Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-04-02

resolution was adopted denouncing the
expedition into the Soudan.
A fire in the lumber district of Water
bury, Conu., on Saturday, destroyed
property OF the City Lumber and Coal
Co. and other firms valued at 5000, 000
About 400 weayers employed by the
Phoenix Manufacturing Co, in Colum-
bus, Ga, struck, on Saturday, against
Il reduction in their wages of 10 per
cent.
A Chicago dispatch says that twice
within the past two weeks an attempt
has been made TO abduct the S-years.
old grandson of Madame Modieska, the
actress.
fro at Weston, w. Va, Sunday
nearly destroyed the entire business
portion of the town. Tho loss is vari.
ously estimated at from $780, 600 to
s600 600.
The Ohio Legislature has passed a
bill placing tax of l per cent on the
capital stock of all fast freight lines
and equipment companies operating in
the State.
The egyptian government has in
formed the Sultan of Turkey that the
object o. the Nile expedition is to re-
cover tho territory lost by the revolt in
the Soudan.
Rogge & Koch, Baltimore toy impor-
ters, made an assignment on Saturday.
The liabilities arc estimated at about
$3.50, 000 with nominal assets of tho
Same amount.
Tho goo employees of the Wheeler e.
Go. shipyard, at Bay City. Mich,
struck on Saturday They object 10
being paid in bank checks instead Of
in cash as heretofore.
Il. & II. Blum of Galveston, Tex,
said to be the largest wholesale dry
goods house in the State, has assigned.
The liabilities are said 10 be 81, 900, 900
and the assets So, 800, 600.
James and Frank Tillman and Lucy
Law were killed and two others were
injured, Sunday, by fall of rock
from the mountain side at Echo, a
West Virginia mining town.
Baron Francis +. Fava, Jr., son of
the Italian Ambassador, and professor
OF mathematics and engineering at the
Columbian University, died in Wash
ington Friday. aged 36 years.
A Congregational council at Madison,
Conn, Wednesday, acquitted tho Rev.
William 7. Brown OF the charges Of
hcresy against him, growing out of the
so.ealled "higher criticism.
Advices received in San Francisco on
Saturday state that the black plague il
again infesting cities in China, es-
pecially the port and river cities. There
have been a great many deaths.
Arthur Wilson of Springfield, o.,
was shot and killed Sunday by his
wife, the only witness to the deed being
woman named Blair, to whose pres
ence in tine house Wilson had objected
Tho governing committee of the New
York Stock Exchange Wednesday sus
pended Albert A. Drake for one year,
for maintaining relations with the Con
solidated Stock and Petroleum Elk
change.
A dispatch from Oakland, CAL, say
| that the celebrated Murphy will con
test, which attracted considerable at
tcntIon in that State and In Londol
about two years ago, has been com
promised.
Tho jury in the case Of ex-Polic,
Captain William S. Devery, charged
with extorting 500 from Contracto
Francis w. Seagrist, brought in yer
dict Of acquittal in New York Thurs
day evening.
A dispatch from Seneca Falls, N. ".
says that the water in tho Seneca rive
Sunday reached its highest point il
10 years. Nearly every factory in tha
village and in Waterloo had their base
ments and first floors flooded
The Baltimore & Philadelphia Steam
| l. 4 = r.
ton, Jamaica, for New York, has beel
abandoned at sea in a sinking condi
tion. Capt Higgins and crew lande
at Hamilton, Bermuda, on Saturday.
Two warehouses; of the Pleasur
Ridge Distillery, l2 miles from Louis
vile, KY, were burned on Saturday
26, 0O0 barrels of whskey being dc
stroyed. Tho loss is estimated at 1926,
900, exclusive of the government tax.
Henry Watson, living near Nashville
Tenn. on Saturday, shot and kille
Jim Little. whom he had suspected {
intimacy with his wife. Officers wen
in pursuit of Watson, and when the
were about to capture him he placed
pistol to his head and killed himself.
In San Francisco, on Saturday, Phil
Raner, negro cook, cut the throat {
a IA 4-years-old girl named Myers, an
then cut his own throat, dying il
stantly. Raner, some time ago, robbie
saloon owned by tho girls father, an
was sentenced to three months in
, prisonment for tho crime.
A fire occurred in a building
! Hudson, N. ", early Sunday morI
ing. Margaret Ryan, aged GO year
! jumped from window and was fatal
injured, and Mary McMahon, aged 2,
Thomas Mallory, aged 2f, and Arch
bald Grogan, aged 30, wero suffocatet
, Two more persons were injured.
Mrs. Booth Tucker, wife of Commi
} sioner f. ID. l.. Booth Tucker, recent
appointed by Gen. Booth to tax
} charge of the Salvation Army in tn
: country, arrived at New York on ST
! urlay. She was accompanied by h,
son and daughter, Miss Gircopazz
her secretary, and Major j. Malal
Gen. Booths secretary
!, An attempt was made early Snndi
morning at Weston, o., to wreck Il
southbound passenger train on ii
, Cincinnati, Hamilton e. Dayton raj
!, , road, duo there shortly after midnigh
!, The village night watchman saw tv
= men open the switch to side track {
which several freight cars were STAN
ing. Tho watchman ran up tho trat
a and tagged the train in time to pr
! vent wreck.
Il Alvin Stone. aged 60 years, and h
n wife, aged 81, were murdered; the
: two aughters-Hattie. aged 20, al
Q Emma, aged GLAND A. f. Stilson, Il
4 family man servant, were fatally i
, jured at their home near Tallmadg
|, o., early Sunday morning. The erin
y was committed by an unknown ma
q who broke into the house armed with