Delaware gazette and state journal., 1895-12-19
IN GENERAL.

Smallpox is epidemic at Martins
Ferry ..
Bob Fitzsimmons has signed the
articles for the fight with Maher and
1t will be pulled off near III Paso, Tex,
on February 14th for a purse Of $40, GOO.
1t is said that Jack McAuliffe will
follow Corbett's example by presenting
the lightweight championship to
kid" Layigne.
A resolution is pending in the Chr
cago City Councils providing for a
3.cent fare for all street car passengers
not provided with seats.
Miss Clara Barton, president of the
Red Gross Society, says start will be
made for Armenia Just as soon as there
has been collected and guaranteed the
cum Of $500, 600.
Bridget Monahan, aged % years, was
fatally burned at her home in Iona
coming, Md, on Saturday, while trying
to rescue other members of the family
from the burning house.
John Rudes, aged 81 years, florist
of Long Island City, committed suicide
Monday by taking poison and hang
ing himself. He previously set fire to
his residence and greenhouse.
The bodies OF Alexander Houston,
Frederick Fisher and Louis Bechtold
were found Tuesday floating near
Yonkers, N. Y. The men had gone ont
on Sunday for a row in the Hudson in
q small slSiff.
Mrs. McCleiland Richardson, sister.
in-law of Gen. Cassius NJ. Clay, was
burned 10 death at her home near Val
ley View, Ky, Monday. She was
standing in front Of stove when her
dress caught fire.
A mob Of 80 mon attempted to break
into the Jail at Rockport, ILL.,, early
Tuesday morning, with the intention
of lynching two negro prisoners. Tho
sheriff opened fire on the mob, and the
men fled in all directions
Tho miners at Lehigh and Coal Gate,
Indian Territory, TO the number of
5000, have gone on strike. 1t is
thought every miner in the Territory
will follow suit, and, as 10000 miners
wall ho affected. serious trouble is an
ticipated
In Chattanooga, Monday, Chief JUS
tice David S. Snodgrass of the supreme
court Of Tennessee shot Col. John h.
Beasley, the bullet taking effect in his
arm and producing a flesh wound. The
cause was an item in the newspaper
headed; "Some Tennessee Hittory--
Col. John +. Beasley Recalls Matters
Gone By"
An Eric passenger train, eastbound,
was wrecked at Nobody's, three miles
west of Narrowshurg, N. Y, carly on
terday morning. The Locomotives, ten
der, three baggage cars, containing the
baggage Of q theatrical company, and
the smoker, containing four passengers,
were deruled and thrown down an EN-
bankment No one was seriously in
jured.
A Milwaukee, dispatch says that the
chiefs and head men Of the Oneida In
dianH alege that the white farmers,
whose farms border their reservation.
have stolen four miles of their lands,
and the Interior Department at Wash
ington has been asked to eject the
farmers and to restore the lands to the
Indians. 1t is said there is ground for
the complaint of the Indians.
Information has been received in
Washington that Francisco Torres, who
was dismissed by the government Of
Nicaragua from the position of governor
OF Rama because of his alleged com
plicity in the escape of the murderer
of an American citizen named Wilson
during the Mosquito difficulty, has
been appointed sub-inspector or vice
governor and intendente for the whole
district of Zelaya (the Mosquito Ter.
ritory). That this action of Nicaragua
may call for some representations from
Secretary Olney Is extremely probable.