Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-12-24
IN GENERAL.


Ex-Congressman Henry l.. Pierce
died in Boston on Thursday.
Ex- Congressman Roswell @. Horr
died Friday evening in Plainfield, N. ).
-Four large business blocks at Bridge,
Mass, were burned Sunday; loss,
$4,000.
Sixteen or 20 stores and business
places In Fitzgerald, Ga, were burned
Sunday.
The Illinois Central freight building
at jackson, Miss, was burned Sun
day loss, s75, 900.
Fifty horses were burned to death
by a fire in Bernard Ivy's stable in
Brooklyn Sunday.
The Defiance, o., Street Railway
and Electric Co. has been put in the
hands of receiver.
William Lyman OF Midletown, Conn.,,
inventor of the Lyman gun-sight, died
in New York Sunday.
A Nassau, N. p, dispatch says that
the American schooner Max has been
wrecked on Fortune Island.
The Rev. Hugh j. McManus, rector
of the Church OF Our Lady of Mt.
Carmel, Doylestown, is dead.
Randall, Seby & Bell, agricultural
implement dealers, of Des Moines, Ia,
failed on Saturday for Sl25. 600.
Capt. George Lemon. Washington.
ID. c., pension solicitor and proprietor
of the National Tribune, is dead.
Aaron Goldsmith, his wife and three
children were burned to death in their
home in New York City Sunday.
By head END collision on the Phila-
delphia & Erie railroad Friday, John
q. Walker, a brakeman, was killed.
In Columbus, o., on Friday, A lien
G. Ady was sentenced to Is months in
the State prison for obtaining money
fraudulently.
Silas A. Hudson, first cousin of
Cen. u. S. Grant and ex-Minister to
Central America, died on Saturday, ut
Burlington, la.
A dispatch from Colon, Colombia,
says tine British steamer Earnwell was
driven ashore in the harbor of Nombre
dc Dios on Thursday.
A wrecking train on the Monon road
was wrecked near Guernsey, Ind, on
Friday. One of the crew was killed
and three were injured.
A fire occurred in the Missouri Peni-
Tertiary, at Kansas City, at midnight
on Saturday, but the convicts were all
removed to place of safety.
Hugo Wagner in Buffalo. on Satur-
day night, shot and seriously wounded
his father and sister. and later COM
mitted suicide. A quarrel over money
matters was the cause.
The jury in the case of Private Allen
Of the Fifteenth Infantry, U. s. A.,
who shot and killed Private Call OF the
same regiment, has returned verdict
Of guilty Of manslaughter.
Judge Oliver S. Witherby, who went
to San Diego, CAL, in 1S49, as men,
Der of the Boundary Commission to
establish line between Mexico and
the United States, died Friday.
Antonio Jorio. the insane murderer
in Jail at Bridgeton, N. j.. made a
desperate attempt to escape Sunday,
and WI 8 shot through the wrist before
he was dubbed into submission.
| Tho analysis made by Prof. John
Marshall upon the viscera of the fourth
wife of A. II. Postel of Wayne, Pa,
revealed that she did not die Of poison.
and District Attorney Schaffer will
take no further action.
John Dean of Maynard, Mass, was
murdered on Thursday night in the
| the kitchsn of his hon5e. The motive
| is supposed to have been robbery, and
Lorenzo Barnes, wond chopper, is
under arrest on suspicion.
BY the explosion of q gasoline stove
in Cincinnati, on Saturday morning,
| Mrs. Cordelia Green, was fatally
burned and child had it's skull
| fractured by being thrown from a
second story by its frantic father.
Gov. Lowndes of Maryland Friday
| pardoned s. II. o. Speed who was serv-
ing sentence in the Maryland Peni-
| tertiary for forgery. When his coun-
sci, bearing his release, arrived at the
prison, the man was found to be insane.
August Bierman, farmer of Lake
view, Kan, was shot and killed on
Thursday night by his young wife, who
made an unsuccessful attempt to kill
| herself. Mrs. Bierman said she killed
her husband because they could not
agree.
A freight locomotive on a side tract;
Of the Iron Mountain railroad, in Gads-
| hill, Mo-, exploded on Saturday even
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man Frank Irhy were killed, and
Brakeman James Brady was badly in
| jured.
p. Aelo and his wife and grandchild
were burned to death in their home, at
Sheffield, o. on Saturday. The man and
his wife hud escaped in safety, but
returned to secure the child, when the
floor gave way and tho three were
precipitated into the cellar.
McManus Brothers furniture ware
| house, at Elizabethport, MI, together
with 10 other buildings on the bust
ness street of the town, were burned on
Saturday, the loss amounting TO $3.50.
600. Tho fire originated from q minia-
ture engine in show window.
A hoy discovered a break in the
track on the bridge over the Calumet
river, at Dalton, suburb of Chicago,
on Friday, and saved Chicago &
Eastern Illinois express from being
wrecked. The conductor thanked the
boy, but forgot to ask his name.
In Newport, II. l., on Saturday
night, Eliza Ann, Martha and Char
lotte Wilbrun, aged, respectively. 80,
SO and Sc years, were burned to death.
The fire was started by the accidental
ignition Of some alcohol, with which
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