Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-12-31

In an attempt at suicide, joel b..
Deaue cut his left wrist with razor,
in Chicago, on Sunday, and while his
wrist was bleeding DO penned fare.
well letter, using his own blooc. in lieu
of ink. II is thought he was delnented
over religious matters
EJudge Harlan, in the city circuit
court in Baltimore Monday, filed
an opinion directing the receivers OF
the Baltimore g. Ohio railroad to nav
into court S54S, $780, OF for the benefit Of
the members of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Relief Association.
While the Anchor line steamer
Alsatia was steamiDg through ths
Narrows at New York, Friday morn
ing, Robert MacLachlan, ships boat
swain, while engaged in lowering the
anchor, got entapgled in the falls, fell
overboard and WAS drowned.
Representatives Carson and Britton
OF Franklin county, Pa, announced
Monday evening that they will vote
for Hon. John Wanamaker for United
States Senator. The Harrisburg
Patriot says that tho Quay men
are seeking Democratic support for
Penrose.
A fire on East Thirty third street,
New York, on Friday morning, de-
stroyed Sohmer's piano warehouse,
the New York Polytechnic Hospital, q
factory and large tenement. The
Losses will aggregate nearly 81, 600, 900.
About 100 persons were made homeless
by the fire.
The Prime Minister of Spain holds
that the Cuban question is one OF in
ternal politics. which in no wise con-
cerps the United States or any other
foreign power. He is confident that
Spain can suppress the insurrection
without asking for or accepting the
good Offices of any government.
Jules Sanguilly, the naturalized
American citizen charged In Havana
with conspiracy against the Spanish
Government, has been found guilty
and sentenced to imprisonment for life.
His counsel has announced that he will
appeal from the judgment OF the tri-
bunal to the supreme court at Madrid.
Twenty-seven persons were killed and
several fatally injured by the plunge of
a passenger train through the Cahaba
river bridge. near Birmingham. Ala,
Sunday. 1t is thought the wreck was
the work OF train wreckers. The cars
fell distance of ITO feet, and were
broken to pieces on rocks. The wreck
caught fire.
Ex-senator Platt, in an interview in
New York Monday, said that he had
never been candidate for United
States Senator, but that since the pres
emit fight has been made ON the linea
drawn the situation presents itself in
different light. He added that he is
satisfied Mr.. Choate will not be the
next Senator.
Natalie Langraft, who arrived in
Hoboken on Sunday on the steamship
Prussia, Of the Hamburg A merican
Lime, and was on her way to Blufftop,
O., where she was to meet her lover
and be married, is in hospital in
Hoboken in a critical condition. She
was found in her room at hotel yes.
terday with the gas turned on. III
Judge Pryor, in the supreme court,
in New York, on Saturday. denied the
application Of the Agudath Hakehiloth,
a Hebrew secular organization of that
city. for certificate of incorporation.
because its annual meeting was fixed
on Sunday. The Judge said "The
question is not whether such meetings
are illegal, but whether they should be
approved. The act intended is an ag-
gression upon the Christian Sabbath,
and the law which scrupulously pro-
tects them in their observances OF their
creed gives them no license to affront
thereligious susceptibilitles Of others"