Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-03-19
IN ENERAb.

John Freeman, clerk, aged IL years,
was killed in New York on Thursday by
falling against an electric dynamo.
There is a project on foot to have the
Worlds Fair opened by the only living
descendant of Columbus, the Duke OF
Seragua of Madrid.
John Gregg, 85 years of age, an IN
valid, fell or jumped from the window
Of his room in Salem, New Jersey, yes
terday week, and was killed.
The house of Thomas Harwood, near
Yorkshire Centre, New YORK, was
burned on Tuesday week, and HARDWOOD
persisted in the flames lie was 70 years
of age.
As passenger train was leavinr
Danyille, VA, yesterday week it ran off
the track and the locomotive was throw n
into ditch. G.. NJ. Roberts, fireman,
was killed.
A dispatch from indianapolis says
that q bill which provides that no stock
holder in corporation shall have more
than one vote, no matter how many
shares he may have, has become a law.
Henry McChristy, a saloon keeper IN
Ashtabnla, Ohio, was found murdered
yesterday week. His money was n
his pockets, and the deed is supposed "
have been committed by some one who
wanted revenge.
+. A.. Gale, a leading banker and poll
tician Of Yankton, committed suicide by
shooting himself in hotel in Sioux City
yesterday week. He left a letter saying
that he chad left all his money on the
Ghircago board Of trade
While workmen were tearing down
the walls Of hotel in Williamsport,
Pa, Yesterday week the entire front col
lapsed. The injured are +. ~ Swartz,
James Crawford, u. Bousch, +. Timer,
G. Auch. II is feared that Swartz's
injuries will prove fata!.
The United States grand jury, in
Dcadwood, South Dakota, has found
indictments against tile Sioux Indian
Plenty Horse for the murder OF Lieu
tenant Casey during the late uprising,
and one against Leaye-his-woman for
the murder Of lsaae Miller,a ranchman.
Elmer Il. Washburn, cx-chief of the
| United States secret service, has re-
ceiyed and accepted an independents Cit
liens nomination for mayor Of Chicago.
The "persona rights wing Of the nom
mating committee has bolted, on the
ground that WashburI is in favor Of "a
puritanical Sunday"
j, w. Pope, colored lawyer Of Dam
vile, Virginia, who was appointed by
Governor Lee, treasurer of the Virginia
Normal and Collegiate Institute at
Petersburg, is short in his accounts
about $1,000, and Attorney general
Scott has instituted proceedings to re-
cover the amount due the state.
The board of general appraisers at
New York Thursday declared that
there was case of bad punctuation in
the Mckinley Tariff act. The para
graph number 31S reads; Chocolate
(other than chocolate confectionery and
chocolate commercially known as sweet
cned chocolatel, two cents per pound.
The board held that the parenthesis
should embrace "other than chocolate
confectionery alone.
Daniel Crowley, aged 90 years, and
Charles Rose, aged % years, employees
Of the Pencoyd iron works, We're Killed
at Blackstone, Mass, last week. They
were engaged in taking down the wood
work known as a traveller, which had
been used in constructing aniron bridge
on the New York, Providence Il Boston
railroad, when the structure parted and
both went with it to the ground.
The Standard Steel C0mpany's works
at Thurlow, Pa, are again in operation,
the department in which the strike oc-
cured having been filled with members
Of the Iron Moulders' Union and non
union mouiders. The trouble originated
through the demands 81 the members of
liie lilleI ~ Df9thethooa q Ma
t a Moula.is liii5t ~ union osnef
MN W.! own siioe'lu y Iecosilizea "
'ile company,
General Wood, colOred midget, who
had been on exhibition in museum in
New York. was found dead in bed yes
terday morning week. He had been suf-
f0cated by Illuminating gas, which was
pouring from the pipe in d stream.
Whether his death was the result Of an
accident or by design is not known. His
right name was Charles j. Fletcher.
ie was g9 years Old and A inches in
nelshl; MS felallYes llNe At German
t2Wh' "a,
Rev. II. f.. Sutherland. Of Hazletnn
Penna., recently arrested for sending
obscene letters through the mails dcfan.
ing the character If Rev. Mr.. D6nohue.
Of Bloomsbury. was rearrested Thurs.
day and taken 10 Wilkesbarrp. where
specific charges were made against him
f5r sending obscene circulars and let
ters to Rev. Monroe. If AItoona. and
Roy. Moses Williams If cate Ivissa
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