Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-11-28
IN G BNERAL.

William II. Ker, postmaster at
Calais, Me-, is missing from his home
and is alleged to be 81, 900 short in his
accounts.
Three stockmen and two trainmen
were seriously injured Tuesday in a
freight wreck on the Pennsylvania rail
road, near Richie, Q.
Three men wero seriously injured at
the Ludlow Landing, near Cincinnati,
Tuesday, by the explosion of the
boiler of the towboat W. W. O'Neil.
The State BOARD of Pardons met in
Harrisburg Tuesday, and considered
number Of applications. Mr.. Bards-
ley's case went over until December.
A Masonic fair with over million
opened in Detroit, on Monday, in the
new Masonic Temple, which cost half
a million dollars
Walter Langerman, New York law
yer, was Tuesday convicted of crimi-
nal assault on Miss Barbara Aub, a
book canvasser. The extreme penalty
for the offence is 20 years.
John B. Bonner, banker. of
Aurora, N. c., was shot and killed in
the yard of his residence on Sunday
night by some person unknown. Rob-
berry was the apparent motive.
Mrs. Ada B. Hollan, Postmistress
at North Grand Rapids, Mich, was
Tuesday sentenced to two years. inn
prisonment at the Detroit House of
Correction for embezzling money order
funds.
May Carlin, aged IA years, was in
stantly killed by an express train on
the Pennsylvania railroad at crossing
in Newark, N. j., on Monday night.
The child is said to have stepped under
the gates.
j. B. Skehan a New York broker,
died at his residence, in Upper Mont
Clair, N. j., on Monday night, from
the effects of gunshot wound. 1t is
said that while following burglars his
gun was accidentally discharged.
Gov. Morton of New York, Tuesday
committed to Imprisonment for life the
sentence of Thomas Kerrigan, who was
| to hay. been executed 1T Sing Sing
Prison next week for tho murder of
Aaron Alexander in New York City.
William Mathers, hotel proprietor
ut Archville, little hamlet about two
miles north of Tarrytown, N. r., was
shot and MORALLY wounded by his IL
years-old daughter Annie, on Monday
night. Mathers tried to kill his wife
and his daughter came to her mothers
defence.
A Washington dispatch says that the
United States Treasury officials who
are investigating the recent destruc-
ton of Treasury records by colored
lahorer intimate that there .are Others
connected with the matter who are of
more consequence than the colored
laborer. ~
City Editor Vowel OF the Hunting
ton, W. Va, Evening Times, who was
sent to Jail last Saturday for contempt
| of court and released on habeas corpus
proceedings, was attacked early Tues
day morning by party of prize
fighters, whom he had been writing
up. They beat him in horrible man
ner and his condition is critical.
A dispatch from Columbia, IS. c.,
gives an account Of the murder in
Fairfield county of Patsie jackson,
negro woman. She was working in
her field whom three other woman APP
preached and began quarrelling with
her Finally two of them took hold Of
the Jackson woman, while the third
cut her to death with a razor. Tho
murderesses have not yet been appre-
hended.
A fatal fight among tramps occurred
on Monday night in tho western
suburbs of South Bend, Ind. Ono of
tho participants, an unknown tramp,
was pushed in front of passing Lake
Shore passenger train and was terribly
injured. He was removed to hospital,
where he died Tuesday morning. The
tramp who committed the murder
boarded the train in an endeavor TO
escape. He was locked in coach and
brought to South Bend, where fierce
battle ensued He was finally dubbed
into insensibility by the officers and
train crew, and placed undor arrest.