Delaware gazette and state journal., 1895-12-26
IN GEshH1L.

of W. w. Thomas in Cincinnati Sunday
evening caused loss OF not less than
500, 600.
John A. Slattery, well.known
lawyer Of Cincinnati, fell down an ele.
vator shaft in that city Monday and
was killed.
The dead body OF Mrs. Hester Curtis
was found on Sunday in her home in
Lafayette, Ind. She had been murdered
for her money.
Three Italian railroad laborers were
almost instantly killed by an explosion
of dynamite cartridges at Now Rochelle,
N. T., on Saturday afternoon.
One of the three buildings compris-
ing the West Bergen Steel Works, in
Jersey City, was burned on Saturday
night The loss will exceed 500, 900.
Charles w. jenkins, teller of the
Farmers Bank of Suffolk, Va, was ar
rested Monday, charged with misap-
propriating Sl3, 300 of the bank 8 funds.
A Winnepeg dispatch says that indi-
cations point TO an early dissolution OF
tho Manitoba Legislature and an ap-
peal to the country on tho school ques-
tion.
Tho North German Lloyd steamer
Spree, which stranded on the Isle of
Wight last Thursday, was got off yes
terday and apparently suffered no
damage.
W.. B. Milbourn, chief officer of the
British steamer Birdoswold, at Balti-
moro on Sunday from Shields, Eng.
was washed overheard by huge wave
and drowned on December 4th.
The International Navigation Co. q
steamer Berlin collided with and sank
the British bark Willowbank off Port
land, Eng, yesterday. All were saved
but the pilot of the Willowbank.
Tho steamer Pacheco, which arrived
at San Diego. CAL, on Sunday, re-
ported that her second mate and two
seamen were drowned off San Telmo on
Friday by the capsizing of a boat.
The fatal explosion in the Cumnock
Mine, in North Carolina, was deter
mined on Saturday to have been due
to fire damp, the dynamite being found
intact. The total number of dead is 80.
The British steamer Alicia, from
Middlesborough for Bilboa, has been
sunk in collision with the Tritish
steamer Nettley Abbey, from London
for Blyth. Five people were drowned,
BY the premature explosion of blast
in the drainage canal, one mile from
Lockport, ILL.,, Monday, three men
were killed and seven injured. OF the
latter several are not expected to re-
cover.
Booker Steinberger, aged 10, who
was in custody at Glasgow, KY, Charged
with numbering his cousin, Anna
Belle Steinberger, was Monday taken
to Louisville to save him from being
lynched.
DR.. James A. Hearne was acquitted
at Bowling Green, Mo-, on Saturday,
of the murder Of Amos ]. Stillwell, in
December, 1880. Mrs. Hearne, who
was Stillwell's widow, is awaiting trial
on a similar charge. .--.
William Supleben, aged 30 years,
killed his 4-years-oid daughter IN
Brooklyn on Thursday by cutting her
throat and then shot and killed him
self. He intended to kill his wife as
we'll but his plan was frustrated.
a family Of eight persons who we're
encamped on Spring river, west of
Joplin, Mo-, were swept away by a food
on Saturday. Great damage has been
done by the overfiowing of the bottom
lands in various parts of the State.
Five workmen employed at the Day
ton, o., Malleable Iron Co. q works
were terribly injured Monday by being
caught between building and q
freight car-the track being SO close 10
the building that the men had no es-
cape.
Four persons were drowned at Lathrop
Lake, near Arvada, Col, en- Sunday,
by tho beaking of the ice on which
they were skating. A l0-years- boy
fell through first, and his brother and
sister and another young girl lost their
lives in trying TO save his.
David r, Hanigan, the slayer Of Sol
Mann, his sisters betrayer, was re-
leased by Judge Brown, in Newburgh,
N. Y, Monday, He was acquitted
of the murder on the ground OF insan-
ity, and was subsequently pronounced
cured by the asylum physicians.
News reached Hot Springs, Ark, /,
on Sunday, of tho drowning in the
Forche creek of Mrs. Tennie willard
of Bismarck, her infant and her sister.
Ada Hardage, while attempting TO ford
the stream Thursday. The stream
was high by reason of recent rains
During food on the Cuiyre river,
at Old Monroe, Mo-, on Saturday, John
Heitman, August and Henry Long
necker, w. Meadow and wife and boy
named Martin were drowned by the
overturning of skiff IN which they
wero trying to reach place of safety.
Henry j.. Newton, aged 72, was
knocked down by cable car in New
York City Monday night and almost in
stantly killed. Mr.. Newton was one of
tho best known Spiritualists in the
United States, and was the inventor OF
the Spiritualists' cage" and other
devices used by Spiritualistic mediums.
The President, on Saturday, rejected
the coast defence ram Katahdin, built
by the Bath Iron Works, the vessel
having failed to attain tho speed re-
uuired in the contract A bill for the
purchase of the ram was subsequently
introduced in the Senate by Senator
Hale.
The fireworks factory of Charles Ger
hardt, ION the Plank road, near the
Hackensack river" was destroyed by
fire Friday morning. Tho fire was
preceded BY a terrific explosion which
ehook houses for mile around and
swoke half the residents of Bergen
Heights.
Tie constitution for the State Of
Utah, which was submitted to the At
torney- General by the President, has
been examined and approved by that
officer. The President will on Janu.
ary 4th, 1896, issue his proclamation
admitting the Territory of Utah as a
State of the Union,
The Venezuelan Boundary Commits
sion will probably not be announced BY
President Cleveland until the latter