Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-08-06
IN GENERA H.

IDe ancient anu HODOruDle hrtlllery
Co. of Boston arrived homo from Lon
don Friday.
Mrs. Henry Webster of Butler, Ind,
was fatally shot by her eldest son
Thursday night.
The remains of Robert Garrett were
inferred in Greenmount cemetery, Balti-
more, Friday.
@. M. Golden has been named for
Congress by the Seventh lllinios dis
trict Democrats.
The Democrats of the Fifth Indiana
district have nominated John Clark
Ridpath for Congress-
DIR. j. A. Norton has been nominated
for Congress by the Democrats of the
Thirteenth Ohio district.
Congressman Robert q. Cousins has
been renominated by the Republicans
of the Fifth Iowa district.
Congressman Jonathan p. Dolliver
has been renominated by the Republi-
cans of the Tenth Iowa district.
The Silver party in the Third Ne
braska district has nominated ex-Jus-
tice Samuel Maxwell for Congress-.
Twenty-Five dwellings, and business
places in Grass Valley, CAL, were de-
stroyed by an incendiary fire Thursday
evening.
A party of 100 members of the Manu-
facturers' Club OF Philadelphia visited
Mr.. Gladstone at Hawarden Castle
Thursday.
An imperial ukase issued by tho Czar
declares that the Moscow authorities
are arswerable for the disaster ON the
Hodynsky Plain.
Floods at Bombay, India, have COM
pletely cut of that city from communi-
cation, except by telegraph, with the
surrounding country.
Farnham Lyon, farmer of Potter
county, Pa, killed carpenter named
Patterson. who boarded in his house.
jealousy was the cause.
Eight members of the family OF Mer-
rift Drury of Woodford, KY, were
poisoned Thursday by milk. Two visi
tors were also poisoned.
Mrs. George Thomas was accidentally
shot dead by her son Richard while he
was fiourishing revolver in Scott
township, Pa, Thursday.
Jesse Wilson. a boatman at Mas
sillup, O., on Wednesday night cut the
throat of his wife, to whom he had
been married only three weeks.
The discovery was made in Austin,
Tex, Thursday, that W. e. Burt had
murdered his wife and two little chill
dren and placed the bodies in cistern.
Nineteen persons, two of them
women, were convicted and sentenced
TO death at Agram. Hungary, on Fri
day, for organized brigandage and mur-
der.
A dispatch from Rome says the Pope
has appointed as Cardinal Satoli's sue
cessors atWashington the Rev. Sebastien
Martinelli, prior general of the Angus
tins Chausses.
Under the agreement of the Kentucky
distilers, which goes into effect to-
day, whisky making in that State will
be almost totally suspended for period
Of Is months.
Two street cars were held up by
masked men near Manistee, Mich,
Thursday night, and the conductors
and motormen were forced to surren-
der their cash.
The executive committee of the
National party has adopted resou-
parties, but to support its own plat
form and ticket.
Mrs. Nettie Chrisman of Modesto,
Ind, was taken from her home, Sun
day night, by White Caps and hanged
by her wrists from a tree. Her house
was then burned to the ground.
The President Thursday issued a
proclamation warning citizens of the
United States against filibustering or
otherwise violating neutrality laws in
connection with tho Cuban revolution.
A trolley car containing members of
the Plains Presbyterian Church was
struck by coal train at South Wilkes
barre, Pa, Friday night, and two OF
the 70 passengers were seriously in :
jGred.
The supreme court of California has
affirmed the judgment of the lower court
in the case of S. ID. Worden, the railroad
striker, sentenced to be hanged for
causing wreck in which four men
were killed.
Vice Presidential Candidate Watson
telegraphel to the Atlanta Constitu-
tion Thursday that in his judgment a
full electoral ticket must be Iun by
tDb IOpuiisIS ublchb pBWdIl rotireS
from tine Democratic ticket.
The court-martial which has been
trying Lieut. j. G.. Colwell of the
ram katahdin, at tho New York navy
yard, has acquitted him of the charges
brought against him growing out Of
his alleged assault on IA waiter.
Tho semi-annual dividend on the
stock of the Central Ohio railroad. one
of the divisions of the Baltimore ~
Ohio, was passed" on Friday by the
receivers of the latter corporation.
The amount involved is $50, 797.
Two hundred persons of Steubenvile,
o., are homeless as the result of a
cloudburst that occurred there Thurs
day night. From 30 TO 40 residences were
wrecked and the damage done is esti-
mated as amounting to 500, 600.
Fifteen persons were killed at
Glouster, mining town in Ohio,
Wednesday night, in the terrific wind
and rain storm that struck the place.
Nearly every building in town was
damaged and many were demolished.
The British Home Secretary stated
in the House of Common on Friday
that the convicted Transvaal raiders
will be treated as first-class misde-
meanors. A statement exactly the re-
verse was made in the House the pre-
yious day.
Thomas E. Prathor and Maud Delay
eloped from Sanborne, Ind, Wednes-
day, and were married. On their re-
turn an alteration took place, in the
course of which Prather shot and