Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-04-21

j., on the charge of assaulting Tillie
Agaard aged l6 years. Threats Of lynch
ing are made.
Whitelaw Reid was the guest of the New
York chamber of commerce, in New York,
on Saturday at dinner given i'll his
honor. Addresses were made by Mr.. Reid,
| Charles S. Smith, Frederick II. Coudert
and Charles A. Dana.
| Captain A. ID. Yocum, ex-mayor of
| Hastings Nebraska, recently sentenced to
one year in the penitentiary for killing
| Myron Van Floot, q correspondent, who
sandered Yocums daughter, was. par
doned saturday by Governor Boyd.
In notorious dive in Providence, r. l.,
on Saturday evening, Mary Karrigan, aged
| % years, and Asdour Simonin, an Arme-
nian, fought about $40, and both were
mortally wounded, the woman being dis
emboweled and the man shot in the abdo-
| men.
Tile Secretary of War Friday tele-
graphed to General Brooke in reference to
| the Wyoming prisoners that "while the
| government has no desire to interfere with
civil processes in any way, yet he must
| protect the prisoners in his charge from
| violence"
The Interstate National Bank of New
York closed its doors Friday, having
goneinto voluntary liquidation The deposit
tors were paid so per cent of their whole
| deposits, and within a week dividend
of 90 per cent or more will be paid to the
stockholders.
Rudolph Smith, laborer, in Aston
township, Delaware county, Pa, Friday
shot and killed his wife. He was under
the influence of liquor The couple had
| lived unhappily for several years. The
woman was "a years old and leaves two
small children.
A steam ferryboat ON the Monongahela
river at Pittsburg Friday ran down n
| rival ferry boat-a skiff-and an unknown
| passenger of the latter was drowned and
the oarsman badly injured. 1t is not yet
| known whether the affair was due to de-
| sign or accident.
John Bishop. aged 16 years. was ar
rested in Kansas City, Mo-, Sunday night.
| six or eight men and held up two street
cars. From nearly all his victims he
| secured money or valuables. Bishop was
| reader of dime novels.
| Isaac Funkenstein and Solomon Dag
mar who opened a ''suit club store il
| Pittsburg about six weeks ago, disappeared
ON Saturday with about $4,000 paid by
| people to whom suits of clothing were to
| have been delivered "before Easter" The
clothing was not delivered.
George Billings, alias Louis Van
Houton, and Emma Bolton, his sister,
have been arrested near Montrose Pa, for
| pension frauds. In order to gain several
thousand dollars i'll pension money they
committed II forgeries. They confessed
their guilt after being arrested
w. O. Erskine a Pittsburg attorney, was
attacked by foot,pads early on Saturday
morning and robbed of $1,000 in cash, n
diamond pin, gold watch and chain and
| valuable papers. The thieves assaulted
him from the rear and after knocking him
down beat him almost insensible.
Atu meeting of the executive committee
Of the United Brotherhood of Operative
potters on Saturday, at Steubeuville, o..
the strike at the Stcubenville pottery works,
which was inaugurated over two years ago,
men, most of whom have secured work
elsewhere.
American flags were placed upon all the
public school houses in Council Bluffs,
| Iowa, Friday AT one school house S75
children were grouped together. When the
stars and stripes were unfurled from the
staff at the top of the building each pupil
waved tiny flag as salute to the national
emblem.
The latest reports from the flooded dis
trict in Mississippi state that 20 lives have
been lost in the ncighborhood of Column
bus, but that the loss in the country has
not yet been ascegtained. The negroes
were offered 81 n day to work on the rail-
roads, but refused it, presumably looking
forward to being supported by the govern
nent.
An explosion of gunpowder occurred in
Conwell & Babb's hardware store, in
Nenia Ohio. on Thursday, blowing the
front end completely out of the building
and badly injuring II. Il. Conwell one OF
firm, and Harry Carr. Mr.. Conwell was
showing Carr Flobert rifle, which acct.
dentally went off. The bullet struck a
large can Of gunpowder, exploding it. Con-
well will probably not survive,
Two men, Stevenson and PAYNE, the
latter mail carrier. were murdered on
| Friday night near fernando, q station on
the Silver Springs, Ocala & Gulf railroad,
IN Florida, for Sl.S00, which they were
| mine two miles distant. The cash was
not secured by the murderers, it being
found with the bodies of the men in their
| wagon. The murderers are supposed to be
two negro phosphate miners.
A search is being made near Wampum,
in Lawrence county, Pa, for the body Of
an unknown man, supposed TO have been
| murdered. Last Saturday night A. w.
Leonard and two companions found near
a coal shaft the bloody coat vest and
| trousers of Il man. Further search dis
covered a tattered shirt to which hung
shreds of human flesh. 1t is believed the
man was murdered, and that his body had
been placed in one of the many deserted
coal banks.
The paper mill of Y. g. w. NJ. Crane, at
| Coltsville, Mass. where all the United
States bank and treasury note paper has
been made for several years. was burned
on Thursday night loss, $4,000. An
official of the treasury department was
| sent from Washington yesterday to super
intend the oyerhauling of the ruins, to see
| that none of the paper which might he
found gets into wrong hands, and to make
arrangements for the starting of another
mill. The stock OF paper now in the hands
| of the department is limited.
| NJ ~ 81.