Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-07-25

Nick Davis and team of horses
which he was driving were killed by
lightning at Quincy, Fla, on Wednes.
day.
Two men were killed and six very
seriously injured by the explosion OF
the boiler OF threshng machine outfit,
near Tulare, Cal, ON Wednesday.
Joseph hickman of Pleasanton, Mo-,
shot and killed his divorced wife on
Tuesday week, shot neighbor in the
arm and then cut his throat.
Gov, Mckinley of Ohio Thursday
granted respite Of 60 days to Isaac Ed
wards, who was TO have been hanged at
Columbus at midnight for the murder
OF Mrs. Sellers.
kurd Martens, ex.lieutenant in the
German Army, and said to be heir to an
estate valued at $1,000 900 ir the Father.
land. shot himself through the head in
San Francisco, on Tuesday week, while
on debauch.
Notices have been posted Mt the River
side mills, at Olneysville, X. l., announc.
ing that wages will be advanced on
August 9th. The notice contains a state.
ment that further particulars will be
announced later.
Five men in the engine room of the
torpedo boat Ericsson were terribly
soalded by steam from a broken pipe,
Wednesday, while the vessel was making
. speed trial off Bartlett's Reef, near
New London, Conn.
Herman l.. Mueller, late general agent
in Kansas City, Mo, of the Joseph
Schlitz Brewing Co., was formally
charged with embezzlement Wednesday.
The amount stated in the warrant is
$4,000, but the shortage is said to be
much larger. The books are being ex.
amined.
Israel i. Thompson, so years of age,
q bookkeeper of New Orleans, La, COM
mltted suicide at the home of his brother
in-law, Edward +. Williams, in Ire.
mont, N. Y, by taking large quantity
OF morphine on Tuesday week. Worry
over i'll health and domestic trouble is
believed to have been the cause.
Two men were killed, one fatally in.
jured and two Others frightfully MANNED
by the cavern Of 400 feet of earth In
sewer excavation at Harrison, N. j., on
Thursday afternoon. 1t is said that the
sides OF the excavation had been i'm.
properly braced Thursday, and Wednes.
day nights raid had undermined the
Sides
An indianapolis dispatch says that
the Democrats gained victory in the
Sullivan circuit court Tuesday week in
suitto set aside the Legislative Appor-
tionment act passed by the Republican
Legislature of Indiana last winter.
Judge Motfatt held that the act of 1895.
repeating the act of 1891, as well as he
act of 1895 Reproducing the State,
are both void.
j. Fentress Wisdom, acting United
States Indian agent of the five civilized
tribes, has forwarded to the authorities
at Washington an urgent request that
body of cavalry be placed at his disposal
with which to remove from the Indian
Territory various merchants doing bust
ness at Chickasaw, who have refused TO
take out traders licenses and comply
with the laws of the Chiekasaw Nation.
Arthur g. X. Newsan, formerly a
magistrate on the island of Trinidad,
was arrested in New York Wednesday
as fugitive from justice. The arrest was
made ON a warrant sworn out by the
British Consul, in which it is charged
that in 1899 Newsan committed forgeries
TO large amount, and that he fled from
the island to escape arrest. Ii is alleged
that he got away with $250,000.
Severe storms were reported from
various parts Of Illinois and Indiana on
Wednesday. At McComb, ILL.,, light. |
ming struck COW shed in which eight |
men and sixteen horses had sought shell. |
ter. John Barley, Jr., was killed, aud |
Roland McAllister. and William Gale |
severely shocked. At Logansport, Ind,
Edward Carson, farmer, was killed by |
lightning. Several barns were burned |
and live stock killed.
Andrew Thomas, colored, accused of |
an assault on an aged white woman
named Mrs. Wise, near Moss Point. |
Miss, and who was captured in Mobile
few days ago aud held for requisition
from the Governor of Mississippi. was
taken to Scranton, Miss, by Sheriff
Miner on freight train, which reached
Scranton early Thursday morning. A
mob promptly took possession of the
prisoner and lynched him.