Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-03-01

Norman l.. Munro, the well-known
publisher, died in New York on Satur-
day evening.
Advices from the Michigan peach belt
state that the cold weather has injured
the buds to great extent.
The British bark Mary E. Chapman
was wrecked Off Tybeo Island, Ca,
Saturday night. The crew were rescued
Sunday.
Thirty buildings, comprising the bust
ness portion of Kaslo, B. c., were de.
stroyed by fire, Sunday night. Loss,
about 100000.
Emerson Holland of Panton, VT, an
assistant Judge of the Addison county
court, was gored to death, Sunday after
noon, by bull.
The official vote of all the counties in
Pennsylvania shows plurality of
1877, l69 for Grow, Republican, for Con-
gressman-at-large.
William Leaders, aged "a years, was
burned to death, Saturday morning, in
a fire which destroyed n row of wooden
buildings at 18TH street, New York.
A special from Guayaquil says Ecua-
dor has accepted Peru's proposals for
the arrangement of the boundary ques-
ton. This ayerts the threatened war.
Judge Winters, in Indianapolis, on
Saturday, ordered the payment of a
second dividend of 10 per cent out of
the funds of the Order of the Iron Hall.
A fire in Mcdonald, 90 miles west of
Pittsburg, on Saturday morning, de-
stroyed 20 buildings in the business Sec
ton, causing a loss estimated at 100000
Two firemen were injured in New
York city Monday morning by the
fall of a stairway in the Monroe build
ing, which was damaged by fire to the
extent of $4,000.
An ovcr-laden freight elevator in the
building of the Boston Dry Goods Com
pany, in Boston, fell from the sixth floor
to the basement last Monday. Three
men were injured, one fatally.
DIR. PEBBLES Sanitarium at San Anto-
MO, Tex, was destroyed by fire Mon
day morning. Mrs. Thompson, patient,
was burned to death, and two others
were seriously burned, one woman
losing her eyesight.
Thomas Adamson of Cedartown, Ca,
late consul-general at Panama. has re-
ceived from the Emperor of China the
star and insignia of the Order of the
| Double Dragon, in recognition of valu-
able services rendered the Chinese
colony on the Isthmus.
Benjamin Low, a shipping merchant
| of Gloucester, Mass, was found dead in
the street in New York, on Saturday
evening. He had evidently been robbed
but an autopsy showed that the imme-
diate cause of death was congestive
chill, inducing heart failure.
The Secretary of State has received a
telegram from Mr. Baker, United States
minister to Nicaragua, stating that
Bonilla is in possession of the capital of
Honduras, and the war appears to be at
an end. This simply confirms the pre-
vious dispatches on the subject.
According to United Press dispatch
from Amsterdam, N. Y, Senator David
\ b. Hill has written private letter to
the editor of the Morning Sentinel, say
ing that he will not be a gubernatorial
nominee this year, and expressing the
belief that Governor Flower will be re-
nominated.
Matthew johnson, who killed Emil
| Kuckelhorn, died in the electric chair at
Sing Sing, N. Y, Monday morning.
! He seemed to be perfectly free from fear.
He acknowledged his guilt. He also
admitted that he had committed two
other murders for which he was never
tried, nor, so far as he knew, even sus-
pected.
jeremiah Ringler and Alexander
| Rhodes, farmers, of Somerset county,
Pa, died Monday, 10 or IL others are
seriously i'll, and many more less seri-
ously indisposed, the result of eating
poisoned meat at sale held on Thurs
day last. The meat was cooked in a
copper kettle, and stood in the vessel
over night.
"Rev." G.. B. f. Howard, who was
convicted last October in the circuit
court of the United States for the West.
ern district of Tennessee for violation
of the postal laws, has appealed to the
Supreme Court of the United States.
Howard was charged with an extensive
series of swindles as attorney for claim
ants to mythical English estates.
John II. Nipple boarded westbound
train on the Chicago & Great Western,
at Des Moines, on Sunday night, and
after the train started began flourishing
a revolver. The passengers left, and
Nipple was locked in the car. At st.
Joseph, Mo-, Monday morning, several
policemen started to enter the car, when
Nipple shot himself through the head.