Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-04-30
IN GENEH1L.

Congressman Taylor was rcnominated |
Wednesday by the Republicans of the |
Eighteenth Ohio district,
Congressman Marsh was on Friday |
nominated by the Republicans of the |
Fifteenth Illinois district.
Con. Noah l.. Jefferies, we'll
known lawyer of Washington, d. O.,
died in that city Wednesday.
The Republicans of the Eleventh |
Illinois district Thursday named
Walter Reeves for Congress-
The Republican convention of the
Tenth Illinois district Thursday re-
nominated Congressman Prince.
The Republicans of the Sixteenth
Illinois Congressional district Thurs
day nominated John |. Rinaker.
The Eighteenth Illinois district Re-
pubicans have nominated Hon. W. II.
Hadley of Madison county for Congress.
The Republicans of the Seventeenth
Ohio district Wednesday nominated A.
S. Mcclure for a second term in Con-
gress.
Robert Z. Wright of Allentown. was
Wednesday reelected chairman of the
Pennsylvania Democratic State Com
mittee.
Tho Smith & Nixon Piano Co., of
Cincinnati, made an assignment last
Wednesday. Assets, $500, 600; liabili-
ties, $1,000, GOO.
Ezra Beamon Newton, said TO have
been the oldest Shaker in the country,
diod at the Harvard, Mass, community
| Thursday, aged l0l years.
Fire broke out in the Bastcdo Hotel,
in Binghamton, N. Y, Friday, and
the family of the proprietor narrowly
escaped being burned to death.
Mrs Augusta Scharnisky and her
| two children, were burned to death
| Thursday at their home in Cleveland,
o., by the explosion of a coal oil can.
The Rev. Herbert Shipman of New
York City. was Wednesday appointed
chaplain of tie United States Military
| Academy, West Point, TO serve four
years.
The Iowa Populists held their State
convention in Des Moines Wednesday,
The majority of the delegates favored
making free silver the one issue of the
campaign.
The machine and other shops of the
Seaboard Air line. at Raleigh, N. O.,
were damaged by fire Wednesday to the
extent of $50, 0d0. About l25 men are
thrown out of work.
Mrs. Joseph Cooking and her sister,
Miss Daisy Miller, were killed, and
Mr.. Cooking was stunned and bound
by burglars, at their home at Hill Top,
Nd. Thursday night.
The Maryland Prohibitionists held
their State convention in Baltimore
Thursday. The delegates TO Pittsburg
will work for Joshua Leyering as a
candidate for President.
Tho American National Bank of Den
yer, CO., suspended Wednesday, and as
CONSEQUENCE run was started on the
National Bank of Commerce. The latter
institution met every demand.
The Powers have protested against
the nomination of Mohammedan gov
; ernor OF Zeitoun. 1t is said to be a
breach of the scheme of reforms which
, the Porte has already accepted.
The new Hebrew Synagogue at Lam
caster, Pa, which was to have been
dedicated Friday evening, was seriously
damaged by an explosion of gas, and
the ceremony had to be postponed.
The platform adopted by the Vir-
ginia Republican State Convention
Friday made no reference TO the
financial question. The delegates to
st. Louis were instructed for Mckinley.
The opening of tho United States
! ry-duck, the largest in the world, al
Port Orchard, Puget Sound, Thursday,
by the docking Of the coast defence
, vessel Monterey, was complete SUCCESS.
3 Two outlaws attempted robbery a.
Il. j. Brasher's residence, 10 miles
/ west OF EuFaula, Indian Territory
! Wednesday night. Brasher killed one
of the robbers, and was hiI..solf fatally
shot.
BY authority Of the President part o
the group known as Suica Islands, il
the Gulf of Georgia, State of Washing
t ton, have been reserved and set apar
! for military purposes and proclaimed 1
= military reservation.
I James X. Culbertson, fomerly o
Chambersburg Pa shot and killed {
$ woman named Lilly Mccormick in Chi
: cago Thursday, and then snOt himself
, inhicting fatal injuries. Ae said thI
woman had ruined his life.
Baron von Hanmorstein, formerl,
I editor of the Berlin kreuz Zeitung
7 and leader Of the Conservative party
has been sentenced to three years
, penal soryitude. The charges agains
him were forgery, fraud and breach o
trust.
A Cincinnati dispatch says skif
containing five soldiers and civilian
1 was overturned in the Ohio river, op
: posite Fort Thomas, Tuesday week
: Wesley Lee and Kersey Valley, private
r of Go. 9, Sixth Regiment, wer
Q drowned,
: 1t was announced in New York Thurs
: day that the private secretary of Com
] mander Booth Tucker had resigned, Il
0 Join the fortunes of Commander Bal
/ lington Booth. He was private secre
4. tary TO Balipgton Booth before thl
split in the ranks OF the Salvation
Army
Two longshoremen, while discharg-
|, ing the schooner Nellie j. Crocicr, a
\ East Boston, Thursday, got into an alter
; cation ON the coal run and both fell t.
the wharf, distance of over 40 feet
!. One Of the mon was instantly killed,
= and tho other died on the way to tht
i hospital.
: At caucus of Republican Senators
Thursday, Mr.. Sherman was authorized
to appoint committee on order of busi
It ness, which will decide what matter
s outside of appropriation bills shall bl
/ brought up for consideration. Fina
r adjournment, it was thought. shoult
: be had by May 18th, and not later than
June lot.
Through tho munifcence of mer
chant of Boston, whose name is no
g made known, Harvard University is t,
a have another department added to it
o Medical School-thAt of Comparative
u Pathology The hanaFactnr advance