Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-10-29


burg, Mass, Monday, aged 100 years.
The Rev. Thomas Drumm, former
chaplain of the port of New York, died
in that city Monday, aged 70 years.
James Malone was killed at Hagers-
town. Md, Tuesday, by the explosion
of dynamite, which he was thswing.
The Missouri supreme court has
decided that the Silver party's State
ticket cannot be printed on the official
ballots.
The firm of Harper & Brothers of New
York, publishers, has been organized
as corporation. The capital is 81
600, 600.
The last of the Populist nominees on
the West Virginia State ticket resigned
Tuesday, thus completing the fusion
agreement with the Silver Democrats.
The Ohio supreme court Tuesday
refused to issue mandamus compelling
the State elections supervisor to take
the name of W. +. Barr, Populst can.
didate for elector, from the ballot.
A voluntary petition of insolvency,
on behalf of the Rev. Elmer II. Capen,
d. D., president of Tufts College, has
been filed at East Cambridge, Mass.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hart and her
daughter, Mrs. Sarah ]. Stevenson,
we're found asphyxiated by illuminating
gas at their home in Boston, Tuesday.
DR.. A. B. Heath, institutions COM
missioner of the city of Boston, was
removed Tuesday by Mayor Quincy.
The financial mismanagement by DIR.
Heath is given as the cause of the re-
moval.
The Canadian cruiser Petrol, at st.
Thomas, Ont, Tuesday reported that
the schooner Sandill, loaded with
lumber for Tonawanda, from Wharton,
went down on Lake Erie Friday. All
hands were lost.
Two young men, named Morton and
Walsh, who had been calling upon
young women at Gordon, Schuylkill
county, Pa. were set upon by White
caps Monday night and subjected to
the most inhuman treatment.
A San Antonio, N. M, dispatch says
that the bandits who have been holding
up stages in the Oscura Mountains
have added murder to their crimes.
They shot and killed George Parker
because he was once law officer.
The Sac and Fox Indian agency, in
Oklahoma. was held up by four masked
robbers Monday. Three stores were
robbed and sd?0 taken. The men were
after SIG. DOC annuity money in the
hands of the agent, to be paid out next
week, but they failed to find it.
Mrs. Carrie Whalen jumped from a
bridge at Rochester, N. Y, Tuesday
morning, with her infant in her arms.
The child was drowned, but ths woman
was rescued. She had been drinking,
and said she was moved to the act
because her husband could not afford
to keep her.
A fire in Brooklyn Tuesday de-
stroyed tine building occupied by Ron
aids q Co., plumbers supplies; Fay,
Hartman g. Chadwick Manufacturing
Co., corset manufacturers; Lockett g.
Findley, and the Zemon Brothers, shirt
manufacturers. The loss is estimated
at $500, 600.
Peter James, alias Edward Jacques,
one OF the men concerned in the
Walker Adams murder at Bedford
Station, escaped from the Jail at White
Plains, N. Y, Tuesday night. He filed
his way out of the cell while his
keepers were watching parade then
passing the prison.
The steamer Venezuela, at Curacao.
October Goth, reports that on October
10Th, off the coast Of North Carolina,
she sighted the schooner Henry
Souther, flying the American ensign,
union down, in the mizzen rigging. The
schooner was on her beam ends, all of
her boats were gone and there was no
sign of life aboard.
Senator Butler OF the Populist
National Committee announced Tues
day that Candidate Tom Watson's long
missing letter had reached him Satur-
day night; that 1t had been detained
in the postofiice for want of sufficient
postage, and that he had suggested to
Watson the ACCESSIBILITY OF making at
least one Important change In his
letter. If he authorizes this change
Mr.. Butler will give out the letter.
Otherwise he must take the RESPONSE
bility of publishing 1t himself.
Grand Chief Arthur of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers; Grand
Master Sargent and Grand Secretary
Arnold of the Brotherhood of Loco.
motive Firemen, have issued circular
to the working men of tho United
States, denounclng the attempt at free
coinage of silver at l6 to l, believing it
TO be directly against the interests Of
labor; ard also declaring their belief
that under condition of FREQ coinage
this country will be subjected to ona Of
the most frightful panics that any
country in this woSld has ever aeen.