Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-07-18
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Mrs. j. DELAY Of Annawan, ILL.,, on
Friday night killed her two little chill
dren, aged and years.
The wheat in Western Minnesota and
in South Dakota has been greatly dam
aged by protractcd drouth.
A. M. Kennedy died in Topeka, Kan,
an Friday, at the age of II years, after
fast of IS days He had paralysis.
A census of indianapolis just made
by the letter carriers shows that the
population Of that city is now 10000.
Sunday was another "dry" day in
New York. Persons who desired liquor
to drink were obliged to go outside the
city to get it.
Two negroes who were in Jail at
Hampton, Ark, charged with the killing
Of white man, were lynched by mob
ut midnight saturday.
| The barkentine Kate, from Baltimore
for Key West, with coal, April 18th, has
been given up as lost. She was com.
manded by Capt +. w. McGilvey, and
carried crew of eight NEIL.
In collision on Saturday between
two trolley cars on the Toronto q Scar
boro Suburban Railway, near Toronto,
Ont, one person was killed outright,
two fatally and three seriously injured.
A destructive hailstorm swept over
the tobacco section" of Connecticut, in
the vicinity Of Hartford, on Saturday
afternoon and totally ruined crops. The
loss, it is estimated, will reach $500, 900.
Cornelius Miller, aged 35, an employe
in pulp mill near Cumberland, Nd,
fell asleep in the "blow-out pitt SIM
day, and the contents of adigester were
emptied over him. His dead body was
found 20 minutes later.
A tornado swept over Cherry HILL,
Plainfield and neighboring territory in
New Jersey, and Woodhaven, N. ",
on Saturday afternoon. Four persons
were killed and number injured, and
great damage was done to property.
In Pamlico county, North Carolina,
| on Saturday, while Gabriel Thomas,
colored, and his wife were fishing in
Bay river, they quarreled about their
fishing lines. Thomas struck his wife
/, with a plank, killing her instantly, and
/ threw her body into the river.
g John Wilton and Bob Morrow fought
! duel Sunday at X. Diamond ranch
!. in Oklahoma, because of a quarrel oyei
! the ownership OF calf. Wilton was
shot twice in the legs and once in the
V body, aud Morrow received six bullets
i The firing began on signal and the dis
lance was twenty PAGES.
:. A dispatch from Zacatecas, Mexico
says that Jack Morgan, an American
desperate, who came to Mexico from
a Texas 12 years ago and took the leader
4 ship of band of Mexican brigands, ha
i been killed by ranchmen, who pursue
Q the bandits into the mountains. Tw
other brigands were also killed an
il three captured.
Y In the "Llttle Red Schoolhouse" rio
G case, in Boston, on Saturday, judy
IS Emmous ordered the discharge of bot
!, defendants, Brown and Ross. He hel
y that the evidence showed that Brow
< used blank cartridges and that the She
d that killed Willis was presumably fire
by Ross, but it might have been tt
result of an accident.
The Junior Order of United America
Is Mechanics held meeting in Baltimol
IT Sunday. 1t is said that nearly 1000
~ people were present, the members
le The order numbering 5000. The NEE
~ ing was held in the tent erected for Il
le use OF the Baptist Young People
y Union. Addresses were made by Re
~ Ii. M. Wharton, Rev. w. G. Carsard al
. Rev. Il. L. Hubbard.