Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-07-18
IN GENERAL.

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final trial, developed an average speed
of 1876 knots.
William Brusseau, who murdered DR..
Horace L. Pope, in Detroit, at the insti-
cation of Mrs. Pope, was sentenced on
Tuesday to 25 years Imprisonment.
The reports received Tuesday by the
United States Marine Hospital Service,
from Cuba, show an alarming increase
in the number Of deaths from yellow
fever.
John Tenney Ellis, a well.known
newspaper writer and yachting reporter,
fell and fractured his skull in Boston
Tuesday. There is little hope CT his
recovery.
A feud between the McRees and
Terrell families at Learned, Miss, on
Tuesday, resulted in the killing of two
men and the wounding of six others
two fatally.
Gertie Anderson, aged 8 years, on
Sunday tagged passenger train on the
Duluth, Mississippi g. Northern rail-
road, near Grand Rapids, Mimi, just in
time to save it from plunging into a
cavern.
Four robbers entered the house of
John Milbirn, at Orange, O., Monday
night, bound and gagged Milbirh and
his wife, and tortured them with fire.
They secured $13. Milbirn is blind and
Mrs. Milbirn nearly so.
The Rev. DIR, Arthur Brooks, brother
of the late Bishop Phillips Brooks, and
rector of the Episcopal Church Of the
Incarnation, in New York City, died at
sea July 10th, on the steamship Fulda,
which arrived Tuesday.
Robert Haggard, negro, who was in
Jail at Ford, KY, charged with assault
ing white girl, was lynched by mob
ON Monday night. The jail was guarded
by nearly 100 Kentucky militamen,
who were "overpowered" by the mob
The American barkentine Thomas
Brooks, owned by Waydell d Co., of
New York, was stranded on the Cuban
coast, about six miles from Santiago de
Cuba, on June 26th, and will probably
prove nearly q total loss. The crew
were saved.
Ira johnson, a negro, was taken from
the Jail in Greenville, 5. c., early on
Tuesday morning by a mob and hanged.
He was accused Of killing Frank Lang
ford. Counsel for johnson says he had
| six witnesses to prove that Langford
snapped his pistol at johnson five times
before the negro shot.
A telegram from El Psso, Tex, SAYS
that the three days blockade of tue
Santa Fe railroad, caused by the I'M
precedented rainfall aud subsequent
washouts, was raised on Monday Tic
Texas & Pacific railroad is closed by a
mile washout. The Rio Grande river is
a roaring flood, the highest in years.
A Havana dispatch says that family
comprising SIX persons, man, three
women and two children, living at
Cayajabos, near Artemisa, Cuba, were
attacked by five negroes on Monday
night and murdered, their bodies being
frightfully gashed with knives and
machetes. All of the miscreants were
pursued and captured by the civil
guard.
The family of Q. c. Newton, on .he
way from Marion, Ind, to Arkansas,
and encamped near Anna, ILL.,, have
been poisoned by eating toadstools,
which they supposed were mushrooms.
Two little girls, aged 10 and II, respec-
lively, died on Monday night, and a
boy, aged 10, died yesterday morning.
The mother and two other children are
not expected to live.
Fleming Sarvcr and his wife, of Union
town, Ind, were poisoned on Saturday
last by Dollie Belknap,, aged IA years,
their adopted daughter. Saryer died on
Monday and Mrs. Sarver is not expected
to live. When accused of this crime the
girl at first denied it, but afterwards con
fessed, and produced letter signed by
her lover, Hays Robins, the son of a
wealthy family in that neighborhood,
urging her to commit the deed in order
to inherit from her foster parents SO that
she and her lover might marry.