Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-11-05


Gen. Joseph Z. Terrence disd in
Chicago Saturday evening.
a Blizzard prevailed Saturday
throughout Western and Central Wis
consin. s,..
Ex-Judge Milton j.. Holmes, pioneer
of Asbury Park, died Sunday, aged
50 years.
Sylvester Bonnaffon of Philadelphia
has been appointed assistant paymsster
10 the navy. u.
Elmer S. DuIdy, Judge Of the United
States court for Nebraska, died in
Omaha Wednesday,,
The schooner S. p. Ely was totally
wrecked on the hreakwater at Two
Harbors, MINI, Friday.
Michael Castle, pioneer merchant
and one of the founders Of the house of
Castle Brothers Of San Francisco, died
Wednesday night.
Stephen S. Gregory, Cornell
student, while despondent from over
work, killed himself with dose of
cyanide of potassium.
Herman Bendis, doing business at
Herman Bendix 81 Co., manufacturers
VI ueChWchf Ill leW iorh, bssiSnoN
Saturday. Liabilities, 500. 900.
Judith Carson, the star witness in
the CAM murder trial, was committed
to tho Gloucester, N. j., county prison
Saturday on q charge OF forgery.
Thomas Cusank, while walking
across trestIe on the Shamokin &
Mount Carmel electric railway, was
struck by trolley car and killsd.
Tho Ohio supreme court has granted
Rolnuius Cotell, the murderer of the
Stone family. an, indefinite postpone
ment of execution pending new trial.
Civil Engineer r. Il. Peary, u. S,
NJ, whose leave of absence for Arctic
exploration has expired, has been
ordered to duty ut the New York Navy
Yard.
First Lieutenant Lawson M. Fuller
has been relieved from duty at Frank
ford Arsenal, Philadelphia, and will
report for duty at Sandy look prov
ing ground.
1t is stated that Cardinal Gibbons
has forwarded to Rome a recommenda-
tion that Bishop keane be named as
Coadiutor Archbishop of Baltimore,
with the right OF succession.
Tho New York attorney. general has
declined to bring action to test the
title Of Patrick j. Gleason to the office
sof Mayor OF Long Island City. The
applicants claimed Gleason was not q
citizen.
In letter on the Anglo Venezuelan
boundary dispute Sir Charles Dixie
says be entertains no doubt OF the
validity of Great Britain's title to the
territory up to and including Point
Barima,
While Republican parade was cross
ing bridge into Dennison, o., Satur-
|, day, the bridge collapsed, carrying %
horsemen with it. All were injured,
but none fatally. One horse was killed
outright. 10
During the sound-monoy parade in
Cincinpati Saturday Henry Loewen-
stein, a prominent capitalist and di-
rector of the Cincinnati Abattoir Co.,
dropped dead while marching with hit
employees.
| a The Empire magazine, containing
700 quarts Of nitro. glycerine. neal
Geneva. Ind, exploded Saturday.
Scores of houses in the vicinity were
wrecked and one man is said to have
been killed.
Before the Gar left Darmstadt fol
| st, Petersburg he sent a telegram tt
the Admiral OF the Russian fleet a
Odessa, instructing him to take especia
| precautions to guard Europeans il
Constantinople.
| Crazed by hunger Martin Lubinski
in Detroit, on Friday, attempted t
murder his wife and two children, and
failing in this because of the woman
heroic resistance, attempted suicide by
cutting his throat,
Burglars blew open the safe in th,
postoflice at Plymouth, Pa, Sunday
it set fire. to the mail matter in tht
Office, and the burglars fled withou
taking anything with them.
The home of Albert Robinson. nea
Trumbull station, Mich, was de
stroyed by fire on Friday and Mrs
Robinson and her S-years-old daughte
were burned to death and Robinson
was probably fatally burned. r.'-
| Capt. Sampson, chief Of the Nava
Bureau of Ordnance has been selected
| to command tine bRttleship Iowa. Capt
Alexander H. Mccormick will succeed
Capt. Sampson in charge of ordinance
when the latter's term expires
| ExLSecretary John W. Foster, it i
stated. is likely to occupy the position
of Chief Adviser to Ii Hung Chang
| The foreign service of China ia TO b,
reorgsnized and it is said that on
State Department ls to be taken as |
model.
Mrs, John Snyder and three childrei
1 were in buggy on ferryoat at Steu
| benviIle, o., Saturday, when the horst
became Interchangeable and backed int
the river. Mrs Snyder was rescued
but the three children and tho hors
were drowned.
The schooner Emma j.. Gott, a
Salem, Mass, from New York, wa
completely wrecked Saturday by til,
explosion of her cargo of dynamite ant
I gasoline. There were 400 cases of TIN
former and l50 tanks of the latter il
the cargo. Two of the crew were in
\ iured.
A Lansing, Mich, dispatch says tina
Chief Justice Long of the supreme
court, whose famous case against OK
i Pension Commissioner Lochren ha
been dismissed by tho Federal Suprem
4 Court, will at. once begin simila
action against the present com
missioner
According to Denver dispatch D. j
NJ. A. Jewett, assistant postmaster a
Fort Stanton, N. NJ, has been arreste,
for embezzling money order funds
Jewets is said to have been the chair
man OF tho Louisiana Returning Boart
1 who figured in the Presidential election