Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-05-05
IN GENERAL.

The residence of John Long, Jr., at
Cory, Pa, was burned Saturday morn
ing, and two of Longs little children
were burned to death.
A steel steamer, the Thomas Wilson,
measuring 800 feet and having II carrying
capacity of about 4, 900 tons, was launched
at Duluth on Saturday.
Fire in Brooklyn dwelling Saturday
night resulted in two of the children of
Mrs. Mildred Tufft being so badly burned
that one of them died OF his injuries.
A deck hand on the lake steamer Pasa-
dena was dccapitated on Saturday by being
caught between the side Of the vessel and
the wall of the locks, at Saulte st. Marie.
The Federal court in Fort Smith, Ark,
has pronounced the death sentence on John
Thornton, John Brown and John Poynter
for murder, the hanging to take place June
2Sth.
Fire in the West Thirteenth Street Pres
byterian Church, New York, Sunday de-
stroyed the organ. Policeman Nichols
was killed BY falling ladder striking him
on the head.
The missing schooner Glenora, of Kings
ton, Ontario, which was reported lost in
Thursdays storm in Lake Superior, is safe.
She was blown ashore on the Ontario side,
and her crew got off safely.
A Nashville dispatch says that word has
reached that city of negro uprising in
Triune, about 80 miles away, resulting in
the killing of three whites. This is in re-
venge for the lynching of Eph Grizard.
Charles Shane, aged Is years, who lived
near Boyertown, Bucks county, Pa, was
found hanging to a timber in a pig stable.
Friday night. The coroner's jury decided
that he accidentally hung himself in play.
The iourneymen plumbers of Concord,
New Hampshire. have notified their EN-
ployers that hereafter they will work but
nine hours day. The employers have
decided not to grant the demands of the
men.
A riot occurred at Pottsville, Saturday,
between the strikers of the Pottsville Iron
and Steel Company's mills and u number
of non-union men who had taken theif
places. Several men were severely in
jured.
The most disastrous fire i'll the history
of Winnipeg, Manitoba, occurred early
Sunday morning when is buildings
covering nearly three acres of ground,
were burned. The fire started under the
stage of theatre.
Pauline Ladder and Ernest Redares, two
Frenchmen of Calamity, Pa, quarreled
Saturday morning, and Redares shot Ladder
in the right breast, killing him instantly
Jealousy was the cause of the murder
Redares was arrested.
Joseph Wecklain, aged 10 years, was run
over and killed by q train at Gibraltar
Pa, Saturday night. His children were
standing on the opposite side of the track
awaiting their fathers homecoming wher
the accident occurred.
While five Italian laborers were riding
on hand car on the electric railway a
Shenandoah it became unmanageablt
a Ii
down hill at rapid speed, jumping thu
track and injuring two of the men.
The use of red fire in tableau given BY
| the graduating class of the Reading high
school, in Library Hall, Saturday evening
startled the audience. A cry of fire wa.
raised causing a panic. Women tainted
and several persons were slightly injured
AT the Chicago May Day demonstration
some Of the paraders carried red flags, il
violation of police orders. A squad o
officers was called out and arrested th'
| persons carrying the banners. There WA
no disturbance and the people cheered the
| police
| The first Buddhist cremation in thi
country took place at Los Angeles, Cal.
| Friday, when the body of Byron Adonis
one of the most advanced adopts of tn,
| Circle of Theosophists, was incinerateC
| with the ceremonies attending Buddhis
| funeral.
The breaking of a truck of freigh
| locomotive near Coatesville, Pa, Saturday
night, caused the west-bound Pittsbur!
mail and express train to jump the track
| Fireman Harry Martin was killed an,
| Engineer Harry Shultz was probably
fatally scalded and crushed.
The tramp schooner Nellie May of New
port, Il. l., arrived at Providence OH Fri
day from Cape de Verde, with IS paupei
immigrants, who were brought out on al
agreement to pay their passage when the,
had earned the money. They were de
barred from landing, pending further in
structions.
A despatch to the New Orleans Pcayun
| says: "A negro outraged little S-years-ol
child, q niece of Sheriff Anderson, of sun
flower county, near lndianola, on Thurs
day night last, and the next aight tn
brute was lynched by n mob of citizen
not far from the scene of his awfu
| crime"
While picnicking, Saturday, on Chicka
manga creek three members of the middl
class of the Chattanooga, Tenn, higl
school were drowned. They are Wendell
Sanders, son of President NewellSanders
the Chattanooga pillow company, Mis-
Bette Cheney and Miss Blanche Barr, am
were rowin i'll Il skiff.
| lue cOfolef Jury WHICH HaS ueeh III
quiring into the cause of the accident a
the Lyle colliery, near Minersville, Pa.
by which ten men were drowned, returne
the following verdict Saturday: That tn
men came to their death by being drowne'
by water breaking in from some old work
ing" The company officials are censure
for not having sufficient plank poles, az
cording to rule 15 article IL, Of the An
thracite Mine laws.
A mob attacked the jail at Nashville
Tenn, early on Saturday morning, witt
the intention Of lynching Eph Grizard
one of the negroes in custody charged will
the assault upon the two Bruce girls o
Goodlettsvillc. The sheriff had an eStr
force of police on duty, however, and afto
an effort on the part of Governor Bucll
anon to induce the mob to abandon thei
attack on the Jail, the officers fired into til
crowd. n. l.. Guthrie was fatally wounde
and Charlie Rear was also seriously in
jured. The mob then withdrew, but at
o'clock in the afternoon made another al
tack on the jail, and, finding it almost III
guarded, secured the prisoner. The
hanged the man from bridge across til
| river and riddled his body with bullets.