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

Three tramps were killed in a freight
wreck near Pomfret Station, Conn,
on Wednesday night.
Arrangements have been nearly. COM
pleted for new stock yards in Indian
apolis. The investment will be 81, 000,
| 600.
| Frank Gray, Jr., II years old, wa
drowned while bathing in the Potos
mac, opposite Georgetown, ID. c., yes
terday week.
Airport Lewis has confessed to the
authorities in st. Louis that he shot
and killed Senator Peter Morrissey on
May 18th last.
The steamer China which sailed from
San Francisco for China Wednesday,
had among her passengers 10 Presbyter-
ian missionaries.
The boiler of steam thresher at
work near Oakland, l. t., exploded on
Wednesday, killing three men and
wounding 10 others.
Frank Sweet in Chicago on We'd
nesday, shot and fatally wounded his
sister lin law, Mrs Alice Burr, and
then killed himself.
The town of Hindoostan, Ind, was
destroyed by an incendiary fire on
with small insurance. n
Gen. John ID. Imboden, ex-Confeder-
ate general of cavalry, died at his
home, near Arlington, Va, Thursday.
He was aobut 10 years of age.
Jeremiah Hess was killed and six
other men wero badly injured Thursday
by the fall of an elevator in building
being constructed in Utica, N. Y
FHt,n r. ~
known book maker, was found in the
river at Amherstburg, Ont, Wednesday.
1t is thought he committed suicide.
Arthur futile, the negro who shot
and killed Policeman Vickers, at Win
ston, N. O., last May, was sentenced
| to % years Imprisonment Thursday.
Lockwood Wilsey, aged 25 years, and
Frank Demarest, aged 20, were drowned
in the Passaic river, at Newark, on
Tuesday week, by the capsizing Of
their boat.
Henry @. Bowen, a wealthy New York
broker, accidentally shot himself in.
| the leg, in Norwalk, Conn, Tuesday
week, and died Wednesday from shock
and loss of blood.
The search Of the ruins of the
wrecked building on West Broadway,
New York City, was completed Wednes-
day. No more bodies were found, and
the total number of killed remains 15
]. Dabney Marshall, H. II. Coleman
and r. z. Fox pleaded guilty Thurs
day at Brandon, Miss, to the charge
| OF numbering r. I. Dinkins, Oh Friday
| last, and were sentenced to imprison-
ment for life. Marshall is a State
| Senator.
A stock train on the Washington
| Central road was wrecked at Almira,
and II cars rolled down 20-foot EN-
bankment. Fireman Fred Pritz was
scalded to death and Engineer Hobart
had his leg broken.
A Baltimore & Ohio shifter engine
crashed into trolley car of the Ches-
| ter q Darby line, at the Leiper cross
| ing, near Chester Wednesday. Seven
Philadelphians were seriously injured
and dozen other passengers were hurt
by flying splinters.
The Treasury Department Thursday
promulgated regulations governing the
| Importation of articles for exhibition
at the Cotton States and International
Exposition at Atlanta, Ga. The regu-
lations follow closely those enforced at
Chicago for the Columbia Exposition.
A dispatch from Amherstburg, Ont,
says that a post-mortem examination
on the body Of Alfred Frederick Walker,
which was found floating in the De-
troit river near there, on Tuesday Thurs
leaves no doubt that the well-known
bootmaker was killed and then thrown
into the water.
On motion of the United States dis
trict attorney the Indictment against
President G. p. Huntington of the
Southern Pacific was dismissed in the
United States district court in San
Francisco. Mr.. Huntington, was
charged with violating the Interstate
Commerce law by issuing free pass.