Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-02-13
IN GEN ZEAL.

has abandoned the attempt to force
battle with Gomez.
The Ohio Senate has passed bill
increasing the annual tax on saloons
from $3.50 to $500.
Grace Presbyterian Church, in St,
Louis, was totally destroyed by fire
Sunday afternoon; loss. $50, 900.
Sob Kwang Pom, Minister of Justice
in the Corean Cabinet, has been APP
pointed Minister to the United States
Tommy Ryan and "Kid" Mccoy are
matched to fight 20 rounds at 1853
pounds before the Empire Athletic
Club, on March I'd.
The controller of the currency has
appointed bank Examiner Van Vranken
temporary receiver OF the Fort Stanwix,
N. Y. National Bank.
Both branches of the New York
Assembly have passed the bill designed
to retaliate for the exclusion OF Ameri
can insurance companies from Ger
many.
Dan Creedon has accepted 'Parson"
Davis challenge in behalf of Joe
Choynski to fight him before the
National Sporting Club of London for
81, 800.
C. +. Pauly, cashier of the Standard
Oil Co., wassheld up in Kansas City
and robbed of S543, which he was taxi
ing to bank. The highwayman was
captured.
A bridge over the Pequatuck river,
20 miles west of Hartford, Conn, was
carried away Thursday, and between
30 and 40 men, who were at work upon
it, were drowned.
Champion James j. Corbett will
make tour of the world, taking in
China, Japan, Russia, France, Turkey
and Africa, giving sparring exhibitions
and presenting his play.
A bill to provide for submitting to
the people the question of calling a
Constitutional Convention was reported
to the Virginia Senate on Saturday
with negative recommendation.
Morton Finell was killed and Joseph
Mcintyre and George Bradley injured
by the explosion of a dozen sticks of
giant powder in the oven of a stove at
a quarry near Anaconda, Mont, Thurs
day.
The assets of the North American
Phonograph Co., under order of the
court Of chancery, we're offered for sale
at Orange, N. j., on Saturday by John
II. Hardin, The receiver. Thomas A.
Edison was the only bidder and the
property was knocked down to him.
The New York Republican State
Committee met in New York City on
Saturday and decided to hold the State
convention for the election of national
delegates on March 24th in that city.
Resolutions were passed endorsing the
candidacy of Gov. Morton for Presi-
dent.
After taking three months for consid-
Grafton, Attorney General Moloney Of
Illinois, on Friday made public an
nouncement of the fact that, in his
opinion, the proposed consolidation of
the principal gas companies of Chicago,
now known as the "Gas Trust" was
illegal,
A bill was introduced in the Vir-
| ginia Senate Thursday to incorporate
the National Adjustment Society, 1.-The
object of which is to place before the
people of the United States the Justice
of SO changing the Constitution as to
allow Congress to pay for the emanci-
pated slaves.
The names of the 7s1 successful bid
ders for United States bonds have been
announced The amount of the bonds
aggregated 500, 900, 900, for which the
Treasury will receive, in round figures,
about Sill, 000,000 The amount
awarded to the Morgan syndicate is
s33, 179, $50.
II. II. Honeycutt, a preacher, aged
81 years, living six miles west of Nor
rillton, Ark, on Saturday night killed
a 10-months-old child of widow who
kept house for him. Tho child was
crying and Honeycutt picked the little
one up, gave il slap on the head, then
shook it, breaking its neck.
Capt. Wheaton, the mate and six of
tine crew of the schooner Joseph w.
Foster of Philadelphia, form Pensacola
for Rio Janeiro. were landed at Cedar
Key, Fla, by the schooner Bessie A.
Fish. The Foster was burned at sea,
and the survivors were five days adrift.
part of the time on capszed boat
The grand jury at Columbus, o., on
Friday, indicted Jity Engineer Josiah
Kinnear for approving false estimates,
and Ii. S. Hallwood, f. ID. Abbott,
]. 7. Adams and j. S. Townsend, con-
stractors on the West Side sewer, for
presenting false vouchers by which the
city was defrauded out of about $40. 900.
At Hedrick, Ia, on Friday, three
boys named Mortified, living alone,
quarreed in regard TO getting up and
| making the fire. Joe, aged IA, told the
others to get up or he would kill them.
They refused, and he fired with ;iS-
calibre Winchester rifle, killing Hugh,
aged 0. He then shot himself through
the head.
The Populists of the United States
Senate held caucus on Saturday and
nominated Thomas Watson of Georgia
for Secretary of the Senate, and II. g.
Taubeneck of Washington for Sergeant
alarms. II the Populist vote is cast
for these candidates the Republicans
will not have plurality of the votes
and cannot elect their nominees.
The schooner Camper has arrived at
San Francisco from New Whatcom
with the crew of the British ship
Nineveh. They were picked up south
of Cape Flattery, having deserted the
vessel, which was in Il sinking condi-
ton. Afterwards the wreck, being a
menace to navigation, was set on fire
and burned to the waters edge.
John Shea, an elderly clerk in the
War Department, in Washington, d,
c., committed suicide Thursday morn
ing in the Department Building by
shooting himself in the head. He had
suffered severely for years from wound
in the head, received while attempting
to quell a disturbance at Western
army post, where he was stationed.
The President on Friday sent to the
House the report of the special com
mission TO irapect and report on the