Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-25
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OF the 81 railroads in Massachusetts,
last year SO declared dividends.
l.. N. O'Dell, an aeronaut, was killed
at Washington, N. c., Friday, by the
collapse of a balloon.
Holyoke, Mass, capitalists are about to
build a paper mill at Wateryliet, Mich,
at a cost of 100000.
Henry L. Hastings, prominent bust
ness man of Hartford, Conn, and a
nephew of President Cleveland, died
Monday.
l.. Lip'chutz, merchant of Waco,
Texas, was killed and his wife fatally
injured by burglars early Saturday
morning.
The Treasury Department has made
an order resembling one which permitted
the payment OF customs duties by means
Of checks.
John Briggs was acquitted Mt Potts
vile, Pa, Saturday, of the murder of
James Parfett during the riot at Gilber-
ton last August.
A freight traffic arrangement is being
made up by the Philadelphia e. Reading
the New Jersey Central, the New YORK
New Haven & Hartford, the Old Colony
and the Boston IL Maine Railroad Com
panies.
The dead body of John Campbell was
found in the woods near Indiana, Pa.
on Sunday, and Jacob Bookamirc, his
son.in-law, with whom Campbell had
gone cunning several days before, is
missing.
Mrs. John Locher, who eloped from
Hazleton, Pa, with Charley Ockh
taking $1,000 of her husbands money,
has been captured at Fort Wayne, Ind
Mrs. Locher had $3.50 concealed in her
back hair.
Judge Brentano, in Chicago, on Sat.
urday, granted counsel for Prendcrrast,
convicted of the murder of Mayor Har.
rlson, an extension until January 3ist,
IN which to prepare their arguments for
new trial.
The United States gunboat Benninp-
ton was on Saturday ordered to proceed
from Nice, France, to San Francisco, by
way of the Straits of Magellan. She
will probably be assigned to duty in
Behring Sea.
A wagon containing six persons was
struck by train near Findlay, o., Sat.
urday night. William Rodeclier, Mrs.
Henry Rodecker and Henry Russell
were killed and Mrs. William Herbey
was fatally injured.
A tornado struck Oak Cliff, Dallas and
East Dallas, Tex, Saturday, dcmolish.
ing or damaging more than 100 build
ings. A boy was killed and a man
seriously injured. The total damage to
property is estimated at 100000.
Although some of the Bell Telephone
patents will become public property on
the both OF this month, it is stated that
there are many improvements and an.
tachments to what is commonly known
as the "Bell telephone" now in use. and
which are covered by patents, which
will not become public property for
many years.
Nomination papers were filed at Har.
risburg, Monday, by the Republicans
and Democrats, and by the "Pennsvl-
vania Democracy" whose papers noni.
mating Senator A. D. Markley for Con.
gressman.at-large have about 1000 sig
natures. The regular Republican nomi-
nation papers for ex-Speaker Grow have
aoNuI oboOO HduleS ana INC regular
Democratic papers for Hancock about
2,000
Rev. DIT De Witt Talmage announced
Sunday in the Brooklyn Tabernacle
that this coming spring, on his 25th an
nlversary as pastor, he would resign.
lie said that a quarter of century is
long enough for any minister to preach
In any one place. "My plans after resig.
nation have not been developed, but 7
shall preach both by voice and news.
paper press as long as my life and health
are continued"
William Lyman, treasurer of the Irish
National League of America, has issued
an appeal to llishmen, in which he saws
IN part: "Irishmen, it has long since
been demonstrated to you, as well as to
the rest of the world, that the only sound
that has effect on the English is the
rattle OF musketry or the roar of cannon.
or perhaps of a mine exploding within
their walls, so the sooner you abandon
your finely turned phrases, whether
they be platitudes or threats, and be.
come men Of action, the sooner Nil, the
nag OF the Irish republic be given to the
breeze" ',' W.