Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-04-07

department of state on Saturday, for the
first time in nearly three weeks.
The sheet and rolling mills of the Read
ing Iron Company, at Reading, Pa, closed
on Friday morning, making over 800 per-
sous idle.
Walter Il. Shaw of Houston. Texas, con-
fessed on Saturday that lie had murdered
his mother and aunt in order to secure
money ito continue spree
The venerable DIR. Joseph Francis, in
yentor of the lifesaving car, was OH Friday,
by unanimous consent admitted TO the
floor of the United States Senate.
Charles d. Drake, ex-chief justice of the
United States court of claims, was found
dead III his bed in Washington on Friday
morning He was 81 years of age.
John Baker, ex-recorder of Lancaster
county, died in Lancaster, on Saturday of
blood poisoning resulting from the scratch
OF pet cat, received two weeks ago.
Governor Pattison, ON Saturday, granted
respite, until June 9Th, to Edward
Mcmillan, the Luzerne county murderer,
who was to have been hanged on april It'll.
The combine of cotton congresses in
New Orleans is said to have been COM
plctcd all but two having heen purchased.
The price is said to have been $4,000. 900.
Lightning caused two large fires at Shen-
andoah, Iowa. on Friday morning. One
of them destroyed two lumber yards, some
coal sheds and Il barn; the other destroyed
II barn and eight horses.
The number of persons killed by the
collapse Of the building in Chicago, on
Friday evening is now said to BE- eight,
several of the bodies having been taken
from the ruins on Saturday.
The department of state has received re-
ports showing that the British fleet OF seal
ta1r
destined for this years CATCH numbers
about 20 as against 81 last year.
A dispatch from Memphis, Tenn, saws
that the exodus of negroes for Oklahoma
continues. One hundred and thirty of
them left on Saturday afternoon, in 20
wagons, loaded with goods and provisions.
John C. Campbell, book-keeper, en-
ployed by Woods. jerks & Co. OF Clevc-
land, Ohio, was arrested on Thursday for
the embezzlement of $500 from his en-
ployers. He had lost the money gambling
The Sterling dynamite works, at Bes-
semer- Ma, exploded.on Friday afternoon,
killing four men. Nearly every pane of
glass in the town was broken, and the
shock was plainly felt ut Birmingham, 10
miles distant.
John Zotnowski was killed and four
other worlSmcn were seriously injured at
. marble quarry ut King of Prussia, iii
montgomery county, on Friday, being
pinned against car by the fall of pile
of marble slabs.
Three children of Thomas Brown Of
New Castle, Pa, while playing in deserted
house, few days ago, found box of
morphine pills, which they ate, surprising
them to be candy. Louis, wears old, has
since died. The others will recover.
Anthony Shamisli, IAN insane Hungarian
of Mahanoy City Pa, caused considerable
excitement Sunday by tlourishing a re-
volver on the street, and when IN officer
attempted to disarm him shot himself in
the abdomen, inhicting fatal injury.
Masked robbers entered the study of
Rev. Father Aleern, a priest of Tarenium,
Ia, on Thursday morning and took from
the safe $1,000 in money, silverware and
icwelry, and some valuable papers. The
priest was awakened by the noise, but the
burglars drove him back with revolvers.
An unknown negro was lynched by
mob at Millersburg, KY, on Friday, be.
cause he had fingered about peoples
doorsteps and annoyed them in various
ways instead of leaving the town as or
dered. He is said to have been the only
negro in that county (Holmes.)
A Toronto dispatch says that a syndi-
cate from Montreal on Saturday completed
the purchase of all the cotton mills Of the
Dominion, and that they will hereafter
be run by the Canada Consolidated Cotton
Mills Company. The capital represented
in this deal amounts to S5,O0O,0O0.
The west-bound express on the Baltimore
IL Ohio railroad struck three tramps who
walking on the track near 0akdaie, Pa,
Sunday afternoon. One of the men,
named Connolly. was instantly killed;
another, John Lavello of Jersey City, had
his leg cut off, and the third had one foot
crushed.
Mrs. Stebbins, "Christian Scientist"
of Chicago, was arrested on Saturday and
held to await the action of the grand Jury.
She and others are held to be responsible
for the death of Mrs. Jennie Nichols, re-
fusing to call in a physician and refusing
admission to one sent by the police
authorities.
The body of travelling man named S.
n. Spaulding, aged % years, was found in
the canal, near Portage, Wis, on Satur-
day. His skull was fractured. An intox-
icated man named Riley, who was found
near the spot with blood on his clothes,
was arrested on suspicion of having muir
dered spaulding.
jerome Barker, a boy, and Frank Iloi-
land have been arrested at Houston, Texas,
charged with the murder of S. V. Cravey.
James Cravcy and an old man named
smith. The five men were together OH
March list, driving i'll a wagon, bound for
Nilasco, On the 18th the mutilated re-
mains of the three last named We're found
buried near Millyon's bayou"
Mrs. William Byington. Of Bonnie
Tcrre, Wisconsin, is under arrest, charged
with the murder Of her 9-yeaFs-old step
daughter. The child was found in tile
hearth, burned to death, on March 26th
but the fathers suspicious being aroused
the body was exhumed, when it was
found that the girl had been beaten to
death.
A dispatch from Huntingdon, Pa, saws
that the Huntington Car Works. which
have been idle for more than year have
received II large order from the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company for standard coal
cars, and the works will resume at once
Other orders are confidently expected,
which will keep the works running in. |
definitely. This will give employment to
80 men.
A fire in Wilkesbarre, on Friday morn
ing, destroyed three buildings and caused |
Il loss of two lives. Mrs George II. Early. |
who lived in one of tho buildings, ran into /
the street, but went back to rescue her 6. |
years-old daughter. An explosion of gun
powder took place, wrecking the interior, |
After the flames had been snbdued the |
bodies of the mother and child were re-
covered
The grand jury in New York on Friday
brought in presentment charging the
police with permitting gambling houses /
houses OF ill-fame and saloons 10 remain
open in violation of law, and suggesting |
hat corruption can be the only reason for
heir inactivity. In another prcsentment I
Lhe jury recommended that the owners Of t
houses be held responsible for the bust
ness carried ON therein ii it be immoral or
Illegal
Mrs. Anna Shaw and her sister, Mrs
Johnson, a widow, were found murdered
in their house at Houston, Tex, on We'd
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