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

arthur Iingaru uleu at bancaster,
o., Monday, aged LOT years.
Gen. John Meredith Read, American
diplomatist, died in Paris Sunday.
Capt. Ziba Taylor, ferryboat pilot,
died in Camden, N. j., on Saturday.
Frank Bodine was drowned Mon
day in the Toms river while skating.
The court house at Binghamton, N.
Y, was destroyed by fire Monday night.
The doors of tho ScaIdia Bank in
Minneapolis, MINI, were closed Mon
day.
Duncan Elliot's residence, near West
Chester l.. l., was burned Sunday.
Loss. $50, 600.
Prof. Emil Du Bois- Raymond, a
distinguished psychologist, died in
Berlin on Saturday.
Allen Hubbs OF Palmyra, N. j., died
on Saturday of injuries sustained by
being struck by train.
A fire in tho postoffice block at
Amesbury, Mass, Sunday, damaged
property valued at $50, 600.
William Livcnstein, president pro
tenn of the Virginia State Senate, died
in Richmond on Saturday.
The Windsor Hotel and seven or
eight business houses at Pottadam, II.
y, were burned on Saturday night.
Alfred n. Tubbs, a California cord
age manufacturer and Forty miner, +"
died in San Francisco on Saturday.
Anticipating run. Monday. the
Bank of Superior. 10 Superior, Wis,
did not open its doors for business.
Lulu Stultz committed suicide in a
fit OF anger because her parents re-
proved her, at Delaware, o., Monday.
BY the burning of number of stores
and dwellings, at Rendham, Pa, IL
families were Monday made homeless.
Sir John Brown. one of the first men
in Great Britain to advocate the plating
of warships with armor, died on Satur-
day.
In the United Statos court in Louis
Vile, KY. on Monday, Judge Barr
ordered the sale Of the Ohio Valley
railroad.
Charles W. Hoffman, LII D., for 26
years librarian of the supreme court of
the United States, died at Frederick,
Nd, Sunday.
A semi official denial is given to the
report that the late fired Nobel left
his fortune of $40, 600, 600 to the Stock
holm University.
Deposjtors in the Dime Savings Bank
in Chicago were yesterday notified that
80 days notice will be required for the
withdrawal of funds.
1t was announced Monday that the
boycott against the Clover Leaf route
Toledo. st. Louis e. Kansas City rail
road) has been removed.
The Governor OF Georgia has par
doned Harry Hill and Sidney Lascelles,
were convicted of forgery.
Up to Monday there had been 1904
cases and l,494 deaths from the
bubonic plague in Bombay. People are
still fleeing from the city.
The schooner Elizabeth Foster was
towed into Gloucester, Mass, Mon
day in leaking condition and with
her crew badly frost bitten.
During raid On low drinking re-
sort in East ST. Louis on Sunday night
Detective John Payton was fatally shot
and two others was wounded.
Three masked men, armed with re-
volvers, entered the saloon of Mrs.
Mary Bernhard. Chicago, on Sunday
night and robbed the place of 81 ..
The Belgium Minister, Alfred Leg
halt, presented to President Cleveland
ON Saturday his letters OF recall. He is
to be transferred to st. Petersburg.
A resolution was introduced in the
Boston Board OF Aldermen Monday
for the purchase by the city of CON
trolling interest in the West End street
railway.
Judge Owens of Greensboro, KY,
Monday ordered the grand Jury to lay
aside all other business until they in
dicted tho lynchers of Alfred Holt,
colored.
The ice on the Susquehanna river at
Columbia, Pa, is SO thick that a line
of sleighs has superseded the steam
ferry in conveying passengers to
Wrightsville.
By an explosion in coal mine near
Princeton, Ind, on Saturday, six men
were killed, one person was buried be-
yond hope OF recovery and eight men
were injured.
Gregor Kriechbaum and his wife, an
aged couple who lived over grocery
store at Johnston, II. l.. were burned
to death Monday by fire which de-
stroyed the store.
z. H. York was arrested in Chicago
on SATURDAY while claiming an express
package which was found to contain
four photographic counterfeits of
national bank notes..
The Trenton Dry Goods Co. was
placed in the hands of a receiver on
Monday on tho application of W. II.
Horstman & Co. of New York, who are
judgment creditors.
The robbers who held up the South
ern Pacific passenger train at Com
stock, Tex, week ago. havo been
captured by the State Rangers and
locked up at Del Rio
A fire ut Miami, Fla, on Saturday,
destroyed tho postollice, bank and other
business houses LOGS, 800, coo. j.
Frank. colored. was killed by the ex-
plosion of a gas fountain.
Town Marshal Frank Iugette OF
Helenwood, Tenn, on Sunday shot and
killed James and Lewis Pemberton and
was himself shot in the neck. The
marshal acted in self-defence.
s. 1t is stated that Spain made inquiry
regarding the attitude of Great Brit
ain, France and Itaiy in the event of
war with tine United States. 1t ia said
the Vatican is favorable to Spain.
Otto Wasmanadorif OF tho Chicago
banking house of WasmansdorH &
Heipeman, which failed week ago as
a. result of the closing of the National
Bank of Illinois. committed suicide