Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-12-03

William Henry Harbeck, New York
exporter, died in Paris on Friday.
Commodore William Fl. McVickar Of
the New York Yacht Club is dead.
The President has appointed Thomas
S. Doyle of Virginia Consul at Beirut,
Syria.
George Y. Coffin, Washington, d.
g., cartoon artist, died in that city on
Saturday.
Lieutenant Commander Il. T. Wood
has been ordered to the command of
the Petrol. .@.
The jacques auditorium, in Water
bury, Conn, was burned ON Saturday.
Loss, S25, 600.
It is reported from Anderson, Ind.
that the Window Glass Manufacturers
Association has gone to pieces.
The Chicago Wool Merchants Asso-
citation has adopted resolution, urging
the Senate to pass the Dingley bill.
Frank Piggisno, a prosperous farmer
of Hammonton, N. j., was shot and
seriously injured by an unknown man
Friday morning.
Meyers Brothers, cloak manufac-
turers of New York City, have Eus-
pended payment. Their liabilities
aggregate 500, 600.
a Sault Ste. Marie dispatch says that
work is to be begun within 80 day 8 on
the Soo's big water power canal. 1t
is to be 400 feet wide.
More than half the business portion
of the town of Leavenworth, WASH,
was destroyed by fire on Thursday
morning. Loss, $50, 1000.
Two sisters. Alice and ANGELA
Trainer, we're almost asphyxiated by
gas from stove at their home, in New
Brunswick, N. j., Friday.
Shoninger, Levy & Co.. wholesale
lace dealers of Chicago, failed on Fri
day. The liabilities are said to be be-
tween s75, 600 and 800.
The elevator of the st. Paul Elevator
and Warehouse Co.. in St Paul,
Mimi, was totally destroyed by fire
Friday evening. Loss, 500, 600.
The factory of the Roxbury, Mass.
Carpet Co., which, when running on
full time, employs from 1000 to 1900
people, has shut down indefinitely.
The personal military escort of Presi-
dent-elect Mckinley will be composed
of the Eighth Infantry, Ohio National
Guard, and Troop A of Cleveland.
Arthur Mahew negro, who W as to
have been executed Saturday for MUIR
dering Stephen Bowel of Hampstead,
Il. L., was granted stay of execution.
Lord Cough, first secretary of the
British Embassy at Washington, has
been transferred to Berlin. He will be
succeeded in Washington by Maurice
De Bunsen, y. b.
According to a Kansas City dispatch
a bill will be introduced in the Mis-
souri, Legislature this winter making it
a misdemeanor or felony to play foot
ball in Missouri.
A powder explosion took place on
Saturday in the mines of the Hooking
Valley Coal Co., IN Jacksonville, D.
Two men, named Malone and Sheldon,
were fatally injured.
j. W. Burney of Stratton, Neb., was
shot and killed on Friday by his son.
The deed was provoked by the elder
Burney, who threatened the life OF the
youth and his mother.
The President last night appointed
ex- Congressman John Henri Rogers to
be United States DISTRICT Judge for the
Western District Of Arkansas, vice
Judge Isaac Parker, deceased.
A tornado struck corner OF Tunlsa,
Miss, on Thursday night, wrecking a
box car and several small houses and
killing negro woman, besides
seriously injuring half dozen others.
Official statistics show that there are
now II, $40 soldiers sick in the mill
tary hospitals in Cuba. OF this num-
Der l, 45S are suffering from yellow
fever. The mortality is said to be lG3
per thousand.
Henry Watterson arrived in New York
on Saturday ON the steamship st. Paul.
In speaking of the political situation he
said that the Democratic marty could
only be reorganized on the lines of the
indianapolis convention.
Ex-Gov. Foraker visited Major Nc
Kinley ON Saturday. They talked in
private for more than an hour. Gov.
Foraker is opposed to the Dingley bill
and in favor nf an extra session of Con-
gress to revise the tariff
1t is stated that Charles Gates Dawes
of Evanston, ILL.,, will be President elect
McKinley's private secretary. Major
Dawes was chairman of bureau in
the National Republican Committee
headquarters during the campaign.
A st. Paul dispatch says that the
storm which has been raging in that
State and in the Dakotas for 4S hours
il the worst since the great blizzard of
January, 1888. Railroad traffic is almost
entirely suspended owing to the snow.
The companies controlling the build
ing sandstone quarries in Northern
Ohio are about to combine in one big
corporation, it is said. The capital
will be So, 600, 600. and the intention is
to buy all the small quarries not in the
combination.
After a display Of fireworks at Baroda,
India, Sunday night, the crowd made a
rush for the Park gates which were 80
narrow that they soon became jammed
with people. When the crowd was
finally cleared away 1t was found that 20
persons had been killed and 30 seriously
injured.
President Cleveland on Friday pur-
chased the residence of Mrs. Slidell,
ON Bayard avenue, Princeton, N. j.,
and, after his retirement from Office,
will, it is said, make that town his
permanent home. The prica paid for
the property was between $50. 600 and
$40, 600.
The British ship Everest, a full
rugged sailing ship, loaded with several
hundred thousand feet of lumber and
Supplies for a voyage. together with
all tackle, boats and rigging, was sold
in New Orleans ON Saturday to satisfy
salvage and other claims, and brought