Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-04-16
~ GENEn.aL.
Congressman Strobe has been renomi-
mated by the Republicans of the First
Nebraska district.

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Nebraska district.
Lewis Ernde, aged n years, commit
ted suicide IN Eagerstown. Md, on
Tuesday, by hanging.
Gon. John ID. Kennedy, OK United
States onsul-general to Shanghai, died
at Camden, =. G., Tuesday.
DIR. John j. DAILY, who was serving
his fifth term as mayor Of Railway, N.
j., died Tuesday night, aged Al years.
Joseph q. Cannon was renominated
for Congress Tuesday BY the RepubIi-
cans OF the Twelfth Illinois district.
Five men were killed and tive fatally
injured ut Bedford, Ind, Monday by
an engine and u fiat car going through
trestle.
Josef Ilamet, tho murderer of Teresa
Kamora, WAS killed in the electric chair
in Clinton prison, at Dannemora, N.
T., Tuesday.
james, 5 years old, and John, aged 3,
sons Of Daniel Lynch, were drowned
in the Sureook river, ut Suneook, N.
H., Tuesday.
Louis Bensiger, the retired member
Of the New York firm OF Bensiger
| Brothers, back publishers and church
| furnishers. Ia dead.
During his stay in Venice Emperor
| William discussed with King Humbert
| tho subject of reform Of the Italian
army with view of economies in the
| service.
Richard and John Gaughan, brothers,
employed us miner and aborer Mt the
| Pine Brook shaft, Scranton, were in
stantly killed by fall of rock while
at work in the mine Tuesday after
noon.
A Dubuque, Ia, dispatch says that
the Very Rev. Roger Ryan, vicar.gen-
eral and pastor OF st. Patrick's Catholic
| Church, has been appointed domestic
preate to the Pope, with the rank of
Monsignor.
Tho Vatican has been notified by
| Prime Minister Rudini that the ex-
equaturs hitherto accorded to Italian
bishops will be withheld unless the
Pope permits Catholics to take part in
public elections
A dispatch from ST. Johns, N. F.,
Monday says there has been a COM
plete change In the weather and the ice
| is moving off the coast. Three shore
men are known to have perished while
| pursuing seals on the ice.
Postmaster. General Wilson, on Mon
day, declared that the United States
Fix Slave Owners Registration Bureau
Of Washington, ID. O., is in violation
Of the postal regulations and not en-
| titled to the privileges of the mails.
At Canal Dover, o., Tuesday, about
| 1000 employees of the Reeves Iron Co.,
and the American Tin Plato Manufac-
\ turing Co. struck because of the dis
charge of two rollers in the tin plate
department for alleged incompetency.
A Kingston, Jamaica, dispatch says
that Haytians who become refugees
during the presidency of Hippolyto are
act ep ing the amnesty offered by the
new president, 4. Simon Sam, and
making preparations to return to Hayti.
| q Spontaneous combustion among the
oils and paints in The basement OF Wal
ton Brothers' general merchandise store
in Fairbury, ILL.,, Tuesday, caused a
loss by fire amounting to over $3.50, 600.
Several people were injured, Sydney
Swark fatally, from inhaling smoke.
Count Max Shinburn, who is in
the Jail at Albany, N. ", awaiting
trial for being implicated in the Mid
dlehurgh bank burglary, became mutin-
GUS Sunday and was not subdued until
a watchman shot and wounded him in
the leg.
John Hoefs and his wife, Mathilda,
were found dead in bed in Milwaukee
Sunday. The bodies were discovered
by their only child. girl of 8 years.
A post mortem examination showed
that both had died from tho effects of
arsenic
The executive committee of the Ma
! 4 e -
mot in Washington Tuesday. ST.
Louis, Mo-, was selected as the place
and September Both as the time for
| holding the annual convention of the
association.
| Aol,i, tho Japanese wto is charged
with the murder of Mrs. Mimic Miller
and her nephew, Willie Truesdoll, on
| Ilomer's Ranch, near Denver, was cap
tured at Pueblo, Sunday, and taken to
Donyer. Ho claims that he acted in
self defence.
The Pittsburg, Marion & Chicago
railroad was sold at sheriff's sale on
Monday TO A. S. Comstock Of New York
and G. W. Bray, X. e. Battinger,
James W. Clark and ID. Il. Blllingsley
of Lisbon, O. The road was appraised
for Sl2G 600 and sold for SSi, 900.
1t became known in New York Mon
day that on Friday last man went
to a Wall street bank and applied for
loan of $1,000 and offered as col
lateral bonds of tho city of Yonkers,
which were afterwards identified as
part of the proceeds, of the Manhattan
Bank burglary in 1878.
During quarrel at his home in st.
Louis Monday night j. Milton Turner,
ex- Minister 10 Liberia, was struck on
the head with "A pitcher by his step
daughter, Mrs. William Mason, and
sustained u fracture of the skull Mrs.
Turner says her husband was drunk
and attacked Mrs. Mason with knife.
Mary Linnett shot and instantly
killed Elizabeth Trowbridge and then
killed herself, in Elgin, Ill., Monday
evening. The double tragedy occurred
in the street. The mur,leress was a
former patient at the insane asylum
and was discharged as cured in Deceni-
Der, Miss Trowbridge was hcr attend
ant and Miss binnett had conceived
passionate affection for hcr.