Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-12-05
IN EN- ZEAL.

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A new passenger depot for the Chesa-
peake & Ohio railway is to be built in
Richmond, Va, at cost of So, 0O0,
600.
The government lighthouse steamer
Golden Rod struck a snag and was
sunk below Marysville Depot, KY,
Thursday.
The steamer Jennie Campbell was
wrecked in the Mississippi 20 miles
below Vicksburg Tuesday night week.
She struck snag.
Royal Prescott Hubbard, one of the
active contractors" of the "Under
ground Railway" before the war, died
in Chicago on Wednesday, aged 80
years.
The Rev. A.. Hinrich and his wife
were asphyxiated by gas from a coal
stove at their residence in Platte
Centre, Neb., Friday.
C.N. Smith was hanged at Decatur,
ILL.,, Friday, for the murder of his
little daughter, Louise, and his sister
in-law, on September 2sth.
DR.. George Gerlach, well-known
physician of San Francisco, committed
suicide by shooting himself on Sunday.
He had suffered from melancholia.
Two sailors, s. X. Richards and
Benjamin Nugent, were asphyxiated
by gas in their room in a boarding
house in Chicago on Thursday night
John Williams and David Rose, who
were wealthy stock traders of Wolfe
county. KY, fought duel to the death
on Thursday at Hazel Green. Williams
was killed and Rose died later.
Sir Charles HILBERT Upper, in the
course of speech in Toronto on
Thursday night said that emo imperial
government would now dare to disallow
an act of the Canadian Parliament. -
James Donnelly, aged IL, and Charles
Gibson, aged Is, were struck by
train from Fall River while walking on
railroad bridge in Taunton, Mass,
on Wednesday night. Both were killed.
In New York City Thursday, Rose
Weinstock, 48 years old, made insane
by six months of sickness, left her bed,
opened window and jumped out. She
fell three stories, and was instantly
killed.
- - BY the fall of ceiling in public
school in Paterson, New Jersey, Mon
day, Bella Craig, aged 10 years, had
her scalp almost torn from her head.
Several other children were severely
injured
Alvin Houne, 15.years-old school
boy, hanged himself at Sterling City,
Texas, on Sunday night, because his
teacher kept him after school hours
and punished him for infraction of the
school rules.
Miss Sophia Heucher and Simon
pPI1 Ia trrl1
to be married, while walking on the
Pennsylvania railroad track near Fort
Wayne, Ind, on Wednesday night,
were struck by fas: train and killed.
A dispatch from Monterey. Mexico,
says that word has Just reached there
of the suicide at Saltillo, last Satur-
day, of Manual Lobo, one of the most
prominent civil engineers in Mexico,
and at one time Governor of the State
of Coahuita.
An unknown man shot and killed
himself in the smoking car of st.
Louis train on the Wabash railroad,
just as ii was approaching Decatur.
Illinois. on Sunday. He had carefully
removed from his clothing everything
that would furnish clue to his iden-
tity.
Walter L. S. Langerman, convicted
in New York City of criminal assault
upon Barbara Aub, was discharged by
Recorder Golf on Monday, the woman
having made confession that her tes-
timony against Langerman was entirely
false. Langerman was held, however,
as witness against the woman.
Peter Stander, wealthy farmer of |
Louisville, Nebraska. hanged himself
on Saturday night. His daughter-in-
law discovered him before life was OK
tinct, but was unable to cut him down. |
She endeavor to support him in her |
arms at the same time calling for help. |
but tainted from exhaustion and fright.
Mrs. j. r. Vodre of Champlain, N.
y, became suddenly insane on Chi
cago Il Northwestern train near JaDes- |
vile, Wis, early Friday morning,
and leaped from the train when ii was
going at full speed. She was instantly |
killed. The woman, who was accom- !
panied by her 10-years-old grandson,
was on her way to Springfield, MINI.
A dispatch from Fort Worth, Tex,
says that two masked men held up the
northbound passenger train on the
Fort Worth & Denver railroad on
Thursday night, two miles north of
CniiufebS. lney IOrceu an entrance
into the express car. The express mes
senger was unable to open the through
safe and the bandits secured no money.
The Perry reservoir, two miles south
OF Webster, Mass, broke away on
Wednesday, flooding the entire low
lands and carrying away the culyert
and 40 feet of the South Bridge rail
road, near the Connecticut State line.
Lemuel d. Perry discovered the break
and ran ur the track and stopped a
passenger train that was approaching
at high speed. !