Passaic City record., 1892-08-20
LATER NEWS.

THE little town of Delmar. De-, has been
almost wiped out by frT. About fifty build
ings. covering th rec acres, were destroyed,
entailing total estimated loss of $4,000.
A BUcKwHEAT Trust has been formed,
with capital stock OF s., 900, 900. Incorpora-
tion papers have been filed at Trenton,
N. j.
PRIVATE ELsAEssER. one of the militia
men ordered out during the switchmen'a
strike at Buffalo. was SHOT tn death by the
accidental discharge OF a rife.
JABEz A. BosTwIcK, the Standard Oh
Trust millionaire, met with an accident dur
ing the burning of the stables at his summer
residence at Mamaronec :, N. Y, and died
in ten minutes. Two stablemen were burned
to death in Mr.. Constable's ad joining stable,
which was also destroyed by fire.
SIX men were killed and fifteen injured,
several fatally, by the wrscking Of con-
struction train at Coshocton, Ohio.
MICHIGAN Democrats at their State Com
vention in Grand Rapids nominated ticket
headed by Allen B. Morse for Governor.
EX-SENATOR JOHN G.. SPooSER heads tho
Wisconsin Republican STATE cket put in the
field by the Convention at Milwaukee
THE Ohio Peoples Party, at State Con-
vention in MassiIlon, put in nomination .
full ticket, with s. C. Thayer for Secretary
Of State at the head About forty OF ths
sighty-eight counties were represented
JERRY SIMPSON renominated for Con-
aress in the Seventh Kansas District. has
been endorsed by the Democrats
A STATE CONVENTION to devise means for
securing better roads in Iowa was held at
Des Moines, with nearly 1000 delegates in
attendance.
LOGAN MURPHY was taken from jail and
lynched at Mount Sterling, KY He bad
killed his father. While in jail he attacked
two fellow prisoners, one of whom died.
THREE highwaymen held up and beheaded
q man near Ellensburg. Washington. Vigi-
lantes pursued the highwaymen, and after
capturing them hanged them to tree.
FIFTY persons were seriously injured by
the collapse of grand stand at Lannemazan,
a summer resort in the Pyrenees-
FIVE vessels were wrecked during storm
ON the New Brunswick coast
Four inmates of~a workmen's lodging
house at Tredegar, England, were burned to
death.
RIGID quarantine against Russian vessels
has been established by Sweden and Dem
mark on account OF Asiatic cholera
THE Republican State Convention Of Del
aware met in Dover and nominated Rev.
Jonathan s. Weller, Methodist clergy
man, for Congress by acclamation, and also
Presidential electors.
CHARLES Fl. PEcKHAx. sixty-two yean
old, walked into the station house at Fan
River, Mass. and declared that he had
killed Mr.. and Mrs Borden, for whose myE
terious murder Miss Lizzie Borden has been
arrested. Psckham was evidently insane.
and little stock was taken in his story.
HoN. WHIrELAw REID spoke at the Con-
vention OF the Illinois League of Republican
Clubs at Springfield, Ill.
TEE Common Council of Battle Creek.
Mich, has put boycott on Carnegie bridge
steel and iron.
A SPLIT occurred in the Texas Democratic
State Convention at Houston. Governor
Ho9e was renominated by ons faction.
ADMIRAL GHERARDI has been ordered to
Washington, and viii then go TO San Fran
cisco to take charge Of the naval parade next
spring. This will leave Commo lore Walker
in command of the North Atlantic Squad
rom
WrKIIAM HARRISON BRADLEY, Of Ilh-
nois, present Consul at Nice. has been trans
ferred to Copenhagen in place OF n. B.
Ryder, under arrest for embezlemsnt and
forgery.
WALES has had severe earthquake
shock.
FIRE destroyed three hundred houses and
rendered $500 people homeless in Ssrvodsk,
Russia
The notorious Duke of Manchester is dead
in his thirty-ninth year. He married New
York City girl In 1876, but deserted her for
a London concert hall singer named Bessie
Belwooi. The marriage of the Dukes
mother. the Dowager Duchess OF Manches-
ter, to the Duke of Devonshire, took place
only two days before his death. He left
three children
EuRopz has had hot wave, the mercury
rising to beyond the one hundred mark in
some places.
THE Swiss villages of Griadslwald AMI St
Stephen have been destroyed by fire.