Delaware gazette and state journal., 1895-09-26
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The wall of a building in Nashville
Tenn, which was being torn down
collapsed Thursday. Six workmen
were seriously injured.
A dispatch from Charleston, W.
Va, say an examination Of the county
records shows deficiency of about
$50, 900 in the settlements Of the sheriffs
from 1881 to 1899, inclusive.
Thirty buildings were destroyed by
tornado, which swept over Door
county peninsula, Wis, Wednesday
night. Farmers were the principal
losers. Two persons were hurt.
Reports received in Detroit relative
to Wednesdays storm, which swept
over the various portions Of the State,
show that several lives were lost and
fully $3.50, 900 damage was done to crops
and property.
Frank Werkly' saw mill in Lawrence
county, Ohio, was wrecked by boiler
explosion on Wednesday evening
Werkly and George Matthews, an en-
poloye, were killed, and William Tur-
ner, the engineer, was fatally injured.
The directors of the Central National
Bank of Cleveland, Ohio, Thursday
authorized the cashier TO confer with
other bankers of Cleveland with a
view of Offering $1,000, 600 gold coin
to the Treasury in exchange for legal
tender notes.
The San Francisco police have frus-
trated plot to kill Durrant. Tho plot
was concocted by well-known crimi-
nal, while awaiting sentence. A knife
was found in his cell. The prisoner
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the penitentiary.
A dispatch from Halifax, Nova Scotia,
says that Capt Mcleod and the ere W
Of the Halifax schooner Lady Aberdeen,
lost at Newfoundland week ago, ar
rived there Thursday. Several hundred
fishermen boarded and stripped his
vessel, and, in spite of all protests,
pillaged the schooner of everything
movable.
Charles w. Hindley, a steerage pas
senger on the steamship Germanic,
which arrived at New York Thursday
from Queenstown, committed suicide
by cutting his throat on the 18th inst. i,
and was buried at sea. Hindley had
been on protracted spree, and was on
the way TO his home in New York from
visit to friends in England.
A Wichita, Kan, dispatch says that
Mrs. Maddox, who rs made so long
and desperate struggle for the life OF
her son, Clyde Maddox, sentenced to
be hanged on October 11th, has receiv-
ed the following note from President
Cleveland: ''Dear Madame, l nave not
fully reviewed the case, but sufficiently
so to assure loving mother that her
son will not be executed October 1lth. ="
United States Marshal W. E. Mason
succeeded in capturing Thursday
at Marietta, Ohio, George Phila.
baum, a daring and successful counter.
feiter, whom he has been hunting since
last January. Palladium makes an
almost perfect counterfeit nickel. and
has been putting them out in large
amounts in Ohio, West Virginia, Ken.
tucky and Western Pennsylvania for
the last two years.
Frank NJ. McVaugh, sub contractor
on the new addition to the Government
printing Office in Washington, was ar
rested Wednesday night, on a warrant
charging him with making his EN-.
ployes work more than eight hours pei
day, in violation of statute requiring
eight hours day for work on all gov.
ernment buildings. The law was an.
proved August LIST, 1892, and this is said
to be the first test case.