Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-01-14
In GEA ERAL.

According to dispatch from St.
Louis two more large whisky distilleries
are to be built there to fight the Whisky
Trust.
Charles Golster, q farmer of Syracuse,
committed suicide on Sunday; he had
become respondent through fear of be-
coming insane.
Frank w. Locke, Chicago saloon
keeper, shot and killed his stepson,
Joseph Kawales, on Saturday night.
He claimed the shooting was in self
defence.
The British steamer Moorish Prince,
at New York Sunday from Brazil, re-
ported having had six of her crew ill
with yellow fever, four having died of
the disease.
BY an explosion of dynamite in
stone quarry at Bellairs, o., on Sun
fatally. The residence of Frank Nelson
was wrecked.
The guns of the United States mont
tor Miantonomah, were tested In Gardi-
hers bay on Saturday. The firing was
attended by no unpleasant results TO the
ship, officers and crew.
Two children of Mrs. Bardoritz, at
Bethlehem, were fatally suffocated on
Saturday. They had been locked in
the house while their mother went to
pick coal, and fire broke out.
The Rev. Ebenezer Hazard Snowden
died Sunday at his home near Wilkes
barre, Pa, aged SO years. He was
graduate of Hamilton College in the
class of 1918, and for many years a
minister Of the Presbyterian Church.
Harry Welsh, conductor, and Peter
"A. Reinhard and Samuel Crawford,
brakemen, in the employ of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company, have been
arrested at Lancaster, charged with
stealing from the company at Columbia.
The Santa Fe railway employees met
at Gainesville, Texas, on Saturday, and
resolved not to handle any freight that
came from or went to the Arkansas Pass
road. Similar action has been taken by
the employees of the International and
Great Northern.
As Mrs. Neil Campbell was going up
stairs in her home, in Fort Laurence
Dock, Nova Scotia, on Saturday even
ing, a lamp she carried in her hand ex-
plodcd, setting fire to the house. Mrs.
Campbell and her 6.ycars-old daughter
persisted in the flames.
A dispatch from Jefferson City, Mo-,
says that it is understood that an extra
session of the Missouri legislature will
be called together by Governor Francis
early in February, and that the session
will be devoted exclusively to the redis-
tricting of the state for congressional
purposes.
An attempt was made on Friday
night to lynch Lem. Gouldsberry, the
murderer of Peter Binder, confined in
the Jail at st. Mary's, Kan, The sheriff
was oyerpowered, but the mob was
without organization and the explosion
of q pistol caused q panic, the attempt
failing in consequence.
The entire street car system of Indian
apolis is completely tied up. Ten days
ago President Frenzel, of the Citizens
Street Railway Company, took up all
the badges of the employees and notified
them that, except on strictly company
business and under certain other condi-
tons, the men must either pay fare or
walk. Hence the men have struck.
George NJ. Boarman and his wife, Of
Baltimore, buried their eldest son,
JOsepii SililtOHs dSeu years, OIL Gdtur-
day morning Twelve hours later,
Marie, their eldest daughter, a cEild of
three years, who was recovering from
diphtheria, died from the effects of
dose of carbolic acid, given by the
child's mother in mistake for medicine
prescribed by the family physician.
Plans have been prepared at Indian
apolis, in connection with the move
ment to secure the meeting of the Dem
ocratic national convention for that
city, for hall with a seating capacity |
of $4,000, with the most perfect arrange |
ments for convention purposes ever
offered in the country. More than |
sufficient money for the erection Of the |
building has been raised by subscrip-
ton.
Captain Mitchell, commanding the |
revenue steamer Crawford, reports to
the treasury department that mutiny |
recently occurred on the American
schooner Charles Q. Dame, in Chesa-
peake bay, during which the captain
was badly beaten. Captain Mitchell |
boarded the schooner and put the crew
in irons. He then took them to Balti-
more and turned them over to the civil
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