Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-03-19
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geographical Society.
The Raines Liquor Tax bill was
passed by the New York Assembly last
Thursday night by vote of 81 to so.
The l6 delegates from Arkansas TO
the Republican national convention
have all been instructed for Mckinley.
Lieut.. William Babcock, executive
officer OF the United States ship Michi
gan, died in New YORK Wednesday. He
was a years of ago.
Rothchild. Baum S Stern, wholesale
clothiers Of Rochester, n. Y. made an
assignment Wednesday. The liabilities
are between $500, 600 and S400, 600.
Sir Henry Irving has accepted the
invitation of President Harper to ad-
dress the graduating class of the Uni
yersity of Chicago on March Gath.
News has reached San Francisco from
Honolulu that the steamship Rio de
Janeiro, long overdue at Yokohama,
put IN at the Hawaiian port on March
Sd out of coal.
The schooner Mary Bates of Sag Har-
Dor, went ashore on Eaton's Neck. L.
l., Wednesday afternoon. In attempting
to get ashore in the small yawl two
OF the crew were drowned.
The Rev. L. Il. Colburn of Lynch
burg, Va, corresponding secretary of
the Board of Foreign Missions of the
Methodist Protestant Church, died on
Wednesday, at Pittston, Pa.
The State convention of the Rhode
Island Democrats was held Wednesday.
George l.. Littlefield of Pawtucket, was
nominated for Governor. The platform
referred solely to State affairs.
Charles II. Green, OK City Treasurer
Of Eau Claire, Wis, who pleaded guilty
to embezzling public funds, was Wednes-
day sentenced TO three years and nine
months' imprisonment at hard labor.
j. l.. Crandall, late President of the
First National Bank Gf johnson City,
Tenn, was Wednesday sentenced to s
years imprisonment for bank wreck
ing. His peculations amounted TO s62,
900.
Negotiations between the General
Electric Go. and the Westinghouse
Electric anG Manufacturing Go. have
resulted IL 4n agreement for the joint
use of tho patents of the two com
panies.
The California State executive COM
mittee of tho American Bimetallic party
has indorsed the candidacy of Senator
Morgan of Alabama, for the Presidency,
and Senator Allen OF Nebraska, for the
Vice Presidency
Colonel and Breyet Brigadier- General
William III. Penrose, for some years
colonel of the Fifteenth United States
Infantry, stationed at Fort Douglas,
Utah, retired on Tuesday week after 80
years of active service.
The Pope Manufacturing Co. g BIZ
cycle factory, on Columbus avenue,
Boston, was damaged by fire Thursday
to the extent of Sl25, 000 About /, 700
bicycles, 3, 1000 tires and quantity of
machinery were destroyed.
The two masted schooner Fairy
Queen of Portland foundered on the
rocks and sank in five fathoms of water,
on Wednesday night, while trying to
make a harbor at Biddeford Pool, Me.
The crew escaped in small boats.
Lauro Aguirre of Batoplis, and Flores
Chapa of Taumaulipas, were arrested
in Ell Paso, Tex, Wednesday, on the
charge of attempting to incite Mexi-
can revolution. The arrests were made
on complaint of the Mexican consul.
A snow plow and local freight train
on the Berkshire division of the New
ihhNuh lOt-i NalIb lDktluDI ntdI iNtnb
Furnace, Conn, Thursday. Conductor
Henry Murphy was killed and Assistant
Road Master Noonan and Assistant
Superintendent W. X. Lyon of Bridge
port were injured
Ex. Gov. Campbell, in an interview
in Cincinnati Thursday, said he was
not candidate for the Democratic
| nomination for the Presidency, but
| gnrUacfa1 Whitman md Matthauc nu n
winning ticket The Free Silver Demo-
| cratic party of Michigan was organized
at Lansing yesterday.
John Chambers, enigneer; Jonas
| Stewart, fireman, and Michael Boyle
and Frank O'Donnell. brakemen, were
| killed, and William Timuny was injured,
by the explosion of "A boiler on locomo-
| tive of the Delaware, 'Susquehanna S
Schuy!kill railroad, near Gun Run, Pa,
| Wednesday afternoon.
A Topeka, Kan, dispatch says that
John +. st. John, the ''apostle of Pro-
hibition," has become candidate for
Congress in the Second Kansas dis
triet. He expects to make his cam
paign on the free silver and prohibition
issues. lie predicts that fully loo, 900
of the Kansas Prohibitionists will join
the Populists.
Articles of incorporation of the Con
solidated Produce and Stock Exchange,
"A reputed anti Board of Trade organiza-
| tion, wore taken out Thursday at
| Springfield, Ill. The association is
said to have secured possession of a
building near the Chicago Board of
Trade, and big =" floor" is to be built
for an exchange in stocks and produce.
1t was stated in the House of Com
mons Thursday that the war office knew
nothing of report that English mill
tary officers had offered their services
to Spain in the event of hostilitieH be-
tween that country and the United
States. The penalties of such action,
| it was stated, would be enforced in
accordance with the foreign enlistment
act.
Con. Weyler has ordered that all in
dividuals captured in the provinces of
Havana and Pinar del Rio who are sup
| posed to belong to the insurgent forces
he set at liberty, If they deny having
joined the rebels voluntarily, and If
| they will promise before two witnesses
| fidelity to the cause of Spain, and do
not appear to be responsible for other
crimes.
An attempt was made Wednesday to
rob the First National Bank at Ger
mantown, o., by tho liberal use of
giant powder. The robbers used SO
much powder that the bank room was
wrecked, the people of the town were
aroused and the criminals fled. The
door of the vault, which weighed 500
pounds, was blown 30 feet. In the
vault were So in cash, besides
| many securities.