Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-10-15
IN GENERAL.

ton, "a, dleu In the CourG Acuse aJ
Wilkesbarre Friday.
j, L. Meyer & Co., clothiers, of Port
land, Ore, have assigned. The assets
are sl13, 300, and the liabilities s63, 0o0
Redrick Killen, years of age, of
South Camden, N. j., was killed by
trolley car Friday morning at Seventh
street and Ferry avenue.
The Rhode Island Silver Democratic
leaders have declined to withdraw the
name of 4. Benjamin Andrews from
their electoral ticket, as he recently
requested.
Albert Bray, farmer OF NoblesvilIe,
Ind, Friday killed his wife and Two
little children and himself. He had
been i'll with typhoid fever and was
probably insane.
The charges of malfeasance and neg
lect of duty against Gen. Austin
Lathrop, superintendent Of New York
State Prison, were dismissed Friday
by Gov. Morton.
The State ticket of the "Middle.of-
the-road" Populists of Indiana has
been filed with the State authorities
and the prospects of fusion with the
Democrats are remote.
The Fabre line steamer Alesia, which
sailed from New York Thursday after
noon for Marseilles and Naples re-
turned Friday In tow OF tugs. Her
machinery was disabled.
Representative Hepburn says the Nc
Kinley electoral ticket will receive a
good majority in Iowa and that solid
Republican delegation will be sent to
Congress from that State.
One of the Shorburne, Mimi, bank
robbers and murderers, was shot and
killed Friday near Bancroft, Ia,
after be had killed Marshal William
Gallon, one Of his pursuers.
The flagship Charleston is to be
| altered to single command cruiser
and will be thoroughly overhauled.
| The work is to be done at the Mare
Island Navy Yard at cost Of 5000, 900.
Chairman Butler of the National
Populist COMMITTEE says: s'The
present indications show 232 electoral
votes reasonably certain for Bryan,
with at least an equal chance for 70
| more. - F
| JOSEPH Colburn and his wife, an aged
couple living near Holly, N. Y, were
| terribly tortured and finally beaten
into insensibility by two tramps
Thursday night. Robbery was the
| motive.
A fire which started in tho Reynolds
| grain elevator, at Corning, Ia, FRI
| day, destroyed two blocks of business
houses. An unknown man was burned
to death. The property loss is said to
be $3.50, 900. q
The Rev. j. E. Brant, the fusion
Prohibition candidate for Governor of
Kansas, recently nominated to concen-
trate the Prohibition and church forces
against Gov. Merrill, has declined the
nomination.
b. H. Osborne, lunatic, escaped
from his home in Atlanta, Ca, Fri
day, and shot and killed Theodore
Shrader. an entire stranger, whom no
met on the street. Osborne WAS married
only last Monday.
Official returns from a majority of
the Georgia counties show that the
Democratic majority for the State
ticket will run slightly over 90, 600.
Gov. Atkinson's majority falls below
this by several thousand.
The Postoffice Department has
revoked its order denying the privileges
of the mails to ID. Il. Morgan the
New York broker who dealt in options
on gold and silver contingent upon the
coming national election.
John g. Sheehan, the Tammany
leader, in communication sent to
Democratic National headquarters, says:
"We are now confident that we will
be able TO carry the State of New York
for the Democratic candidates."
John Warga, laborer, while in a
drunken frenzy, at his home, in Newark,
N. j., Thursday, picked up his g.
months old child and dashed out Its
brains on the floor The murderer then
seized his 6-years- sou and fled.
The Democrats Of Connecticut held
their State convention Thursday.
Joel A. Sperry of New Haven was
nominated for Governor. The plat
form adopted declared for the mainte-
nance OF the present gold standard.
The executive committee of the
West Virginia Populists, Thursday,
deposed its chairman and treasurer
and then met with the Democratic
Executive Committee and fixed up a
fusion agreement as to the electoral
ticket.
Judge Golf of the United States
court has granted an injunction re-
straiuing the city of Richmond, wa,
from interfering with the operations
of the Bell Telephone Co. The fran
chises of the company were revoked two
years ago and recently the CITY Council
instructed this city attorney to look
into the matter of clearing the streets
J of the company's poles and wires.
Chairman Babcock of the Republican
Congressional Committee says detailed
reports have been received from nearly
all of the Congressional districts and
that tho Republicans will elect mem
bers who are pledged to sound money
from 194 districts. In addition there
are about 50 more classed as doubtful,
with the probabilities that the majority
of them will elect Republicans. This
insures at this time a working majority
of 80.
A Washington dispatch says that IL
is announced that shortage OF bo-
tween SIS, 600 and $4,000 has been
found in the accounts of DIR. A. 9.
Patterson, the assistant physician in
charge of the criminal and homicide
wards of the government hospital for
the insane ON the outskirts OF that city.
known as st. Elizabeth's Asylum.
The deficif does not come out OF
government funds, but out of the sums
paid by private patients. The shortage.
however, has been made good.
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