Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-08-15

INJURIES Won ana Maggie Garrlty
were drowned in the reservoir at Leo
minister, Mass, on Sunday.
A tornado struck Rensselaer,, Ind,
on Sunday. Fifty dwellings were
wrecked. There was no loss of life.
Dr. j. H. Whitford of Wilmot, s. D.,
while temporarily insane, on Sunday,
shot and killed his wife and then ended
his own life.
Annie Piscura OF Hanover township,
Northampton county, Pa, was struck
by lighting on Sunday night and
fatally injured.
Scott Davis was instantly killed and
Ellen Davis fatally wounded by Albert
Coleman in Corsicana, Tex, Monday.
Jealousy was the cause OF the crime.
M. Nicholson, Lawyer, Florida
legislator, ex-convict OF South Caro-
lima, and ALLEGED husband OF three wives
wanted in Jacksonville for forgery"
was arrested in Montgomery, Ala, Mon
day.
Judge Bretano in Chicago Monday
gave a decision in favor Of Waldeck
Lodge, against the Grand Lodge,
Knights OF Pythias, and sustained the
subordinate lodge in its contention for
its German ritual.
Vincenzo Nino, the Italian who muir
dered his wife last February, was to
have been executed in the electric
chair at Sing Sing Monday, but the
lawyers Of the condemned man appealed
his case, which acted as stay.
William Haas, in Detroit, Monday
morning, made an unsuccessful at
tempt to shoot his wife because she
refused to live with him, and shot and
probably fatally wounded Michael
kreig, who interferred in behalf OF
Mrs. Haas.
X. A. Barnes, treasurer of Sumter
county, Ala, shot himself dead on
Sunday morning at Livingston, Ala.
He was short in his accounts 81, 500,
and was about TO undergo a surgical
operation. The combination of troubles
was too much for him.
Mrs Wilhelm Cruger, wife of a pros
porous farmer near Shelby, Ia, was
shot and beaten to death on Sunday
night by her nephew, Herman Kohaupt,
a young man, Is years old, who has
been working for the Crugers. Ko-
haupt afterwards killed himself by cut
ting his throat.
De Roy Cardiff, aged o years, com
mitted suicide at Warsaw, Ind, on
Sunday, by taking heavy dose of rat
poison. His mother recently obtained
a divorce from her husband, and the
little boy left a note saying that he
could no longer stand the taunts Of his
playmates about it.
A dispatch from West Palm Beach,
Fla, says that Sam Lewis, who muir
dered ex Tax Collector Highsmith and
his nephew, John Davis, at Lemon
City, about three weeks ago, has
been captured after inf1icting probably
fatal wounds on one of his pursuers-
preacher named McGregor.
Phillip Skinner of Troop B, Seventh
United States Cavlary, who has been
in the service about 10 years, COM
mitted suicide at Camp Douglass, Wis,
Monday, by shooting himself through
the heart. Skinner served under Gen.
Merritt in the Fighting Fifth dur
ing the Indian wars in the West.
y A desperate and bloody battle be-
tween the McGuert brothers and the
Walker brothers occurred at Nowata,
L. T., Monday. There were two on
each side, and the four were armed
with shot-gu When the smoke
cleared away all of the participants
were found to be fatally wounded.
Engineer Clemens G. Arms was killed
and eight cars and one engine demol-
ished in a freight wreck on the Balti-
more a. Ohio, at Campon, 20 miles south
of Wheeling, W. Va, on Sunday night.
The wreck was caused by rear-end
collision, one train ploughing clear
through the other ON down grade.
Cherokee Bil'' was sentenced at
Fort Smith, Ark, Monday, to be
hanged September 10th. He ia now
under two sentences of death. The
Supreme Court has stayed the former
sentence pending an appeal. Three
weeks later, from the same scaffold, at
a single drop, Mrs. Kittenring, George
Washington, Richard Calhoun, John
Allison, Eli Lucas and Frank Carver
are to be hanged, all for murder.
In Colquitt county, Ga, on Friday,
John Harris, negro aged is years,
assaulted an aged white woman, Mrs.
John Monroe, who died Of her injuries.
Harris was captured the next day, and
while on the way back to the scene of
the crime she was disposed OF. !" Ere
ports are conflicting as TO the method
one being that he was burned
to death, and another that he was cut
and shot to pieces and then hung.