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

The Armstrong-Sl6tor Memoriai
Trade School, in Hampton, Va, was
dedicated Thursday.
Nicola Barili, former opera singer
and half brother Of Nine. Patti, died
In New York Monday week.
The National Democratic State Com
mittee of Kentucky decided Thursday
to maintain the party organization,
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows Of
New Jersey closed its sessions Thurs.
day. Peter W. Stage was elected grand
master.
The Norwegian Pillow Go. OF Dubuque,
Ia, made an assignment Wednesday,.
Liabilities, sl40,0O0; nominal assets,
S257, 600.
The drowned man found at New
Brunswick, N. j., on Wednesday was
ON Friday identified as Edward kearns
OF Trenton.
A tablet In memory OF Col. Thomas
Hartley OF Revolutionary fame, was
unveiled in ST. Johns Church, York,
Pa, Thursday.
The Probst Construction Co., one Of
the largest contracting concerns in the
country, made an assignment in Chi
cago Thursday.
The knights OF Labor General Assem-
bly, adopted resolutions ON Friday ex
pressing hostility to the efforts to retire
the greenbacks.
The candidacy of Moses Thatcher for
the United States Senate threatens to
renew the old feud between the Mormon
Church and Utah.
In Fall River, Mass, Thursday, Mrs.
Ann Oatley, 67 years old, killed Mary
Ann Brennan, ! years old, with an axe.
The woman is insane.
1.-THE First New York Beet Sugar
Co. /" has been incorporated with a
capital of 5000, 600, and will establish a
plant near Rome, N. Y.
Harry Sherwood, manager Of the title
department of the st. Louis Trust Co.,
in st. Louis, committed suicide Fri
day. He had been in i'll health.
A jury at Richmond, Va. on Thurs
day acquitted James ID. WINNER, who
killed Samuel Thalheimer because he
had ruined his tWimmer'sl daughter.
The Rev. James q. Hull pleaded
guilty. in st. Paul, Mimi, Ioursday,
to having poisoned his wife and was
sentenced TO six years. Imprisonment.
Franz Mayer committed suicide in
st. Louis on Wednesday night, by
strangling himself with strap,
because be was destitute and des.
pondent
| Receivers have been appointed for the
Baltimore dry goods firm Of johnson,
Omohundro & Co. The assets are
said to be slS9, 1000, and the liabilities
Sl33, 600.
o. G. 0dell WAS killed by an electric
shock while using telephone in Los
Angeles on Thursday night. A trolley
wire had broken and fallen across the
telephone line.
Willie Haas, who cut the throat OF
Mrs. Emma Braddock, his employers
wife, at Covedale, o., was convicted
on Saturday and will be the first victim
Of the electric chair in Ohio.
The extensive plant OF the Cbesa
peake Guano Co., in South Baltimore,
saturday. The loss is estimated a
between $50, 600 and s60.00
Civil Engineers Menocal and Whit
were reprimanded Wednesday by Score
tary Herbert as being responsible fol
tho collapse Of the caisson at tn,
Brooklyn Navy Yard last August.
Warden Thomas McCray of Erie, Pa,
was killed by leaping from I'm expresl
train in pursuit of a prisoner who
escaped from his custody while beini
taken to the Western Penitentiary.
Miss Bertha Mcconnell who attempted
to kill Harry ID. Thompson in Ian
caster, Pa, was ON Saturday convicted
and sentenced to prison for five years
Thompson was sent to jail for one year
Harry M. Kline, formerly teller Of
the Farmers National Bank of Lebanon
| Pa, who confessed to embezzlin,
So, 900 Of tho banks funds, has beer
committed to Jail, in default Of bail, t.
, await trial.
: George II. Childs WAS shot anr
instantly killed by Henry Miller. il
, San Francisco, on Wednesday afternoon
because he gave refuge to Nellie Ryan
Miller's mistress, whun the latter triet
] to murder her.
Miss Clara Barton and her associate
have completed their report relative (,
the Red Cross expedition In ASH
Minor. There was expended SIG, 1896
,, of which about 6 per cent was OIL
account of administration.
A buggy in which Lulu and Lizzi,
: Lind and AL Pollok were returnin.
! homo from party near Concord, Ky.
! on Thursday night was struck by
, fast train on the Chesapeake Il Obi
railroad, and all three persons wer
. killed.
Lumbermen of Seattle say that, as
, result of the recent food, 80 per cent o
! the shinge bolts cut in Northwestern
Washington were swept out to sea, an,
that from 5000, 600 to 5000, 600 feet O
/ logs were driven through the boom
and lost. ...
A satchel containing So, 600 worth O
watches, stolen from M. Klippart,
:. New York travelling man, at the Unio
passenger station, in Columbus. O., Of
Thursday night, was found Friday il
the hallway of an Office building il
| that city with it's contents intact
3 Detroit firm on Saturday receive,
Q an order for 2, 700 tons OF charcoal nj,
, iron for Budapest, Hungary. The iroi
Is required for tho manufacture of ca
J wheels and the order is the largest eve
= received for export by any America
D firm.
Judge Morris of the United State
court in Baltimore, has signed an orde
authorizing the receivers OF the Balti
more & Ohio Railroad Co. to delivo
Q up to the Southern railway possessio
of the Strasburg & Harrisonburg branc
Of the Baltimore Il Ohio railroad.
The metropolitan Steamship Go.