the bodies.