Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-01-19

General Buffers remains were placed
in Huntington Hall, i'll Lowell, Mass,
Sunday, and were viewed BY hundreds
Of persons. The in,ernient was mad" s'>
Monday.
General Manager Hayes of the Wabash
line, has refused to grant the operators
any advance in wages, but says lie will
investigate some individual cases cited by
the operators"
Abraham Wilkesman, saloon keeper
of Paterson, n. j., Saturday night shot
and dangerously wounded Jacob Mitchell,
one Of u gang t touyhs who tried to force
him to furnish them free drinks.
Joseph CraddoCk and another workman,
name not known were killed, Saturday
evening in a railroad tunnel near Union
town Pa. by the explosion of dynamite
which they were thawlng before an open
fire,
Henry Willard was in Washington on
Sunday and had interviews with speaker
Crisp, Mr.. McMilIin, Mr.. springer aud
number Of other lcnding members ot the
House. and urged the suspension OF silver
purchase.
John Russell proprietor Of Chicago
shooting gallery w;ts found dead in his
place of business Sunday morning with
Il bullet in his brain. Two women, who
claim 10 have discovered the crime, are IN
custody on suspicion.
Two hues i'll the boiler of the steamer
]. G. Warner collapsed IS miles below
| Chattanooga FRIDAY evening. Two col rcd
| deck hands were bluwn overheard and
drowned Fifteen others, three of them
| white, were severely seal iNd
| Perry II Carpenter white, Of Rirming-
ham Ala. WAS fatally shot Sunday night
| by an unknown white man whom Car
[ penter noticed robbing negro. Car
penter's cutlery caused the robber to shoot
him The murderer escaped,
The officials Of the santa lfe road FRO
mulgatcd in order on Saturday that all the
employees Of the road must either resign
their positions or withdraw from the Order
of Brotherhood of Station Men before 6
O'Clock Saturday evening. The men with
drew from the order.
Mrs. William Decourccy of Baltimore,
was overcome by smoke and burned to
death in her home saturday morning.
The iile was caused by the explosion of q
lamp. Mrs. DeCourcev escaped from the
house, but went back to find her children,
who were rescued By MIR. DecourCey.
William Parr. a mail driver at Utica, n.
y, was arrested Saturday for robbing the
mails His practice was to steal empty
pouches with unlocked locks, cut the strap
Of one of the full pouches, extract the
registered letters and transfer the rest OF
the mail TO the uncut pouch, springing the
|, lock.
iicsi,lcs Il, Preston, brakeman, and H
i. Beandey, baggageman, who persisted by
, the burning Of The Hotel st. Louis, in
Duluth, on Friday, il is feared that al
least two Others have lost their lives W
/. Reese, traveller for Il New York tea
t house, and Llzzie Larsen scrub woman,
q are missing.
During a fire in Kensington a suburb o
Chicago saturday morning, Stephen Nor
gan and James Cunningham tiremen
We're buried beneath a failing wall. Tn
\ former was killed and the latter fatally in
jured. Fireman Larsen Peterson, also 0
g chicago, fell through an elevator shaft A
4 tire on Saturday morning and was killed
Denver dispatch says, respecting tn
y San Juan gold fields. that tile facts ar
i that there is plenty Of gold there, but /
I takes money to get it out, Men withou
4 means rushed to the fields expecting t,
! pick up fortunes from the ground. The
: We're disappointed, hence they are read
G to denuuIice the new fields The ne,
camp promises well, however, to men 9
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