Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-03-17

Pascal Anderson on Thursday shot and
fatally injured William Taylor at Sparrow
Point, near Baltimore. Both men are
colored.
Two freight trains collided near Acton,
Ind, Thursday morning. An engine was
wrecked and Conductor McGill and Brake.
man Myers were killed.
The Baltimore local committee Thursday
sent second 5000 to the United States
minister at s.. Petersburg for the relief Of
the Russian famine sufferers.
Joseph Rutkofslxi aged 40 years, a Pole.
while in a fit of delirium Thursday Jumped
from window Of the Hospital Of 0bser-
Walton on HOFFMAN Island, n. ", and was
drowned
Herman Kronse, a disappointed lover of
Minneapolis, Thursday tried TO kill his
sweetheart, Margaret Conrad. and then
shot and killed himself. The girl was not
fatally injured.
suits were begun Thursday in the United
States circuit court, at New Orleans. by tho
heirs of SIX of the Italians murdered at
Parish prison, on March 18th, 1891. to Sc
cure damages from the city of New Or
leans. The sum claimed is $50 900 in each
case.
The long strike of the motor men and
conductors of the Pittsburg, Allegheny
and Manchester traction lines has been
declared Off by the Knights of Labor.
The company has been running its cars
regularly for more than month, and has
all the men it needs.
a warrant was issued in Newark, MI.
Thursday morning for the ,rrest Of The
Key, Joseph Ali, assistant priest At the
ltalIan Church. who is CHARGED with
having criminally assaulted 9-ycars-eld
girl, pupil IN the paruchial school. The
accused could not be found Thursday.
Ex-Premier MERCER has resigned his
seat in the Quebec legislature In q circular
70 his friends he claims that "the verdict of
thr people is unjust and will be severely
blamed by history 1t is said that thc tif,n.
sentative authorities intend 10 cause MGR.
GERS arrest us well rs AL the minor
boOdlers.
Captain A. NJ. Whipple and crew have
arrived ut Mobile Alabama on Tho
schooner Shoford, from Cicnfuegos, Cuba
ana report tine wreck of their vessel, Tho
schooner Charles u !. A. Penard on the
Isle Of Pines, February 23d, while bound
for Delaware Breakwater. The captainand
crew were five days in open boats before
being rescued.
Ruth Strait, a young daughter Of q
farmer Of Juniata township, Huntingdon
| county Pa, was found on Wcdncsdnv ia
have been criminally assaulted duringtht
absence Of her parents, and was in a criti
cal condition. Elmer T.. Corbin, a farm
hand, was arrested Thursday The girl'.
father endeavored twice to shoot Corbin OF
his way to jail, but the revolver failed q
| discharge.
The New York Post says that abindinl
agreements have been entered into between
nearly all the anthracite carrying and PRO
ducing companies for the purpose of main
/ tuln1NV and ~ a.
This is the same agreement that has beer
Already signed by the Ontario IL Western
Erie " Delaware and Hudson cumpanie,
! within few days, and all the other in
terests have joined in it at previous dates )
4 It is announced that a meeting of til,
| stockholders of the Standard on Gdmpan,
4 has been called for the 21st instant. to vol,
! upon resolution passed Thursday by thu
direclors to terminate the trust. Accord
NJ 70 we terms OF the trust u vote of thu
stockholders is necessary to dissolve. il i
supposed that this step has been taken on
account of the recent decision Of the Oil,
supreme court, declaring the trust Illegal
Captain Paul Of the tug Rescue, which
arrived at Baltimore Thursday from Bath
n. e., reports having saved the scboone
Bessie OF Washington, n. G. The scloone
WIS n tow of the steamer Albemarlc il
lamlico Sound, and was driven unde
water and capsized, Captain Paul wen
oul after the Bessie in the face Of Il north
east gale and towed the vessel 10 Bath. 4
cniored woman and child were fount
drowned in the cabin.
4 y. Louis dispatch says that tn
Catholic Knights of America, through Ii,
officers of the various state Jurisdictions
have instructed Supreme President j u
Coleman TO begiR legal action against tn
59ndsmen Of thd late Supreme Treasurer
to the extent of b75,00o some time ago. |
is understood that the matter will be pre-
scented in the courts of Chattanooga, tn
former home Of the defaulting treasurer