Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-05-16
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There is coal war in Rome, N. y. Tho
dealers are backed by the coal companies.
Coal rs now selling for 50 per ton.
Mrs Charles Hire and her Gmonths-old
baby were burned to death in 81. Louis on
| Sunday evening by the explosion OF a
gasolene stove.
The killing of State Senator r. r.
| Morrissey of Missouri, at st. Louis, Mon
| day, leaves the Democrats just enough
Senators to pass bill
Two young men named Maliberte and
JAEGER, both students ut the Ottawa Uni
versity, were drowned in the Rideau river
on Sunday while boating.
During squat on tho lake Mt Conneaut,
| O., Monday. small boat containing four
| young men was upset and Fred Douglass,
aged TO- and Marvin Staples, aged II, were
drowned.
Frank Hale and his wife were burned
to death early on Sunday morning by
| fire which destroyed their house in Mid
land Mich. Their children were rescued
By nelghbors.
Sidney Z. Carey, 10 years of age promi-
llent society man in Baltimore. fell from
the bow window OF his house Monday
AFTERNOON, aud received injuries which
caused his death in short time.
]. T. Estes, a farmer of Morgan county.
Ga. was shot and killed Oh Sunday by
VIII Green, young man who was cOping
with Estes daughter. After tho shooting
the couple cscapaped and were married.
The steamer Danube arrived at Victoria
j. G., on Sunday night, having on board
the passengers Of the long overdue mis-.
siOnary steamer Glad Tidings The Glad
Tidings was pierced by rock aud partially
disabled.
w. w. Hill. assistant superintendent of
the Free Delivery Service, has just COM
pleted an adjustment of tho claims of
l'hiladelphi letter-carriers for overtime.
He has recommended that S15206I be paid
to the carriers.
A fire at Fort Huron, Mich, on Sunday,
destroyed McAlorran Il Co.'s large grain
elevator ana Davidson u McMorran's flour
mill entailing a loss OF from $4,000 to
100000. The elevator contained about
800 600 bushels OF gram.
The Justices of the Supreme Court OF
the United States have reached decision
in the income tax cases. but it will not be
made public until next Monday the 10Th.
Justice Jackson yesterday left Washington
for his home in Nashville.
The German steamer Mnrkomannia. at
New York Monday from Hamburg, re-
ported that Meta Fredriclis, aged IL,
Storage passenger, committed suicide by
jumping overheard. on May LIST, the ami
The President on Monday appointed as
Civil Service Commissioners William q.
Rice OF Albany, n. Y, to succeed Theo.
dore Roosevelt, and ex-Postmaster John
u. Harlow OF ST. Louis, to succeed Charles
II. Lyman. Mr. Harlow is Republican.
a dynamite bomb was thrown by I'M
known parties in East st. Louis, early
Mdonay morning, and two houses. occti.
pied by union and nonunion workers in
the Tudor Iron WORKS. were badly shat.
tered by the explosion, but no one was
injured.
Secretary Carlisle announces the follow.
ing dates unon which he will deliver
speeches OH the financial question Al
Coyington, KY. Monday, May 10th; be-
fore the Memphis Sound Money Conyen-
ton" May I'D; at Bowling Green, XIV.
Saturday, May 18th; at Louisville, Tues
day. May 2Sth.
a Toledo dispatch says that William ]. |
oshea has begun three suits for damages,
IN the sum OF $4,000 in each case, against |
the Lake Shore Ohio Central and Wabash |
Railroad Cos. The suits are based on the |
allegation that, ms a result of his discharge |
and boycott during the American Railway |
Union strike and his subsequent blacklist. |
ing, he Is unable to secure employment on |
any roads.
Alonzo b. Miller, farmer of Lyons
ohil uShlllSJ Ln6 ". raul. |
Minneapolis & Omaha Railway ca, for |
$4,000 for failure of the company's en-.
gines to whistle for each crossing. For UGH |
failure Nebraska statue imposes penalty |
OF 5000, and Mr.. Miller noted 1913 times on |
which the engines passed the crossing
without whistling, from May 4th 1884, TO |
August oth OF the same year. The case |
case will be made a test of the law.
A telegram from Victoria, b. c., saws
that the British government has decided |
not to renew the agreement with tile |
United States respecting the sealing up Of |
arms and implements of sealing vessels |
proceeding to Behring Sea during the
closed season. This information came in
an official message to the collector Of Gus. |
toms on Sunday, and is in consequence OF
the non.payment of the Si25, 900 indemnity |
due to British sealers and withheld by the |
American government after being form
ally agreed to.