Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-06-04

IN GEN ERAL.
The Democrats of the Second Maine
district Thursday nominated Woods
Leyensaler for Congress.
Congressman Linton1was Thursday re-
nominated by the Republicans of the
Eighth Michigan district.
Col. Henry @. Woods, Assistant Adj
iutant General, United States Army,
has been placed on the retired list by
operation Of law.
The contest for the United States
Senatorship from Louisiana resulted
Thursday in the election of eX-Gov.
Samuel ID. McEnery.
Frank Evans, aged 20 years. was in
stantiy killed and five other men were
seriously injured by boiler explosion
in Clay City, ILL.,, Wednesday.
In Chattanooga Friday Chief JUS
tice David Il. Snougrass OF the Ten
nesseo supreme bench, was fined $50
and costs for carrying pistol.
Judge Brown, in the United States
district court in New York, on Friday,
sentenced Emanuel Ninger, counter
feiter, to six years in the Erie county
penitentiary.
hdJ hlltbOle a
il making "a descent from balloon
with a parachute, near Baltimore, Tues
day week, fell into Back river and
was drowned.
Edward Berg, who shot and fatally
injured Frank Dunnan, and attempted
to shoot Policeman Gray, committed
suicide in tho Tombs Prison, in New
York, Tuesday night week.
A Western New York e. Pennsylvania
freight train ran into a trolley car near
the Buffalo, N. ", city line, Thursday
morning. smashing the car, killing ono
passenger and injuring two others.
Taylor and Thomas Delk, father and
son, were convicted Thursday of the
murder of Sheriff Quinn of Pike
county, Ga, and sentenced to he
hanged on the same scaffold Juno 10th.
The Norwegian bark Beodrene, from
Avonmouth for Miramichi, was wrecked
on St Paul's Island, in tho Gulf of St.
Lawrence, Tuesday week. The cap
tain, two mates and two seamen were
lost.
The schooner Albion brought to San
Francisco Friday news of the proba'
BILE loss of the schooner Lincoln in
| Alaskan waters The Lincoln had on
board about 30 persons, all of whom
lost their lives.
During u balloon ascension in Mar
tinaville, Va, on Friday afternoon an
old colored man named Archie Brown
was caught in the ropes and carried up
. distance Of 800 fcot, when he fell.
He was killed instantly.
|. b. Baker, wealthy cattle man of
Houston, Tex, WAS Wednesday found
murdered in the residences of Congress-
man j. q. Hutchinson, where he had
been living. The motive for tho muir
der was apparently robbery.
Three hundred feot of tho roadway OF
the Northern Pacific railway sunk in
liumars Lake, near .AitlSen, MINI. ,
Thursday and 20 feet of water now
washes over the spot where heavy
trains were running Wednesday.
Under tho will of DIR. William d..
McGowan of Pittsburg, who committed
suicide about Il week ago, the University
of Pennsylvania Medical Department
is left the major portion Of his estate,
estimated to he worth several hundred
thousand dollars.
Fiftythree bodies have boon recov-
cred from the bridge wreck at Victoria,
b. g., and at least three more are
known to be missing. 1t is said thai
tho bridge which collapsed was known
to be unsafe, and that heavy cars were
run over it in spite of that fact.
The Prohibition National Convention
adjourned early on Friday, having
by reclamation, nominated Joshua
lowering, OF Maryland, for President.
ana Hale johnson cf Illinois, for Vice
President. \ single plank platform
prohibition, was adopted.
! Tho strike of tho carpenters at De
troit has been settled. Tho S-hour rul,
will go into effect January LIST, next
and the men will then receive 20 cont
an hour; until January LIST, the carpen
tors will work o hours per day, with
minimum rate of wages of 70 cents al
hour.
The President Thursday sent to tn,
, Senate the nominations of Lieutenant
| Colonel Henry q. Oorbin, Asslstan
i Adjutant General, to be Colonel an,
Assistant Adjutant- General; Majo
Arthur Macarthur, Jr,, Assistant AID
iutant General, to be Lieutenant
Colonel and Assistant Adiutant
Z General.
{ A Washington dispatch says l.. NJ
a Pipkin, assistant coinOr ut the NeT
t Orleans Mint, has heen removed b.
/ Director of the Mint Preston for irregu
r larity. Pipkin's whereabouts are un
known. Superintendent Cade OF tn
Now Orleans Mint, has been severel
reprimanded by the director for hi
, lack Of promptnoss in reporting on til
Irregularities of Pipkin, which, it !
; said, date back TO tho beginning q
. May.
A San Francisco dispatch says tina
Andreas Sandoval and jose Il. Valen
cia, aged Spaniards Of that city, VIII
v arc under indictment as alleged con
+ spirators with James Addison Peralta
a Reavis in his famous land fraud, hav
Withdrawn their petition in the Unite
States district court for writ a
9 habeas corpus and agreed to go to Ne,
n Mexico for trial. 1t ia SAID they vii
l. turn State's evidence and testif
against Peralts- Reavis.