Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-03-10
IN GENERAL.

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Beach.
The mill and box factory of L. e.
Williams s. Company, of Salisbury,
Maryland, were burned on Saturday.
Loss, $4,000.
Darwin j. Mesdrole, who killed Theo-
dore Larbig, was Sunday admitted o
probationary mdmber of Plymouth
Church, Brooklyn.
James Dubois was arrested in Cincin-
natl on Saturday, charged with infanti-
eide. He threw his four.days-old baby
into the Ohio river.
An eight-years-dld daughter of Lewis
Bluebell of Frenchville, Pa, was burned
to death Sunday by her clothes catch
ing fire from stove.
The Mellert Foundry Company Of
Reading, Pa, has announced a reduc-
ton in the wages of its employees Of
from to 10 per cent.
Edwards Pierrepont, who was minis
ter to England under General Grant,
died at his residence in New York on
Sunday morning. He was 10 years old.
A dispatch from the City of Mexico
says that number of Cinnamon are be-
coming Mexican citizens in order to
evade the United States restriction laws.
The jury in the proceeding to deter
mine whether or not Edward M. Field,
the New York broker, is insane, on Sat-
urday announced that they could not
agree.
Smallpox was discovered among tho
steerage passengers of the steamship
DANA, at New York, Sunday, from
Hamburg, and the vessel was detained
ot ouarontira
The population of Brooklyn, with one
district to be heard from, is given as
053,33S. Tho Federal census of 1890
gave SOC, 543, and the,police census, four
months later, s53, 9451
The census returns for the city of
New York are all in, with the exception
of two election districts. The total
population of the "a assembly districts,
according to the enumeration, is 1,795,-
295.
Fayette WEIGH, an actor, was shot
and killed early Sunday morning by
William f. Flannery, u variety per-
former, in Boston boarding house.
Flannery says the killing was uninten-
tional.
Fernleigh Montague, an artist, in
Washington, d. c., shot his wife dead
Sunday and then killed himself.
Dependency, the result of long and
painful illness, is given as the cause of
the deed.
An infant child of Mrs. Addie
Beacham of Columbia, S. O., was killed
on Saturday by 5-years-old negro boy
named Bud Harris, who slipped into the
room during the mothers absence and
crushed the child's skull with heavy
piece of iron.
The Rev. Henry Pereira Mendez, a
Jewish rabbi of New York city, was
shot in the abdomen on Saturday even-
ing by beggar- crank named Jose Mes
sashlei, who demanded 800. An opera
ton was performed and the bullet ex-
tracted. 1t is thought the rabbi will re-
cover.
About year ago at Denver, Col, G.
A. Dean sued S. W. French for damages
for alternating the affections of his wife,
and secured verdict for 100000. The
judge set aside the verdict as exorbitant
and a new trial was ordered. The
second trial ended on Saturday night
with verdict for $4,000.
The schooner B. J. H4zzard, 50 days
out from Georgetown, s. c., for New
York, was picked up by the tngboat
Mabry and towed into Wayport, Fla,
on Friday night. The schooner was
disabled by the storm and was short of
provisions, almost to the point of starya-
ton. One sailor was killed by fall
from the rigging.
1t was rumored in Baltimore on Sat-
urday that the Reading Railroad Cons
pany is after the Canton COMPANY
property, which would give it magnifi-
cent water front and terminal facilities.
1t was also said that Reading had OBJ
tanned certain. concessions that give il
the opportunity of securing the Balti-
more 8 Lehigh Railroad at any time it
so decides.
Fire was discovered in the basement
of crowded tenement in New York
Sunday evening. Kerosene had been
sprinkled over the wood work and fires
started in three separate rooms. For
tunately the tiremen were promptly
summoned and the flames cxtinguished.
L. G. Martial, an Italian shoemaker,
who had just vacated the rooms, is sus-
pected of the crime.
A fight between white teamsters and
negroes took place at Clark's Cross
Roads, KY, on Saturday, as result of
which four negroes were killed and
three or four seriously wounded, and
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One of the white men struck a negro
with a whip, without provocation,
whereupon IL negroes attacked the team
sters with the result stated.
Annie Ward, a young woman, shot
Michael Gallagher at Ridley Park sta /
ton, on the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore railroad, Saturday even
ing. She claimed that he had ruined
her. Gallagher was taken to the Uni
vcrsity Hospital. The young woman |
gave herself up to the police at Ridley |
township, and was committed to iail to
await the result of Gallagher's Injuries,
A dispatch from Harrisburg saws that
Encouragement Hensel will test in the
Dauphin county court, as soon as tho
necessary papers can be prepared, the
constitutionality of the leases by which
the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad
Company has assumed control of tho
Lchigh Valley and New Jersey Central
railroads. A bill in equity, including
an application for a permanent iniunc.
ton to restrain operations under the
lease will be the proceeding adopted.