Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-02-04

TWO CulluTeu, uhIneu FTcuerlCK ana
Rosa Keegan, were killed by an electric
street car in st. Paul, Minnesota, on
Saturday morning.
Mrs Robert Atyell, a young bride of
Cherokee county, Ala, was fatally
burned few days ago by her clothes
taking fire from stove.
II. III. Winans, e9 years of age, con-
victed af burglary and arson at Frank
lin. Pa, was sentenced on Saturday to
five years in the penitentiary.
Advice reached Annapolis Sunday
night that one of the monitors on her
way to Norfolk in tow Of the Academy
steamer Standish, was aground in James
river.
At Salem, Mass, on Saturday, the
Rev. George A. Andrews was sentenced
to four years in the state prison for
burning his store at Essex in order to
obtain the insurance.
Thomas NJ. Gray, colored, of Balti-
more, Sunday shot and killed Sarah
L. Scott, also colored, because she re-
fused TO tell him where she got basket
OF coal she had brought into the house.
An explosion of dynamite took place
at the Netherland Phosphate Company's
mine in Templeton, Ontario, on Friday,
killing three men named Prudhomme,
Sauve and Martin. Several others were
seriously injured.
Howard Schneider of Washington,
D. g., Sunday night shot his wife and her
brother, Frank Hamlink, while they
were on the way to church. Hamlink
was Instantly killed, and Mrs. Schneider
was fatally wounded.
The British ship Ferndale, coal laden,
was wrecked five miles north of the en-.
trance to Gray's Harbor, Oregon, on
Friday morning. Twenty of the crew,
including the officers were drowned,
and three reached the shore alive.
A dispatch from West Newton, Pa,
says that riot occurred between Italian
and negro coal miners at Smithton, a
small mining town near there, on Satur-
day night, in which two men were
fatally wounded and another was SC
badly hurt that he will lose his leg.
Julius Somborn, wine merchant OF
New York, was shot and slightly
wounded on Saturday by Jacob Som.
born, q cousin, whose demand for money
he had refused. Jacob fired several shots
at julius, and then committed suicide
by shooting himself through the head,
A dispatch, from Kingston, Ontario
says that Mrs. Blackwell of Wolfe.
town, on Friday committed suicide by
taking poison. She had put the poison
in some tea intended for the family, and
when accused by her husband of the
deed, drank cupfull, with fatal effect.
The seven fishermen who drifted gu,
on an ice foe from Sturgeon Bay, Wis.
were rescued after having been ailoat As
hours. The Ice on which six of them
were stranded on sand bar, and they
were taken off by rowboat. One mar
drifted on cake of ice to Cedar river, Q
distance of IS miles.
A dispatch from the City of Mexico
says that cit is not denied that Garza
has begged for pardon from President
Diaz, offering to betray his followers.
1t is stated that Cara will be there
shortly with the intention OF arranging
the matter. Several of Garza's lieu
tenants are petitioning for pardon.
A dispatch from Nashville, Tenn.
says that proceedings have been begun
by the United States government against
Sheriff w. t. Hill of Davidson county
to recover damages on account of The
escape of Thomas Boalen, a notoriou.
mail robber. 1t is said $4,000 hay,
been expended in the effort to arres
| Boalen.
A dispatch from Helena, Montana
says that "the depredations of hors,
thieves have become so extensive that
gang OF citizens organized TO hunt then
down. A few days ago in an encounte
four of the thieves were killed. Tn,
thieves outnumbered the citizens and
call for reinforcements has been made
An effort is being made TO raise funt
OF $50, 600 to aid in the campaign"
A meeting of 1000 railroad men
representing every state and territorI
OF the United States and all brances o
railway workers, met in New York cit,
Sunday. One object Of the meeting
is to effect a consolidation of the variou
orders ut no distant day, and to brin,
about closer and more friendly relation
among the members. The Haley bill
now pending before the legislature, tn
first limiting the hours of service, tn
second providing against accidents an
regulating the number of men to manag
various classes of trains were endorsed
A resolution was unanimously adopte
fayoring the equipment of all freigll
trains with automatic couplers and al
! brakes.