Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-01-14
IN GEN ERAL.

Henry Gibbons, 10 years of age, was
gored to death by bull, near Wilkes
barre, Thursday.
Cecil Church, aged "a years, of James
vile, Wis, blew out his brains with a
shotgun Thursday, because of domestic
troubles.
Der of the Forty-third Congress from
Virginia, died on Wednesday in Wash
ington, aged As years.
A boiler In the saw mill of Miner,
Caldwell & Flowers, at Boiling, Ala,
exploded Thursday, killing Engineer
Cooper and three others, and injuring
four more.
Representatives of the National Or
ganization of Broom Manufacturers at
Chicago Thursday announced an ad-
vance Of rs cents dozen to take effect
Immediately.
Manlea Harvey and Lucy Clark, col
ored, while returning from candy
stew, in Richmond, Va, before daylight
Thursday morning, fell into the dock
and were drowned.
Six boilers at the Braddock Wire
Works, at Rankin station, Pa, exploded
neer, Peter Zimmerman, and injuring
about IL other employees.
A Chicago street car was struck by q
Chicago 81 Alton freight train, on We'd
nesday week, and the passengers were
badly shaken up and bruised. The car
was completely demolished.
Advices have been received at Halifax
from Kingston, Jamaica, to the effect
that yellow fever has broken out there,
and that the troops have been removed
to Newcastle in consequence.
The schooner Georgiana went ashore
near Rockland, Me-, on Wednesday
night, and went TO pieces. Two of her
crew-Peter Brown of Rockland and
Henry Mathews of Canada-were lost.
A tornado struck Oakland, Fla, on
Wednesday morning, doing great dam
age to property. Mrs. p. H. Roper
was killed by the fall of her house,
which was completely upset by the
wind
Thirty-five suits were begun in Pitts
burg on Wednesday by the Law and
Order Society against as many employees
of the Sunday newspapers, charging
them with engaging in worldly employ
ment on Sunday
Oscar Olsen, Western Union mes
senger at Omaha, was found in an alley
in an unconscious state early Thursday
morning, SO badly injured that he died a
few hours later. 1t is believed the boy
was beaten by footpads or that he sur
prised burglars.
The body of John w. Goshorn of
New York, was found, on Wednesday,
In Bishops Cave, near Bristol, Tenn,
| about u mile from the entrance. He
was prospecting for silver ore, and it is
thought his light burned out and he
was unable to find his way out of the
cave.
A dispatch from Vicksburg, Miss,
says that the negroes in portions of
Washington and Cohoma counties, IN
the heart of the Yazoo delta, are leaving
| by hundreds for Oklahoma and Arkan-
sas, and that this will result in large
| quantity of land, now devoted to cotton
raising, being thrown out of cultivation
for lack Of labor,
Captain Gabrielson, commanding the
revenue steamer Gallatin, has made a
telegraphie report to the treasury de-
partinent confirming the press dis
patches in regard to the loss of that
steamer and the death of Carpenter
jacobson. A telegram was sent to Cap
tain Gabrielson at Manchester yesterday
instructing him to send all the officers
and sailors not needed at the wreck to
the revenue steamer Woodbury., at
Boston.
Anna NJ. DUNCAN, 10 years of age,
fell dead on the street in New York last
Friday within few doors of her home.
Before her body was removed to her
apartments her fingers were stripped of
three valuable diamond rings and a
bracelet of gold and enamel was torn
from her wrist. When tho woman fell
several men rushed toward her, appar-
emily to aid her, but, as the results
showed, to rob her. Her gloves were
torn from her hands on the pretense of
chatting them, and rings were deftly
slipped from her fingers and the bracelet
| from her wrist.