Delaware gazette and state journal., 1895-10-03
IN GENERAL.

Thomas w. 10y and a negro were ia
tally asphyxiated in well at Friends
Station, Tenn, on Thursday.
Corwin g. Hayford of Warren o.,
was fatally poisoned on Thursday bJ
eating toad stools in mistake for mush-
rooms.
Secretary Herbert has awarded the
contract for building two torpedo boats
to Herreshotf, of Bristol r. l., at sl44,-
900 each.
The Mora draft has been paid and
the money is now subject to the order
of Secretary Olney. The amount Is
81, 449, COO
During the wind storm at Green
Bottom, W. Va, on Thursday, barn
was blown down and three men proba.
bly, fatally injured.
A hurricane, accompanied by heavy
rain and hail, struck Bennington, VT,
on Thursday afternoon, wrecking trees,
electric wires and other property.
Martin Adams was hanged in the,
penitentiary at Columbus, o., early
on Friday morning, for the murder of
John Dinner, in Cincinnati, in July,
1894.
Hon. Z. W. Bull, the propagator and
originator of the Concord grape, - andl
a prominent agriculturist, died in Con-
cord. Mass, on Thursday night. He
was born in Boston in 1906.
A violent thunder and rain storm
passed over Biddeford, Me-, on Thurs,
day afternoon. At least dozen build
ings were struck by lightning and the
streets were deluged.
The ST. James Hotel in Columbus,
O., was burned Friday; loss sal, coo.
j. B. Stickney of Bucyrus, and f. r.
Snyder of Buffalo guests Of the hotel,
were caught on the third floor and were
rescued from windows by the tiremen.
Mrs. Ella Gray, aged q, and Mrs.
Eliza Cruger, her mother, were severely
burned in New York City Friday by
the ignition of some alcohol which Mrs.
Gray was using for bathing purposes
Their injuries may prove fatal.
The Alpena, Mich. longshoremen and
dockmen struck Friday for 40 cents
and 30 cents per hour respectively.
The vessel men were willing to pay the
demand, but lumber shippers refused
to pay the scale to the dockmen.
William Reamer of Philadelphia and
John Kodter of Evansville, Ind, were
attacked near the Pimlico, Nd, race
track on Thursday night, by George
johnson, colored, with whom they bad
had quarrel. johnson used knife,
and Reamer's injuries may prove fatal.
The Boston Police BOARD has notified
all the storekeepers of the Jewish colony
in the north end section of the city that
they must hereafter close their places
of business on Sundays A test cass
will be prepared to settle the question
as to the constitutionality of the law
as applied TO Jews who observe Satur-
day as the Sabbath.
A st. Louis dispatch says that there
are now over 200 cases of diphtheria in
that city. The health department is
taking vigorous methods to prevent
the spread of the malady and will
recommend the closing of the schools
in the districts where the disease is
prevalent. Typhoid fever also exists to
an alarming extent in the western and
northern portions of the city.
The grand jury at New York Friday
indicted Thomas Murray, foreman;
Thomas Walker, superintendent of con-
struction John Fl. Parker, contractor;
Dennis L. Buckley, building inspector;
c. Z. Behrens, architect, and Edward J.
Youdale, architects assistant, in tho
ease of the ireland building collapse
of August 7th last The indictments
are for mansaughter in the second de-
gree, the extreme penalty for which
its 10 years imprisonment