Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-04-30
IN EN- EEAL.

The Missouri free silver Democrats
have started movement to capture
the Kentucky delegation to Chicago for
Bland.
The report Of the defeat of the Ma
tabele on tho Umgaza river by British
force from Buluwayo has been con-
firmed.
Lieut.. Gov. Jones of Ohio is an.
nounced as candidate for United
States Senator to succeed Senator
Sherman.
DIR. Lueger has decided 10 again de-
cline the Office of Burgomaster OF
Vienna and will not assent to another
reelection,
j. Blair Simpson, Detroit police
Justice, was convicted in that city
Saturday Of an attempted criminal as-
saut upon young woman.
Three men were almost instantly
killed and several others were seriously
injured by boiler explosion in a saw
mill at Altoona, Pa, Saturday.
A whaleback barge, coal laden, was
sunk in the Detroit river Saturday by
collision with the steamer Philip
Minch. The barge was valued at $40,
900.
John Aiello and Robert Mackey were
| held up and relieved of between SO, 600
and $4,000 by four masked men near
Berwind, in Southern Colorado, Sum
day.
NJ. Sarrien has failed in his efforts to
| form conciIiation Cabinet for France.
1t is believed that Radical Cabinet,
with NJ. Goblet at it's head, is newt
able.
A fire at Cripple Creek, COL, Satur-
day night, destroyed four blocks in the
business portion of the towu. The loss
is estimated at 81, 600. 600, the insur-
ance at $3.50, 000.
Fifteen hundred men employed at
| the Chicago Shipbuilding Co. g yards
at South Chicago went on strike Mon
| day, because OF a difference in regard
to wages and hours.
William and Victor Hills were taken
| from the Jail at McMinnille, Tenn, by
a mob early ON Sunday morning and
| lynched. The Hills brothers were
awaiting trial for murder.
4 The lifeless body OF white woman
was found Monday morning in room
| of a Chinesn opium den in st. Louis.
Gam Lee, with whom the woman lived,
is suspected of the crime.
Hon. A. A. Sewer has retired from
the canvass for the Democratic nomina-
tion for Governor OF Arkansas because
he is not in accord with the prevailing
sentiment as TO tho silver question.
jamos r. Biers. guest of the Ma
haney Hotel, Dunbar, Pa, was burned
to death Sunday morning in fire,
which destroyed the building and six
adjoining structures. Loss, sl5, 600.
Charles Edwards, colored, employed
at the Pittsburg Wire Works, Brad
dock, Pa, In self-defence struck John
Stoll, fellow workman, with his fist
Monday morning. Stoll was instantly
killed.
| President Kruger of the Transvaal
Republic finds it impossible at this
time to accept Great Britain's invita-
ton to visit London. The British
government has reluctantly withdrawn
the invitation.
| Simon Hasselbach, nearly 10 years
cid, and his son, William, aged 80,
quarreled Friday in Union CITY,
his son. The old man then shot him
self. Both were fatally injured.
Raymond Porter and Mrs Lawrence
are under arrest charged with the
murder of the Iatter's husband, whose
body was found in the river at Holland,
Mich, last Sunday. Porter has con
fessed that he murdered Lawrence.
A Chattanooga dispatch says Henry
johnson, a negro contortionist, took a
1i-years old girl named Zena Holt ia
wood about four miles from the city
and killed her. He then returned to
! | ko AZ fix,u hnf hip,.otr tbrattrYn n
head,
The State Department Monday re.
reived a ,belated telegram from Pierce
NAB. Young, United States minister
to Guatemala, saying that the Guate'
John u Cowan, wanted for forgery in
Pittsburg.
-Four Pullman cars, which broke
from westbound freight train on the
Pennsylvania railroad, at Gallitzin,
Pa, Thursday night collided with a
freight train. Three railroad employees
wero injured in the wreck and several
cars were destroyed by fire.
Tho honse pf Bernard Cullen, neal
Chester. N. X, WAS burned to the
ground early Sunday morning ant
Cullen and his wife perished in tht
. |
George THOMPSON, relative, escaped
by jumping from a third-story window.
A dispatch from Peoria, ILL.,, sayf
Miss Lydia Bradley, who has already
given that city hospital, a home fol
aged women, a church and a park Of
145 acres, has announced her intention
of Immediately erecting polytechnic
institute, the building of which vii
cost Sl50, 600.
1t was stated in the House OF Com
mons Monday that the latest com
munication on the Venezuelan subject,
which bad been received from thC
United States Friday, WIS now under
consideration. 1t deals with both the
general question of arbitration ana the
Venezuelan dispute.
Two men, of a party Of five that at
tempted 10 rob the postullice at East
Mauch Chunk, Pa, were shot as they
attempted to escape from freight car,
at White Haven, Friday. One Of
the robbers, it is believed, was
drowned. A posse of citizens sucs
ceeded in arresting the injured men.
1t IL declared by the official inspired
press of Germany that Great Britain's
encroachments in South Africa are moi
confined to the Transraal, but extend
to the whole Afrikander interests, to
which Germany, these journals assert,
is now inclined to tender her moral
support, and even diplomatic interven-
tion.
The Bourgeois Ministry, some time
before its fall, had decided to aslt foi
a credit to supply the army with quick