Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-05-21
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elected chairman of the Wisconsin
Republican State Committee.
-Four miners wore killed and several
injured by cave.in in the opal mines
near Queretaro, MoS., Thursday.
Tho Senate ON Friday confirmed
John II. Brackenstein of Pennsylvania,
as examiner. in-chief in the patent
office.
Tho West Virginia Republican State
convention Thursday instructed the
delegates to st. Louis in favor of Nc
Kinley.
Capt. T. +. Kane, U. S. NJ, has
been ordered to the command Of the
cruiser Newark.
The Louisiana Legislature Thursday
canvasseu the returns for Governor and
declared Foster, Democrat, elected by
26, t2s majority.
Christian Geiger, a farmer of Woos-
term. o., became insane Thursday and
attacked his father with hoe, in
fiicting fatal injuries.
The house occupied by Michael Har-
vey, near Blackwater, Ont, was burned
Saturday and two Of his daughters
perished in the flames.
At tho Colorado Republican state
convention, Thursday, Senator Wolcott
Withdrew from the contest for seat
In the national convention.
Frank Harding, aged 27, a cigar
maker of Quincy, ILL.,, shot and fatally
wounded his mother and tried to kill
himself Wednesday evening. lie is said
to be demented.
The California Populist State conven
tion nominated Thomas V. Gator of
San Francisco for United States Sena-
tor aud }. Il Gilbert of Fresno for
Lieutenant. Governor.
President Kruger is quoted as saying
| that the sentences of the members Of
the Reform Committee will be neither
cancelled nor committed until Cecil
Rhodes leaves Africa.
AT Cropsey, ILL.,, Wednesday, Ida
May Steers was shot and probably
fatally wounded by William Burrell,
whom she had refused to marry. Bur.
rell afterwards killed himself.
Mrs James Cadamire and her infant
were burned to death at Mcdonald Pa.
Friday, and her three other children
were perhaps fatally burned. She had
poured Kerosene on the kitchen fire.
Raymond Moore. coorod, of Phila.
delphia, shot and probably fatally in.
jured Patrick McKeever Of Steelton,
Pa. in Harrisburg Thursday. They
had had quarrel over trivial matter.
Thomas Ingram and John Pine,
farmers, living near Greenville, Tex,
agreed to fight out land title quarre
and met on tho highway with rifles.
Piue was killed and Ingram fatally in
iured.
Mrs. Wilhelmina Kranz, aged 6!
years, committed suicide Friday il
Baltimore by cutting her throat. She
had been great sufferer from iniiam
matory rheumatism and acute neu.
ralgia.
dispatch from Buffalo, small
place II miles east of Springfield, ILL.,.
says that two masked men entered
the bank at that place Thursday
bound and gagged Carl KloppenbuIl
and robbed the place of all the cash
They escaped.
During fierce windstorm whicl
swept over Chicago and its vicinit,
Thursday a derrick on the drainag
canal Dear Sag Bridge was blown down
Ten workmen were injured, one fatal,
and three probably fatally.
William Daley, aged 20 years, AM
William T. Reed, aged Is years, wer
arrested by State Fire Marshal Whit
comb in Boston Thursday They hav
confessed to setting about GO fires
which destroyed property valued a
81, 600. 600.
While Miss Mamie Peterson, aged |
years, was returning from socia
gathering at Unionville, Ia, Wednesda
evening, some one fired three shots q
her, killing her almost instantly. Fro
Hemphill was arrested. 1t is suppose
that jealousy prompted the deed,
The Republican county convention q
Denver. Col, endorsed Senator Teller
and declared that the monetary issu
Is paramount. Senator Wolcott wa
ignored in the adopted resolutions, bu
an amended resolution severely censur
ing him was defeated by vote of 27
TO l72.
President Cleveland Friday nouli
mated William Lochren, COMMISSIONS
Of Pensions, TO be United States dis
trict judge for the district of Mime
sofa, and Dominic |. Murphy of Penr
sylvania, now first deputy ommissione
OF pensions, to be Commissioner {
Pensions.
AS n result of the action of tn
foreign Ambassadors and Ministers, til
Porto has ordered that tho enforce
conversion Of the Christians to islam
ism, at Birediik, be stopned. Th
Sultan has ordered the mosque and tn
Christian church recently destroy ed
be rebuilt.
Ex-Coroners Daniel Butler an
Joseph Bcttinger and their clerks
w. II. Bird and Henry Bensingel
who were convicted of conspiracy
} holding false inauests, have been ser
fenced to serve Is months each in th
Detroit House of Correction.
The Illinois supreme court ht
J handed down decision sustaining I'll
action Of Bloomington druggist WI
, refused TO sell soda water to negro O
account of his color. The court hole
| that tho selling of soda water does M
constitute the furnishing of lodging
! amusement or meals as provided for
the act.
Frank 7. Lauer, treasurer and ger
eral manager of tho Lauer Brewin
Co., Limited. of Reading, Pa, wa
placed unuer $50, 600 bonds Thursda
! for his appearance at court, charge
by his brother. George +. Lauer, wit
misappropriating funds of the concsr
, aggregating several hundred thousan
dollars.
The motion for new trial in Ii
case of the Rev. Joseph Ebben Powell
convicted Of fraudulent registration
: was overruled at Findlay, o., Tuesda,
and tho preacher was sentanced to oil
. 1 wear in thn nenitentinrv c,aptanca tv.