Delaware gazette and state journal., 1895-12-26

neapois, caved in Friday, owing to
tho overweighting of the floor Gale
M. Walters, an employe, was killed.
At Titusville. Fla, ON Wednesday,
Simon Hamburg and j. B. Garner were
held in heavy bonds 10 answer the
charge Of kindlng tho fire week ago
which destroyed 40 houses and caused
one mans death.
Harry De Wolf was shot and killed
by Fred Blondin, in the parlor of
disoiderly house in Chicago on We'd
neaday night. Blondin afterwards
killed himself. Jealousy is said to
have been the motive.
a dispatch from st. Johns, New
foundland, says that the wreck of the
schooner Victoria has been found on
the northern coast; % lives were lost
on her. The schooner Goldfinch has
been lost, with IA sous.'
Mrs. Charles Grossman, wife of n
prominent merchant OF Ann Arbor
Mich, committed suicide on Wednes-
day night by jumping into a cistern
filled with water. She carried with
her i3-years-old daughter.
An Adams Express car in the through
train from Washington and philadel-
phia on the Pennsylvania railroad was
destroyed by firs near Metuchen, N. j.,
early Wednesday morning. The only
thing saved was tho express safe.
Judge Brentano, in Chicago, has
made a ruling in favor of Maria Evans
Lawrence, the aged negress, ex-slave
and common law wife of DR.. Henry
Lawrence, in her fight for dover in
terest in the estate Of her late husband
A head-end collision occurred on the
Hohoken, Passaic and Patterson trolley
line, near Clifton, N. j., Thursday
morning, during heavy fog. Thomas
Murray, a mOtorman, was killed, and
at least 10 other persons were injured.
During tho heavy fog Thursday
morning two cars of the New Jersey
Electric Railway Co. dashed into each
other at the foot of the steep hill at
Lakeview. Motorman Murray was
killed and Conductor Jackson was seri-
ously injured.
Advices received in Port Townsend
from Alaska are TO tho effect that the
people of the Territory are divided into
two factions ON the subject Of the en-
forcement OF the liquor laws, about
nine. tenths being opposed to the pro
hibitory laws.
+. 4 northbound passenger train ON the
Adirondack & st. Lawrence railroad
collidod with light engine at Horse
shoe Pond, n. Y. early on Friday
morning. Both engineers we're killed
and two of the trainmen were probably
fatally injured.
Advices from Honolulu by the steamer
Alameda, which arrived at San Fran.
cisco Thursday, say that the Island Of
Hawaii was shaken by number of
earthquake shocks on December sth
and 9th 1t ls believed the volcano of
Mauna Loa is about to become active
again.
Hans II. Kohler, son of the late
Charles Kohler at one time mil
llonaire wine merchant OF San Fran
cisco, filed Il petition in insolvency on
Tuesday. His liabilities amount to
nearly $780, 600, with no assets. His in
solvency was the result of a life of dis
sipation.
The Pennsylvania State Board Of
Pardons recently unanimously rejected
John liardsley's application for par
don. Argument OF tho prisoners coun.
eel was in the nature OF plea for
mercy II is said that rehearing will
DO asked for as soon as ii is deemed ex-
pedient
Judge Pardee, in the United States
circuit court at New Orleans decided
two cases in which tho constitutionality
Of tho Sugar Bounty act was involved.
The judgment of the Court was against
Comptroller Bowler's position in with
holding the So, 600, 600 appropriated for
sugar bountics.
The Virginia Senate Thursday amend
ed the resolution endorsing the Presi-
dents message on the Venezuela matter
by adding a recommendation that the
statute which prohibits any person who
served in the Confederate army from
holding commission in the United
Statos army should be repealed.
At Brandon, five miles from Mount
Vernon, o., on Wednesday, Douglas
Bricher shot his nephew, Postmaster
Jesse Hartsock. The ball missed it's
intended victim and struck the post
masters 1S,years sold son, killing him
instantly. The quarrel arose over Hart
socks attempt to collect 30 cents box
rent from his uncle.
4 suit has been begun in st. Louis
by Messmore, Gannett .S Co. against
which the plaintiffs seek to recover the
sum of $50, 600 embezzled by their
bookkeeper, Alfred L. Avery, and. lost
in option transactions alleged to have
been negotiated through the firm of
Rose 81 Pearle.
Tho search in the Cumnocls mine, in
North Carolina, for the bodies of the
victims Of Thursdays explosion pro-
gressed slowly Friday, very few men
being willing to engage in the work,
Notwithstanding the cntreaties of the
mine officials TO the crowd Of idle on
lockers congregated at the mouth OF
the shaft. Thirty four bodies have
been recovered, and four are still in the
mine. There is dispute as to whether
tho explosion was one of gas or dyna-
mite.
Henry Convery and William Mack,
tho two ex-attendants of the State In
sane Asylum at Morris Plains, N. j.,
charged with the murder of Nicholas
Dolfuz at that institution on October
18th, at Morristown Wednesday, with
drew their previous plea of not guilty
and submitted that of non vult, which
carried with it sentence of murder in
tho second degree. This ploa was ac-
cepted by the Court, and sentence of
II years each at hard labor in the State