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

John Strand, Jr., and Arthur Hem
mingway were drowned Sunday after
noon by the capsizing OF yacht in
Jamaica bay, L. l.
Frank McElroy, aged 10, and Louis
Nitz, aged Is, were killed 10 Baltimore on
Saturday by the caving-in of sandbank,
in which they were playing.
Elwood f. Butler and Timothy
Sweeney were drowned in the Niagara
river Sunday by the capsizing of a
boat. Their bodies went over the Falls.
John Hartman, Joseph Whitkey and
the latter's infant son, Alexander, were
drowned in Little He'll Gate, New York,
Sunday night, by the upsetting of yacht,
Frederick A. De Groot, aged 81, shot
and killed himself at his home IN Balt-
more Sunday, after having made an
unsuccessful attempt to kill his wife. 1t
is believed that lie was crazy.
Frank r. Robinson, aged 80, and Rich
ard S. Robinson, aged "a, brothers. both
unmarried, and sons of DR.. ], II. Robin
son of Southboro, Mass, we're drowned at
Booth Bay Harbor, Maine, on Saturday,
by the capsizing of their sail boat.
An informal machine was sent on Sat-
urday night to DR.. d. w. II. Moreand, a
member of the Detroit Water Commits
sion. William Tackesbury, who vulun.
teercd to open the box, was badly burned
by the explosion which followed.
All the business houses except four In
Spargue, the seat of Lincoln county,
Washington, were destroyed by fire on
Saturday. The loss is estimated at over
100000. The burned buildings included
the Northern Pacific railroad shops.
Victor Malnati, aged 10 years, was
killed in Washington on Saturday. IL is
believed that while he was exercising en-
trapeZe a rope became coiled around
his neck, and, in endeavoring to extricate
himself, the rope pulled tighter until he
was strangled.
A dispatch from Hancock, Mich, says
thatthe employees Of the Franklin Copper
Mine have had their wages restored to the
figure holding before the cut caused by
the panic two years ago, when general
cut was made in all the copper mines of
the lake district.
John II. Miller was instantly killed at
Duncanvillo, Pa, Sunday, by light
ming; his mother was fatally injured and
two other members of the family received
severe shocks. They had sought shelter
from the storm under tree, which was
shattered by bolt.
The Italians OF the town of Spring Val
ley, near Princeton, ILL.,, marched upon
the negroes of that place Sunday, and
attacked them for the purpose OF killing
or driving them from the coal belt of that
region. Fourteen negroes were seriously
injured, some of them fatally
Five Union painters, led by John ].
Fleming, walking delegate, made a
murdtrous attack on several non-union
men who were painting and calciminipr
school house in Chicago on Saturday.
The arrival of half dozen policemen In
patrol wagon saved the non-union men
from being killed.
During a fight at keystone, in the
Buetieds region of West Virginia, on
Sunday, between J. NJ. Stroud, a coke
boss, and miner named James Owens, a
miner named Gilbert tried to separate the
combatants, when Stroud drow revolver
and fatally wounded both of them.
stroud boarded train to escape, but was
captured.
A riot occurred at Riverside Park, near
Mount Vernon, Va, Sunday afternoon.
and, as result, Roy Beach and man
named Evans were probably fatally in
iured. Thomas Brown, Thomas Downey
and three sons and two brothers, by the
name of Evans, were also badly punished.
The trouble was the outgrowth of long
standing quarrel between Downey and
the Browns.