Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-12-24
IN GENERAL.

their 3-months-old child fatally injured,
Sunday, near Pawnee City, Nebraska.
Their wagon was struck by train.
Joseph and Alphonso Tavois, aged II
and IA years, broke through the ice while
skating on the Quinnebaug river, at Daniel
sonville, Connecticut, Sunday, and were
drowned.
During quarrel at a Knights of Pythias
fair, at Pottsville, on Saturday, David
Quinn was stabbed five times and killed by
Harry Shaw. The latter was captured yes
terday at Palo Alto.
David Quinn, 90 years Of age, was fatally
stabbed by Hale Shaw, aged Is, at fair i'll
Pottsville on Saturday night and died in q
few minutes. Shaw's sister had complained
that Quinn insultcd her.
A lamp exploded in the house of Eman-
ucl Ford, in Columbia, South Carolina,
last week. burning to death his wife and
infant child. He is in critical condition
from burns received while trying to save
them.
Richard Mansfield, the actor, has in
structed his manager to discontinue the
use of posters of all kinds, and confine all
advertising to the newspapers. He thinks
this ''the only proper way to reach all
classes of theatrc-goers."
The suit of Gilpin vs. the Sierra Nevada
Company, at Boise City, Idaho, ended on
Saturday in favor of the defendants. Gil
pin sued for 100000, alleging trespass,
and by injunction kept the Sierra Nevada
mine closed for three years.
A i1-years-old boy, who was among the
passengers who arrived at New York on
Sunday on the Etruria, was detained by the
immigration inspectors. He was alone
and said his passage had been paid by the
London workhouse guardians.
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was shot and killed, on Saturday, by his
son Joe, who emptied both barrels of a
shot gun into his fathers body al close
range. There had been bad feeling be-
tween the two for o long time.
Dennis Garrigan, longshoreman, was
shot and fatally injured at Savannah,
Ga, Sunday, by Policeman Kavanaugh.
Each protested that the other attacked
him first. Garrigan's friends attempted to
kill the policeman, but he was rescued and
locked up.
A dispatch from Washington says that
an agreement has been reached as to the
arbitrator in regard to the Behring Sea
seal fisheries, and that il is confidently
expected that the appointment and terms
of arbitration will be officially announced
in q few days.
A dispatch from Des Moines, Ia, says
that Chairman GARRISON Of the Republican
national committee, urges the Republicans
of that state to drop prohibition. = declar-
ing that there was mo hope of winning so
long as they chung to the unpopular issue
of prohibition"
Senator Voorhees, is quoted as saying
that all the Democratic senators have
agreed to assist him in preventing the
confirmation Of Judge Woods of Indiana
as a circuit judge, OH the ground that his
action in the Dudley 'blocks of five case
proved him unfit for judicial position.
A boiler, being used by some stone con
tractors at Springfield, Mo-, exploded OIL
Saturday, killing the engineer, Philip Davis
and assistant engineer, Robert Baer, and
fatally injuring George Crews The explo-
sion was caused by turning a stream of
cold water into the hot and almost empty
boiler.
A residence in San Francisco which was
being raised to allow another story to be
built on the ground floor, was blown over
by the wind on Saturday, and workman
was killed and another probably fatally
injured. A woman and four children were
buried in the ruins, but escaped with slight
injuries.
Il. A. Abbott, deputy collector in the
custom house at Newark, New Jersey,
committed suicide on Saturday evening.
He called upon widow of his acquaint-
ance and asked her to take some of the
poison-prussic acid-but she refused. 1t
is said his suicide was caused by his wife
becoming insane.
While a clerk in Little Rock, Arkan-
sas, jewelry store, was showing two trays
of diamonds to a stranger last week, q
masked man entered, seized the trays,
and throwing cayenne pepper into the
clerks eyes, both strangers rushed out and
into dark alley near by, making good
their escape. The diamonds are valued at
5000.
The postal authorities at Chicago said
last week that the five highwaymcn who
| "held up the driver of mail wagon on
| Tuesday night, secured 81 700 in green.
| backs and gold. Several men have been
arrested on suspicion, and five cx'convicts
are under surveillance, but the police
claim to have no promising clue to the
real robbers.
The directors of the Baltimore e. Ohio
| Railroad company last week declared Q
dividend of per cent OH the first and
second series of the preferred stock for the
six months ended September Goth. Tn,
November statement shows the gross
crease over November. 1890, of S93,026
and a net increase of Sl8, B63.
Two serious accidents occurred last weel
on the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad. a
freight wreck between Tuckahoe ant
White sulphur Springs was followed by
collision between a freight and passenger
train near Anderson. W. Va. Mail Agen
s. q, Burnett OF Richmond, Fireman Lyons
| of Hinton and Brakeman ii. Mas Of elf
ton Forge were killed and five c.. train
men we're seriously injured.
The directors of the Nebraska Mortgag,
and Investment Company IF Fremont
Neb., have applied to the district court TO
the appointment Of u receiver for the con
Germ. The company Is said TO have beer
wrecked by its manager, c. H. Toucray, bu
| il is stated that the company Gowns sufii
cient real estate and other property, which
if sold at fair values, will pay every dolla
Of indebtedness and so cents OH the dolla
to shareholders"
The Federation of Labor, in session n
| Birmingham, Ala. adopted resolution
last week which condemns the consprac.
laws of Pennsylvania and the rccen
decision Of the Allegheny court in connca
ton with the present strike of Pittabur
printers, and empowers the execntiv
council to expend 5000 in prosecuting tn
injunction cases should they be taken 4
the highest court, or to make test of an,
other such injunction case as they ma.
deem advisable.
The annual convention of the American
Federation of Labor completed It's Labor
at Birmingham on Saturday, ans nd
| journcd to meet next yearin Philadelphia
The boycott on Milwaukee beer va
raised; q resolution was adolisd cieertn
that the struggle for an eigh,-hnur dSy b
renewed in 1892, md that some affiliate
organization he chosen To make thf Ugh;
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