Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-01-29
IN GENERAL.

age, u member OF the might NlWlf
Theatrical Company, dropped dead from
heart disease in Cleveland, Ohio, Thurs
day.
William Coulter,a well-known farmer,
near Sault Ste. Malie, Mich, killed his
father ON Wednesday week. They had
g qnarrel about the ownership Of u load
OF hay.
James E. Owens, aged 70, and his
wife, Nancy, aged "a, were killed at a
railroad crossing near Washington on
Friday morning, their wagon being
struck by train.
James O'Neill, Chicago and North
western freight conductor, was shot and
killed at Long Point, Iowa, Thursday
by n tramp whom he was trying to put
oil the train.
Ex-Councilman G. L. Pratt of Rah-
way, N. j., committed suicide Thursday
by shooting himself on The family farm
near that place. lie had been suffering
from melancholia.
Bertha Gecrs, 30 years old, shot and
fatally wounded James Hartley, in san
Antonio, Texas, Wednesday week, and
then committed suicide. They were
lovers and Quarrelled,
David Skiwinsk, u New York travel
ing salesman, hanged himself at Dudley,
Pa, Thursday, because he received a
letter from young woman of Hunting
don breaking off their engagement.
The new building of Warning Brothers,
In Buffalo, was burned Friday. 1t was
divided into five stores. The loss is esti-
mated at $a50,00O. One fireman was
killed and four injured, one mortally,
by falling walls.
Stephen +. Sherman Of the late firm
of Sherman Bros. & Co. of Buffalo, New
York, who was convicted Of grand lar
ceny in connection with grain transac-
tons, was on Friday sentenced TO five
years imprisonment
A wild engine ran into the rear of a
passenger train on the western division
of the Boston & Maine road, at Scar
bore Beach station, Thursday morning
during fog. A half dozen persons
were more or less injured.
Representatives. of the National Farm
ers' Alliance and Industrial Union met
in Washington, D. G., Thursday, ana
after long discussion u formal agree
ment, looking to the confederation of
the different organizations, was reached.
An unfinished flat house on Ninth
avenue, New York ,tllmbled down Thurs
day afternoon, but no person was
injured. The freezing Of the mortar,
which was afterwards washed out by
the rain, is supposed TO have caused the
catastrophe.
AT ~. Paul on Friday the jury in the
case Of j. o. Vermis, the census emu
meratpr who was charged with making
false returns, brought in verdict of not
guilty. This is said to be the first com
plete trial Of its kind in the history Of
the country.
The Rev. L. II. Malone, Il Roman
Catholic priest of Denver, Colorado,
slipped OH the ice on pavement in
New York, ON Thursday night, and fell
He was taken TO the Roosevelt Hospital,
where it was found that his skull was
fractured
In the United States district court in
Albany, N. Y, on Friday. James Faux
Nor, charged with wrecking the Dams
vile Bank, pleaded guilty TO making
false report to the comptroller of the
currency, and was sentenced to the
Albany penitentiary for five years at
hard labor.
The Secretary of the Navy Thursday
received report of the trial trip Of the
cruiser Newark, II showed an indi-
Gated horse power of about 5000, an ex-
cess Of 800 horse power over the con
tract requirements. This will entitle
the contractors 10 nearly $4,000 pre-
MUM.
DIR. Charles Il. IIeuser died in Balti-
more Wednesday week. In his will he
stipulated that his heart should be cut
out, viewed, and be restored to its place,
and that his body be then crenated
The requests were complied with on
Thursday. DIR. llcuser had horror of
being buried alive.
John Miller, blacksmith, in Roches-
ter, N. ", got drunk on Wednesday
week, and, upon being demonstrated
with by his son John, fight ensued, in
which the son received wounds from q
knife which caused his death in a short
time. The wife and mother was help
less witness of the affair.
BY the breaking of an elevator chain
in Baltimore, Thus lay, eight men were
precipitated to the bottom of shaft. a
distanceof llearly so feet. Henry Waugh
is thought to be fatally injured. The
Others injured are James Broughton,
John Burroughs, Michael r. Mason,
Frank Kelly and John Connolly.
AT the meeting of the Ohio miners, in
Columbus, on Friday, the question of
weighing coal before screening was
unanimously endorsed. The scale for
mining in the Hooking Valley under the
Lew system of weighing was fixed at
57i cents per ton, which is said to be
equivalent TO an advance of 10 cents
over present prices.
Orders were issued Thursday by the
navy department for the United States
flagship Omaha of the Asiatic station,
last reported at Shanghai, to proceed to
Panama, with a view of reaching there
in'March. The three years term Of Off
GERS and crew Of this vessel has about eX-
PRED, and her trip to Panama is for the
purpose of receiving new complement
Of officers and men.
Edith Anderson, the eldest daughter
OF the Anderson family in Brockton,
4dass., died on Thursday night from the
effects of morphine, administered by her
mother. Two other children and the
mother are in "a precarious condition.
On Friday M. George, spiritualistic
medium, who told Mrs. Anderson that
her husband was unfaithful to her,
which information caused the tragedy,
was arrested, and, in default of S20,0 900
bail, was sent to prison.
The board Of United States general
appraisers in New York ON Friday heard
argument as to whether goats hair I'M
der the Mckinley act, shall been adj
mitted free duty, or be liable to duty
of IL cents pound Jas at present iupDsel