Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-03-17
IN GEN ERAL.

swept over large sect1on or country.
Reports have reached Ashland. Wis,
that several homesteaders near Iron River
persisted in the storm on Wednesday night.
Willie Warner, aged 10 years, was fatally
stabbed OH Saturday by Otto krepp. about
the same age, during q quarrel, in Trcn-
ton, n. ].
The city of San Antonio, Texas, is re-
ported TO be in financial difficulties, being
unable 10 pay her employees their salaries
for February.
In the senate of Iowa on Saturday the
bill to regulate the sale of Intoxicating
liquors was indefinitely postponed by
vote of AZ to Al.
George W. Knox of Washington, D. c.,
founder Of one Of the largest private ex.
press companies in the United States, died
Sunday, in his 63d year.
A wolf drive in which over thousand
men took part, at Pelican Rapids, Mimi,
resulted in the killing of IL wolves. A
bear and 10 wolves escaped.
A. il. Glespie postmaster at Rock Creek,
Wyoming, on Friday attacked C. ID Griffin
and crushed his skull with an iron blud
geon. Gillespie was arrested.
Three steamers of the Union Steamship
Company are tied up at Vancouver, British
Columbia, owing to strike of the engi-
ncers and firemen, who demand increased
wages.
An explosion took place in the Revenue
tunnel at Mount Sheppels, Col, on Satur-
day night, caused by premature blast,
and two men were killed and one seriously
injured.
The joint committee of the Missouri leg
islature on the Congressional districts of
the state have agreed upon bill giving IA
districts to the Democrats and one to the
Republicans.
John Richie and Charles Smith, of
Frederick. Md, were shot on Saturday
night, the former being seriously wounded
by Charles Tucker, who says he mistook
them for burglars.
Robert Taylor, who was serving five
years term in the Berks county Jail, at
Reading, escaped on Saturday night, by
cutting hole in his cell, through wall
over 80 inches thick.
Mrs. Lokken and boy attempted to go
to the house of sick woman, near Willow
City, S. D., on Wednesday. They were
overtaken by the blizzard, lost their way
and the woman persisted.
A prairie fire has ragged for several days
in Payne county, Oklahoma, several
farms being swept over by the flames.
John Query was burned to death while
attempting to save his home.
Mrs. Margaret Il. Dayton. widow of
William J.. Dayton, who was the Republi-
can candidate for Vice-president on the
ticket with Fremont. died in Trenton, N.
j., Sunday, in her SD year.
A combination of 20 manufacturers of
sewer pipe in the Ohio valley. was organ
lied at Toronto, Ohio, on Thursday, to
regulate the price and production. The
| firms represent capital of SO, 500, 900.
Elijah ]. Howard. amachinist of Boston,
was found dead in his room, in which he
had lived alone for 20 years, on Saturday
morning. In the room were found cash
and securities valued at nearly $61, 200.
Another suit for damages against the
| city of New Orleans, growing out of the
| lynching of the Italians, was filed OH Sat-
urday. The petitioner is the widow of
Loretto Comitez, and she claims 500, 900.
A reciprocity treaty between the United
| States and Nicaragua has been arranged,
and President Harrison has issued q
| proclamation setting forth that fact and
| giving list of articles which Nicaragua
will admit free of duty
Three men entered the house of Albert
| Denstow, in the suburbs OF New Haven,
Conn, on Thursday night, bound and
! gagged Denstow and boarder named
Monk, and then criminally assaulted Mrs
Amelia Johnson, Denstow's sister.
Annie Medley, her uncle, J.. Medley
anu Felix burueWe were CROWNED aL Geer
| less, II miles above Charleston, w. Va.
| on Saturday, while crossing the river in a
| skiff. They lost the oars and drifteo
against barge, which caused their boat
| to capsize.
Thirty cases of illness, supposed to be
/ trichinosis, have occurred in the town OF
| Colerain, Mass, within the past few weeks
and three of the patients died. The disease
| is thought to have originated from bologna
sausages purchased from the branch sup
| ply houses of a Chicago firm.
William NJ. Griffin, farmer of DEVILS
Lake, North Dakota, was found frozen tc
death on Thursday. He was caught in the
blizzard and, abandoning his team, made
| an unsuccessful attempt to reach the town.
| A man at South Grafton, North Dakota
was also frozen to death in the storm.
A dispatch from Sing Sing, N. Y, say.
that Warden Brown thas caused dissatis
faction among the keepers and guards OF
the state prison by issuing orders to tn,
| prison shall hereafter be allowed to enter
saloon or any other place whore intoxicat
| ing liquors are sold"
W. n. Petty and his wife, who went tc
Peoria, ILL.,, from Memphis only a few
| weeks ago, were arrested on Thursday
charged with atrociols cruelty to .
years-old adopted daughter. 1t is ALLEGED
that they burned the child with ho
poker, tied her up by the thumbs anC
beat her numerically.
A severe snow storm. accompanied by
high wind, prevailed throughout Contra
| and Western New York Friday. Snow
drifts blocked railroad travel almost com
| pletcly on some of the lines. A dispatch
from Utica, New York, says that the pas
sengcr traffic en- the New York Contra
was practically suspended.
The steamships Deptford and Memphis
which arrived at Baltimore Friday re
ported passing at night sunken steam
ship between Cape Henlopen and Fenwick
Island. The smokcstack and foremost
were standing. They also report that tht
| whistling buoy. which should be half &
mile to the northward of Smiths Islano
Light, is about seven miles south south
west of its position.
The coroner's inquest in the cases Of
benjamin T. Norton and Henry l.. Nor
| cross, the men killed in the dynamite ex
| plosion In Russell Sage's office, in Dccem
| Der last, was held in New York Friday
The jury recommended that the legislature
pass a law immediately, making il an of
fence punishable by imprisonment for any
person to carry any object Whatsoever
capable of destroying life and property
without the proper authority.
John Crawford of Highland, New York
was drowned from the steamer Davic
Kemp on her passage down the st. John.
river, Florida, on Saturday night. Wher
the steamer was about five miles below
Jacksonville, Crawford took seat on the
railing, and taking n rubber hose hanging
from the upper deck for a post, leaned
against IT, lie fell overheard and could
not be rescued, as the boat was going
nearly II miles per hour. The body wa.
not recovered.
The Musicians Union of st. Louis is said
to be preparing TO take issue with the
United States government in the matter OF
allowing the Marine Band under Prof
Soussa, to make tour of the country
| fharphv coming in dirnct cpmpetition vrifl