Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-01-07
IN GEN ER4E,

The Meriden Fire Insurance Com
pany of Meriden, Conn, has retired
from business, reinsuring its risks in
the Royal.
Jesse Fierson, colored, was hanged al
Chattanooga on Saturday for the muir.
der of policeman. On Friday night he
made an unsuccessful attempt to take
the life of his iailor.
VIM. Cornell and L. Crutcher were
killed by q snow slide on the outskirts
of Rico, CAL, on Friday night. On Sat
urday a rcscuing party found theiI
bodies buried under 30 feet of snow.
William II. Hartman, prom incnt
citizen of Columbia, Pa, died on Satur-
day, aged n years. He is believed to
have been the last survivor of General
Houston's army in the war for Texas
independence.
Albert e. Herriclz, the brakeman who
is held in part responsible for the New
York Central accident at Hastings, by
which 10 lives were lost, surrendered to
Coroner Mitchell at Workers, New
York, on Saturday.
Deacon Cyrus Hill of Dayton Me-, has
been held for trial on civil suit by
Mrs. Ida V. Boston, who charges him
with selling cider to her husband,
causing him to become drunkard and
to forsake his family"
A dispatch from Boston says the City
of London Fire Insurance Company has
decided to withdraw entirely from bust
ness in the United States, owing to lack
of profit. The company will carry all
Its risks in this country to maturity.
Alfred o. Mann, aged 90 years, as
sistant cashier of the San Pedro Bank,
Cal, shot and killed himself on Saturday.
He was married on Christmas Day and
had just returned from the wedding trip.
No reason for the suicide is known.
Eighteen contraband Cinnamon were
captured at Seattle, Washington, on
Saturday by the customs officials. They
had been landed before daylight by q
sloop in the woods north of the city,
but citizen who saw them notified the
authorities.
Clerk DeFreest of the New York
assembly, has issued the blue book for
1909. The Twenty seventh senatorial
district is left blank and the standing of
the senate is given: Democrats, 16; Re-
publicans, IA; Independent Republican,
/. The standing of the assembly is
given: Democrats, 81; Republicans, 81.
Two grain cars were smashed by a
collision on the Pennsylvania railroad
at Elizabeth, N. j., on Saturday even
ing, and the tracks were blocked. A
number of passengers got off stalled
trains and started to walk to the city on
the east-bound track. Suddenly an ex-
press train dashed into them, killing
Frederick Whitehead and John Dillon,
both of Elizabeth.
A party of railway employees who
were on the way to take the places of
striking men on the San Antonio & Ar
kans Pass railway, were elected from
car at the Fort Smith & Iron Mountain
railroad crossing, at Argenta, Ark, on
Friday, by mob of railroad employees.
The car in which the men were was cut
from the train and the men were driven
into the swamps. The car was again
coupled to the train, but at Little Rock
another mob took possession and de-
stroyed the baggage of the Objectionable
passengers.
Lucci Ortulozzi, 16 years of age,
while at work in candy factory, in
Brooklyn, N. u, some weeks ago, had
his left arm caught in one Of the sugar
rollers, and the skin was stripped off
from the shoulder to the elbow. OF 800
particles of cuticle taken from q hairless
Japanese dog and placed on the boys
arm, nearly every one is living and
knitting, SO that the boys skinlcss arm
is more than half covered. The dog, in
stead of suffering much under the ether
and the operations performed on it, is
getting fatter every day.
In the United States district court in
Boise, Idaho, on Saturday, nearly 100
Mormons, accused OF violating election
laws by registering and voting in 1888,
were dismissed upon motion Of United
States District Attorney Woods. The
indictments involved construction of
the Idaho test oath law, which provides
that so long as the church recognized
and encouraged polygamy no Mormon
should be entitled to the right of suf-
frage. Mr.. Woods claims it would be
for the government to prove
that previous to 1888 the Mormons had
not, at meeting of state presidents and
apostles, enjoincd the further practice
and teaching of polygamy, not only in
Idaho, but throughout the jurisdiction
of the church.