Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-01-21
IN GENERAL.

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the murder of Mrs. Strominger, was re-
fused new trial at York, Pa, ON Satur-
day, and was sentenced to be hanged.
John Luther of Wilkesbarre, was
way-laid and murdered by gang OF
Hungarians near Maltby, Pa, on Sun
day. Two of his assailants were ar
rested.
Mrs. Annie Quakenbush, who was
shot by her husband on January 9Th,
died Sunday In Newark, New Jersey.
Her husband committed suicide at the
time of the shooting.
4 locomotive of the Debardeleben
Coal and Iron Company exploded eight
miles south of Birmingham, Ala, last
Sunday, instantly killing Joseph Hunt,
the engineer, and Fireman Bradford.
Thomas Quinn, a hickman of Eliza
beth, New Jersey, ON Saturday shot and
killed Mrs. Charles Snyder, with whom
he had been drinking, and then surren-
dered himself TO the prosecutor of the
county.
A contract has been made with Lon
don fireworks manufacturer for dis
play in connection with the dedication
of the Worlds Fair, which will excel in
magnifcence anything of the kind ever
attempted.
Leopold Landauer, crank, who has
been annoying Jay Gould and members
of his family, in New York, was Sun
day committed to the Bellevue Hospital
pending an examination as to his mental
condition.
A strange case is on trial at Bangor,
Maine. A man named Buffum, of Old
town, brings suit against tho estate of q
dead man for alleged alienation of his
wife's affections. Chief Justice Peters
presided at the trial.
A dispatch from Chattanooga, Tenn,
says that Expert Goodman has COM
pleted his examination of the accounts
of Nj. j. O'Brien, supreme treasurer of
the Catholic knights of America, and
finds the defalcation to be $75, 82323.
General w. J. Sewell, ex-United
States senator, and vice president of the
West Jersey railroad, has been APP
pointed second vice president of the
Baltimore & Potomac railroad. He will
have his headquarters in Washington.
There arc now completed, at the
Washington gun foundry, 20 six-inch
rifles and 10 of the eight and ten-inch
calibres, making present stock of 86
guns OF the most modern patterns that
are practically available for immediate
use.
John Marley, aged 33 years, and his
son Peter, of Bellair, Ohio, were found
frozen to death on Saturday morning
under the Ohio Valley railroad bridge.
1t is supposed they fell from the trestle
while on their way home the previous
night.
Herbert G. Gates, aged 80 years, of
Palmer, Mass, shot and killed himself
on Sunday night, while insane from the
grip. His mother struggled with him
for an hour to secure possession of the
gun, but she was unable to prevent him
from killing himself.
The schooner George Churchman,
which arrived at Charleston, S. O., on
Saturday from Baltimore, experienced
very heavy gales and was badly damaged.
She was off Charleston two weeks ago,
but was driven bya gale several hundred
miles to the eastward
| The Secretary of the Navy Monday
made the first payment of $s0,7O0 on
cruiser No. 10, known as the Corsair
and the seventh payment Of SOL 800 on
the battleship No. 2, the Massachusetts
These vessels are being constructed by
Cramp & Sons, of Philadelphia.
The British steamship Hatfield, which
arrived at Baltimore, on Friday night
with iron ore from Porman, Spain, re.
ported the suicide on December 18th OF
the master Of the vessel, Captain John
Cave, just before the vessel reached
Porman from Marselles.
Joseph Holly, head agent for the
Massachusetts Law and Order Society
and who went to Woodstock, New
Brunswick, to act as an informer in the
matter of illegal liquor sales, was ar
rested on Friday for doing bushes.
without license" and was sent to jail
III default of payment Of a fine.
William X. Hancuff, aged SO years
who had been missing from his home il
Altoona, Pa, for several weeks, was or
Saturday found dead on the mountains
east of the city. lie had been i'll fol
some time, and is supposed to have
wandered away and died Of exposure.
protest against the loan or appro
priatien of s5,000,000 by Congress il
aid of the Worlds Fair is to be pre-
sented in the name of "the coloreC
people of the United States" It il
claimed the colored people were re
fused representation in the manage
mcnt.
William Reardon, Albert Burnsei
and John Van Nome, the three drunken
men who "terrorizcd" the passengers OF
a train on the New York Central rail
road, at Poughkeepsie, New York, OF
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sentenced TO the penitentiary for on,
year each.
The Falls City Fire Insurance Com
pany OF Louisville, Kentucky, has re
insured its $l3,5O0,000 risks in the Lon
don and Lancashire and will 60 int
liquidation. The Union Insurance Com
pany Of Louisville has reinsured in the
German-American of New York anC
will also go out of business.
While four boys were coasting on ,
hillside at New Castle, Pa, on Satur
day afternoon, their bob Sod ran into ,
sleigh, frightening the horses. Waite
johnson, aged IA years, was knocked OF
the head by one of the horses, and Mrs
Buchanan, the occupant of the sleigh
was thrown out. Both were fatally in
iured.
Two young men, named Krolerman
went to the "hand-ferry" at Carrollton
Ind, on Sunday night, and, finding n,
one in charge, drove their horse anS
buggy aboard and attempted to maj
the boat. They were SO intoxicated tina
IL drifted away with them and uothinj
has since been heard Of them. Tn
river was very high and full of drift.
The grand opera house block il
Wausau, Wis, was destroyed by fire OF
Saturday. The block contained the Ger
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