Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1883 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

A Dover (Del.) mob, dissatisfied with the performance of O’Brien’s circus, opened fire on the wagons as they were being driven to the depot, with revolvers and shotguns, wounding eight or ten of the employes, Charles Henderson fatally. The sheriff and a posse finally guarded the effects of the show to the depot. Residences and business houses were riddled with bullets during the melee. Near New Bedford, Mass., four young ladies and a boy .were drowned by the upsetting of a boat in which they were sailing. James Park, proprietor of the Black Diamond Steel Works, at Pittsburgh, Penn., and the largest manufacturer of merchant steel in the world, has passed away at the age of 63 years Frank Larkin, a well-known ballplayer, who for two seasons was pitcher for the champion Chicago Club, committed suicide in Williamsburg, N. Y., after fatally shooting his wife. He was crazy with drink. The New York Board of Aidermen are considering the project of a staute to Peter Cooper in front of Cooper Union. The Rev. Samuel Reiman, a wellknown rabbi, was killed at New York by falling between a ferryboat and a bridge. At Taunton, Mass., an actor named Paulding, playing Romeo, inflicted a serious wound with his sword upon the Tybalt of the play, named George A. Dalton, in the course of the combat between the two characters.