Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-06-11
IN GESEnAL.

has been elected COMMANDER OF the De-
partment Of Pennsylvania, g. A. X.
by lockout at the Chicago works
of the Illinois Steel Co., Wednesday,
/, 500 men were thrown out of employ
ment.
Tho Senate has confirmed the numi
nation of William Churchill of New
York, to be Consul. General at Apia,
Samoa.
Judge Ozara p. Stearns, ex-senator
of the United States from Minnesota,
died Wednesday at San Diego. Cal. aged
60 years
Sadie Buxton, the infant member Of
the Buxton family, who were recently
terribly assaulted at Gaithersburg,
Md, died Friday.
Prof. Luther G. Bateman was nomi
mated for Governor by the Maine Popu-
lists Thursday. FREQ silver coinage
resolutions were adopted.
In the House Of Commons Thursday
the Home Secretary stated that he saw
no reason for extending any clemency
to Mrs. Florence Maybrick.
During a thunder storm in Flemings-
burg, KY, Wednesday, Abram Car
penter was killed and J. II. Hall was
fatally injured by lightning
A destructive wind aud hail storm
wrecked many buildings and seriously
injured several persons northwest OF
Pendar, Mob, Thursday night
The stockholders of the Westinghouse
Electric and Manufacturing Co., on
Thursday decided to increase the com
pany's capital stock from $40, 600, QUO to
Sl5. 900, 900.
| Tho kentucky Democratic State
! Convention was held Wednesday tho
Blackburn free-slver element outnum-
boring the gold delegates more than
three to one.
Capt. j. +. IIigginson, U. S. N. hug
been assigned TO duty AS captain Of the
Brooklyn Navy Yard, and Can't. Fred
Rogers to the command of tho battlo.
ship Massachusetts
William Dubois was Thursday APP
| pointed head usher at tho Executive
Mansion at Washington, in place of
George Dexter of Michigan, appointed
IA postotllce inspector.
Tho North Dakota Democratic Con-
] vention Thursday elected delegates to
tho Chicago Convention and instructed
them to vote for the FREQ coinage of
both gold and silver ut l6 to l.
Major Stillwell, commanding the
Northwestern Division of the Salvation
Army with headquarters at Minneapo-
lis, has resigned his commission and
gone over to Darlington Booth.
A dispatch from Victoria, Mex, says
that Lon Hi cks, an American, who.
with his family, settled on farm near
there u fow month ago, murdered three
. | pTi hia nh lflrpp ~ "a In n ntnI
) Harvey L. Weaver. a butcher of
Albntown, Pa, shot and killed him
self in that city Wednesday, in the pres
enct of several hundred children, who
were being dismissed from school.
TIL, Secretary of tho Navy has &C.
copied the utior of tho Union Iron
Works to replace incorrect and unnu-
thoriztd deck plates on the battle ship
Oregon with those Of the proper thick
moss.
! A Northern Pacific passenger train
!, ran into "a herd of cattle near Grcy
Cliff, Mont. Two unknown tramps,
, who were riding on brake beams, were
killed ana colored man was seriously
= injured.
a. l.. Henderson, who was at one
time director in the Chicago Boaro
Q of Trade, and ono of the heaviest
spectators in the West in seeds anc
r grain committed suicide in that cit.
Tuesday week.
The lato returns OF the election II
Oregon show that in the First district
= Nandcrburg, Populist, is elected I,
. Congress, and in the SECOND, Ellis, Re
: publican, wins. The Legislature viii
y he Republican.
. Tho Kansas Democratic State Con
y vention Wednesday elected delegates {,
: Chicago and bound them to vote 70
= no Presidential candidate who is no
u unequiyocally for tho free coinage o
' silver at the ration Of lG to |.
: -Four steel cars, the first ever bull
- in this country, were shipped Thurs
~ day TO Saratoga, n, Y, by the Car
y negie Stoel Go. They ara to be as
hibitod at the National Convention q
tho Master Car Builders Association
!, Alonzo r. Aborn and M. Byron Ham
!, ilton, Republicans, declared elected re
,r spcctvely mayor and Common Coun
J. cilman Of Norwich, Conn, on accoun
d of the illegal printing of Dcmocrati
It ballots in Monday weeks election hav
10 declined to qualify.
O. An S-years-old son of Henry Ackla
10 of Racine, Wis, was torn TO pieces
10 two bull dogs while returning HON
10 from school Thursday night. A cou
10 panion who escaped from the dogs II
g. ported the fact and directed the part
10 which recovered the remains.
The Democratic State Convention
Kentucky Thursday elected delegate
IN to the Chicago convention, declared fl
N free silver at the ratio of, l6 to /. an
" Instructed it's delegates TO tho Nations
IN Convention to vote as a unit for j.
A T. Blackburn for President.
O. The Goodrich line steamer Virgini
ut collitled with the schooner Mary 4
Q. MeGregor Thursday night off Sout
TX Milwaukee, during "A donsc fog, bot
" vessels sustaining much damage. Th
ty Virginia carried POO eXcursiunist
who were thrown into panic, bl
they were soon quoted by the crew.
A Baltimore dispatch says that
~, agreement has boon reached wherel
~ the Baltimore ~ Lehigh railroad wi
a, be consolidated with the York Soutl
~ ern. 1t il understood that the co
az solidated company will be called ii
81 Baltimore ~ York Railroad Co. m
n,s that il will enter into traffic agre
VI ment with the Pennsylvania Railro,
w. Go. and will Use the latter's termina
w. in Baltimore.
Austin Curbin, his nephew, Corh
Edgell, DIR. Paul KunZieF and Cuac
man John Stokes were thrown fro
to- an open carriage, as they were startit
no on fishing trip from Newport, N. II
Inf Wlnrstuv Mr. EnrI,ip tinI fr,n, J.