Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-12-22

Dies furniture factory in Alexandra,
Va, was burned Thursday. Loss,
$4,000.
Chris. Miller, wife bcater, of Louis
vile, Ohio, was taken from his house
by White Caps, Wednesday night, and
whipped severely.
Andy t. Kronan and Philip, Barbee,
who were in charge of railroad opera
ton near Lynn, Mass, were killed on
Thursday BY the explosion Of boiler.
A fire in the Wann block at st. Paul
Thursday caused loss OF 100000, the
principal losers being the Nonotuck
A Pipkerton night watchnan, who
was making an arrest in Chicago, Wed
nesday evening, was mobbed by crowd
of men, and narrowly escaped lynching.
The Misses Snyder were convicted ct
Ebensburg, Pa, Thursday of arson in
having set fire to their millinery store,
but were recommended TO the mercy of
the court.
G. A. Benson, condemned murderer
in the Jail at Leavenworth, Kan, on
Friday attempted to kill Captain Nor
gan, his death watch, and then stabbed
and killed himself.
The steamer Australia, at San Fran
cisco Thursday, brought news of the
shelling Of seven villages on Solomon
Islands by the British warship Rapid,
for the killing of the white traders.
A large packet of love-letters which
were to have figured in Chicago
divorce suit were stolen Thursday from
a lawyers office by a young man who
represented himself to be reporter.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Stuttgart, from Bremen, Thur d. 8
brought to New York 1898 Storage
passengers, which is said to be the largest
number thar ever came into any port in
this country on one vessel.
A dispatch from Sandwich, Mass,
says that f. Edwin Elwell, the sculptor,
has been awarded the contract for an
equestrian statue of General Winfield
Scott Hancock. to be erected upon the
battlefield of Gettysburg, for which he
will receive $4,000.
Martin Foy, Jr., the murderer of
Henrietta Wilson, made an attempt to
escape from tho Jail at Ballston, N. Y,
Thursday. He ovcrpowered turnkey,
secured the keys and got outside, but
was subsequently recaptured. He had
made an imitation pistol of wood and
tinfoil, with which he Illuminated the
keeper.
The committee on ceremonies of the
Worlds Fair has decided to have the
exercises at the opening of the EXPOSE
ton on May /, 1898, as brief as possible,
The President of the United States will
be asked to make an address and start
the machinery, and poem by DR..
Oliver Wendell Holmes will be read
and prayer offered.
A telegram from Huntingdon, w. Va,
says that Rush Norman and Henry Col
Inns, gamblers, by agreement, repaired
to q secluded spot and fought duel,
Wednesday night, with beer bottles.
Collins was slightly hurt and Norman
barely escaped with his life. His nose
was severed, his left eye cut and his face
gashed to pieces. He is in serious
condition. Collins has made his escape,
Ex-Congressman Leopold Morse
called at the Hotel Nendome, in Boston,
Thursday, to see Representative Hit,
who was attending the reception of the
Boston Merchants Association. While
waiting in one of the outer rooms of
the hotel he had on epileptic shock.
His physician was called, and just as
the guests of the Merchants Associa-
ton were filing into the dining hall he
was removed to house nearly opposite
where he died within an hour