Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-01-31
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A tow of Is coal barges was lost in the
Ohio river at HICKMAN, ky., during the
storm on Friday night The loss is about
$4,000.
The taking of evidence in the trial of
Debs and the other American Railway
Union officers, i'll Chicago, was begun
Monday.
The Hotel Castle. at iO3d street and Am
sterdam avenue, New York. was damaged
by fire last Sunday evening TO the extent
OF 100000
The United States Cruiser Castine is ex
pected to leave New York for Madagascar
about the end of this week She will so |
by way of the Suez canal.
Albert Heiiing of Muskcgon. Mich, who |
SWALLOWED an lS-inch sword on Friday |
night. while practicing for an amateur en-
tertainment, died on Sunday evening.
The residence of Thomas Williams, near
Homer. Alton county, Ohio, was totally
destroyed by fire on Saturday evening,
His two children persisted in the flames.
Two masked men held up train on the
Cotton Belt Road, near Mcneil, Ark, on
Thursday night, and plundered the express
car. 1t is believed that they secured 80
600.
| Ed. Bennett or Ed. Clark, leader of a
| band of outlaws who terroriZed Polk and
osceola counties, in Florida, several years
ago, was arrested in Wichita, kas, on
Saturday.
Captain II. f. Kolb has written another
message to the Alabama Legislature in
| which he urges the enactment of law to
punish usurpers. He signs himself as
Governor.
There was an armed conflict at Martins
Ferry, Ohio, on Sunday, between mob OF
| strikers and the Buckeye glass works
guard. The mob captured one of the nom
union workmen.
Mrs Mary Hoop, widow, and her g.
years-old child were found frozen to death
on Wednesday, at Warsaw, Ind. They
lived in u single room, and when found
were without food or fuel.
The Minnesota Legislature met in joint
session at st. Paul Wednesday and elected
Governor Nelson to the United States
Senate on the first ballot. He received l02
votes to 81 for Senator Washburn.
The Secretary of the Interior Wednesday
sent requisition to the Secretary of the
Treasury for sl2.575,000 to pay quarterly
pensions, of which sum 81 $4,000 IS to be
distributed at the Philadelphia agency.
A compromise has been made between
the glass blowers and other employees of
the Central City, W. Va, Glass Manu.
featuring Co., and the plant resumed
operations Thursday, employing $50 men,
The car station of the Brightwood Rail
way Co., at Brightwood Park, suburb Of
Washington, ID. O., together with an adj
joining stable containing "A COWS and a
horse. were burned on Thursday night;
loss, $4,000.
Five coal barges broke loose from the
tug Sea King, in Long Island Sound, dur
ing the gale on Friday night, and sank be-
fore aid could reach them. -Four women
and eight men were drowned. One man
aud a boy were saved.
Walter G. Wright shot and killed his
wife Annie and then himself at their
!. home in Lawrence, Mass, on Friday
: night. A note in Wrights handwriting
was found. saying that the couple had
agreed to die together.
4 A portable saw mill in Washington
county, West Va, blew up on Wednesday
= Robert Morrow and William Dickson
owners, were killed instantly and j. NJ
Cally and a man named Evelsizer, EN-
g ployes, were seriously injured.
Debs and the other officers of the Ameri
. can Railway Union were released from
" the Jail at Woodstock, ILL.,, Thursday, eacl
giving bail in the sum of $1,000. The con
o spiracy trial. under the omnibus indict
0 ment, began before Judge Grosscup.
e Naval Constructor s. W. Armistead
o while experimenting preparations for re
Ceiving the cruiser Olympia at the Mari
e Island Navy Yard, on Saturday, wa
n struck on the head by hawser which
J, parted without warning. He may die.
'e A Jury was secured in Chicago Frida
for tile trial of Debs and his associates .
is the American Railway Union. lively
'e talesmen were peremptorily excused b
As the defence. the majority of them al
e knowledging prejudice against the dc
fendants
" W. A. Burns an old locomotive Ell
I'd gineer, formerly in the employ of the Ri
lie Grande, Western, Union Pacific an
Ig Northern Pacific, is under arrest i
Chicago, charged with wholesale forger
SO of applications to railroad companies to
at transportation.
v, Glass was made at the Buckeye glas
lg works at Martins Ferry, Ohio. Frida!
for the first time in nearly two years. I'll
to works are guarded with Winchesters an
re revolvers and the new workmen say thu
ci- they have come to stay. Others are al
IS plying for work.
ng A fire occurred in Frederick Lenhardt
morocco factory in Brooklyn, Wednesda
* and Antonio Graft aged so; Tony Schultz
an aged %, and Frank McSorley, aged l
lis employees were burned to death. Ere
an erICk Oliver and Albert Huser, boys, we
OF probably fatally burned.
james Gaven, aged %, of Irvington, y
yn j., was found frozen to death i'll subul
I'd of Newark Friday morning. He h.
Il |
he was walking TO MS nome. overcome !
a the cold, he lay down on the side of Il
err. road, his coat forming pillow"
lis The lockout at the nail mill at Salem, {
hit was compromised on Saturday and Il
NV men returned to work Monday. They h;
OF refused 20 per cent reduction, and we
lc- consequently locked out. The settlemei
on affects the mills at Newcastle, Findlay al
Salem, in all employing over 5000 men.
ed The executive board of the Conductor
ay Drivers and Motormen's Union Of Bosto
Id, has sent $500 to the Brooklyn strikers, al
srs has proposed to the union that II week
e. assessment be levied while the strike las
90; which, if adopted by the body, will bril-
M the amount of aid to nearly 81 600 week.
- George r. Jackson, aged 81, son of 4
.tae former president of the st. Louis Eleyat
, ,'1 Co., was found hanging to the transom
H. his dressing-room door Mt his home in
III, Louis Wednesday morning. No cause |
'az the suicide is known. His father kill
Isl himself in similar manner four yea
ago. ..
.ho The Lawson Power of Removal b
an Wednesday passed the New York Assent
,av without amendment, by a vote of lO2 yei
In 10 NAYS. 1t now goes to the Senate
,ne concurrence, Under it the mayor OF NJ
inc York has four months from January
mn in which to remove the heads of city {
partments.
S. William Kllloy and George Gates of ~
,ro- Haven died from exhaustion at Lake ;
on tonstall, near New Haven, Conn, Tuesd
de- week, while attempting to make their
,ept through the broNen ice. Their troz
les, bodies were discovered lying near the e.
D to of the lake. They had been fishing u
rter broke through the ice.
Mayor Pingree of Detroit called ms
Idle meeting of citizens on Saturday night