Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-11-28
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steamer La Bourgogne, from Havre.
Jefferson Sparks. an aged merchant
OF Cayuga, Ind, was murdered and
robbed by two foot-pads on Saturday
night.
Tho Cartwright Burton Co., furni-
ture dealers of Richmond Va, made
an assignment on Saturday. Liabiii-
ties, Sill, 900.
b. f. Parrott, express and railroad
agent at Soaright, Ala, was over
powered by masked men on Friday
night and compelled to surrender
package containing $500.
While George W.. Newhouse and his
wife. CT Rush county, Indiana, were
driving home from Shelbyville, on Fri !
day night, their horse backed off a
high embankment. Both were instantly
killed.,
Capt. j.. G, Ayres, Ordnance De-
partment, United States Army, has
been ordered to Sea Girt, on business
pertaining to the construction OF the
sea coast battery for the State OF New
Jersey.
Local Assembly 1112 of tho Knights
OF Labor, comprising about 700 OF the
garment cutters of Baltimore, has
withdrawn from the knights and
Joined the United Garment Workers OF
America.
Miss Nellie G. Robinson, woman
attorney of Cincinnati, instituted a.
proceeding in mandamus in the Ohio
Supreme Court on Saturday to compel
Gov. Mckinley to issue her commits
sion as notary public. FL.
L. w. Perdue, white, aged 81 years,
was taken from Jail at Mount Vernon,
Ga, on Saturday, and his throat cut
from ear to ear. lie was charged with
having ruined one of his pupils. He
left wife and four children.
The cruiser Minneapolis, which has
been ordered to Smyrna, Asia Minor,
to assist in protecting American in
terests, left Norfolk on Saturday for
Newport News, 10 take on thousand
additional tons Of coal, necessary to fill
her bunkers.
News has reached Montgomery, Ala,
that Judge Frank @. Randolph, of
that city, who disappeared last Feb
ruary leaving a shortage of $40, 600, is
in custody at Cali, in Colombia, for
killing Charles Simmons, merchant
Of that place.
The body of Narcisus Bagnall,
Saturday in the burned ruins OF an
unoccupied building near Hodges, S.
G. John Mitchell and Wash. Ware,
negroes, are under arrest, charged
with the murder.
FIX Congressman Finnerty of Chi
cago, addressed meeting in New York
City Sunday night, under the auspices
of the Irish National Alliance" to
ratify the action of tho Chicago Con-
vention and TO honor the memory Of
the Manchester martyrs. ~
City Editor Vowel of the Hunting
don W. Va. Times, was on Saturday
sent to Jail for 10 days and fined $50
for contempt of court by the Judge of
the criminal court. Other editors of tho
paper were fined $50 The case grew
out of the paper rejecting on the court.
United States District Judge Han
ford at Seattle has signed decree for
foreclosure against the Seattle, Lake
| Shore and Eastern railroad, in pro-
ceedinRs instituted at the instance of
the Union Trust CO., of New York.
The claim against the property is
| sc, 500, 600.
Grant Kellar, the desperate, who on
Friday, while being conveyed to States
Prison, assaulted Judge Morrow and
endeavored to throw him under the
wheels of a starting train at Belvidere,
N. j., had his sentence reconsidered on
Saturday and was given 10 years at
hard labor
A dispatch from Mumissing, Mich.
says that the steamer Michael Groh
became disabled on Lake Superior, on
Friday, and went on tho rocks at
Miners Castle. The crew, consisting
of II men, made the shore in boats
with great difficulty. Tho steamer is
a complete wreck.
Andrew Timko, Hungarian, oil
Now York City, ended weeks de-
bauch early on Sunday morning, by
stabbing Mary Thouckuk, his l5.years-
old step daughter, with a knife, and
cutting her with hatchet, firing twp
shots at his wife, and then killing
himself with revolver.
John Mcbride, president of thu
American Federation of Labor, ha.
authorized the announcement that he
is candidate for reelection. 1t il
understood at headquarters in Indian
apois that Samuel Gompers, the OK
president Of tho Federation, is can
didate against Mcbride.
A Chicago dispatch says that after
. two years war tho brewery owner
have formed a compact which includes
CD brewerIes. A penalty fund o
5000, 900 is said to have been sub
scribed and the city has been divided
into territory for each brewery. The
price of beer is expected to advance
Immediately.
dispatch from Mazatlan, Mex.
says that the dead bodies of five men
two of whom are recognized IA beinj
Americans. have been discovered north
east of there in wild section of tn,
Sierra Madre mountains The bodice
4 are supposed to be those of members o
0 gold prospecting party who lost thei
way and died of starvation and ex
posture.
: The special board of naval officers
s directed to consider plans for the ney
: battleships Nos 5 and 6, has recon
, mended TO the Secretary Of the Nav.
that tho extreme points of the armoreC
l rams with which these vessels are t.
be fitted shall be IL feet below tn
, water line. This is five feet six niche
lower than in the plan of the construc
tion bureau.
The Nicaraguan government has dc
cided to abolish its Legation at Wash
ington on account of financial reasons
DIR. Guzman, who has represented
Nicaragua in the United States 70
many years, will next week presen
his letter of recall, which is now Oh
the way. 1t is DIR. Guzman's purpos
to remain in Washington and RESUME
tho practice of his profession.
The Secretary of the Treasury OF