Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-01-16
IS aENERAL.

Chaplain w. M. Postlethwaite, u. >.
A., professor OF the Military Acad-
envy, died at West Point Friday.
Ringgen & Friederger's sash, door
and blind factory, in Hoboken, n. D.,
was burned on Saturday night; loss
Sl00,00o.
M. de Kotzehue, Russian minister to
the Uhited' States, arrived at New
York Sunday on the steamer La
Champagne.
Senator Blackburn was renominated
for United States Senator Friday on
the first ballot by tho Kentucky Demo-
cratic caucus.
The suit of Thomas A. Edison against
the receiver Of the American Phono-
graph Go. was compromised ut Newark,
N. j.. on Saturday.
Seigel, Hillman g. Co. IS dry goods
store, in st. Louis, was destroyed by
ifre on Saturday evening The loss is
estimated at S230, 600.
George G. Wright, OK United States
Senator and OK chief Justice of Iowa,
died at his home in Des Moines on
Saturday, aged &c years.
John l., Bremen, for many years tho
head of one of the largest dry goods
commission houses in Boston, died in
that city on Saturday, aged II.
Nelson Miles large saw mill at Marys-
vile five miles south Of Huron, Mich,
was burned on Saturday night. Loss
estimated al $40, 600 to 800, 900.
The factory of E. w. Gillett & CO.,
manufacturers Of baking powders and
flayoring extracts in Chicago, was
almost totally destroyed by fire on Sat
urday night; loss $l75, GOO.
Unknown men called at the home of
Ed. Welch. at HOlton, Kan, on We'd
nesday night, bindfolded him, threw
him to the floor, cut off his left hand
with an axe and robbed him.
The PostolIice Department at Wash.
ington Friday denied the privileges
of the r:ails to l.. o. Bowman, of
Philadelphia, who, it is alleged, runs
a fraudulent stamp purchasing agency.
Lee Lewis aged IA years, and his
brother Joseph, aged IL, were killed in
st. Louis on Saturday while playing
with small wire which became acct
dentally fastened to an electric light
| wire.
Patrick Morrison and negro woman
| who had been living together on a flat
boat in the vicinity of Southport, La. j.,
were killed by mob early Sunday
morning. They had disregardcd several
warnings to leave.
The tug Tyee brought to Port Town
send Sunday IA of the crew of the
British bark Janet Cowan, from
Cape Town for Vancouver, which was
wrecked on the west coast of Vancouver
Island on December 3lst.
Albert TOLLS, farmer, living near
kentland, Ind, was arrested Friday
charged with numbering his S-months-
old child. 'The infants crying annoyed
Tolls, 80 he placed his hand over its
mouth and smOthered it. p"
| A committee of prominent Missouri,
ans, including Gov. Stone and ex- Cows.
Francis and Stanard, has been sent tc
Washington to urge the claims Of st.
Louis as the meeting place OF the Dem.
ocratic National Convention.
Patrick Mangan was burned to death
in a fro which destroyed his home ir
Cleveland, o., yesterday. He haC
rescued his wife and little daughter
and returned to obtain his clothing
whom he was overcome by smoke.
At "A meeting of the First Baptis
Church Society in llaverhill, Mass.
Sunday, unanimous call was ex
tended to Rev. Charles T. Morgan,
pastor Of the Spring Garden Baptist
Church, Philadelphia.
Police Sergeant Timothy Cantlin wal
shot and killed in Buffalo carly Sun
day morning by Patrolman Michae
Sammon. The patrolman was discovered
oil his beat, and he shot Cantlin be
cause the latter intended 10 report him
A Washington dispatch says tina
".another extensive shake up is con
templated in the United States Paten
Office among the force OF examiners
with view il is said, of raising til,
standard of efficiency among that corp
of officials. "
A non-suit was granted the dofenc,
in Vancouver ON Saturday, in the cas-
Of j. Cranstoun, one of the Hawaiian
oNies, who sued the Canadian A us
tralian Steamship Co. for $50, 600 dam
ages in connection with his deportation
from Honolulu.
A dispatch from Youngstown, o.
says that under the Amalgamated As
sociation scale for January and Febru
airy the puddlers will receive an advance
of % cents per ton, making the hoilinl
scale a. 50, and the finishing mills go
an increase of 2 per cent
According TO dispatch from Oneida
n. u, 'the English government ha
just entered into a contract with tn
officials Of the New York, Ontario
Western railroad for the delivery o
LOCO, 900 tons of coal TO points aion,
Lake Ontario and the Canadian borcl
ers. -
Tho Republican caucus of the Ken
tucky Legislature on Saturday nomi
mated Congressman W. Godfrey Hunte
for United States Senator to succeed
Senator Blackburn. Tho death O
State Representative Wilson of Nelso
county, on Saturday, gave the Repub
licans u majority Of ono on joint ballot
a meeting was held in Detroit Sun
day to express sympathy for the Ar
mcnians Gen. Algor presided, and al
dresses were made by Chauncey N
Depew, Bishop Foley, Bishop Davis
Don NJ. Dickinson and others. Al
appeal was sent to Queen Victoria {
use her power to stop the slaughter Q
the Armenians.
The American Sugar Refining Co
has filed with the New York attorney
general its answer to the application
for the revocation OF its license. Ih
company makes general denial of al
the charges made, and claims that tn
proceeding is merely scheme ON tn
part of those making it TO affect tn
value of the stock in Wall streer.
The Illinois attorney general bega
, proceedings in Chicago on Saturday I
, annul the charter of the National Lin
seed Oil Co., on the ground that it /
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