Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-07-26
IN GEsERAL.

Ed. Lundy, a negro wife murderer,
was taken from the Jail at kissimmee.
Fla, Friday, by a mob of negroes, and
lynched.
Commander George F. +. Willis has
been selected TO succeed Captain Robley
d. Evans as naval secretary of the light
house board.
Comptroller Eckels Friday issued a
call for report of the condition OF
national banks at the close of business
on July 18th.
Colonel Breckenridge, in the course OF
q campaign speech at Donerail, KY, on
Tuesday, compared himself to Stephen
being stoned"
The Indiana Federation of Trade and
Labor Unions has adopted resolutions
endorsing Debs' recent course, and urg-
Ing him to run for Congress.
BY the explosion of q throshing ma
chine boiler near Akron, O., on Thurs
day, Gabriel Crousely was killed and
Barney Morgan was fatally scalded.
The French Roman Catholic Church
OF St. CIotilde, in Minneapolis, was
burned Thursday. The fire was started
by the explosion of one of the altar
lamps.
II is reported that the Fitzgerald COM
mittee of Reading general bondholders
have lately discussed the prospects for
comprehensive reorganization plan to be
issued In the early foil.
Captain Il d. Evans, popularity known
as "Fighting Bob" Evans, has been
ordered to command the cruiser New
York There has been keen compete
ton among naval officers for this COM
mand.
The Continental Palace Car Co., of
East St. Louis, was chartered Thursday.
Its object is to manufacture, sell and
operate palace sleeping, dining and
buffet cars. The capital stock is So
100000.
A shortage of $1,000 has been found
in the accounts OF ex-Postmaster f. II.
Leonard Of Boise, Ida. Leonard, who
is a son -in-law Of Chief Justice HUM,
Of the Idaho supreme court, has dis.
appeared.
Joseph 4. Ginocchio. aged 2s, native
of st. Louis, is said TO have been i'm
pressed for military duty during visit
TO Italy last month. Efforts are being
made through the state Department to
secure his release.
A Montreal Judge on Saturday de-
cided the "nickel-in.slo" machine to be
gambling DEVICE and imposed
fine of $40 and costs upon saloon
keeper for having one OF the machines
operated on his premises.
Pasqualo Lora, 80 years old, who
was a prisoner in the Raymond street
Jail, Brooklyn, charged with assaulting'
a l0-years.old girl, committed suicide
by diving from the third tier of cells to
the floor, a distance OF rs feet.
The Treasury Department has practi-
cally concluded the payment of sugar
bountes for the past fiscal year, the
aggregate footing up $l2,750,000 A few
small accounts amounting to about
100000 are still unadjusted.
The schedules in the assignment of
Louis iernsheim, iron aud steel mer-
chants, We're filed in New York on
Saturday. They show liabilities of
| $l7l ,67i.97; nominal assets of $50, 5SS.56,
and actual assets Of s., 422.22.
A German. known only by the name
of "Old Souder," 80 years of age, killed
himself at Roseland, N. j., Friday,
| by placing dynamite cartridge in his
throat and exploding it with his teeth.
The top Of his head was blown off.
Commandment Ballington Booth Of the
| salvation Army, arrived in New York
| from England on Saturday. He said
his father, General Booth, was coming
to America in the fall, and will dedicate
the new Army" headquarters in New
York.
| Adiutaut- General Tarsney of Colo
RADIO, has written letter to Judge
Campbell of Colorado Springs, refusing
to testify before the grand jury there in
regard to the tarring and feathering
which he is alleged to have received in
that city.
Over 200 sacks of papers and 90
pouches of letters, all for California
people, were consumed in the burning
Of a mail car on the Santa Fe express,
at Iimpus, Col, Saturday. Sparks from
the locomotive are supposed to have
caused the blaze.
Counterfeit bills and securities, &C.,
to the amount of about $4,000, were
destroyed at the Treasury Department
at Washington on Wednesday, together
with many fac SMILES not intended for
fraudulent purposes, but coming under
tht pan OF recent law
A request for the Mercantile and
Manhattan Trust Company OF New
York TO take up the reorganization of
the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michi-
gan Railroad Company is being circu-
lated for signatures among the stock
and bondhUlders of that road.
General Miles, in command of the
Federal troops ut Chicago, has appointed
u board of artillery officers to investi-
gate the explosion of the caisson of
Light Battery II, Second Artillery, on
Monday, by which four soldiers were
killed and several wounded.
Congressional nominations have been
made as follows: Eleventh Illinois dis
trict, Il. G. Fullerton, Republican;
Seventh Wisconsin district, George b.
) Shaw, renomnated; Fifth Arkansas
district, John G.. Peel, Populist, and
Sixth Arkansas district, A. ID. Tanner,
, Populist.
Harry Ports, 90 years old, was ordered
out OF John Il. Fagan's saloon, in Balti-
more, because he refused TO pay for a
, drink. He drew pistol and fired at
Pagan, who returned the fire. Both
are thought to be MORALLY wounded.
Samuel Lavize, who was standing al
the bar, received bullet in the shoulder.
William II. Garfield, one of the best
known coffee dealers in Boston, died on
Thursday, aged "a years. Mr.. Garfield
; introduced the plan of taking to Boston
the New York daily papers, and ne per.
, sonally stood at the head of State street
! and sold the New York Sun and 1Si.
6une for three years at 10 cents copy
: A Washington dispatch says that, in
ordering the cruiser Philadelphia home