Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-12-01
IN EN- ZEAL.

William Bell, Il negro boy aged Is years.
was hanged at Macon, Ca, Tuesday, for
the murder Of Bailiff Ben Wild, on May
26th.
A new terminal station for the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad, TO cost about Sl5O,000 is
about to be erected at ST. George, Staten
Island,
The Presbytery of Chicago Tuesday, by
vote OF 35 to Is disapproved of the pend
ing revision OF the Westminster Con
fessi0n.
United States senatar Gibson of Lousi-
ana. is dangerously i'll OF heart disease at
Hot Springs, Arkansas. lie is over 70
years Of age.
In the Smith heresy trial before the
Pre4bytcry of Cincinnati Tuesday the
sutiiCiency in form and legal effect of the
third charge was sustained by vote Of 40
to %.
The threatened strike of the car drivers
of the New Orleans City and Lake Rail
road Company has been averted, the com
pany proposing a compromise which was
accepted by the men.
a colony of Hohemiaus is to be settled
on the Wilmington river, near savannah,
Cfa. The people will be employed in an
oyster canning factory there, negro labor
not being satisfactory.
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Hiawathn, Kan. who was in jail, charged
with the murder Of William Walthall, a
negro church deacon, Thanksgiving Day,
was lynched by mob Monday night.
Lewis Mash an employc of the Etna
Mills Mt Newcastle, Pa, was seriously
scalded by the explosion Of steamppe,
Monday. The accident caused u panic
among the 200 employees of the mills.
Johanna c. X. Davidson, bookkeeper
for n. j. James & Co, commission mer-
chants, of New York. is reported to have
abscondcd with the proceeds of forgeries
to the amount Of S2,7O9. The Ninth Ma
tlonal Bank was the loser.
The store OF Graham & Snyder. and the
dwellings of W. W. Graham of Winters
town, York county, Pa, were destroyed by
an inccndiary lire Tuesday. This is the
second time within year that Mr.. Gra-
ham has been burned out.
The "Boys in Blue" is the name by
which an ex-Union soldiers organization
will be known, which will be a rival Of the
Grand Army Of the Republic. The old
soldiers of the Peoples party in Kansas
are the origlnators Of the plan.
A Judgment OF $4,000 against DIR. ]. w.
Sheldon and DR.. Doyle, in favor of the
parents of Henry w. Link, patient, for
damages for unskillful treatment of u frac-
ture of the arm, was affirmed Tuesday by
the New York court Of appeals.
Samuel Yates, n mser, supposed to have
had "a vast hoard of money" sccreted in
his residence. near Milan. Tenn, has been
burned In q fire which destroyed his house.
The police suspect that he was murdered
and robbed and the house set on fire to
conceal the crime.
". W, Marmadulle and J. l.. Williams,
ticket scalpers, were arrested in Washing
ton, ID. G., Tuesday, for selling number
of employees and other passes, recently
stolen from the Office Of General Manager
Odel in Baltimore. Persons buying the
passes in lien Of tickets were charged to
represent themselves to the conductor as
friends of Manager Odell.
The New York court of appeals at
Albany, Tuesday affirmed the. Judgment
in the case Of DR.. Henry G.. McGouegal,
convicted of manalaughter, in the case of
Annie Goodwin, the cigarette girl" Nc
CONCEAL, who had been at large on bail
since January, 1891, was rearrested yester-
day. The sentence in his case was II years
imprisonment at Sing Sing.