Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-10-01

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James Munroe, ex-Mayor OF Anna
polls. Md, died Sunday night.
Senator Villas is quoted as saying
that Wisconsin will go anti-Bryan by
80, 600.
Peter Kemm murdered his wife in
Buffalo on Friday and then committed
suicide.
Arthur j. King Of R. O. Dun & Go.
died at Bloomfield, N. j., Monday
morning.
The building of the Northern Illinois
College was destroyed by an incendiary
fire Saturday.
Elkins Bros. grist mill elevator, at
Chicago Junction, Ohio, was burned
Sunday. Loss, 500, 900.
The Cincinnati brokerage firm of
William E. Hutton & Co. is reported
TO be financially embarrassed.
Harry Conway OF Clinton, Ia, was
killed in Chicago Thursday by Grace
Clark, who also killed herself.
The Populist- Democratic fusion
agreement in Louisiana gives the
former party four of the electors.
The international Loan and Trust Co.
of Kansas City has filed deed of trust
for 800, 900 to protect it's creditors.
The wooden elephant at Coney
Ialand was destroyed by fire Sunday
night. The loss is estimated at SIS, 500.
+. o. Prince has been selected by
the MASSACHUSETTS Sound Money Demo
Gratis as their candidate for Governor.
Joseph Wallace, aged 81 years, of
Atlantic City, committed suicide
Thuraday by shooting himself in the
head.
W, F. Kearns of Mifflin has been
nominated for Congress by the Demo
Gratis OF the Eighteenth Pennsylvania
district.
The mills of the Amoskeag Co., at
Manchester, NJ. H., which employ
5000 hands, started up on full time
Monday.
The Rev. Stanisamin Klausski Of
Buffalo, N. Y, has been elected bishop
of the Polish Roman Catholic Church
of America.
Consider Risely, a farmer, of Yer
noD, Conn, was buncoed out of Sc, 900
Saturday by 1.-TWO men who called to
buy farm"
William Moque, a brakeman. was
killed in freight wreck on the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad, near Hyattsvile,
Nd, Sunday.
The Missouri Populist State Com
mittee Saturday, by vote of II to 10,
accepted the terms of fusion proposed
by the Democrats
The First National Bank of Spring
vile, N. y, suspended Saturday in
consequence of run. The bank is be.
lieyed to be nolvent.
Three children of Carrie Dobson,
colored, were burned to death Saturday
in their home in Brookland, suburb
OF Washington, d.. 9.
Ex-Attorney General Kirkpatrick
was nominated for Congress Monday
by the Republicans of the Eighth
Pennsylvania district.
A Springfield, Mass, dispatch says
that Mount Holyoke College was en-.
tirely destroyed by fire last night.
Loss, $50, 600 TO ST5, 900.
Il is announced that senator German
will take the etump in Maryland for
Bryan and Sawall. He will ccniine his
speaking to his own State.
The Democrats Of the Second New
Jersey Congressional district have
nominated Dr. A. =. Conrow Of Bur-
lington county for Congress.
The Prohibitionists of the First New
Jersey Congressional district have
nominated Rudolphus Bingham of
Camden county for Congress.
An Austin, Tex, dispatch says that
reports from all sections of the State
indicate that the cotton crop has been
seriously damaged by heavy rains.
Sylvans Middlebrook, aged 30, of
Redding, Conn., was burned 10 death
In fire that consumed his house Sun
day night. Foul play is suspected.
William Il. Penick, prosperous far
mer of Yazoo City, Miss, was arrested
Monday Oh charge of murder COM
mitted in 1866 at Russellville, Ala.
In New York City Saturday the rear
wall of an apartment house, under con-
struetion on Madison avenue, collapsed,
killing one man and iniuring six others.
The Otis Co. % cloth mills at Ware,
Mass, which have been running on
half time for six months, started up on
full time Monday, employing l,s0O
hands.
Wolf Brothers dry goods establish
ment in Little Rock, Ark. has been
closed by attachments. Their liabilities
will reach $780, 000 The assets are
placed at s475, 600,
A surf boat, coming ashore from the
stranded steamer De Barry, off Kitty
Hawk, N. G., struck bar and capsized
Saturday. Thomas Thomas, aged 3S, a
native of Swasea, Wales, was drowned.
Jare DOTS was found dead on the
tracks of trolley road near Norris
town, Pa, Sunday morning, under
circumstances indicating that she had
been murdered and thrown on the track.
Prof. George Ii. Markoe, one of the
originators OF the Massachusetts College
of Pharmacy, was found dead Friday
morning In a laboratory In Boston, hav-
ing probably died from paralytic
stroke.
The New York Silver Democratic
State Committee Monday nominated
William q. Porter for Governor and
Frederick c. Schraule for Lieutenant
Governor.
Count Won Goetzen, first lieutenant
Of Uhlans of the Imperial Guard, and
well known as an African explorer, has
besn appointed military attache of the
German embassy in Washington.
Bourke Cochran addressed a great
meeting in Baltimore Saturday evening
and aroused much enthusiasm when he
declared; For my part, etop at no
half measures; l vote for William Nc
Kinley.
At Cleveland, o., Thursday, Richard
Davis, young business man, and Bart