Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-06-09
IN GENERAL.

At Tyrone, Pa, Sunday night, q 2-years-
old son OF Jacob Diehl sell into the flooded
Juniata river and was drowned.
Monday WIGS Confederate Memorial
Day in Maryland and other southern
states, and as such was appropriately
celebrated.
A dispatch from Ell Reno, Oklahoma,
says that the robbers who held up the
Santa Fe train at Red Rock, on Wednes-
day secured only 5000.
Two beer trains on the Milwaukee q St.
Paul railroad came i'll collision near
Racine, WIS, Saturday night, and wrecked
property valued at $4,000.
A fire in the Middiesex Union hall, at
Middletown. Conn, Sunday night, dam
aged the building to the amount of s35, 600.
A $4,000 organ was destroyed.
The bodies of four men have been found
hanging to tree. near Buffalo, Wyoming.
1t is thought they were members of the
invading party, who were captured by the
''rustlers."
The new Lutheran Reformed Church,
between Rock and Mayors stations, on the
Schuylkill q Susquehanua railroad, Pa,
was struck by lightning Sunday night and
badly damaged.
John G. Loewe and his two sons, aged 8
10 years were drowned Sunday at Silver
Creek Dam, about three miles north of
strong current.
OF the 40 insurgents arrested at Assem-
sion, in Chihuahua, Mexico, -four were
condemned to death, one to ID years and
four months imprisonment, and the
others were liberated.
A mob Of about $50 men went from
| Willard to Grayson, KY, early Monday
morning, and taking Austin Porter, wife
| murderer, from the Jail, took him back to
| Willard and hanged him.
An attempt was made at Elizabethtown,
KY, Sunday night, to lynch IL. A. james,
| who was accused of having deserted his
| wife when she was at the point of death
and eloped with another woman. James
escaped.
| A passenger train on the Oregon Pacific
ran into hand car, on which were 10 per-
sons near Yaquima City, Oregon, Sunday.
| Mrs. Pratt and child, and child named
| Manning were killed instantly and seven
| others were severely injured.
Jesse Orr, president of the Reading stove
| works, and of tho United States Stove
| Manufacturers Association, died suddenly
| Monday in a Wilmington IL Northern
train on his way to his home in Reading,
Pa. He was about 81 years old.
The Pittsburg Forge and Iron Company.
| which employs 1000 men in its Allegheny
/ works. has notified its men that on July
I
| made irrespective of any scale or rules the
i Amalgamated Association may determine
upon.
The large Hampton reservoir, located in
| the mountains several miles above Birds
boro, in Bucks county, burst about
o'clock Monday afternoon. No serious
damage was done. 1t is thought the breast
of the dam was weakened by the recent
heavy rains.
During sham battle which formed part
of the Whit-Monday festivities at Allen
town, Pa, Monday, cannon was dis
charged prematurely, and Charles w.
Vented aged AZ years. the gunner, who
stood directly in front Of the gun at the
time, was instantly killed.
An Italian named Coll, and his wife were
arrested at Wheeling, W. Va, Sunday, for
burying four-days-old baby alive in q
slack coal pile ct n coal mine dump. Some
railroad men heard whining noise and
dug the child out. The only explanation
the parents gave was that the baby was
mo good"
A north-bound passenger train on the
Nashville Il Greensboro railroad ran into
an excursion train filled with negroes at
South Carrollton, KY, SUNDAY, and tour
were killed and % injured. The dead are:
Hugh Barclay of Russellville, fireman of
the excursion train; Henry Easley, coloTed;
Bulge Greenwood, colored; Henry Field,
colored, all OF greensboro.
A council of Baptist churches was held
in Chester, Pa. Monday to investigate
charges affecting the character of the Rev.
William II. Wentz of West Virginia, q
graduate of Grocer Theological Seminary.
MFR. Wentz confessed the offences of which
he was accused, and his ordination was
declared null and the hand Of fellowship
was withdrawn from him.
At the Monarch Mine, in Silver City
Nevada, on Sunday, two shotgun
brigadcs, occupied different quarters oi
the mine, and detied each other to fight
"Thcso armed gangs are hired by two
rival claimants who failed to get their case
settled in court. Burke. one claimant
holds the hoisting works. while FootC
holds the lower tunnel A third claimant
State Treasurer Egan, now declares he will
take possession.