Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-02-20
IN GENAkAL.


Il. Mann for Congress.
The young King Of Corea has arrived
in st. Petersburg to seek Russian pro.
lection for his country.
Mr.. John Dillon has been elected
chairman Of the Anti Parnelite section
Of the Irish Nationalist party
The Wilson Line steamer Galilee,
towing the disabled steamer Oceanic,
below Boston Light, Mass,
last night.
The surrender Of arms by the Ar
menians. who for months held the city
of Zeitoun against the Turks, has been
completed.
An Ottawa dispatch says the Domin.
ion Government will ask Parliament to
appropriate about So, 900, 000 for Cana
dian defepces.
Judge Pugh, in Columbus, o., on
Monday overruled the demurrers TO the
Indictment against ex-senator W. @.
Gear for bribery.
The British House of Commons on
TUESDAY agreed to the address in reply
to the Queens speech opening the ses-
sion OF Parliament.
The Turkish government has granted
permission to Miss Clara Barton and
her assistants to distribute relief to
the suffering Armenians.
The President Monday sent TO the
Senate the nomination of William
Woodward Baldwin of New York, to be
Third Assistant Secretary of State.
1t is said the French Senate will en-
oeavor to pass tomorrow a vote Of CEN
sure against the government by ma
iority much greater than was polled on
Saturday.
1t is now considered probable that
the Volksrad of the South African Re-
public will give its sanction to the
proposed visit Of President Kruger to
England.
Stour p. Nelson, an exmember Of
the Chicago police force, committed
suicide by taxing carbplic, after having
invited his friends to his funeral by
written cards.
a dispatch from st. John, N. B.,
says that the pilot boat Charlie Troop
of Bath, Me-, went ashore at Irish
town. Peter Brown, the colored cook,
was drowned.
Mrs. |. II. Bunnell, her daughter ano
two sons Of Garfield, o., are under
arrest charged with incendiarism.
They are alleged to have set fire to
their dwelling.
Fountain Martin and James Troxe;l,
white men, charged with barn burning,
were taken from the Jail at Monticello,
KY, by mob. Martin was lynchec
but TroSel escaped.
Thomas Sexton has decided to retire
from Parliament. He has made appli
cation for the stewardship of the Chill
tern Hundreds, which is tantamoun'
to resigning his seat.
John Rohlfing, aged 81, years, ant
Barbara Castle, a young woman, wert
found dead in Rohlfing's room, in st.
Louis The woman had killed RohlfinE
and then committed suicide.
The fishing schooner Gertic Wlnsoi
of Provincetown, went ashore near RacI
Point Life Saving Station, Mass, OF
Monday morning. The crew Of II, al
more or less frost-bitten, were safel.
landed.
The appointment of joint British
and American Commission to settlt
the Venezuelan boundary dispute wal
suggested automatically week ago,
but tho matter has not yet assumed
definite shape.
A Cleveland dispatch says that thu
Cleveland Electric Railway, Cleveland
City Railway and the various subur
ban lines entering the city from Elyria
Akron, Bedford and other points, hayt
decided to consolidate.
The British ship Andelana, at New
York Monday from Hong Kong, re
ported that on November 25th, during
gale, two Japanese seamen fell from
the mainyard. One was drowned anc
the other fatally injured.
The Porte has agreed to suspend ac
tion in the case of Mr.. Knapp, thl
American missionary, whose arres
upon charges of sedition was recent,
attempted at Bitlis, until Mr.. KNAPP
arrives in Constantinople.
The comptroller of the currency OIL
Monday declared third dividend Of
per cent from the assets of the Keyston
National Bank Of Philadelphia, max
ing in all II per cent on personal elaine
amounting 10 So, 3lS, 527. 16
According to advices received a
Port Townsend, Washington, frou
Alaska, by the steamer City of Topeka
the Bank Of Juneau, Alaska, has failed
owing depositors about S15, 600. Their,
are no assets. j. N. Harrison, th,
cashier and manager, has been arrested
for embezzlement.
Policeman Candley, while chasing
Sam Gritliths, coored shoe thief, il
Louisville, KY, Wednesday, became eA
hausted. He handed his revolver K
Tom Martin, another negro, ordering
him to capture Griffith. Instead, Mar
tin shot Candley, wounding hin
fatally.
A New York dispatch says that trou
BILE has broken out again between the
Panama railroad and the Pacific Mai
Steamship Co. Tho Panama roaC
charges hat traffic which should have
been turned over to it by the Pacific
Mail Co. at Panama was diverted tt
the Southern Pacific railway.
Judge Vallient, in st. Louis, Mon
day, gave decision in the litigation
over the Post Dispatch, of that city, il
favor of the editor and manager, Jones'
who claimed that contract made by
him with Joseph Pulitzer secures Il
him control of the paper, independents
uf any action by the defendants, thu
Pulitzer Publishing Go.
The express Office of the New York,
New Haven d Hartford Railroad Co.
Old Colony Division, in Boston, wat
burned on Monday, about 800 feet o.
the outer train house being destroyed,
and 10 feet of the main depot shec
damaged. Six passenger cars were
practically destroyed and several badl.
damRued Loss S50 000
A Washington dispatch says that j.
Piorpont Morgan has made specific
demand for all defaulted bonds OF the
recent iasue, under his blanket bid o.
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