Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-11-12
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farmer, was run over by his team on
Tuesday while hauling gravel and was
almost instantly killed.
BY the explosion Of saw mill boiler
in Perry county, KY. on Monday, Jack
Francis and Roderick Baker we're killed
and nine others injured. three seriously.
According to Vienna dispatch, the
families OF most Of the diplomats at
Constantinople have left the city. The
situation is regarded as very dangerous.
In the United States district court
at Macon, Ga, Tuesday, an order was
signed for the sale Of the A tlantic Short
line on November 18th. No price WAS
fixed. ~
The Rev. Alexis Bork. a young
Methodist minister of Chicago, was
killed by a wild animal in the Flat
head Mountains, in Montana, few
days ago.
Judge Foster. at Fort Scott, Kan,
has made an order temporarily restrain
ing Receiver johnson from taking con
troll of the Santa Fe railway property
in that State.
The Baltimore Chamber of Commerce
has passed a resolution declaring its
conviction that the banking business
of the nation should not be function
of the government
The United States Treasury, for the
first time in several years, is receiving
gold in considerable quantities for
custom duties. The gold reserve Tuei-
day stood at s122, 234. 3i5.
Advices from Kaisarieh, AHA Minor,
state that the village of Everek has
been plundered by band Of Turks.
who killed 100 Of the Armenian in
habitants and destroyed so houses.
The Legislature of Alabama met
Tuesday. Voting for Senator will begin
on November oath. Among the candi-
dates are Senator Pugh, Gov. Oates,
Gen. Pettus and John III. Bankhead.
A carriage containing Charles +.
Bright and Miss Catharine Boyer,
both of Reading, was run down by a
freight train at Gibraltar, Pa, Tues
day, and both the occupants were
killed.
At tho invitation Of italian socialists
in America, Signor Verro has started
for the United States. 1t is said no
will organize the Italian Socialist
residents in New York, Philadelphia
and Boston.
Miss Mary Kramer of Potter county,
Pa, has been made insane by the
pranks of practical jolsers who fright
ened her while she was sleeping in
supposed haunted house, in paying q
foolish election wager.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
appointed receivers for the following
national banks: First. Garrett, Kan.
First. Eddy, N. NJ; Second, Rock
ford, ILL.,, and Yates County National
Bank, Penn Yam, N. Y.
The Republican Congressional Cam
paign Committee is to be made per-
manent, with headquarters in Washing
ton where, in connection with the
National committee, it will continue
the fight against free silver.
In the supreme court in Troy, N. Y,
Tuesday, ex-County Treasurer George
II. Morrison pleaded guilty to two in
dictments for Incorporating county
funds, and was sentenced to 10 years
and five months in Clinton prison.
The body Of Joseph Kumorowski,
who had been missing from Chicago
since October Sth, was found on Mon
day night near the drainage canal.
Leo Troso has been arrested on the
suspicion that he had murdered komo-
rowski.
1t was rumored in Washington on
Tuesday that Secretary Carlisle will
recommend to Congress- an increase in
the tax on beer of from 81 to 50 per
barrel and that this propositio is
favored by the commissioner of Inter-
nal Revenue.
At luncheon given in his honor in
New York Tuesday by Isaac Ii Selig-
man, Chairman Hanna said the adj
ministration recently chosen will 90
into office without pledges of any kind,
and wholly uncommitted as regards the
formation of cabinet.
Justice Lawrence, in New York
City, Tuesday appointed Il. j. Ross
ancillary receiver Of the assets in that
State of the Ross & Baker Co., a New
Jersey corporation, which has a silk
mill at Port Gram. The liabilities of
the company are said to be Sl40, 600.
A Topeka dispatch says that en-
Chief Justice Horton has discovered
that the Alien Land law under which
the recent action for a receiver of the
Santa Fe was brought, was never
passed by the Kansas Legislature and
its publication in the statutes was an
error
At Whiteplains, N. Y, Tuesday,
John Rodgers shot and killed William
Smith, a fellow servant, and was then
shot and killed himself, by the dis
charge of his own gun, while he was
trying to kill Henry Weiss. 1t is sup
posed that Rodgers became suddenly
insane.
The Chief Justice of Arizona has
given decision sustaining the con-
tract for leasing prison labor by ex-
Gov. Hughes and the Board of Control
for 10 years at 10 cents per day. This
means the prison will be self-support-
ing, and will construct mammoth
irrigating canal. reclaiming 100, 600
acres TO agriculture.
Judge Grosscup, in Chicago, has
dismissed. at the costs of the COM
plainants, the case brought by Henry
Clews & Co. against William 4. Baker.
The claim was that Mr.. Baker had OBJ
tanned 100 shares of stock in the First
National Bank of Chicago at the time
of its reorganization, to which Clews
81 Go. were entitled.
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Fourteen Buildings Destroyed.