Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-01-05

hnollds l1aferpy, MS wife ana tnre
children of Newark, n, j., all died o
malignant fever within two weeks.
Another body was found in the ruins O
the big tannery burned in Milwaukee
Tuesday week, making the total loss of lif,
four.
Three more convicts, victims of the mys
FERROUS poisoning at Helena, died Wednes
day, making ID who have died since the
fatal arsenic was mixed with their food.
Andrew Usks of Hazlcton, Pa, lost hi.
way Tuesday night after attending bail
and was found Wednesday frozen 80 badly
that both legs and arms will have to b,
amputated.
by the parting of belt. at the Pitts
burg Forge ana Iron Works, Allegheny
county, Pa. yesterday week, Frank Weissel
was killed and another workman was
fatally injured.
During recess of the court at Bowling
Green, KY, which was trying Bob
Harper for an assault on white woman,
mob entered the room, seized the pri-
soner and lynched him.
Max Newman, Homestead non-union
workman, who shot and killed Thomas
Coyne, November 18th, was acquitted in
Pittsburg. last week, it being shown that
he acted in self-defence.
A fire, originating from natural gas, de.
stroyed four dwellings in Osawatomie,
Kan, Tuesday week, and Mrs. Louise
Kindle, Miss Griffith. Miss Fletcher and
an infant were burned to DEATH
By an explosion of dynamite in a
quarry near Jonesburg. Pa, Wednesday,
one man was killed and II others fright
fully injured. Some of those hurt will
die. They were all Italians and known
only by numbers.
Edward Parker Deacon, who shot Emile
Abielle in the Hotel Splendide, Cannes,
France, because of alleged intimacy with
his wife, has brought action in the supreme
court at New York for an absolute divorce
from his wife, Florence Deacon.
Five checks signed in blank by Bernard
Kelley, United States pension agent at
Topeka, Kansas, were stolen several davs
ago by clerk in the office. The presen-
tation of two of them, made out for 81 900,
at bank at Holton led to the discovery of
the theft.
According to statistics collected by the
Engineering -NemS, there were l. 100 miles of
new railroad lines built in the United
States in 1892, bringing the total mileage
of the United States up to l7I,600 miles, or
about As per cent of the total mileage of
the world.
The tin-plating plant of the Baltimore
iiOis 9kINA hAAt lldLt NOIliIldllN is 10 ne
put i'll operation i'll few days 1t is q
branch of large Welsh concern. For the
present no plates will be rolled, but the
work will be confined TO the dipping of
imported plates
The steady cold weather for the past few
days has frozen the "coal washeries" at
the different coileres in the Schuylkill
Valley and the quantity of pea, buckwheat
and other sizes will be lessened by thous-
ands of tons for some time or until the
weather moderates.
The British bark Stanley, Captain Rick
ers, which sailed from Philadelphia MAY
10th for Hiogo, Japan, with 933, 7SU gallons
OF oil, valued at 500, Sl3. has not reached
Hiogo, and is given up as lost. The vessel
was owned in Liverpool, and was manned
BY crew of "a men shipped in Phiadel-
phia.
The question Of the control of the
affairs of the Economics, at Economy,
Pa, growing out of the election of Trustee
John Duss TO succeed the late Father
Henrici, is likely to lead to litigation.
The court is to be asked to appoint u re-
ceiver to audit the accounts and make
report.
While Stanley Tomienus. employed at
the Primrose Culliery, near Mahanov CITY,
Pa, was Wednesday assisting to push u
Loaded, mine ear up the slight grade
toward the breaker his feet Slipped on
the ice, and he fell head foremost under
the car. The wheels passed over his aldo
men, literally severing him in two.
A Pittsburg dispatch says that an cpl
demic similar to the one ut Homestead
during the strike has been prevalent
among the employees OF the Apollo Iron
and Steel Company, at Apollo, Pa. during
the past two months. III that time about
30 of the men have been i'll with svm,-
toms OF poisoning. and three have died
The sickness is believed to have been
caused by a contaminated water supply.