Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-11-26
IN GENERAL.

King Humbert returned to Rome
Monday and received popular
ovation.
The First National Bank of East
Saginaw. Mich, closed it's doors on
Saturday.
DR.. r. G. Williams, Baltimore
physician, died in that city on Satur-
day night.
George H. Lothrop, son of an ex-
Minister to Russia, died on Saturday,
aged 46 years.
William Mushlitz was caught in
machinery near Phillisburg, Nj, on
Monday and instantly KILLED.
The President has appointed Andrew
Kirkpatrick to be United States dis
trict judge for the district of New
Jersey.
Captain General Weyler arrived 10
Havana Monday evening from Pinar del
Rio. His return has caused much
comment.
Marcus A. Smith, delegate elect to
Congress from Arizona, has resigned
as United States district attorney for
that territory.
After clingipg to the rigging Of the
wrecked steamer San Benito 81 hours
% men were rescued by the steamer
Wrott Monday.
Spicer Berry, retail business man
of Corning, N. ", was robbed Mon
day of 81, 800 by the old-time tin box
and three-card trick.
George w. @. Ferris, inventor and
builder of the Ferris wheel at the
Worlds Fair, died at Pittsburg Sum
day Of typhoid fever.
Helms Romaine, ex- Commissioner Of
Agriculture under Secretary Rusk, COM
mitted suicide on Friday night In Bier
gen county, N. j., by shooting.
The Ohio Iron Co. q furnaces and
rolling mills, in GAINESVILLE, the largest
iron works in Eastern Ohio, shut down
Monday owing to lack Of orders.
Col. Robert g. Ingersoll is III at his
home in New York, suffering from
sciatIca. All of bis Western lecture
engagements have been cancelled.
The strikers at Hamburg have asked
the London Dock Laborers' Union to
do all in their power to prevent
steamers from Hamburg procuring coal.
The Ven. John d. Morrison, arch
deacon of Ogdensburg, N. Y, has
accepted the missionary bishopric of
Duluth, to which he was recently
elected.
Rhodes Brothers, Limited, have
effected settlement with their credi-
tors, and their mills at West Branch
and Llewellyn, Pa, will resume opera.
lions at once.
Mabley q Co., large clothing firm
of Detroit, failed Monday, liabilities
about 1870, 600; assets not given. 1t
is believed, however,, that the company
will be able to resume.
Judge W. Grayson Mann died on
Saturday in Chicago, aged GA years. He
was a distinguished man Of letters.
linguist, lawyer and diplomat but had
long been in private life.
New York steamship agents think 1t
not impossible that the big strike of
dock laborers, now in progress in Ham
burg, may extend to the larger seaport
cities of the United States.
A big meeting was held at Asbury
Park, Monday, to discuss the pro-
posed annexation of West Ocean Grove,
West Asbury Park, Avon, Bradley
Beach. Hamilton and Neptune City.
General Kitchener has been in
structed to have everything in readi-
ness for the Anglo Egyptian Nile ex-
petition to advance from Dongola to
BORDER and Khartoum In March next.
j.. II. Hoffer, cashier of the First
National Bank of Lebanon, Pa, has
confessed to embezzling s1O9, 1870 Of the
banks funds. He was arrested, and
the directors made good the whole
amount taken.
Thomas Carey and "Happy" Hop
kins, whu had been locked up for dis
orderly conduct, we're burned to death
in the Jail at Mena, Ark, Monday.
1t is believed they set fire to the jail
hoping to escape.
Capt. j. II. Sickle, for years leader
in politics in Central Nebraska and
president of the defunct Blue Valley
Bank of Hebron, has been convicted of
wrecking that institution and SEN
fenced to two years in the penitentiary.
Ex-Banker Anthony Kozel, who
failed in Chicago last May for STA, 600,
was locked up Monday. and will go to
Joliet prison on an indeterminate SEN
tence, having confessed to fraudulent
practices in handling funds entrusted
to him.
The President Monday appointed
Charles O. Mott of New York, now
Judge of the court of claims, 10 be
Chief Justice of the court of claims.
and Charles B. Howry of Mississippi,
now an assistant attorney general to be
a Judge Of the court OF claims.
The liabilities of Charming F. Meek,
At. y.n
Co.,, who made personal assignment
In New York on Saturday to Wilbur g.
Brown, are reported to be at least
$3.50, 600, and his assets will depend
largely on what can be realized from
the various securities and stock which
he owned.
Senator Blackburn. according to
from Lexington, Ky. has
decided to give up the fight for re-
election to the United States Senate.
The programme is for the Blackburn |
'orces to support Gov. Bradley for
Senator so as to defeat Carlisle; and |
Blackburn is TO be a candidate for
Governor to succeed Bradley.
A st. Johns dispatch says that Hon.
George Emerson, member of the Cabi- |
,et, will succeed to the vacancy of the
supreme court bench,
,roated by the resignation Of Sir James
Winter, owing to reduction in his
Ialary through the government re-
policy. Mr.. Emerson's
is personal defeat for
Premier Whiteway, who sought the