Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-04-23
IN q EN- ERAL.

| = congressman Hubbard was lue6uay
renominated by tho Republicans of the
Eighth Missouri district.
| A shortage of $ll, 500 has been found
in the accounts of j. @, Stoddard, city
treasurer Of Cedar Rapids, La.
a. d. Markley, OK State Senator,
died on Sunday at IIatboro, Bucks
county, Pa, in the Gath year of his age.
ii. P. g. Wilson, Jr., a Baltimore
cluhman, was drowned while on
yachting trip near that city, Saturday.
The northern coast of Cuba is being
closely watched by Spain, to prevent
the insurgents from landing ammuni-
tion.
A tornado passed over Fremont, o.,
Monday afternoon. Two persons were
killed and another probably fatally i'm
jured.
Peace negotiations between Italy and
Abyssinia have been finally rGptured
King Menelek's terms have been re-
iected.
The Republicans of the Sixth Ten
nessee district have nominated G. Q.
Boyd. negro lawyer of Clarksyille
for Congress.
The French Senate Tuesday adopted
a motion TO defar discussion of the
, Madagascar credits until a new minis
! try is formed.
Lizzie Armstrong, assistant postmis-
tress at Tarrytown, N. w.. was arrested
Saturday charged with stealing money
from the mails.
-Four miners were instantly killed
and another was injured by a fall of
rock in the Eddy Creek shaft at Oily
phant, Pa, Saturday.
W.T.. Workman and Layman Williams,
,, at Charleston, w. Va, Tuesday, drank
carbolic acid, mlstaking it for whisky,
and died from the effects.
! Frank Geeley, aged IS, and Herbert
J Kennedy, aged %, were swept over tho
Merrimac river dam at Lawrence,
. Mass, Monday, and drowned.
8 The Democratic State convention Of
! Rhode Island, Tuesday, adopted a
/ declaration that there should be no
y departure from the gold standard.
0 Charley johnson, the Western light
weight defeated Austin Gibbons before
the Caledonia Athletic Club, Philadel-
phia, Monday night, in six rounds.
IS Seven men were killed and six in
iured, four probably fatally, by an ex-
! plosion of dynamite in the Broadwater
: mine at Niehart, Mont, Saturday.
$ The factory OF the Dauntless Bicycle
, Co., in Toledo, o., was burned Sun
8 day. The loss is estimated at Sl65, 00O
y and 800 hands are thrown out of work.
: JEFF Gardener, negro was lynched
J near Warren, Ark, Saturday night,
for asssulting a daughter of Joseph
!, Burrows. The girls condition is
! critical.
= Congressional nominations were made
= by the Republicans in Maryland Tues
=. day, as follows: Third district, DIR.
: : William S. Boose; Fourth district, W..
: w. Mcintyre.
- Dick Moore has sweeping challenge
= out to fight any man at 1853 pounds,
: and especially announces that he will
= best Paddy Purtel in 10 rounds or for.
Il felt everything.
Is Emma Stone, pauper inmate of tht
"a county insane asylum at Dunning, ILL.,,
= scalded herself in bath-tub Saturday
"a night, and died Of her injuries serera
a hours afterwards.
d Arthur ]. Boreman, first Governor
1t of West Virginia, afterwards United
# States Senator, and for eight years
a judge of tho Fourth judicial circuit
!, court. died Sunday in Parkersburg.
IS Two children were killed, two othei
o persons fatally injured, and two other
u still seriously injured by two bolts o.
d lightning which struck the dwelling o
n Andrew Olsen, in Wallace, Mich, Fri
IS day.
s Leo Hirth, wealthy German resi-
u dent of Indianapolis, was Instant,
d killed Sunday morning by two masked
u men who were discovered in his beC
u room, and whom he pursued into th
y rear part of the house.
~ Two girls, aged 4 and 3 years
{, daughters of James Morris of Lowell
" " Mass, were missed from home Satur
70 70 day night and the next morning wer,
found drowned in the Merrimac river
claspe6 in each others arms.
Hon. Willard Ives, member of Con
gress in 1862, the founder of Ives Semi
nary, Methodist institution at Ant
werp, and we'll known as banker an,
!. philanthrcpist, diod in Watertown
- N. Y, Sunday, aged 30 years.
! The envoy sent 10 Russia by tn
r. Corean government is empowered +
5f - raise loan of S, 600, 600 and also t.
"a ask for Russian troops to guard th
ii Kings palace, and that advisers b
! sent to the Corean government
Of The body Of Enos Lawrence VIII
IN disappeared from his home in Holland
Mich, was found on Monday in th
Black river. He had been murdered
His wife and mother-in-law are sus
y pected of guilty knowledge Of the mur
~ der.
~ ~ A Machias, Me-, dispatch says .tha
q Charles and Freedom Shaw, II and /
to years old, sons of Leander Shaw, ant
IN Carl, the 10-years- old son of William
-, Matthews, were drowned Sunday a
y North Cutler by the capsizing of
y, boat.
u u Tom Price, colored, was lynchet
~ near Westville, S. G., Sunday night
n for attacking young lady and h or IL
" years-old brother. lie shot the bo,
and shot at the girl, but she ESCAPED
injury. Price was discharged from th,
penit0ntiary about 10 days ago.
20 Capt. ID. Ii. Slattery of st. Louis
"a who few months ago was charget
= u with having Appropriated $500 o
e the funds of the Merchants Elevator
" Co. of which he was president ant
" manager. was found drowned Monda,
i. in Kings Lake, near ST. Lnuis. 1t il
"a supposed that he committed suicide.
m All the union plumbers employed by
I'e the beer pump houses in Chicago wen
of ~ on strike Monday morning, Sever
u u firms and two brewing companies arr
=, effected. The object of the strike is t.
!. compel the firms to employ none bu
: union men, pay So, 70 per day in wages
and sign the agreement made by tht