Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-10-06

Frederick Brockor, IA years old, was
caught in a screen at the Tunnel Ridge
collery, at Mahanoy City, Pa, Monday,
and fatally injured.
Only four of the bodies of the victims of
the mine disaster ut lronwood. Mich, have
thus far been taken ont though several of
them have been located in the debris.
J, Barlow Moorehead, young man re.
ported to be worth half million dollars
and recently a "Keeley cure" patient,
committed suicide in New York Monday.
Diphtheria has broken out among the
Polanders, at Avondale, near Nanticokc,
Pa. In one family three children have
died within three days. and each after II
few hours illness.
A furious gale swept over I.avaca Bay,
Texas, Saturday night, destroying or badly
damaging % fish and oyster boats. Many
boats have not been heard from, and
anxiety is felt as to their safety.
Charles Winchester, hotel keeper of
lankton, 5. D., was burned to death on
Monday by an explosion of gasoline. He
was sprinkling II floor to eSterminate YER
min when the gasoline took tire.
The Rev. =. $. Croker, "a Methodist
minister of High Point, N. G., was killed
al jamestown by an express train. Ills
horse ran away and his carriage was struck
by the train as it crossed the track.
The Kumm block, in Portland, Oregon,
was burned Monday. John G. Gray, a
carriage maker, was burned to death, aud
ID. Huston, a fireman, was seriously injured
The damage by the fire amounted to
$4,000
The treasury department has decided
that AL the direct tax must be refunded to
the individual from whom it was collected,
without deductions for commissions and
Dlsn thut tho tnH IL,
penalties and interest in cases where it
was originally paid by them.
The trial Of Edw. S. Dunn, the wrecke
of the National Savings Bank, at Buffalo,
was to have begun Monday, but the
accused was reported to be lying at the
point Of death, and his case went over for
one week. Dunn died last evening, the
result, it is alleged, of opium poisoning.
| A n.on-union man named smith, en-
ployed in Carnegic's Thrty-third street
mlll, III l'ittsburg, was assaulted by
| strikers last Saturday night, and So badly
| injured that his recovery is doubtful.
Andrew Nolski, another non-union man,
| was felled the same day with an iron bar,
but his injuries are not dangerous.
William Lock was acquitted at Norris
town Monday of the charge of having
murdered his lG-months-old-son. While
insane. OIL the night of September 22d, he
OHefcl his enid up as q sacrifice by cut
| ting its throat with razor and then
bathed his face in the blood, lie was re-
moved TO the Norristown Hospital for the
Insane.
The Rhode Island supreme court Mon
day handed down an opinion UNFOLDING
the constitutiOnality of the weekly nav
ment law. The court held that corpora.
tions, being created by the Legislature, were
subject TO any limitations the legislature
might impose, and did not come within
the privileges accorded citizens under the
provision of the Constitution of the
United States.
An unknown man went into Peter
Fredericks jewGlry store in BROOKLYN YES.
terday and asked to see some watches. A
tray containing four gold time-pecGs was
SET on the case, when the man pulled out a
| syringe filled with ammonia, squirted it
into Frederick's eyes, and, grabbing the
tray, rushed from the place, He was cap
tured before he had gone far. Fredericks
will probably lose his cycsight.
The plant of the Cary-Ogden Company,
| manufacturers OF paints and yarnishcs In
Chicago, was burned on Monday. Loss,
| Sl6O,OO. As Engine Company No. 3 was
crossing the Chicago, burlington 4 Quincy
tracks on its way to the fire, the engine
was run down by locomotive and
smashed to pieces. several of the iircmen
! were badly bruised and Driver Henry Wal.
baum received fractured skull, which will
prove fatal