Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-06-23
IN Gen ERAL.

Ind, were burned saturday; loss over
S3O000O.
Christian Keller, 3 years old, and Arthur
Newbold, boy, were buried alive Satur-
day by the cuving in OF an embankment
in Brooklyn.
DIR. Charles Cults, leader of the faith
cure movement in Boston and the founder
Of the Consumptives' Home there. died
saturday morning.
A dispatch from Tacoma to the Eco d
Hd!ia of New York, says that the four
Italians killed at Sedro, Washington, were
not lynched, but persisted in landslide.
Herman Olsen, Il. 19-years-old Swede.
who stands feet inches in his shoes. y
arrived at New York Monday from
Europe. He is going to Minnesota.
John Gossart, Henry Bryan and several
other young men of Waynesboro. Pa,
were playing Jesse James" Saturday,
when Gossart accidentally shot and killed
bryan.
John Riley and Charles Morton, both
colored, of Chester. Pa. quarrelled over a
game of crap Sunday, when Morton
shot and killed Riley. The murderer
escaped.
Daniel Galgen. Az years old, was fatally
injured in Il mill ut Trenton, N. j., Mon
day, while at work at circular saw. \
plank which he was saving slipped and
entered MS abdomen.
local passenger train on the Grand
Trunk Railway ran off the track near Hill
hurst, Quebec, Monday, owing to a wash
out. The engineer, fireman and express
messenger were killed.
Mare j. Pcndleton, the actor, was found
dead in Wade Park, Cleveland, Sunday,
with bottle of chloroform by his side,
lie was i'll very i'll health, and was
threatened with insanity.
Enoch Morrison, colored, Friday night
shot and severely wounded two colorcd
women in local train at San Francisco,
and then, while being pursued by crowd,
shot and killed himself.
The plant of the Franklin County
Creamery Association at st. Adams, Vt,
said to be the largest in the United States,
was burned to the ground Monday morn
ing. The loss is about SIS, 1000.
A freight train OH the james River divi-
sion of the Chesapeake & Ohio road
Jumped the track Saturday between Lees
and Stanard. Virginia. killing Engineer
Richard Sclater anG wrecking engine and
train.
An engineer named A. v. Robinson and
three Italian laborers were killed by the
wreck of construction train which ran
into some cattle near Gladstone, ILL.,, Satur-
day morning. Twenty-Five Others are in
lured.
Mary Kries, aged II years, who lived
near Harmony. Warren county. New Jer-
sey, was struck by lightning and instantly
killed, during a thunder storm Friday
evening. She was standing in the yard at
the time
Ernest Richards, colored, aged 10 years,
was tarred and feathered at Belfast. Maine,
Saturday night, by a party of drunken
men Of the neighborhood, because of
~ ,;u:f
of bad character.
| fight occurred at Gregg, Wyoming, Fri
day night between squad of colored
| cavalrymen and u number of gamblers of
the town. One of the soldiers was killed
and two were wounded.
| Three cases of smallpox in one family
were discovered at Passaic Park, N. j.,
| Saturday morning. The disease is said 70
be epidemic in Passaic City, and there
| have been several cases at Lakeview 1t
was taken to Passaic by Polish immi-
| grant,
George Fisher of Ashley, Pa. caught
| his wife and man named John Wash
| ington in his room early Sunday morning.
He shot and killed Washington and struck
Mrs. Fisher on the head with an axe, in
flcting probably fatal injuries,
| John D. Ruggles, who with his younger
| s.cther, Charles, robbed the Redding stage
and killed Express Messenger Montgomery,
was captured in Woodland, CAL, Sunday
night. after desperate fight, in which
Ruggles was MORALLY wounded
The damage caused by the bursting of
the dam NJ Mahanoy City, Friday night,
| was not so great as was first reported. and
there was no loss of life. Tracks Of the
Lehigh Valley and Philadelphia & Read
| ing lines and about SO buildings were
destroyed by the rush of the water.
At Homestead Pa, Monday, Manager
Potter, of Carnegle's plant, signed a three
| years agreement with all the skilled labor
| other than the Amalgamated Association
at the present wages. These men constitute
about one-fourth of the entire number of
workmen.
Charles Abraham, French Canadian,
was arrested Saturday morning at North
| Adams Mass, for attempting to burn his
| wife to DEATH At . o'clock in the morn
ing he went to his wife's bedside poured
Kerosene all over her night dress. struck a
match and lighted the garment The
woman was terribly burned.
| A bloody fight occurred Sunday night at
Delaware, a mining village a mile north of
Minersville, Pa, between Tony Orlando,
an Italian, and Charles and Thomas Cum
| mings. Both the Cummings men were
shot and seriously wounded, and orlando
was terribly beaten with clubs and stones.
Nathaniel NJ. Burr Of Providence, K. l.,
| president Of the SeekonlS (Aiassachusetts)
Ice Company, whose extensive forgeries
| were discovered two months ago, was ar
| raigned Monday morning at Providence
He pleaded guilty and threw himself upon
the mercy of the court. He was sentenced
| to four years at hard labor.
Sunday night the general store of W. Ii.
| Ryan, ut Parmleysville, Wayne county,
was struck by lightning. Two kegs Of
| powder exploded, throwing heavy iron
safe through the roof, and woilnding all
the occupants Of the room, about so in
number. Not one occupant of the store
escaped severe injuries
| The new levee protecting Bayou Sara,
Louisiana, gave way at s a, m. Sunday,
and by noon the town was totally sub
merged to depth ranging from l to
feet. 1t was only through the almost
| superhuman efforts of brave men that not
a single life was lost, although there were
many narrow escapes. The loss Of pro-
perty amounts to thousands of dollars.
In Allegheny Pa, Monday afternoon.
Emil Welsh entered the hair dressing place
Of Miss Maggie Buttress. drew revolver,
and shot her through the heart He then
committed suicide, shooting himself in the
breast 1t is said Welsh, who had wife
and family in Baltimore killed Miss But
tress because she refused to listen TO his
advances.
\ car OIL the electric railway between
Wellsviile and East Liverpool, Ohio.
jumped the track Sunday and rolled down
the bank of the Ohio river. There were IS
passengers on board. The car turned over
twice before il stopped and dozen Of the
passengers were buddy hurt. but none were
killed. Miss Mary Brooks had three ribs
broken and was internally injured. Eddie
Applegate aged H. had both legs broken.
John Johnson of McComb City, Miss,
one of the negroes implicated in the mur-
der Of. Merchant Colquhoun, on Thursday