Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-03-05

women the right ~ vote at all elections.
Gen. e. G. Cabell, who represented
Florida district in Congress 40 year
ago, died on Friday in ST. Louis, aged
50 years.
DIR. Godfrey Hunter the Republican
caucus nominee for the Kentucky Sena-
torship, retired from the contest on
Saturday.
A dispatch from Worcester, Mass,
says that Hon. W. w. Rice, ex Con
gresham and brother. in law Of Senator
Huar, died Sunday.
Pruitt Turner, coored, was hanged
at Anburen, Ark, on Friday, for the
murder of Bob Hawkins, at Mulberry,
February 18th, 1895.
John Nelson was hanged at Palmyra,
Mo-, Friday, for the murder, in the
summer OF 1893, Of John Stub and his
aged mother, at Salt River.
The steamer Ailsa, while at anchor
of Fort Hamilton, N. y, ON Saturday
afternoon, was run into and sunk by
the French steamer La Bourgogne
George Dixon and Jerry Marshall
signed articles to box 10 rounds at l22
pounds under the auspices Of the Pros
colt Athletic Club, Boston, on March
18th.
Gordon & Keith's wholesale and re-
tail house furnishing establishment, in
Halifax, N. S., was destroyed by fire
on Sunday. The loss will be over
500, 900.
Milliard Foyer, aged 10 months, was
killed in Lockport, N. v, on Satur-
day, by drinking ammonia from a bot
tie which his father had given him to
play with.
Tho Thorson & Cassidy Co.. dealers
in sporting goods, made an assignment
in Chicago on Saturday. The assets
are placed at 5000, 600 and the liabili-
ties at S1G0, 900.
NJ. V. Monarch & Co, the Louisville
distilling firm, have asked their credi-
tors for an extension of time. The liza.
bilities arc $500, 600 and the assets are
said 70 exceed that sum by $3.50, 600.
Tho Secretary of War on Friday APP
proved the plans recommended by IA
Board of Engineer Officers for the con-
atruction of the new bridge across the
East river, from New York to Brooklyn,
The Old Dominion steamer Guyan-
lotte rhu into the Clyde Limo steamer
George w. Clyde off Fort Wadsworth,
| n. ", Saturday afternoon. The Clyde
was beached to prevent her from sink
ing.
DIR. Laughlin McFarlane, professor
of surgery in the University of Toronto,
died in that city on Saturday of blood
poisoning, contracted while amputa-
| ting the toes of Il patient at the Gen
oral Hospital week ago.
Mary Van Wyck was convicted at
DntnrgAn 1fr;ln,, .,F
in the second degree. In August last
she threw her 5-months-old baby into
the passaic river, because she could
not support it and could not find any
one to take care Of il.
Harry Hindes, a gambler, who runs
establishments In Salt Lake, Cheyenne,
Laramie, Boise and other cities, shot
and killed Walter Dinwoody, promi-
nent young business man, in Salt Lake
/ Sunday, on account of the latter's
intimacy with Hindes' wife.
The steamship Now York Of the
American Line, which ran aground
| during u heavy fog, early Saturday
morning, midway between Sandy Hook
| Point and Staten Island, was floated
| Sunday morning with the assistance
OF six tugs and an unusually high tide.
Mary White, a colored domestic who
was burned in the Charles street fire
in Baltimore, Sunday week, whom seven
| persons persisted, died at the City Hos
| ptal on Friday. She was the ninth
| victim. Alice Williams, the other
colored servant, having died on Monday.
The four round sparring contest be-
/ tween Mahor and Fitzsimmons, showed
Maher the better boxer, he out sparring
| Fitz , to |. The consensus of opinion
seems to show that like Sullivan, Fitz
has dangerous right hand and is
not near as speedy on his feet as Corr
| hctt
Edward Peters, aged 10. and Flora
Larbig, aged II, were found dead on
| Friday in the basement of Peters resi-
donce, in Chicago. Both were shot
Thorough the head. Peters had been
Respondent because he was out of work
and because Miss Larbig would not
marry him.
II is stated that the revised DEGREES
in Germany in regard to American III
! surance companies shows a clause de-
claring that all United Statos COM
panies will be locked out of Prussia
unless the German companies are
granted equal facilities with other
Wesley Donald and William Hives,
employees of the Cairo Short Line Go. !,
quarrelled in the railroad yard in East
| st Louis, Friday. Donald stabbed
Hives in the left arm and breast. in
fiicting probably fatal wounds. Hives
drew revolver and fired five bullets at
Donald, killing him almost instantly.
A passenger train on tho Sou thern
Railway was wrecked on Stone Creek
trestle nine miles below Macon, Ga.
on Saturday evening and 10 minutes
lator freight train fell through tho
broken trestle. Robert Mercer and
John Reddish, flremen, and H. W.
Whippler, baggage master, were killed.
1t is believed that rail was removed
from the trestle and that the motive
was robbery.
The report OF serious shooting affair
reached Winston, N, c., on Friday
from Allegheny county. During an
exhibition given at the close of writ
ing school, a few days ago, row oc-
Cured, which resulted in the killing
of three men and the wounding Of Ii.
The instructor, named Mosley, ia in
Jail, charged with firing the shots that
killed two Of the men.
telegram from Seattle, Washington
says that tho land and snowslide on
the Great Northern in the Cascade
Mountains has developed into the most
disastrous one in the history of tho
road. Rocks, trees and earth were
swept down the mountain side, carry
ing away snowsheds, bridging and
tracks. There has been, in conse.
quenee, complete blockade since last
| Monday ,Uani