Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-02-27

MIN and was suing for divorce.
The Daughters Of the American Rev
olution, in Washington on Thursday,
elected Mrs Adlai L. Stevenson Presi-
dent General.
DR.: Hunter, tho Republican nominee
for United States Senator in kentucky,
has announced himself as a sound
money advocate.
Tho school building of the Clinton
County Childreu's Home, at Whining
ton, o., was burned Thursday. All the
children escaped.
The Knights of Pythias of Pennsy-
vania have decided to erect temple
at cost Of $3.50, 900, on Market street,
near the City Hall.
Jacob Moser, 65 years old. shot and
killed Mrs. Marguerite Singer, ~ years,
a neighbor, in Milwaukee, and then
committed suicide.
o. @. Murray was Wednesday elected
First Vice President of the Baltimore
~ Ohio railroad, succeeding Gen. Or
lando Smith, resigned.
The election of the Very Rev. G.
Mott Williams to the office of Bishop
of Marquette has been confirmed by
the bishops of the Episcopal Church.
Albert /. Foster, for five years tax
collector at Concord, N. H., was
arrested on Friday on two complaints
charging him with embezzlement of
GIG, 900.
Mrs. George Il. Kelso. in New York
City Thursday, killed her two children
by shooting them and thon attempted
suicide by cutting 2n artery in her left
forearm.
II. S. Luqueer & Co., of Now York
City. importers and dealers in saddlery
and hardware, made an assignment on
Wednesday. The liabilities are esti-
mated at $3.50, 600.
John and Richard Steele, said to
have been the largest hemp growers in
America, wero struck by train and
killed Mt Tebb's Station, 16 miles east
of Lexington, Ky.
The British government approved the
course Of the British South Africa Co.
and appointed Earl Grey to act with
Rhodes in the administration Of the
company's territory.
Fred. Deerweather, a 14.years. old
boy, committed suicide at Fremont
o., by shooting himself through tho
head. The only cause assigned was
his dislike for school.
Chas. +. Mayer was Wednesday sue
ceeded, as President of the Consolida.
tion Coal CO., Of Baltimore, by @. X.
Lord, third vice president Of the Bal
timore 81 Ohio railroad.
Tho executive committee Of the
National Republican League met in
Chicago Wednesday and decided to hold
the National Convention in Milwaukee,
August 25th, Goth and 9th.
George Maxwell, John Zerby and
Samuel Maxwell, employed at tho
works of the Consumers Gas CO.,
Wilkesbarre, were sutfocated by escap-
ing gas Wednesday afternoon.
Pom Kwan Sob, the new minister
from Corea, was formally presented to
President Cleveland in Washington
Wednesday. There was the usual ex-
change Of diplomatic courtesies.
a lion got loose during performance
in Wilkcsbarre, Pa, museum Wednes-
day night, and there was panic in the
audience. The animal was recaptured
and no person was seriously injured.
The Mississippi Populists held their
State convention in jackson Wednesday.
The convention was the smallest ever
seen there, but it made up in bitter
ness what 1t lacked in membership.
The Senate, in executive session, on
Wednesday coniirmedWillam II. Pugh of
| Ohio, to be auditor for the Navy
Department, and Peter Victor Duester
Of Wisconsin, to be consul at Crefed,
Germany.
John ID. Lawler, president of the
First National Bank Of Mitchell, S.
d., territorial governor of Dakota
under Cleveland's administration. was
found dead in his room in hotel in
Sioux City.
The steamship Missouri, from Lon
don, February 18th, for Philadephia,
put into Falmouth, Eng, Friday,
with hor cargo on fire. 1t was found
necessary to run the steamer ashore on
a mud bank.
The Indiana Democratic State com
mittee Thurfday fixed June oath as the
| date for the State convention, two
weeks before the national convention.
This WAS victory for the silver wing
Of the party.
The Mississippi House of Representa-
tivos has adopted strong free coinage
resolutions and declaring that it would
not favor the nomination Of any Demo
cratic candidate for the Presidency
holding views adverse thereto
Tho boiler of freight engine or the
Nashville, Chattanooga ~ st. Louis
railroad exploded Thursday and John
| Walkup, enigneer, and "Scotty" Erwin,
fireman, were killed, and Simon Rug
giles, brakeman. was badly scalded.
At private sale in New York City
Austin Corbin and Henry w. Maxwell,
for the Lehigh Valley Railroad 20. 4,
purchased the control of the Elmira,
Cortland s.: Northern railroad, which
extends from Elmira to Camden, N. ",
a distance of 1879 miles
The French Chamber of Deputies
Thursday renewed its vote OF con-
iidence in the government by vote OF
300 TO lS5. A rider to the vote of con
tidenco that the Chamber censure M.
Ricard for his statements and acts was
rejected by vote of 279 to 23i.
The boiler of the locomotive draw
ing the New York & Philadelphia OK.
press train on the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna IL Western railroad exploded
near Cassyille, N. ", Wednesday, morn
ing. John Keech, the engineer, and
John Lewis, fireman, were killed.
President Kruger of the South Afri.
can republic, after viewing the devas
tation near Johannesburg, declared on
Friday that the Netherlands Railway
Go. on board of whose cars the dyna,
mite exploded, would have to pay the
damages which are estimated at s., 600,
600 at least.
James Fitzgerald was hanged at st.
Louis, Thursday, for murder. Thu
rope broke when the trap was sprung,