Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-01-28


solidated Gas Company of New York, fell
Thursday, seriously injuring seven of the
employees.
By the explosion of an old blast in New
York city Friday, James Dooley and
James Cox were Killed, and Charlotte p.
Wilson was seriously injured.
George T. Meyers was killed and Edward
Noonan and George Q. Fowler were fatally
injured by the fall of wall while tearing
down an old building in Baltimore FRI
day.
The schooner H. w. Race Of New York
was stranded Wednesday night near Sea-
tick life saving station, Virginia. The
vessel was totally destroyed, but the entire
crew was safely landed by means Of the
"breeches buoy"
A train on the Chicago, st. Paul, Min
neapolis and Omaha road was derailed at
Hamilton, 20 miles from St. Paul, Thurs
day morning, and while four sleepers were
ditched and demolished, no one was killed
nor seriously injured.
Frank Cara, relative and one of the
officers OF the Mexican revolutionist, Cate
rina Garza has been captured on the
border, and is now in custody of United
States marshal. He says that Caterina's
force consists of 400 men.
The north-bound Texas express on the
Iron Mountain line was wrecked Thurs
day near De Soto, Mo-, by broken rail
The sleeping car was thrown and turned
over ON its side, slightly injuring two pas
sengers and three trainmen.
Erskine College, at Duewest, Abbeyvile
county, N. G., was destroyed by fire Fri
day, together with valuable library of
over 2, 600 volumes, belonging to the Theo-
logical Seminary of the Associate Re
formed Presbyterian Church,
A Pittsburg dispatch says that lowing
to overproduction and difficulty in arriv-
ing at satisfactory agreement in regard
to freight rates, 10 flint glass houses closed
down, Friday. Ten or IL more are ex-
pected to put out their fires next week."
In the public school at Kutztown, Pa,
Thursday, the dress of Lizzie Kurtz, aged
six years, caught fire at the stove and she
was fatally burned. Hattie Saul and
Rosie Christ, teachers, had their hands
badly burned in trying to extinguish the
flames.
Frederick Strauss has been arrested at
st. Louis, charged with blowing up the
bakery of Henry j. Miller, on January
4th. Strauss says he was actuated by
want, and his purpose was merely to
Brighten off Miller's employees so that he
could get employment for himself.
A Raymond & Whitcomb special train
and an Atlantic Il Pacific train came in
collision at Blue Water, 107 miles east of
Albuquerque, New Mexico, Thursday.
Engineer Taylor and Fireman VIII
Heaggy, Of the passenger, Engineer
Moore. of the special, Conductor Moran
were killed.
Rev. Jonathan Trumbull Backus died
Thursday in Schenectady, New York, aged
So years. He was the moderator of the
first reunited general assembly of the
Presbyterian church, which was held in
Philadelphia in 1870. He was pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church in Schenec
tady for 40 years.
A building fronting on Union Square
and Fifteenth street, in New York city,
was destroyed by fire Thursday, causing
losses aggregating about S500,000. The
principal sufferers were Schneider, Camp
bell y CO., art goods; Brentano books;
Leon Rheims, millinery; Bentley Il Jones,
decorative art novelties, and Samuel Green
4 Co., upholstercrs.
A dispatch received at Baltimore Fri
day stated that the British steamship Sir
William Armstrong, Captain Mckenzie,
which left New Orleans, January 18th, for
Havre, with $500 bales of cotton, stranded
Tuesday morning ON the Virginia coast,
near Cobb's Island. Her position is dan
gerous, but the life saving crew of Cobb's
Island is on hand. Her cargo is still dry.
The people of Chicago were again de-
prived of water Friday for more than
two hours. While men were clearing away
ice from the intakes, at the crib, one Of
them got lodged in the mouth of the tun-
mel. To save the man it became necessary
to stop the pumps, and for two hours his |
comrades worked to extricate him from his |
perilous position. He was unconscious |
when rescued.
The various failures throughout the |
during the last seven days, as |
reported TO X. G.. Dun IL Co., number, for |
the United States, 274, and for Canada, 81,
or total of 32S, ascompared with totals of |
800 last week and 1875 the week previous to |
the lass. For the corresponding week of |
last year the figures were All, representing
$50 failures in the United States and 81 in |
the Dominion of Canada.
Chicago suffered from water famine
Thursday, the result of the continued cold
ice from the lake having settled
At the source of supply and blocked the in
lakes. There was Thursday no water for
either industrial or domestic purposes, and
precautions were taken
against fire. One of the cribs was cleared
N the afternoon and some relief was
Afforded to the stock yards and southern
portion Of the city.
James Lyle and Margaret Lashley, col
ored. were hanged Friday in Danville,
Virginia, for the murder of George Lash
ey, husband of the woman, in October.
800. Lyle confessed his guilt, and said he
lone was responsible. The woman de-
Jared that she was innocent Caroline
ship, convicted Of infanticide, was hanged
4ucius Dotson, colored was hanged at the
nathan county Jail, Georgia, yesterday,
or the murder of jeff Coates, also colored,
n Savannah, in September. 1880. Robert
larter, colored, was hanged yesterday, at
'amden, Alabama, for the murder OF his