Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-11-14
IN ZEAL.

The cornerstone of the pedestal of
the William Henry Harrison statue in
Cincinnati was laid Tuesday after
noon.
-Four American fishermen were ar
restede off the shores of North Bass
Island, in Lake Erie, on Monday even
ing, by the Canadian cruiser Petrol.
Mrs. Day, mother Of l.. B. Day, who
shot himself in Brink Haven, two
weeks ago, committed suicide Tues
day by cutting her throat with razor
at her home in Tiverton Centre. o.
A 10 years-old son of George Denns,
farmer of Crosby Tenn, on Monday
because she refused to feed him while
he was i'll recently, in violation of the
DOCTORS orders.
A street car crashed into Chicago,
Burlington s. Quincy freight train at
Aurora, ILL.,, Tuesday, and instantly
killed Motorman George Kerr. The
car got away from the motorman and
he stuck to his post.
Charles Witham sustained fatal in
juries 10 Chicago on Monday evening
by falling from the rear porch of his
residence. When his wife was in
formed Of tho accident she fell from
her chair and died instantly.
A committee of the Columbus, o.,
City Councils has reported that the
city has been defrauded out of over
SAG, 900 on sewer contract and the
Directors of Public Works and City
Engineer are held to be to blame.
Charles Schlaffer an ex-member of
the Maryland Legislature and late
candidate for county commissioner on
the Democratic ticket in Baltimore
county, was arrested in Baltimore on
Tuesday charged with election frauds.
The Netherlands-A American Line
steamer OLDHAM, from Rotterdam,
October 18th, which was towed into
Halifax, November I'd, by the steamer
Pennland, having broken her propeller
shaft when about 300 miles off Halifax,
arrived at New York Tuesday.
A hy-wheel in the powder house of
the Albany Railway Co., in Albany,
N. " burst Tuesday afternoon. Two
houses, one of them two blocks from
the powder house, were wrecked, and
four persons were injured, one fatally.
The damage will amount to $50, 900.
Ira HallenbauGh, aged II years is
under arrest at Anderson, Ind. charged
with attempting to wreck AN express
train on the Pan Handle road. He was
put off train and wedged the track
in revenge Fortunately u freight
preceded the passenger train, and little
damage WAS done.
The battleship Texas is reported TO
have been seriously strained in the
clry-dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
1t is learned that the bottom Of the
vessel for some distance amitlships has
bent in, cracking tho cement lining on
the inner skin, and that some of her
ribs or frames arc buckled.
The residence of ex-senator Thomas
w. Palmer. president Of the Worlds
Fair Commission, in Detroit, Mich,
was destroyed by fire early Tuesday
morning, together with most of its
contents, which consisted of valuable
works of art and hric-a brac. The loss
on the building is $50, 900, with SIS, 900
insurance. No estimate of the loss on
the contents can yet be made.
A Columbus, o., dispatch says that
it now looks as though the trial of
Col. A. b. Colt of the Fourteenth
Regiment, for causing the death of a
number of citizens in ordering the
militia TO fire upon the Washington
Court House rioters a year ago, after
dragging along slowly for five weeks,
would have to be tried all over again,
because Of the illness of a juror.