Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-08-22

~ GENERAL.
Eli Bourse and his wife Of Orlando,
OF, were killed by lightning Sun
day.
Boil worms have appeared in the Mis-
sissippi delta and threaten the cotton
crop.
A Roman Catholic church at Lorgan,
Mimi, was struck by lightning and de-
stroyed on Friday night
Policeman Steve Shafer was shot and
killed during an encounter with tramps
at Toledo, o., on Saturday morning.
Michael Tafty was arrested in Chi
cago on Friday night, charged with a
criminal assault upon 6-years- old girl.
He narrowly escaped lynching.
j. II, Stewart, prominent merchant
Of Blair, Neb., who failed recently,
was arrested on Saturday, charged with
forging his brothers. name to s75, 600
in notes.
John Walker, aged ID, and Bert Will
ling, aged 10, were shot and seriously
injured at Niles, Mich, on Saturday,
by the accidental discharge Of shot
gun in the hands Of Garfield Finley, a
colored boy.
Tom Holman, barber of Dayton,
Tenn, was shot and instantly killed
Sunday by his wife, who was jealous
of her husbands attentions TO other
women, She pleaded self-defence in
justification.
A storm at Detroit, on Saturday, blew
down United. Presbyterian Church in
course Of construction. Frank Ser
novey, laborer was killed, and two
others seriously injured by being
buried under the debris.
Near Marion, ILL.,, on Saturday even
ing, Fred Hisholn shot and instantly
killed William Make and William
Reed with double barrelled shotgun.
The shooting was the result of quar-
rel over a game of cards.
Bonds to the amount of about $40, 0OC
are missing from the Montreal City
Treasury. The official responsible is
W. NJ. McDunnough, city accountant,
who is dying of iaundice. His friends
have made an offer of settlement.
The Church Grocery Co. s store. in
Atlanta, Ga, was partly destroyed by
dynamite bomb on Saturday night.
The store was crowded at the time,
but no person was injured. A dis
charged employe is suspected Of the
crime
A dispatch from Amherstburg, Ont
says that the steamer Montana, bound
down with -four, struck sunken wreck
early Saturday morning and had to be
beached to save her from sinking. Hei
hold is full of water and the cargo
ruined.
Two robbers looted store in Valen.
tine, Tex, on Friday night, and in.
| Inundated the residents by shooting al
every man in sight. Capt. ]. L. Ellis.
berry, a Southern Pacific railroad de,
tective gave battle to the robbers and
was killed.
A dispatch from Ures, Mex, says
that the hacienda of Joseph Ragui,
near there, was attacked by band oil
y 1aqui Indian braves on Friday.
| They killed three cowboys employed
in the hacienda and burned a large
grain storehousc.
Arthur Morris, aged Is years, anc
Roby S. Priddy, clerk in the pension
office, were drowned while bathing ii
the Potomac, at Washington, Sunday,
George T.. Brown was also drowned BY
falling from boat on the Georgetown
81 Alexandria canal.
Wheat is described as "the largest
| pine land deal ever made in northern
Minnesota, has Just been closed al
Duluth. Rupp & Kerr Of Saginaw,
Mich, have sold 10, 600, O00 feet Of pint
near Ely, Mimi, to the Knox Lum-
Der Co., the consideration being $3.50,
600.
John Fisher and his mother, the
latter aged ~, while in covered
wagon returning from market, were
struck by an Erie train at Springfield
o., on Saturday, John was instantly
killed and the mother died Sunday
OF her injuries. Both were deaf and
did not hear the train.
Reports have reached st. Johns,
from northern Labrador, showing az
alarming number of deaths among thu
Esquimaux at Main, Moravian mis-
sionary settlement on the northern
coast Eighty persons, or one-thirc
of the entire population, have dice
within the past two months.
A telegram from Guthrie, o. IT,, sayi
that Sunday a party of Indians
negroes and white outlaws raided the
store Of Samuel Norford, near Arbeca,
in the Seminole reservation, securing
| several hundred dollars IN plumber
They then dragged off and assaulted
five women of the neighborhood.
A dispatch from the City of Mckee
says that boy named Garcia, who
twice placed stones on the track of the
IIidalgo railway, the second time caus
ing wreck Of the train, was executed
Sunday at Pachuca, under the new
law suspending constitutional guaran
tees in the case of persons obstructins
the public mails or railway trains.
Sunday night violent wind and rail-
storm struck the city of Pittsburg
The towboat Lud Keifer, lying at he
wharf on the Monongahela river, wal
overturned, and Mile Limbaugh, ;
chambermaid, was drowned. The crew
and others escaped. Trees were blown
down, many houses unroofed, CELLAR
flooded. and the loss throughout tn,
! city will be quite heavy.