Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-02-18


reported to the health authorities OF
Newark, n. j., Sunday
A "wolf drive took place at Girard,
Kan, on Saturday. About 1000 men par
ticipated and q wolves were killed.
Damage to the extent of $4,000 was
done in New York on Sunday by fire in
the furniture factory of Charles Lench.
Elves Pardue and his wife of Portland,
| Tenn, were found with their throats cut
on Saturday. 1t is thought they both COM
mtted suicide.
| Four cases of typhlts fever were dis
covered at Newburgh, n. Y, or Saturday,
among Italians who came over on the
steamer Massilia.
The New York Anarchists are to hold
mass meeting on Friday night to denounce
the Spanish government for executing the
Anarchists at Here's.
Mrs. Henry Jewell of Texarkana. Ark,
was assaulted by a strange negro during
the absence of her husband on Saturday,
and left in dying condi tion.
The public schools of Maytown, Lam
| caster county, have been CLOSED on account
of scourage of diphthe ria 80 new cases
having been developed in two days.
The town of Murtal Arkansas was
almost destroyed by fife on Saturday,
burned, the total loss bding estimated at
| $i25,000.
The foreign ministers esident in Wash
/ ington are to be invited to join the Com
| gressional excursion TO Chicago, TO inspect
the progress of work ON the World Fair
buildings. ssNN
The Chesapeake nail works and the pud-'
| ding department of the Central iron
works, at Harrisburg, shut down on Satur-
day night, throwing between 200 and 5uO
men out of work.
| A Nyack. N. Y, dispatch says that ice
| harvesting in Rockland county practically
ended on Saturday evening The knicker-
booker Company have housed 10000 tons
at Rockland Lake.
A dispatch from Reading, Pa. says that
the Philadelphia & Reading railroad has
decided to build 500 feet extension to its
repair shops in that city, and huge paint
shop is to be erected.
Daniel Skies, foreman of the bridge con-
| struction corps of the Pennsylvania rail-
road, was killed near Mt. Holly, N. j., on
Saturday, while trying to cross bridge in
advance of passenger train. Nth
! William Vanaitken, 13-yfars-old boy.
of Trenton, n. j., was Sunday found
strangled to death, being suspended by q
cord from the window frame. His parents
think the boys death was accidental.
The fire marshal in New York reported
on Saturday that the Hotel Royal fire origi-
mated in the elevator shaft from the candle
| OF INC nlBuL 6nBlHtcT. I1t IEbbabt1
nited u leak in the rubber gas pipe while
making an examination.
Robert REILLY and Louis W. Leonard,
the Philadelphia & Reading railroad train
men, were acquitted at Trenton, N. j.. on
Saturday, of responsibility for the accident
near Pennington, on December Sd, by
which three persons were killed.
4. j. Biaps and Corchita, Sylvester were
married at West Berkeley, Cal, on Satur-f
day night. While the bridal party were
standing on the railway track waiting for
a local train to take them home, although
train dashed around curve into the party
and killed Biaps and Mrs. Sylvia,
friend of the bride.
The Philadelphia & Reading Cbrnpany's
Locust Gap Colliery at Mt. Carmel, Pa,
mine with a capacity of 1000 tons day,
was partially destroyed by fire sunday.
The fire originated in the hosting engine
rooms which were totally destroyed. Six
hundred hands will be thrown outof en-
ployment for month.
The Eighteenth street exchange of the
Metropolitan Telephone Company, in New
York, was burned out on Saturday night,
causing loss of S100,0O0. The damage 10
the switchboard was $4,000, and about
l,500 telephone subscribers were cut off.
The balance of the loss was divided among
other tenants of the building.
James Morton of Salem, Illinois, A,ed on
made critically i'll by poison supposed TO
have been placed in the family -four
barrel. A young man named Parkinson
is suspected Of having committed the
crime because one of Morton's daughters
refused to receive calls from him.
Henry Tenbroeek Carnage, 81 years old,
was found dead Sunday in his room in
the building of the University Of thy City
of New York, where he had lived alone
for 40 years. The body was found with
the head resting on the top of lighted
oil stove and the flesh of the face burned
off to the bone. Death was due, however,
to natural causes.
1t is reported from Chicago that the var
ious railways entering that city rather
than elevate their tracks will transfer
their base of operations. 1t is proposed to
build a new belt line with which each
road will make connections, all tracks. de-
pots and other property within the city
limits to be absolutely abandoned"
An Altoona dispatch says that one Of The
new compound locomotives of the Bald
| win locomotive works. Sunday morning
on the Pennsylvania railroad up the west
slope of the Allegheny mountain unas-
sisted. No single engine has before been
equal to the task. The engine gained 10
minutes in the run between Pittsburg end
Altoona. .
NJ. Duclos, sent to this country by u
French Government to investigate and
port on the Government meat inspecti,
of this country, having carefully examiu'
into the methods pursued at the stot
yards at Chicago. says: 81 am glad TO c
press my eminent delight over what
have seen. | consider the inspection 4
pork to be perfect in every particular, an
shall make such report to my Cover
ment."
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