Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-12-01
IN ENERIL.

The trainmen on the Illinois Central
railroad have made demand for pay for
overtime.
a slight shock of earthquake was felt at
San Francisco a few minutes after mid
night Thursday morning.
Nathan White, colored, was lynched by
a mob ut Rockhill, S. c., Tuesday week. He
was charged with burning barn.
William Geghl, son of brewer of Port
Arthur, Ontario, fell into a vat of hot
beer Thursday and was fatally burned.
Typhoid fever is said to be an epidemic
at st. Louis. Between 900 and 600 cases
have been reported within the last two
months.
by dog Mt North Danville, Va, is now
suffering from hydrophobia and is not ex-
peCted to live.
The Zinzendorf Hotel, at Winston,
North Carolina, was burned Thursday,
the fire starting from an explosion of
gasolene stove. Loss, Sl250O6.
An explosion of gas in the large furni-
ture factory of Otis Corbett, in New York,
Wednesday night, caused fire which des-
troyed 500, 600 worth of property.
Mrs. Charles +. Paulhas of Richmond,
Virginia, was fatally injured Wednesday
by the explosion of chemicals which she
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use in torpedo. Paulhas was severely
burned.
A demand has been made upon the
Alabama legislature for the payment of
notes and bonds to the amount of over
S73000O, endorsed by the state in the
reconstruction period and since re.
pudiated.
The carding and weaving mill of the
blanket department Of the sanford mills. at
Sanford, Maine, was burned Thursday
morning. one hundred and fifty persons
are thrown out of work, An overheated
bearing started the fire.
Gilbert Grcenberg. chief of the Hunting
ton fire department, Thursday undertook,
in fuliilment of an election bet, to wade
across the luniata river. He was swept
down the river by the current and mar.
rowly eScaned drowning.
Mrs William Mayhor the fifth wife of
q farmer OF Fremont county, Iowa, died
recently, and the charge is made that
Mayhor poisoned her. Three of the mans
previous wives are said TO have died under
suspicious circumstances.
Jerry Constantine, hotel keeper of
Sparta, Kentucky, Thursday shot and
Killed Il negro named Roberts The latter
owed Constantine $40, and had been
warned that, unless he paid the debt by
Thanksgiving Day, Constantine would kill
him.
WINE itohert Meldcr was watching a
game OF base bal! at the stony Point
school mouse. near l)Fysyilie, Berks county,
iat u Ply ileW ON oil another player 5
hhins. hltllhS Ncider on the head with
terrific force, crushing ms skull. Ills IN
lurlcs are probably fatal.
Two agents OF the Mexican Lottery
Company nave been arrested in New
orleans, at the instance OF the Louisiana
hepNie, Tor scltihg tickets ON the streets.
The foreign company threatens To retaliate
on tl!c Louisiana should any 81 ITS agents
sell tickets openly.
When the Fall River steamer Plymouth
reached its Massachusetts destination We'd
ncsday, state.rpon, which had been
occupied by Mrs. Appleton Sturgis Of New
York, contained only the woman's cloth
ing. Inc snppoSition is that Mrs. Sturgis,
VINO was on her way to New Bedford To
VISIT her mother, committed suicide.
The Methodist Episcopal Church Confer
ence of North Alabama has decided to
establish Il Methodist College. 10 the col
lege proper will be added medical college
law school, dental college and schools of
divinity one Alabama town has offered
Sl5.UDj TO secure the location OF the college,
A movement is on foot to secure the col.