Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-07-07
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was lynched by mob at Woodbury.,
Tenn, Tuesday week.
The Boston boiler makers strike is
ended, on basis of 60 hours pay for S.
hours work per week.
George Reemer, bricklayer, was killed
Thursday at Allentown, Pa, by the blow
ing down of n scatfold by the wind.
The schooner Owasco, bound from Phila.
delphia for Montreal with cargo of coal,
was wrecked on Tuesday week on Betty's
Island, Nova Scotia. The crew was saved
The wall of large building in Lynch
burg, Va, which was being repaired. fell
yesterday week, killing j. IT, Z. Vim
ston and two colorcd men.
A tornado passed through the lower por-
ton OF Centre county, Pa. last Monday
week, lereing everything in path from
Loo TO 1850 feet wide and six miles long.
Two masked highwaymen robbed Sny-
denham Mills as he was crossing the d.
vide from Fancy Gulch to Murray, Idaho,
on Wednesday, and secured 5000 in gold
dust.
A passenger train on the New York Cen
trail railroad ran into an open switch
at Poughkeepsie, Thursday. and collided
with shifting engine. Five persons were
injured.
Internal revenue agents in San Francisco
va htulltsudN lDullu IL GGlIuF lltller a Joss
house which contained an opium factory
large enough to supply half the Chinese
population Of the city.
BY tho upsetting of a skff in the De-
logny Crcvasse, near New Orleans, four
persons were drowned Wednesday. The
victims were Miss Homlie, Angelo Lam
bert and two children.
About thousand men. women and
girls in Baltimore Thursday began a
movement TO do away with the task system
and introduce in its stead ii Sed wages FOR a
days work OF 10 hours.
An effort will be made to reproduce the
Passion Play of OberammergaG ut Chicago
next year. company having been
chartered for that purpose. The original
performers have promised TO come to
Chicago.
The New England Granite Mannfac.
turcfs' Association has issued a circular
pledging its protection to all cutters who
leave the union and begin work The
union has answered by promising TO pro.
tect its members Ii they stand together.
Prince Woods, Thomas Smith and
Henry Gaines, all colored, who had CON
fessed the outraging of three white women.
We're taken from their guards near
Sprnger's, Texas, last FRIDAY week, and
shot dead by mob of masked lynchcrs
Two brothers, James and John Dunn.
aged Il and "A years, were sent 10 the
Pot,Syille Jail yesterday week. having ac-
knowledged that they opened switch on
the New Jersey Central railroad, on Satnr-
day week,which wrecked passenger train
Robert Burns Hutchinson, the last but
one Of the male descendants of Robert
Burns, the Scottish poet, is lying between
life and death in a hospital at Chicago, the
result Of O. midnight assault by footpads
three weeks ago. Mr.. Hutchinson is a
great-grandson of Burns.
The Richmond & Danville receivers have
| been authorized by Judge Bond to issue
| Sl.Oh9GOO receivers certificates, to be used
exclusively for paving pay,rolls and
| vouchers. The receivers are given discre.
ton to pay the car trust instruments and
| leased line rentals ont Of earnings, but no
authority Is given to pay the interest on
the Danrille skies due ,TiIly Isl. and inter.
est on those bonds will be defauted.
| Proceedings have been begun at San
| Antonio, Tt&., in the case Of the Mexican
rev2lutlonist, Carm0s Gcanel, whose r%.
| tradition is demanded, as he was a fol
lower Of CARA He is alleged to have
| participated in the fight with Mexican
troops at Tortillas, where three soldiers
and woman were Killed, and the Mexi-
can government asks for his extrudition
on the charge of murder The defence is
that lcaneA is un American citizen.
| \ passenger train on the Cotton Belt
railroad culliaal with freight train
about 10 mile. from Little Rock, Ark, on
| wednesday, with disastrous result The
persons Killed were Engineer McNeill of
| The passenger train and Mrs j, Lester of
Helena, ). Il. Morrow of Tucker and Mrs.
| W. Morris and daughter of Helena Those
| fatally injured We're Engineer Morris and
| his fireman of the freight train. Mrs. S. D..
Morris aud the child of Mrs. james Lester.
The sales agents of the anthracite coal
companies met Wednesday in New York
and advanced the prices Of coal to eastern
| points as follows: RrokeE coul, IS cents a
ton; stove, 80 cents; egg, 81 cents; chestnut,
| 10 cents. This practically means an
| advance to consumers Of 81 cents ton
| over the present prices" A general in
crease Of . cents per ton for coal for west
ern points was decided upon The eastern
| sales agents also fixed the production for
July at 300, 600 tons.
The indictment against Rev. Thomas
| Dixon, Jr., in New York, for criminal
| libel against Excise Commissioner Koch.
was dismissed Thursday by Judge MARITIME
| upon recommendation OF the district at
torney. The latter in recommending the
| dismissal said: although the languape
used by Mr, Dixon was intemperate and
provoking, he doubted whether il fell
within statute which allows great lati.
tude when the comments published relate
| to public affairs. The words produced but
little effect upon the public mind where,
as in this case, they were uttered by COM
| parative stranger to New York, where they
were colched in reckless and immOderate
terms, and were accompanied by indis.
crimlnate abuse Of all persons in author
ity." lC has been suggested, the district
attorney adds that the defendant may be
| prosecuted as a common railer, but he
does not think it advisable as vet to un.
derrake such prosecution.