Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-07-30
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day.
Senator Jones has appointed W. F.
St John treasurer OF the Democratic
National Committee.
Thomas Atwater jerome of New York
City, died Sunday at New Brighton,
S. l., aged 81 years,
Henry Kettering, a machinist, Of
Canton, o., was killed Monday by
boiler explosion in his ahop.
A race riot occurred in Hamilton
county, Fla, Saturday night. and six
men were killed and eight woupded.
Z. B. Winslow, the Democratic
nominee for Governor OF Maine. has
written q letter declining the nomina-
tion. e, h.
The 9th anniversary Of the organi-
cation OF the Ocean Grove Camp-
meeting Association was celebrated
Sunday. tr
James o'Reilly's grocery store. in
Chicago, was held up by two men Sum
day evening. O'Reilly was robbed Of a
watch and Sl5.
Edward A. Eckert, brother of
Thomas T. Eckert of the Western
Union Telegraph Co., died at Asbury
Park Sunday.
The Chesapeake & Ohio South
| western road was sold at auction,
under foreclosure proceedings, Satur-
day. to the Illinois Central, for
DR.. j. D. Cromwell, aged 60 years,
was shot and killed Sunday, in
Gainesville. Fla, by Towney Kenard,
| aged 26. 1t is claimed that the shoot
| ing was in seif-defence.
About 10000 people marched from
the Thames ehnbankment. in London,
Sunday, to Hyde Park, to take part
| in the Socialist demonstration, but rain
broke up the assemblage.
The Northern Pacific railroad was
bought in by the reorganization com
Inittee at the foreclosure sale in
Superior. Wis, Saturday. the total
price paid being s13, 100000.
Two men attempted to hold up the
| jewelry store Of @. NJ. Robinson, in
! Chicago, Sunday evening, but the pro-
prietor held them at bay with re-
volver until the police arrived.
A dispatch from Washington says
the sugar bounty claims, amounting to
s., 600, 600, will probably be paid with
out further delay at the rate of about
| VIZ Sobto oh tlpt aoiiht Va Siailio hioos
Capt. Daniel O. Pearson of the
Second Cavalry has been detailed as
professor of military science at the
Pennsylvania State College. to relieve
Lieut. McCaskey of the Twenty first
Infantry.
The Democrats of Davenport, Ia. at
big massmeeting Saturday, declared
in favor of honest money, endorsed the
administration of President Cleveland
and denounced the Chicago platform
and nominees.
Parkhurst d Wilkinson, wholesale
hardware firm of Chicago, assigned
Friday, and IA receiver was appointed
for the East Chicago Iron and Steel
Co., of which Mr.. Parkhurst is presi
n dent The firm Is liabilities are said tc
be about 5000. 600.
| The, barkantine Java, Saturday,
landed at st. Johns. Newfoundland,
16 men belonging to the schooner
Genesta, which she ran down and sank
on the Grand Banks Friday morning.
One man was killed and Eve of the
rescued we're badly injured.
A Detroit dispatch says James T.
Hurst OF Wyandotte. one of the largest
lumber operators in Michigan, has
filed trust deed covering all Of his
real estate in Wayne, county for the
benefit of his creditors, who have
claims aggregating s514,0
Mable Gli2den and George Scott oi
Port Hope, Ont, who, while boating,
were blown far out into Lake Ontario
during a gale Wednesday night, were
rescued off Presque Isle Thursday even
ing. They had been tossed about the
lake in a raging sea for over 20 hours.
The schooner Joseph Rowe, at Glou
cester, Mass, Friday from the Banks,
!; reported that on July 1st Joseph Sonia
and Alexander Wiflin, members of the
crew, got astray while attending travis
and have not been heard from since.
1t is feared. that they have beer
drowned.
The trial of John Rech, for the mur
der Of his wife Bessie Weaver Rech,
was concluded on Friday at May'l
Landing, and the jury, after being ou
! two hours, returned a verdict of mur
der in the second degree. Rech wa,
sentenced to 20 years in the STATE
prison.
! Enos Barge. 2s years old, of Refton,
, Pa, was fatally injured and his com
panion. Miss Barbara Hershey, 2:
years old. OF Black Horse. was in
stantly killed on Sunday at Bird-in
! Hand railroad crossing, an express
train having struck the buggy which
they occupied, .tl
A dispatch from Peshtigo, Wis, say
forest fires are, sweeping over larg,
area in the northwestern part of Mari
! nette county; about the Eagle, one o
the main braches of the Peshtigo, /
! is estimated that nearly four townships
have been burned over, but thus fa
the amount OF standing timber de
stroyed is small. ~.
a Baltimore dispatch says the re
ceiyers OF the Baltimore & Ohio rail
, road will nay out over half million
dollars August lst in semi-apnual in
terest charges, duo on the bonds of tb
company. These payments will includ
all the interest payable that date b.
> the Baltimore & Ohio, and there is t
, be DO default.
5 Mrs Mary Herman, wife of Johi
D Herman of South Camden, n. j.
drowned her two children, aged | ant
215 years, and attempting to drowi
herself in the Delaware river, Mon
day. The mother was rescued and tn,
BALI crazed husband was committed h
, prison to prevent him from committing
suicide through grief.
Two hundred men employed by th
Snow Pump Works, in Buffalo, qui
work Saturday afternoon because on
q | nf THAR fallOW- workers. had baan dis