Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-01-02
IN eBiNsRAL.

An explosion of dynamite in
Milnesvile colliery, Luzerne county,
Pa, killed three men Friday.
Secretary Herbert Thursday decided
to give the contract for the two new
battleships to the Newport News Co.
Mrs. Margaret King celebrated her
109th birthday anniversary on Wednes-
day. at her home in Greensburg, Ind.
Congressman Aitken has announced
himself candidate for the Republican
nomination for Governor OF Michigan.
Secretary Herbert has decided to
name battlesbip No. 6 the Kentucky.
Her sister ship will be known as the
Kearsarge.
The entire business portion of the
town of Liberty, N. O., was burned
on Thursday night The loss may
reach 300, 1000.
Certain army officers who have ap-
peared in recent interviews in the
newspapers on the possibilities of war
have been rebuked by the Secretary of
War.
A magazine containing 2, 900 pounds
of dynamite, near Lockport, ILL.,, ex-
ploded early on Friday morning. The
earth was shaken over radius of 30
miles.
A passenger train on tho Burlington
road ran into freight train on siding
at Seward, Neb., on Thursday. j.
A. Geisler, fireman, was killed and
five others were injured.
Three of the four highway robbers
who held up an electric street car in
San Francisco on Christmas night were
captured in that city on Friday and all
the stolen money recovered.
At Chattanooga, Tenn, Wednesday,
Wesley Spriggs, aged II, fatally shot
Walter Brown, a lad Of IL, in the back
Of the head. Spriggs was drunk and
wanted to have some fun making tho
boy run from his pistol.
The Rev. DIR. Henry Y. Satterlee,
rector OF Calvary Episcopal Church,
New York, has decided to accept the
| Office Of Bishop of Washington, to
which ne was elected at the primary
convention of that diocese.
Joseph Farrell, who was elected from
an indianapolis street car on Tuesday
night, because he was drunk and dis
orderly, threw stone through the win
dows. He was shot and killed by the
conductor, Roxey Williams.
John Turner, aged 1s, deliberately
turned switch and wrecked a freight
train on the Ohio Southern railroad,
near Jackson, o., on Monday night.
Turner said he chad been reading a
novel about train wreckers.
In Chicago on Wednesday mob of
Russian Jews attacked st. Aloysius
Roman Catholic School in Chicago, and
broke the windows. Two policemen
who attempted to restore order were
roughly handled by the rioters.
A search of records on file at the
Navy Department has brought to light
the fact that Grover Island, in Cam
den county. Ca, is the property of the
United States. 1t was conveyed in
1779, but title was never asserted.
In Judge Ingraham's court, in New
York City, Thursday, indictments
against a number OF members of the
police department, which were found
as result of disclosures before the
Lexow committee, were dismissed.
The appellate court in Chicago, on
Thursday, reversed the order entered by
Judge Gibbons restraining the open
Board Of Trade from prohibiting women
mot members of the board) coming
upon the floor of the board'or entering
the galleries.
The full text of Manitoba a's%replNto
the Dominion government on the separate
schools question was made public in
Winnipeg Thursday. The Manitoba
government positively refuses the pro-
posal to establish system of separate
schools in any form.
In Toronto, Ont, on Tuesday, Mr..
Stubbs, the McCarthyite, or Third
Party man, was selected as a member
OF the Dominion Parliament by plu.
rality of 907. The main issue was the
Manitoba school question, Mr.. Stubbs
being in favor of non-interference.
A dispatch from Sedalia, Mo-, says
| that as the water recedes in the sub
merged districts the extent of damage
is becoming known. The losses in the
valleys of the Osage and Gasconade
rivers are estimated at So, 600, 900.
Famine threatens in some localities.
Leslie Combs, said to be the largest
tobacco planter in the world, made an
assignment in Lexington, KY, on Fri
day. The liabilities are $500, 600. This
failure forced also the assignment of
Mr. Combs father-in-law, Daniel
Swigert, and his son, Robert A. Swigert.
A San Francisco dispatch says that
the Porter Brothers Co., the largest
dealers in dried fruits on the Pacific
coast, announced on Thursday that they
are unable to meet their payments and
have asked their creditors for further
time. Members of the firm say they
will pay their debts in full.
Charles Katzman, proprietor Of an
upholstering shop on the second floor
of the Pullman apartment building in
| Chicago, was arrested ON Friday charged
with arson. There was fire in the
building, and one of the tenants, an
invalid, is in a critical condition by
reason Of the fright sustained.
The taking of testimony on the Dun
raven charges was begun by the inves-
tigating committee in New York on Fri
| day. The session was secret. The som
sational feature was the discovery of a
reporter on the roof of the clubhouse
with the slkylight lifted, taking a steno-
graphic report of the evidence.
A telegram from Dennison, Tex,
says that United States Marshal John
McIIenry, one Of the most noted officers
in the Southwest, was killed on Thurs
day in the Indian Territory while at
tempting to arrest desperate named
Young During the battle two other
desperadoos, brothers of Young, were
killed.
The magazine of the Smithdeal
Hardware Co., near Salisbury, N. O.,
containing l,500 pounds Of dynamite
and so Kegs Of powder, blew up on
Tuesday. Two boys, George and Ira
Weaver. we're hunting in the vicinity
at the time. 1t is thought that either
mischievously or accidentally bullet
from one of their gums struck the mara