Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-10
IN GENERAL.

cotton crop Will amount to oiU, oUO, OUu
pounds.
Howard Munnikhuysep, Baltimore
lawyer, died at Elberon, Nj, Sunday,
aged 81 years.
The Tennessee Populists have re-
jected the terms OF fusion offered by
the Democrats.
Six small hotels and carrousel at
South Beach, Staten Island, we're de-
stroyed by fire Saturday.
The Russian government ia taking
measures to prevent fugitive Armenians
from entering that country.
The headquarters of the Sound
Money Democratic party will be in
Chicago, with branch in New York.
Ths convention of Democratic Clubs
at ST. Louis, called for September Goth.
has been postponed until October I'd
and 3D..
The Republican State convention in
New Hampshire Thursday nominated
George A. Ramsdell of Nashua for
Governor.
An incendiary fire at Orange, N. j.,
Sunday morning, destroyed George
Cooks planning mill and adjoining
shops. Loss, S31, 600.
Alfred B. Darling, one of the proprie-
tors Of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New
York City, died Sunday at Richfield
Springs, aged 10 years.
Two wofkmen were killed by the col
lapse Of a burning bridge on the Kansas
City, Osceola & Southern railroad, near
Clinton, Mo-, Monday.
| M. q. Olmsted of Harrisburg was
| nominated for Congress on Friday by
the Republicans of the Fourteenth
| Pennsylvania district.
Charles X. Wheeler Of Psducah has
been nominated as the Silver Demo-
cratic candidate for Congress in the
First Kentucky district.
The Silver Republicans, Populists
and Democrats OF the Second Nebraska
district have jointly nominated Judge
e. R. Dulfie for Congress.
Charles U. Taylor, bookkeeper for
| the Merchants Manufacturing Co. of
| ST. Louis, was arrested Sunday while
| robbing the company's safe.
A four-story fat house in Yonkers,
N. Y, was burned Saturday. and the
members of nine families narrowly es-
capped being burned to death.
W. L. Brown, jeweler of Hubbard,
O., was shot and fatally wounded on
Monday by trap gun which he had ar
ranged in his store for burglars.
The Park City Daily Times of Bowl
ing Green, KY, which has been sup
porting Bryan and Sewall, came out
Saturday for Palmer and Buckner.
The jackson County Bank of Black
River Falls, Wis, has been placed in
the hands of receiver. 1t is thought
that the depositors will be paid in full.
Charles Clipgmars and Dorman Mus.
grove. accused of numbering Sheriff
Rogers, at Glencoe, Mimi, were taken
from Jail and hanged by a mob Sun
day.
A Chicago dispatch says that Mrs.
r. j. Fellows, wife of saloon keeper
Of that city, has deserted her husband,
taking with her nearly $1,000 Of his
savings.
Members of the Horseshoers' Union
Of Chicago Monday presented Candi.
date Bryan with u silver horseshoe as
an evidence of support and an omen oil
good luck.
Dynamiters tried to blow up the
house of James Penpell at Lykens, Pa,
Saturday morning The sidewalk was
torn up and all the windows were
broken, but nobody was hurt
The New York and Long Branch ex
cursion steamer Pleasure Bay ran
ashore in the Shrewsbury river Monday
evening and the passengers had to bt
transferred to another steamer.
: Fl, Dumois & Co. of New York, ship
ping and commission merchants ano
importers of West India fruits, made
an assignment Saturday. The failure
| is attributed to the war in Cuba.
, Hon. Franklin Bartlett, Democratic
Representative in Congress for thu
Seventh district of New York, hal
written an open letter repudiating the
Chicago platform and its candidates.
Yore's Opera House at Benton Har
J Dor, Mich, was burned on Sunda.
morning and IL firemen were killed ant
several injured by the falling of a wall
] The property losses are about 500, o00
The Sound Money Democrats of th'
Eighth Alabama district have nomi
pated W. W. Callahan Of Decatur fol
Congress. The Populists in the sam,
district have nominated DR.. d. w
Day.
An incendiary fire Sunday night de
stroyed the farms and cattle sheds at
tached to the State Lunatic Asylum, a
Morris Plains, N. ]. A similar iir,
! occurred Saturday, the losses aggrega
ting $25, 00o.
The Rev. Philip Phelps, u. D., ont
of the most prominent clergymen @
the Reformed (Dutch) Church, diet
: Sunday in Albany. He was 10 year
old and was for many years president O
Hope College,
! Isaac Smiths Son & Co., dealers ii
umbrellas and parasols, made an as
signment in New York Saturday. Thi
is one of the oldest houses in this lint
in the United States, having been es
tablished in 1902.
A colored man attempted to assault !;
, young girl in her home at Homestead
, Pa, on Sunday, but fled when sht
screamed for help. In jumping from I
second story window he WAS severel,
injured and captured.
a The mutilated body Of Joseph McCo,
! OF Prescott. Ariz., who disappeared
| while passing through ST. Louis Angus
2Suh, has been found in Riehland creek
: Just south of Belleville, Ill. He hac
been murdered and robbed.
Harvey A. Meyer, Syracuse, N. Y,
a carriage manufacturer, has given chat
tel and real estate mortgages on all hi
property to tho State Bank OF Syracus,
and the Salt Springs National Bank t,
/, secure liabilities OF 5000, 600.
! Grand Chief Engineer p NJ. Arthur
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-