Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-11-28
IN EKAI.

The strike Of the tin plate workers
at Elwood, Ind, has ended, the mills
starting Wednesday with 600 men.
j. II. Steele, proprietor of a hotel at
Roselle, N. j., shot and killed himself
Thursday on Jersey Central passen-
ger train from New York.
Seventeen firms in Chicago we're
burned out Thursday by fire in Canal
street. A number of women and girls
got out of the buildings with difficulty.
Charles Mae killed his mistress,
Annie Anderson, in Chicago, early
Thursday morning by hanging her. He
placed the rope around her neck as she
lay asleep in bed.
Six boys were buried by the cave in
of a sand bank in Louisville, KY, on
Thursday. Howard Ramage and Louis
Snow were killed, and two others were
seriously injured.
The cruiser Minneapolis has been
ordered to Smyrna, Asia Minor, to
join the San Francisco and Marbehead
in protecting the interests of citizens
Of the United States.
At Auburn, N. Y, Thursday, Mrs.
Mary t. Mcmillan. alias Mary T.
Mack, was convicted of counterfeIting
two cent postage stamps, and sentenced
to Is months imprisonment.
Charles Hurd, negro who had
killed a white boy, was taken from the
Jail at Wartburg. Tenn, on Wednesday
night and hanged by mob. The
lynchers wore no disguise of any kind.
The British bark Sentinel, Capt.
Holmes from Yarmouth, N. b., Sep
tember 10th, for Buenos Ayres, lum-
Der laden, has been burned at sea.
The crew was safely landed at Buenos
Ayres.
In New York Thursday verdict O
not guilty was rendered in the case of
David Hannigan. He was tried for the
murder Of Solomon Mann. just before
the verdict was rendered Hannigan's
father died.
The Rt. Rev. John Conroy, titular
bishop of Curium, died in New York
City Wednesday, aged so years. He was
bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese
of Albany from 1865 until 1877, when
he resigned.
The crew of the schooner Montgom.
cry, which, with the schooner Daunt-
less, was wrecked near Blackwell, on
Wednesday, reached Point Edward,
Ont, Thursday. They suffered greatly
from exposure.
a dispatch from Duluth, Mimi, says
that Cashier Charles Fl. Stuekey,
whose defalcations Of SIS, 600 caused the
wrecking of the State Bank of Duluth
a month ago, was captured on Wednes-
day near Perley, Wis.
The steamer Adirondack, which is ia
run between New York and Albany,
was launched at Greenpoint, N. Y,
Wednesday. Tho vessel, which is 40t
feet long, is said to be the largest over
launched in New YORK harbor.
The body of Calvert Vaux, the we'll
known New York landscape architect,
was found Thursday in the bay at Ben
sonhurst. He was 10 years old. lie
had heen i'll for some time and had
been missing since Tuesday.
Two Mormon preachers were com
PEELED to leave Tallahassee, Fla, We'd
nesday, by the mayor of the city, the
alternative offered them being fine and
imprisonment for being "a menace tt
the peace, dignity and morals of the
city.
The postoffice at Summit, N. j., wa.
entered by burglars on Wednesday.
The safe was blown open and 1000 il
| currency and stamps stolen. The money
did not belong to the government, al
the safe was made a depository fol
several local merchants.
The three masted schooner Lucy a.
Davis, of Portland, Me-, loaded with
lumber, from Brunswick, Ga, for New
York, stranded on Wachaprague
Shoals, Virginia, Thursday morning.
The crew of nine mon were saved by
the life saving crews of Parramores'
Beach and Wachaprague stations.
Toxic advices by the steamer Rio de
Janeiro, at San Francisco, Thursday,
are TO the effect that the destruction Of
the steamer Kung Pal on October latin
was due to the explosion of gunpowder,
not to the blowing up of her boilers as
was at first supposed. or the foreign
ers on board at the time six lost their
lives, the third engineer alone being
saved. About 800 Chinese persisted.
The Department of Justice has nd
vised the Department of State, it is
understood, that on account of diff
ference between the definition of tho
crime Of burglary in the United States
statutes and those of Belgium, Russell
extradition cannot be secured on that
ground Russell is the postoflice robber
who escaped from the Ludlow Street
! Jail in New York City last July.