Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-07-13
IN EN- ERAL.


vile Sunday He was So years OF age
Arthur Trejeau and colored man
named Thomas Jefferson were killed by
lightning Wednesday at Donaldsonvilie'
La.
The net gold balance in the treasury
now amounts to s96. 0S9, 057, and is incfeas-
ing daily, while none OF the coin is being
exported.
The Opera House ut New Haven, Conn,
was badly damaged by fire "Wednesday.
The building, which cost SlOO,0oO, may
have to be rebuilt.
During u riot at Woodbine, KY, on sat
urday. City-Alarshal Morrisseyi Bud smith
and James Francis were killed. -Four
others were wounded.
Irving Clark, aged 10, and Frank Paullin,
aged ID wears both of Kansas City, were
Killed by lightning Tuesday week. They
were standing under tree.
A terrific wind and rain storm visited
Chicago last Sunday. The Worlds Fair
buildings, and the exhibits they contain,
sustained considerable damage.
George Pricketts, so years of age, Of
Mount Union, Pa, was shot and killed
Sunday by Alfred Kloss. 1t is alleged
that Pricketts was intimate with Mrs.
Kloss.
A combination of the skewer manufac-
turers of the United States has been formed
ut Muncie, Ind. under the title of the
American Skewer Company, with capital
OF S300,000.
A tornado did great damage to property
at Laketield, Mimi, and vicinity, Wednes::
day week. Mrs. Andrew X. Ahara and
= child We're fatally injured by the wreck.
ing Of the dwelling.
During storm at ChickamauGa Sun
day John ID. Crimmons was killed and
Chief of Police Mitchell of Chattanooga
was seriously injured by being struck by
thetop Of huge tree torn of by the wind.
Two girls named Ray, aged IL aud 10
years. who were black berrying near Bard
well. KY, Wednesday. were found muir
dered. Their threats were cut and there
were evidences that they had been as
saulted.
The Rev. DR.. McGlynn. in an interview
in Chicago Wednesday, said that, while he
had been fully restored to his faculties as
q priest, Bishop Mcdonnell of Brooklyn
has thus far withheld from him permits
sion to celebrate mass in public.
Matthew J. Swatek, one of the stock
holders Of the Worlds Fair Captive Bal
loon Company, Wednesday filed bill in
the circuit court, asking that a receiver for
the company be appointed. 1t is alleged that
the capital of the company is being dissi-
PeNeN " ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
John, Martin. farmer near st. Joseph,
MO-. sold his farm to three men, saturday,
for $4,000. They put the money, which
was In large bills, into bag and lett ii
with Martin. The farmer gave the men
so.u0O in small bills for change. The
$25.OOO was all counterfeit.
News reached Ottawa Wednesday Of a
collision on the Canadian Pacific railway
at Rossport, 100 miles east of Port Arthur,
ontario, on Saturday week, between bal,
last train and handcar The train was
wrecked and seven men were badly in
1urcd, OF whom four have since died.
An electric car on the Neversink Noun
tain railroad at Reading was derailed,
Tuesday week, by an obstruction malici-
ously placed on the track. Rails and stills
had been placed on the track in II differ
| ent places near klapperthal No one was
hurt. The matter is being Investigated.
The steamer Bethel. anchored at the foot
| OF Sibley street. ST, PAU, which had been
used for several years as a lodging house
Tor poor people, was burned Wednesday
week. Two women and one man persisted,
and their bodies were recovered yesterday
morning. Seven persons were injured,
one perhaps mortally.
\ Edward Carlin. aged 30, of Wheeling
| w. Va, committed suicide THURSDAY bv
| jumping into the Ohio river. Carlin re-
Gently tailed in business. Wednesday he
secured position requiring bond. When
he asked old acquaintance to become mis-
oondsmen they refused and he became
| Respondent.
| Information reached Montreal Wednes-
day that the steamer Lake Nepigon, of the
Beaver Line, which sailed from Montreal,
tuesday week, struck an iceberg, Saturday
in the Straits OF Belle Isle, and was beached
~ Fortau Bay. There weretwo saloon and
~ intermediate passengers, who are safe.
The vessel also carried 33l cattle.
Ira Sailade, aged 10 years, was killed, and
| FRED Sutler, aged IL, was fatally injured nd
| Pottsyille, Pa, last Sunday, BY being rim
over by train. They were seated on n
trestle, and the noise of coal train under
them drowned the noise of train ON the
henhsylvanla railroad. which was upon
them before they were aware of its ap-
proach.
A collision in the Northern Central ward
at Sunbury, Pa, Thursday morning
caused an explosion OF several oil-tank
cars Seven tank cars were consumed, as
were also shifting engine and seven re-
| frlgerator cars, which stood on an adioin-
ing track. The aggregate loss to the rail-
road company is estimated at $4,000 to
$4,000. "
A farmhouse four miles northeast of
| oN5S,ohh' -lLSn., WAS STRUCK Dv lightning
ana burned Wednesday morning Five
persons were burned TO death; MIR. Bah.
COCK, wife and child of Sherwood MIR.
Frost Of Fostoria and the five.years.old son
OF Mr.. Roberts, the tenant of the house.
Miss, Roberts was probably fatally in
lured and four Others escaped.
A convention of the Peoples party of
ONO met at Columbus Tuesday week and
npoinlnatea State ticket. with Il. ].
Dracneh Tor governor. A resolution call
ing upon Congress to impeach President
cleveland ION the ground of high treason
~ That he as representative of the
BRUSH money power, is traitor to this
pcountry, was unanimously adopted.
dispatch from Guthrie says that hun
dreds OF Texas cattle, which have been
driven into Oklahoma from the Cherokee
strip py the soldiers, are diving of the
spanish fever, and farmers along the line
are greatly alarmed over the prospects of
their domestic cattle becoming infected
Armed forces have gone to the linz r.
shoot any cattle that may be driven over
Judge Hudson, in Darlington county. s.
", decided on Saturday that J. B. FIovd
had been illegally appointed LIQUOR dis.
pensor LOT that county, and that the State
Dispensary law was void because the Stale
taxes business from individuals and Gre.
ated a monopoly in it for itself, Ii Il
| y IL eNcI, Ihut lne supreme court
OF the state has already decided The act Is
constitutional. '''s ''o' %
A run was started Thursday on the JEFF
ierson COUNTY. Savings Bank at Water.
Town, N. \. Governor Flower was Wit.
ness OF the run, and in a speech gave as.
suIance that the bank was entirely safe
subsequently the governor and Several
prominent bankers signed and published
Statement personally guaranteeing that
M depositors shall be paid in full. ID il
neneved that this will stop the run.