Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-02-06
IN GENERAL.

Senator elect Foraker is said to be
seriously i'll with tonsilitis at Cincin-
natl.
The Mississippi House has refused to
repeal the law making betting on horse
races illegal.
Col. W. p. Thompson, president of
the National Lead Co., died in New
YORK. Monday.
A Japanese Imperial proclamation
has been issued declaring h tormosa
open 10 commerce.
George Nicholson, one of the proprie-
tors of the New Orleans Picayune, e.
died in that city Tuesday.
The New York Assembly has passed,
by vote of 104 to 81, the foreign
country insurance reciprocity bill" ("
The differences between the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers and the
"Plant System" have been amicably
adjusted.
Slight earthquake shocks were re-
ported Tuesday from Sioux City, Is.,
and from points in South Dakota and
Nebraska.
The President OF the Swiss Confed-
Grafton will nominate an arbitrator in
the Behring Sea dispute between Great
Britain and the United States.
Judge Slack decided in San Fran
cisco, yesterday, that the trust clause /;
in the will of the late ex- United States
Senator James Fair was invalid.
A st. Louis dispatch says that the
Illinois Central Railroad 90. has pur-
chased the Cairo Short Line roailroad,
thus securing direct line to st. Louis.
Kid Lavigne and Jack McAuliffe met
Tuesday at the st. James Hotel, New
York, and arranged for six-round
bout to take place in that city ION
March 18th.
Charles M. Lawler OF Hartford, until
Monday general manager Of the Phia-
delphia, Reading g. New England rail
road, is said TO be short in his ac-
counts IS, 600.
Il. G. McClelland, champion runner
Of the world, issued challenge to any
runner in the world for from $3.50 to
81, 600 a side, at distances from . to %
miles The race to take place at Pitts.
burg or Wheeling
The machinists, boiler makers and
blacksmiths employed in the extensive
shops of the Mexican International
railroad, in Ciuadad Porforio Diaz,
have gone on strike for an advance of
- pti CeuL III WdBGbs
Edwin +. Uhl of Michigan, now AS
sistant Secretary OF State, has been
rendered the post of Ambassador to
Germany to succeed the late Chancel
lor Runyon. Mr.. Uhl has accepted the
tender and the nomination will go 20
the Senate this week.
An FL Paso, Tex. dispatch says that
Col. Albert j. Fountain, Of Las
NJ M Iau
and Speaker of the Territorial House
of Representatives, has been mur-
dered, with his 9-years. old boy, by
cattle rustlers on the desert, bewteen
Tularos and Las Cruces. The cause
was his activity in prosecuting the
cattle thieves.
The silver Republicans in the House
are considering the advisability of call
ing caucus Of their party associates
who favor the Senate substitute TO the
Bond bill. The purpose of the caucus,
il ii be held, will be to secure har-
monious action in support of the
Senate substitute, and to formulate
method of procedure with reference to
its consideration.
The Philadelphia Republican city
committee Monday adopted the report
of the committee on contests and seated
as members Josephus Yeakel, Twenty
first ward; c. Wesley Thomas, Twenty
fourth: Hiram Miller, Twenty eighth
E. b. Cotterall, Twenty ninth, and DR..
II. B. Amick, Thirty seventh. The
committee is now composed of 25 Com
bine and - Anti Combine members.
The appointment of Justice Peckham
to seat on the bench of the Supreme
Court Of the United States necessitated
partial reassignment of justices to
the several circuits, and the following
changes were announced Monday by
the Chief Justices; Justice Peckham
to the Second Circuit, vice Brown;
Justice Brown to tho Seventh Circuit,
vice Harlan; Justice Harlan to the
Sixth Circuit this original circuitl.