Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-07-11

Kate Caswel and john Nfonce were
drowned Friday near Barre, VT. by the
capsizing of a boat.
BY the collapse of section Of the bridge
AT Bristol. Ind. on Thursday, 20 persons
fatally.
Theodore Packet. negro, was lynched
AZ felahatchie station. Miss, on Thursday
night. Heis said to have robbed farmer
of 81 500.
Alexander Hesler said by photographers
to have been the greatest daguerreotvpist
that America has ever produced, died at
Evanston, ILL.,, Friday
James Ryan. blacksmith, shot and
killed his wife and then committed suicide
in Terre Haute, Ind, Friday. They
had only been married a few months, but
quarrelled frequently.
Six prisoners escaped from jail at Car
rollton, Mo-, on Thursday night. while the
sheriff and guards were watching tre.
works display. A posse captured two Of
them few hours later
While firing a cannon, at the Soldiers
Home, at Marion, Ind, on Thursday, John
Haupt, an old artilleryman, and a soldier
in the regular army for II years, was
killed by premature discharge.
.CyG. Cummings, boot and shoe dealer
of Linneus. Mo-, was found dead in bed
oil Thursday morning His wife, to whom
he had been married only few weeks, il
suspected of having poisoned him,
Alexander Reese, street arab, exploded
a bomb made OF gas pipe in a crowded
street IN Chattanooga on Thursday. Fly
ing pieces OF the bomb killed dog half
square away and struck valuable horse.
Postmaster-General Wilson has offered
reward of $1,000 each for the arrest OF
Allen, killoran aud Russell, the three
post.otlce thieves who escaped from tine
Ludlow Street Jail in New York on Thurs
day.
The claims of the New York police JUS
tices, who were legislated out of office,
that they had been illegally superseded,
was argued i'll the supreme court In Nell
York City on Friday. Decision was re-
served.
Samuel Herkowitz, aged 90 years, an ex.
convict, went to his wife's apartments in
Brooklyn Friday, aud, upon her refus-
ing to hive with him. he stabbed her three
times with carving knife and cut his
own throat. Both were fatally injured.
The Kentucky Populists met in Louis
vile oil Friday and nominated a State
ticket headed by Hon. L. s. Petit, for
Governor. The resolutions endorsed the
Omaha platform and declared for the FREQ
and unlimited coinage of silver at l6 10 /.
William Il. Parks, aged 80 years, mar
rowly escaped being lynched in LYING
Mass. Friday. He is alleged to have
attempted to assault 5-years-old girl and
he was very roughly handled by the crowd
before the police could get possession OF
him.
The schooner Abby and Eva Hooper Of
Camden, N. j., bound from Philadelphia
to Newburyport. Mass, with a crew of
eight coal laden, stranded one-eighth of
mile south OF Newburyport on Thursday
night. The crew were saved in the breeches
buoy.
In Gallipolis, o., on Thursday night,
Calvary Upton shot and killed his wife
and John Wills, with whom she was
talking, and then escaped Upton is "a
years old and Wills was % Mrs. Upton
bad left her husband on account Of his
cruelty.
The Post-office Department on Friday
granted to j. j. Lenhart OF Philadelphia,
the privilege OF purchasing the waste
paper of the department for the next fiscal
year, at % cents per hundredwegbt The
waste. paper amounts to about 100000
pounds annually.
There was heavy rainfall in Baltimore
on Friday afternoon. An inch of water
fell in half an hour. flooding the streets
and easements throughout the city. As
the storm was subsiding quantities of
large hailstones fell. and the temperature
dropped from II to "a degrees.