Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-04-09
IN GEN ER An.


Augustus Hopr,in, illustrator and
caricaturist, died on Wednesday at
Flushing, Il. l.
The Republicans in Newark, N. j.,
wednesday night renominatod Julius
"A. Lobknecher for mayor.
The entire business portion OF Oris.
kany Falls, N. Y, was destroyed by
iire Thursday; loss, $50, 600.
The Rhode Island State election on
wednesday resulted In favor of the Re-
publicans by about 10000 plurality.
The Iowa Senate has defeated, by
vote OF % to 27, a bill to legalize the
manufacture OF liquors in that State.
The Chinese Anglo German loan of
Gl6 600, 900 was closed "Wednesday. 1t
was Over-supscribed in London alone.
Gen. W. M. Shakespeare OF Kala-
mazo, has been elected commander of
the Grand Army, Department of Michi-
gan.
The Rev. Thomas G. Addison, ID. d..
for the past 10 years rector of Trinity
Epiacopal Church, in Washington, ID.
O.. diad suddenly Friday.
Five men were killed and six or
seven injured at Greenville, Miss,
Wednesday. by tho explosion of two
boilers at the Planters Oil Mill.
A Phmnix, Ariz., dispatch says that
the contest over the occupation of the
Gubernatorial chair is ended, Gov.
Hughes having gracefully surrendered.
A negro, IS yeare old, charged with
an attempted assault upon whito
woman, was Friday morning taken
from tho Jail at Tupelo, Tenn, and
lynched.
A fierce blizzard struck Cleveland,
o., Thursday. The wind reached a
velocity of 50 miles an hour and tho
snow drifted in many places 10 depth
of eight feet.
The health officer OF Cincinnati says
he is going TO make fight on the
saloons which use beer pumpa. He
claims that tho pipe used generates
dangerous poison.
Frederick A. Humphrey, eRid tc
have been the oldest member Of the
Masonic Order in the United States,
died at Shopiere, Wis, on Tuesday
week aged 95 years
A Lebanon, Mo-, dispatch says that
the Wells Fargo officials claim that tho
train robbers who held up the Frisco
express got only 81, 252, of which they
dropped nearly Si00.
At Concord, Ga, Thursday evening,
Sheriff GYM and John +. Madden
were shot and probably fatally wounded
while attempting TO arrest Taylor Delk,
a notorious desperado.
The station Of the Kokomo Natural
Gas Co., in Kokomo, Ind, exploded
Friday. Tho plant is in ruins and
adjacont buildings including the county
jail, arc badly damaged.
In Baltimore Thursday, the jury in
the case of Mrs. Matte v. Angelier
and her husband, charged with the
murder of Charles +. Parker, dis
agreed and were discharged.
Three miners were fatally and three
others were seriously injured by the
fall Of a cage in which they were being
lowered, at the Silver Creek shaft,
near New Philadelphia, Pa, Thursday.
Alexander Donaldson was insanity
killed and Joseph Scarrio badly injured
at Roach's shipyard, Chester, wednes.
day morning. They were crushed be-
tween a boiler and the side of a vessel.
Hunted down by crowd of pursuers,
surrounded and driven to bay, Heze-
kiah Jones, negro thief, cut his
throat in Chicago on Tuesday week
and died at the feet of the men who
had chased him. He had snatched a
purse from the hands of woman on a
street car.
A dispatch from Ottumwa, Ia, says
that the Free Silver Democrats of Iowa
will make herculean effort to capture
the State convention, and that they
will be assisted by ex-Gov. Boies. lie
has consented to go TO Chicago as a
delegate t-large from Iowa, il the plat
form declares for free silver.
Col. Charles O. Byrne, Major Charles
l.. Heizmann and Capt. William W.
Gray of the Medical Department,
United States Army, have been de.
tailed as delegates to represent it at
the annual meeting Of the Association
OF Military Surgeons Of the United
States at Philadelphia May 18th.
Five men boarded Baltimore & Ohio
express, west bound, at Garrett, Ind, !,
on Wednesday morning, and after rob
bing Theodore Bellstein, passenger,
threw him from the moving train.
BelIstein managed to give an alarm,
and three of the robbers were captured
ON the arrival of the train at Bremen.
DIR. o. M. Shedd, proprietor of the
Poughkeepsie Evening Star and Secre-
tary Of Board of Police Commissioners
in that city, was arrested Thursday on
charge Of grand larceny in tho first
degree. He ia said to be short over
80, 600 in his accounts aH imperial re-
corder Of the Order Of United Friends.
A telegram was received in Chicago
Thursday announcing the arrest at
Southampton, Eng, of Matt Adams,
the defauting district clerk of Denver
tArapahoe county,, Col. Adams fled
from Denver November 20th, last, with
about so, 900, which he is said to have
stolen from the county and from his
wards.
The Governor of kentucky has en-
ployed counsel to bring suit in the name
of that State against ex-State auditor
Luke Norman and ex uditor General
Max Barker Of Louisville, for S4S, GOO
or more which the latter received aR
commissions during the past four
years, paid, it is alleged, without war
rant of law.
A Memphis dispatch says that Tip
ton county, upon which Congressman
Josiah Patterson was necessarily rely
ing for denomination, held its primary
election on Saturday and tho silver
Democrats carried it by an overwhelm-
ing majority. This practically defeats
Col. Patterson's ambition to be returned
to Congress.
Peter Barrett was stabbed and killed
in a salocn in New York City on Satur
day by Thomas Cooper. Both were
negroes, The victim, with a knife in
his throat, laid hold Of his slayer and
dragged him down with him, kissing in
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