Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-12-29

TWO lHCutS Vi alltlN lGll Ill wilmington.
n. g., Monday night.
The Ohio river at Bellaire was frozen
over Monday for the first time since 1888.
The costumes Of the Digby Bell Opera
Company were attached in Chicago, Sun
day night for debt.
The Ohio river is frozen at points above
and below Steubenville, Ohio. A number
OF boats are hemmed in by the ice.
At Lyon Mountain, New York, Mon
day the temperature was 2so below zero,
and at Saranac Lake ii was 2lo below.
A train struck hack in Chicago Sun
day night, and Patrick Masany and ]. II.
Barnett, who were inside, were killed.
William l.. Miller. 10 years of age, broke
through the ice while skating on the
Schuylkill at Reading Monday night and
was drowned.
A dispatch from Montreal says that
Mgr. Satolli will probably be called upon
to extend the ramilicaion Of his ConCili-
atory policy into Candada."
The Christmas Society of New York
Monday made many thousand poor chill
dren happy by the distribution Of Christ
mas gifts at the Madison Square Garden.
A noted character named Mark Edwards
was roasted to death in ms house al sag
Harhor Monday night. 1t is supposed
that Edwards went home drunk and upset
q lamp.
Late sunday night frame tenment
i'll CireenshurS, Pa, was burned. James
Agelcco, IN old man, was burned to death
and several children were perhaps fatally
injured.
The returns Of the recent local election
in Long Island City which were ordered
70 be returned 70 the election inspectors
for correction, are now said to he missing
from the safe in the city clerks office
John l.. Woods, wealthy retired mer.
chant Of Cleveland, o., Monday gave
Sl25,0O0 TO the Medical College of Western
Reserve University, as a Christmas gift.
The university has received during the
past two years gifts agsregatins SioD0Uo.
Charles Field was horribly burned in
Chicago Sunday night Thomas Files had,
as 4 practical Joke smeared Tar over
Fields legs while he slept, Then, in an
| effort TO get the tar off again with kero-
sene, the oil took fire. Fields injuries are
not fatal.
SIMON Norris "a years old, of Yonkers.
| n. Y, tried 10 commit suicide SUNDAY
| night because he had had a quarrel with
| his wife. He lay down ON the New York
| Central track in front Of freight train
but was pulled away by byslander and
| locked mp.
The steamship City Of Berlin arrived ii
New York, Monday, after Il rough voyage
from Liverpool. ice gathered on the deck
| several inches thick AMI coated the side,
from stem to stern. Several ,kylights
were carried away, and a boat amidship.
was broken to pieces.
Mrs. Mary Noonan and her daughter
| Mrs. John Swindler of Fort WaVne Ind
became frightened while in ali elevator il
a store in that city saturday night, and
lcaping out on a narrow platform, fel
backward down the shaft, a distance of Il
feet. Both were killed.
The Methodist Episcopal church, 81,
stores, seven dwellings and three barns II
Wyoming, N. ", were burned Monday
The village was without lire protection
and finally building was blown up will
gunpOwdcr and the fire was stopped Tn,
loss is placed at 100000.
While John Miller and Simon Rlankep
bller were in a saloon in Reading. Pa.
Monday, Blankenbiller snapped re
vOlver which he had received as Christ
mas gift. There was report and Mile
fell dead, shot through the heart Mile
was superintendent Of the blacksmith sho
of the Peoples railway, Philadelphia.
A Chicago dispatch says that John ]
Regain, who is said TO have been an honor
AIRY pall-bearer at Parnells funeral, com
mitted suicide in that city Sunday, by fir
ing bullet into his temple. Inability l.
ma missing brother, the heir to tn
family property in Dublin, is the suppose
cause.
During mass at st. Aloysius' Romal
Catholic Church, in Cincinnati, on Sun
day, the Rev. Bernard Sch walen. a votln
priest but recently ordained. COMMITTEE
suicide in the residence adjoining h
shooting himself lie had been very do
spondcnt over a hereditary tendency /
insanity.
During a religious meeting in a colore
I Free Methodist Chapel in Chicago, Sunda
night James Williams confessed mat Ii
had murdered Charles Layaurne, his EN-
ploycr, in Paris, and that lie had con
mtted another murder in Louisiana i
order to have one John LAFAYETTE put i
jail. 1t is not known yet whether tn
mans story is true.
1t is understood that efforts will be mad
by the Mexican government to turn til
tide nf cmmgration which has been flow
| ing from Europe 10 the United States {
that country in view al the prabablc pas,
age by the United States Congress of law
further restricting Immigration II
rumorcd that the authorities to several q
the Mexican states are preparing to sen
. emigration commissioners Of Italy ,SwedCr
ireland and Germany.
l Children Cry for Pitchers Castor