Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-10-29
IN EN- ZEAL.

died at Fond du Lac, Wis, Monday,
after prolonged illness.
A fire in large cotton warehouse in
Galveston. Tex, OH Sunday. destroyed
property worth sl40,0 900.
Archbishop ireland called at the
White House Monday and paid MS
respects to the President.
Mrs. Rebecca Hopkins Carpenter, !
widow of Judge Thomas P. Carpenter,
died in Camden, n. j., Saturday.
Three Of the candidates on the West |
Virginia Popuilst State ticket have |
resigned in favor of the Democrats.
A fire destroyed six stores and a |
dwelling in the village Of Notre Dame
de Grace, Quebec, on Sunday. Loss,
$780,
1t is reported that sugar ring is in |
process OF formation whose membership |
will consist Of 400 German sugar manu-
facturers.
II. B. Porter, said to have been
capitalist of Titusyille, Pa, was
instantly killed while hunting near
Alvord, Ia, Sunday.
Brown Brothers, proprietors of dry
goods and department store at Houston,
Tex, have assigned, giving preferences
amounting to S9U, UUU.
Fifteen thousand railway employees
in Chicago Saturday night joined in
torchlight and lantern parade for Nc
Kinley and sound money.
Mrs. Alfred H. Coombs was killed
and her husband and a boy named Percy
were injured in runaway accident at
Amesbury, Mass, Sunday.
In runaway accident near New
Whateom, Washington, Sunday, Ed
ward Lindsay was killed and his father
and brother we're fatally injured.
Lieutenant Governor Nye Of Indiana
has written Chairman Pickens of the
Democratic ound-Money State Com
mittee, announcing his opposition to
free silver and this Chicago platform.
Charles E. Gavin, secretary Of the
/ Chicago National Building and Savings
Union, was arrested Saturday. charged
with being So, 260 short in his accounts.
| A New Orleans dispatch says that
the regular Republicans and Sugar
Planters or Lilly Whites" arrived at
an amicable understanding Saturday.
IL is stated that an unknown ruined
city, covering space larger than New
York City, has been discovered in the
mountains in the State of Guerrero,
Mex.
runaway car on the Midvalley rail-
way, mine gravity road near Shamo-
kin, Pa, was wrecked Monday, kill
ing Peter Gulick and injuriDg four
other men.
The President Monday appointed
Isaac II. Lionberger of st. Louis AS
sistant Attorney General for the In
| tprinr napnrfnoant ripa William
Little, resigned.
Nearly 800 vessels took part in a
marine parable in New York harbor
Saturday night under the auspices Of
the Shipping and industrial Sound
Money Association.
William J. Horner, Jr., of West Sha.
mokin, Pa, went hunting Monday,
and when he stumbled his gun was
accidentally discharged, the load oil
shot entering his neck.
A fire in the Washington mills al
Lawrence, Mass, Monday morning,
destroyed the dry-room, dye house and
} a portion of Mill No. 4. About A, 50(
operatives were thrown out Of work.
About 20 business houses in Ladonia,
Tox., were destroyed by fire Sunday
One half the district was burned about
tureo WeehS dpO, anu yeSlbruhy urt
leaves the town without store.
Three burglars in the Lancaster. Pa.
Jail cut hole through the stone wal
of the prison Saturday night, gained
access to the roof and by means Of 9
blanket rope lowered themselves h
the street
| The Arkansas supreme court ha
! decided that tho Governor OF the STATE
! has the right to appoint members o
. the Legislature where vacancies hav,
a been caused by death, designations o
i other causes.
/, A headend collision occurred on tn
8 St. Louis & San Francisco railway
a near Mesamic Highlands. Mo-, Sun
i, day morning, by which nine person
Q were killed and 20 injured-eigh
0 possibly fatally.
o A fire at Milwaukee, six miles beloy
Saginaw, Mich, Sunday evening, DIES
It troyed $780, 600 worth of lumber belong
It ing to the Central Lumber Co. Fou
dwellings and six drill houses, value
at S25, 600, were also burned.
Two large grain elevators Of the Chi
al cago and Pacific Elevator Co. at Gova
Island, Chicago, were destroyed by fir
70 Monday, together with over 1000, 90
:. buShtlS VI Wuedb huu Obubr grain. In
~ loss is estimated at 81, quo, 900.
20 The Right Hon. and Right Rev
II Frederick Temple, Bishop of Londol
~ and Provincial Dean of Canterbury
- has been appointed Archbishop o
III Canterbury and Primate of All Eng
"A land. in place of the late Archbisho
u Benson.
/. In the case Of Saltonstall, Collectc
/ of Customs at Boston, vs.. Birtwe
ii the United States Supreme Court o
N Monday overruled the contention Of Ii
10 government that protest must accom-
u pany the payment OF the duties in ordt
Ia to be valid.
it The body of a man was found /
10 hunters at the head Of Chapel Rapid
ID in the Menominee river. in Michigan
of Sunday. There was strap around tt
10 neck and waist, as though the man ha
been thrown into the water an
ID anchored.
r. -Four masked men broke into th
It. hotel OF Anthony Monaghan, at Rappi
le hammock, near Girardville, Pa, Sunda
IN morning, sandbagged the propriett
ok and his wife and secured about So, OF
An in money which was secreted in Il
We building. The aged couple are in
be critical condition.
ne The British steamer Alene, at Ne
York Monday from Port Limol
brought Capt. Charles H. Bunker an