Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-09-19

Mrs. Elizabeth Williams, who MUIR
dered her three children in Columbus,
o., last April, was on Saturday adj
judged insane.
A fire insurance patrol wagon ran
into a cable car in Chicago on Satur-
day night, and four firemen were
severely injured.
A slight earthquake shock was felt
in Dubuque, Ia, about 3 o'clock, Sat
urday morning, during pause in a
violent storm of lightning, thunder,
hail and rain.
The United States grand jury at
Pawnee, o. t., has returned 43 indict-
ments for pension frauds against lead
ing county officials, attorneys and a
pension agent.
Prof. G. V. Riley, formerly the en-
tomologist Of the Agricultural Depart
ment, was thrown from his bicycle in
Washington, on Saturday, and was
fatally injured.
Advices reached Cross, o. T., Sun
day, OF the drowning Of John Hall and
his wife. their ls-years-old daughter,
their son, and DIR. Gillian, at ford in
the Arkansas river
The steamship Miowera, at Vancouver
on Saturday from Sydney, brought
news of a severe earthquake in New
Zealand. Much damage was done to
buildings at Taupo
Annie Beekman of Newark, N. j., a
mulatto woman, about % years old,
was assaulted and murdered near Som
erville, N. j., late ON Saturday night.
Her body was found Sunday.
Hollow Horn Bear, one of the leaders
Of the disgruntled Sioux at the Rose.
bud Agency, in South Dakota, was ar.
rested by order of Agent Wright on
Friday and put in the guardhouse.
The village of Palermo Centre,
Oswego county, N. Y, was almost
wiped out by fire Saturday. Addison
X. Scudder was killed while fighting
the fire by an explosion of gunpowder.
The steamer Bridgeton of Boston,
has been towed to Colon in a disabled
condition by the steamer Louisiana.
She had been adrift for two weeks with
ii disabled propeller and rudder gone.
Col. John Warren, who was injured
by the falling OF piece Of stone from
the Masonic Temple, Boston, a few days
ago, died on Saturday. He took part
in the Feniau uprising in Ireland in
1867
The large barn and outbuildings
owned by John d. Rockefeller, near
Tarrytown, N. Y, were burned Sun
day. The fire is alleged to have been
started by discharged laborers Loss,
$50, 600. IA.
Bessie Maroon, inmate OF disorderly
house IN New York, died Sunday
from injuries, it is supposed, inflicted
on her on Saturday night. The man
who is alleged to have beaten her is
under arrest.
Alfred S. Jaffo, As years of age,
committed suicide in New York, Sun
day, by taking carboic acid in the
presence of an officer who was about to
make him prisoner for embezzling
money from his employer, Joseph Sam
enfield, a cigar dealer.
At meeting of the Miners Union at
Ishpeming, Mich, on Saturday, the
steam shovel men and mechanics gem
orally were loud in their demands TO
be permitted to return to work, but
were finally voted down after bitter
wrangle. Another such row and the
union will go TO pieces.
The Columbus, Sandusky & Hooking
railroad was sold at Bucyrus, o., on
Saturday, to the bondholders' com
mittee, for "a, 100, 600. An effort will be
made to-day to set aside the sale. 1t is
claimed that the persons who bid
against the bondholders' representative
had no financial standing. The bond
holders only expected to pay 81, 500, 900.