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


Senator Fair died suddenly in San Fran
cisco Friday.
John Henry Bien. aged % years, hanged
himself In Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, on
Thursday night.
The Grand Central Hotel at FL Paso,
Texas, was burned to the ground Thurs
day. The loss is said to be over 100000
By the fall of hot ingot at the ordnance
works Of the Bethlehem iron works on
Friday james McEIugh was fatally and
several others seriously injured.
Two lndianisquaws fought with butcher
knives, ON Wednesday week, seven mil es
from Pine City, Mimi, and it is believed
one OF them was fatally wounded.
The Albany journal has compiled the
results of the supervisor elections in New
York state on Tuesday. The Republican
majority of 81 in 1891 has increased to 1874.
The schooner Wave, bound for Norfolk,
with oysters, was swamped Thursday in
in Pamlico sound, and Captain Newcomhe.
Mate 5. d. Parsons and crew were
drowned.
Two negroes, who had been arrested at
Romulus, Tuscaloosa county, Ala, for
robbing aud burning store, were taken
from the officers by mob on Tuesday,
and lynched.
The dead bodies of two men have been
found in all old building seven miles north
of HI Paso, Texas 1t is thought they we've
murdered by renegade Indians from the
Mescalero reservation.
Newton ]. Ross, farmer of Tallahassee,
Florida, was Thursday shot and killed by
another farmer, named Sheriff., with
whom he had had a dispute in the settle
ment for some work done by the men.
John ]. Delarch, farmer from Putnam
county, Georgia, was swindled out of $500
in New York Thursday. He thought he
was buying 5000 worth of counterfeit
money. Both swindlers were arrested.
A dispatch from Belvidere, N. j.. says
that ''slnce Tuesday of last week six mem
hers out of seven of the family of james
Broad, slate manufacturer, living near
Bangor Pa, have died of malignant scar
let fever"
The funeral Of John Jay Knox, ex-
comptroller of the treasury. took place in
New York Friday, the services being
held in st. Bartholomew's Church. The
remains were sent to Washington for in
terment.
Henry Vetter, business man of AL
toona, Pa, was waylaid by u footpad on
Thursday night, and was struck on the
head and perhaps fatally injured. His
assailant was frightened off before he
could rob his victim.
The general book committee of the
Methodist Episcopal Book Concern con
cluded its annual meeting Thursday, in
New York. The sales for the year 1891
amounted to s2,2Ol,ii4. The profits OIL
these sales are 1904, 1876.
The annual dinner of the New York
Union League Club was given Friday even
ing, the organization at the same time
celebrating the birthday of Abraham Lin
coin. Hon. John s. Wise responded to
the toast abraham Lincoln"
John N. Thnrston, general attorney of
the Union Pacific ut Omaha, has an
nounced that in consequence of the
for the vice presidential nomination be-
fore the Republican convention.
Fifty-seven cases of typhus fever were
discovered in New York city Thursday
morning among Russian-Jewish refugees
by the inspectors of the health department.
The disease is supposed to have been
brought to this country in a steamer from
Marseilles.
dispatch from Denver says that the
officers OF the Rio Grande railroad have
refused the request of the telegraph
operators for and increase of 10 per cent
in salaries. 1t Is said tile telegraphers'
order will take up the matter, and, in the
event of further REFUSAL will order strike.
The Iowa supreme court has decided in
favor of the plaintiffs n suit brought by u
firm of wholesale liquor dealers of st.
Louis, to recover for liquor sold to an Iowa
saloon keeper. The latter contended that
he was not liable because the liquor was
sold in violation of the prohibitory law.
The u. $. steamer Tallapooso, now at
Montevideo, has been condemned ms unit
for further naval service and will be sold
at public auction. Her officers and crew
sailed for home on the 10Th ult., leaving
the vessel in charge of the officers of the
Yantic. The Tallapoosa is a relic of the
war.
Robert Hastings of st. Louis, tramp,
was found Friday in an old quarry shed
near Homewood, Pa, suffering from o
broken leg He had fallen in the quarry
on Monday night, and had been there
helpless and suffering from starvation and
exposure ever since. He is not expected to
recover.
AT Uniontown, Pa, Thursday, William
Stauffer weak-minded man, about %
years of age, wrapped q sheet around his
head and then plunged il into q blazing
fire. When his friends tried to put ont the
flames he fought them off until his clothes
were nearly all burned off. Ills injuries
are fatal
Caroline Gardner, the 15-years-old daugh-
ter OF u coal miner of Federal Station, near
1lltsDurB, was frightened SO Duly ON
Wednesday week by two meh, who chased
her, that she died in commissions. The
men, Thomas and James Skidmore, were
arrested ana held by the coroner for man
slaughter.
The President Thursday sent to the Sem
ate the nomination of Joseph McKennn,
present member of Congress from Cali
fornia, to he United States circuit Judge
for the Ninth judicial circuit, and Rowland
i. Mahany of New York to be envoy ex-
traordinary and minister plenipotentiary
to Ecuador.
The Hamburg-American Line steamship
SlavOnia, which left Hamburg January
22d for baltimore, put in at New York
Friday, disabled. The vessel lost two
blades Of her propeller, her engine was
partly disabled, and she was leaking so
much that it was necessary to keep her
pumps going to keep her free of water.
The Slayonia had one cabin and 81 steerage
passengers.
A collision Of freight trains near Law
renee Station, Ohio, the derailing of the
locomotives of the limited express from
Chicago, OH the Cleveland, Akron ~
Columbus road, over which route the train
was sent to avoid the freight wreck, and
n similar accident To the day express, were
reported on the Fort WAYNE road on
Thursday night and early Friday morn
ing. Still another freight wreck on the
Fort Wayne road occurred Friday
morning near Pittsburg.