Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-04-02
Nv GEN ETH.

Thomas Seay, who was Governor of
Alabama from 1886 to 1890, died Mon
day.
a stool plant which will cost
81, GOO, 900 ia to be erected at Birming
ham, Ala.
Five passenger steamers arrived at
New York Monday, bringing 3,565
immigrants.
Mrs. Lucy Thomas, colored, died in
Boston, on Sunday, at the age of 1913
years and 10 months.
Nj. Sarrien, member Of the French
House of Deputies, haa accepted tho
post Of Minister Of the Interior.
Tho United Stat Supreme Court
Monday ruled that the Interstate
Commerce Commission has no power
to fix freight rates.
During fire in the Battle House,
in Mobile, Ala, Monday morning,
Constantine Laverato, guest, fell
from window and was fatally injured.
Near Rogers, Ark, on Sunday,
Pulaski Duckworth. while temporarily
insane, killed his wife. fatally wounded
his 5.years-old daughter and then killed
himself.
The Rev. Aaron Wise, for many
years Rabbi of the Congregation Rodef
Shalom, in New York City, died sud
denly, of heart failure, in that city
Monday.
The First National Bank of Morris,
Mimi, closed it's doors to business on
Monday. The bank had capital Of
$50, 900 and it's liabilities are osti-
mated at 100000.
Tho schooner Belle Hardy went
ashore on Long Shoal, in Nantucket
Sound, on Sunday night during a
thick fog and heavy southeast gale.
The crew were taken oil Monday.
Matte Overton was arrested in ST.
Louis Monday and hold without bail
for the murder Of her weeks.old
child. The infants body had been
pierced 23 times with long needle.
Albert NJ. Hall, alias L. j. West,
supposed to be II reporter for a New
York paper, was found dead in his
room in Cincinnati hotel on Tuesday
week He had evidently committed
suicide by taking morphine.
After a struggle for tho recognition
of organized labor, lasting five weeks,
tho strike of tho 5000 Baltimore gar.
mcnt workers was declared off Monday
night Tho workers will resume the
struggle at more propitious time.
John Martin. local Republican
politician, was shot and fatally
wounded Monday morning by his
wife iii the corridor Of the San Fran
cisco City Hall. Tho cause tf tho
shooting was revenge for desertion and
abuse.
Tho Council Of Ministers has decido,l
that tho agents Of tho American Rod
Cross Society sent TO Asia Minor to
distribute relief to tho sufIerinp
Armenians shall work only in the
cities. Destitute persons, il is stated.
Will be sent TO the cities for relief.
This President Monday sont to the
Senate the following nominations: B.
). Franklin of Arizona 10 be Governor
of Arizona; Capt A. V. Reed, to be a
chmlnudore; Commander II. A. Cook,
to be captain, and Lieutenant Com
nantier =. T. liutchins to he com
mander
Tho receiver OF the defunct Fort
Stauwlx Bank, at Rome, N. Y, aas
discovered number Of notes purnort.
ing 10 have been made by persons in
tfe town whose names were forged, pre-
Aumably 10y tho late Cashier barnard
These forged notes will aggregate many
thousands of dollars.
In the House of Commons Friday
Mr.. Curzon denied that the conyen.
ton with France provided for parti-
ton OF siam, and said that the rights
Of Great Britain remained intact
throughout the dominion Of Siam,
Neither France nor Great. Britain had
gained a single right that it had not
possessed before
The case of George w. Russ Va.
Count Joseph Tefener, involving
!, III, ;i20 acres Of land in Pacific Re,
servation, Ell paso county, Texas was
decided Monday by the United States
Supreme Court. The judgment of the
lower court, awarding Russ over
500, 900, was reversed, and tho case
goes back for another trial.
A pier belonging to the Erie railroad
IN Jersey City was burned early Mon.
Monday morning, together with several
barges. Peter Hogan, Jr., aged "a of
the barge Mulligan, jumped into the
river to escape death by fire, and was
drowned. Ills father, Peter Hogan.
captain of the barge, was probably
fatally burned. The loss is about
s5i, 600.
The Oklahoma supreme court Mon.
day refused to recognize Greer county,
lust added to Oklahoma by the United
States Supreme Court, as a county.
and attached it to Oklahoma county.
300 miles away, for judicial purposes.
Ihls leaves tho new county as an un
organized territory, with 20 murderert
applying for writs of habeaa corpus.
Great confusion will prevail.
The Illinois supreme court has
affirmed the decision of the lower couri
in the cases of Frank II. and Charles
}. Meadowcroft of Chicago, who were
each sentenced TO one years i'm.
prisonmcnt at hard labor. This de.
cision establishes the toastitutionality
of the State law, which says banker
who receives deposits when he knows
his bank is insolvent commits crime,