Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-06-04
IN GENERAL.

Mark NJ. pomeroy, or "Brick as
he was called, died Saturday.
William Taylor died in Baltimore
Sunday at the age of 105 years.
Thomas L. Barrett, president of the
bank of Kentucky, died Tuesday.
A severe shock of earthquake
Incurred at Colon early on Monday
morning.
DR. II. NJ. V. Miller, United States
Senator from Georgia, died in Atlanta,
Sunday, aged 80 years.
Private advices received in Key West
state that small pox is raging at the
Moro Castle, Havana.
Charles Thompson is in Jail at Rome. +,
Ca. charged with the murder of Mrs.
Tudor, his housekeeper.
-Four men were injured, three
seriously, by the fall of wall at
Easton, Pa, Monday afternoon.
Henry Mitchell Smith, negro who
was convicted Of assaulting an aged
white woman, was hanged at Licking
ton, Ky. Tuesday.
A flnod at Mound City, Mo-, Sun
day, damaged property TO the extent OF
S40 600. Several persons are believed
to have been drowned.
George Mock killed his wife with
hoe, at Marysville, Kan, Saturday.
and when pursued cut his throat and
jumped into the river.
Mary Cunningham, 10 years old, was
found strangled to death in her
mothers fiat. on East Thirty seventh
street, New York, Saturday.
The President Monday sent to the
Senate the nomination of Abram r.
Severn of New York to be Chief
Examiner of the Civil Service Com
mission.
A man who gave the name of James
Williams was shot and fatally wounded
Tuesday while robbing the postoffice
at Crescent Hill, a suburb of Louis
vile, Ky.
Jacob Mailman, farmer, was killed
and Jonas Whitman, stone mason,
was probably fatally injured by the
falling of wall al Centre Point, Pa,
Tuesday.
The steam launch Bon Franklin
upset in the Harlem river Saturday
night and two of the occupants-Mabel
Wolier and Kate Murrsy-were
drowned.
A pilot boat, which was being
launched at the Newport News ship
yard Saturday, capsized after she had
left the ways and one OF the p!en on
board was drowned.
On Wood Island, in Saco Bay, Me-,
Monday evening, Frederick w. MILL
ken was shot in the abdomen and
fatally wounded by Howard Hobbs,
who also killed himself.
Mint Director Preston has dismissed
Weigh Clerk Chanfrau of the Now
Orleans Mint for embezzlement, and
directed that he be prosecuted. The
present extent of his known pecula-
tions is $50 in gold.
Veronica Pavelock. aged II. was
killed in st. Louis Saturday by falling
on broken trolley wire, and Lillie
Cloquette, aged IL, fell from 4 car,
which had been stopped by the wire,
and was fatally injured.
Children on the way to Sunday
school, in the Cole Brook Hills, Lam
caster county, Pa. found in deeply
wooded spot, the mutiated body of
child, or years of age. Tho hands
and feet had been chopped off and tho
head was missing.
During IA quarrel in Chicago, Tues
day, between Michael Martin, q saloon
keeper, and j.. Sexton, an empIoye Of
the Illinois Steel Works, Martin was
shot in the abdomen by Sexton and
probably fatally injured. Sexton fed
and, refusing to stop, was shot in the
side by an officer. lilo was also probably
fatally wounded.
ii. 5. Roper, a mechanical enigneer,
was almost instantly killed at the New
Charles River Bicycle Park, in Cam.
bridge, Mass. on Monday, while ex-
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his own invention. lie was pacing
rider and lost control Of
the wheel. it is said that his death
was due to heart disease.
Angelina, the daughter of Chief
Seattle, after whom Seattle, Wash.
was named, died in that city Sunday.
Sho was one of the most noted eelebrs-
tics Of the North Pacific coast. In the
early tifties Angelina, at the peril of
her own life, apprised the population
Of Seattle of an intended massacre,
thus saving 300 or 400 lives
Commander G. J. Train, United
States Navy, has been detached from
duty as member of the Atlanta Elk
position Board, and ordered to the
Fourth Lighthouse District as in
5pector. His headquarters will be in
COMMANDER G, G.,
Reter, the present inspector for this
has been directed to return
acme, and will be placed on waiting
orders.
A mob az Columbus. Ca, Monday
uttered the Court House, seized Jesse
5tayton, a negro who was being tried
or assaulting white woman, and
ragged him into the street and
'iddled him with bullets. Tho crowd
hen went TO the Jail and compelled
Tho iailer to surrender to them viii
Niles, d negro who was awaiting his
onrth trial for criminal assault, and
ynched him also.