Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-11-12
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declared the Torrens Land Title act
unconstitutional.
David Wright of Mercer county, Pa,
was hit in the neck by rocket which
he was trying to send of, and seriously
injured. 49,.
Napoleon Sarony. widely-known
New York photographer, was found
dead in bed at his homo, in that city,
Monday.
Thirty.fve hundred miners have
struck in Jackson county, o., against
a reduction in the price OF mining from
81 to 30 cents.
The proceedings against the Santa
Fe railroad have been transferred from
the Kansas district court 10 the United
States court
Col. William Il. Potter, widely
known lawyer and prominent veteran
Of the Civil War, died at Bridgeton,
N. j., Monday.
Louis Boas, retired merchant and
one of the founders OF the Hamburg
American line OF steamers, died sud-
denly Saturday.
James Tracey. white, shot and killed
William Clark, mulatto, outside
Tracey's residence, in Camden, N. j.
Tracey was arrested.
Albert Collins of Mendon, Mich, was
so disappointed over the result of the
Presidential election that he committed
suicide by hanging.
The arrival of j. H. Marley in
Augusta, Me-, on Monday, was made
the occasion of reception and big
political demonstration.
A list of claims made by French
citizens for losses incurred through the
rebellion in Cuba has been presented to
the Spanish government.
A colored burlgar, who was shot dead
by Chester county farmer Sunday
morning, was identified aH a farm hand
who had been discharged.
A movement is said to have been
started in Seattle for tho election of
Senator from Washington.
The large four-story works of the
Boston Bridge Co., Cambridgeptrt,
Mass, were totally burned Saturday,
causing loss of slG0, 900.
The general committee ON church
extension of the Methodist Episcopal
Church has fixed upon $500, 225 as the
quota to be asked from the various con
ferences.
In a Toledo, o., hotel Thursday
night Conrad Il. Eichorn, cigar
maker of that city. killed his 13-years-
old son and himself by means of illumi.
mating gas.
The stockholders of the Northern
Pacific Railway Go. have authorized
the issue Of $3.50, 600, 900 in bonds, to
take the road out Of tho hands of the
receivers.
Judge Gibbons In Chicago, Saturday,
| granted divorce to Georgia GoedelSe,
who entered suit on the ground that
her husband is imprisoned as felon in
a French prison.
The Rev. Augustine Fivez, until
| recently professor of moral theology
and canon law at ST. Joseph's Roman
I Catholic Provincial Seminary, at Troy,
N. y, died Friday.
l. The dry goods store of Herman
Jacoby, in Cleveland, o., was s'held
up" by two masked men Thursday
night and Jacoby was robbed of gold
watch and Sl35 in cash.
A fire which originated from stroke
of lightning completely destroyed the
large storehouse and lumber sheds of
j. Ii. Feroe, at Tivoli Dock, Pough-
keepsie, Thursday night
Edwin L. Bennett, for many years
connected with the Bay City (Michi-
| gan Tribune, was arrested in Chicago
| yesterday, charged with embczzling
SIS, 600 from that concern.
| Advices from Montevideo, through
Consul General Murguiondo of Uru-
quay, announce the death in that city
of Dr. Jaime Estrazulal, Uruguayan
Minister of Foreign Affairs
An unknown man, whose body was
found along the Reading tracks at
Royersford, Pa, is believed to have
been a burglar, who was pushed in
front of train by his companion.
Michael Winter, blacksmith, So
years old, committed suicide in Buffalo,
N. Y, Saturday, by throwing himself
from the sixth tier of cells in the
penitentiary to the stone tagging below.
Mrs. Mary MCCARTHY of Scranton,
Pa, with two grandchildren, jumped
from railroad bridge at Moosic to
escape an approaching locomotive and
all were drowned In the Lackawanna
river.
Capt. Joseph Leo and five OF the
crew of the American schooner Seventy
six of Thomaston, Me-, arrived at New
York Friday on tho steamer Brit
annie. The Seventy-six was abandoned
at sea.
Hugo NJ. Fielder, an assistant hook
keeper of the city CONTROLLERS Office, in
Chicago. blew out his brains Monday
in the City Hall building. Financial
troubles are said to have been the
cause.
Alfred Il. Hartridge, broker OF
Savannah, Ca, ia under arrest in that
city, charged with forgery by raising
Southwestern railroad stock scrip. The
amount involved is between $40, 600
and $50, 1000.
j. Hermann & Co.'s jewelry store,
on the tenth floor of the Masonic
Temple, in Chicago, was entered by
two armed robbers Monday and robbed
of IS, 1000 worth of diamonds, gold
watch and 500 in money.
The Calumet Club, the leading
Democratic organization of Baltimore,
abandoned its handsome clubhouse OF
Monday and temporarily took uE
quarters in the rooms occupied by the
Democratic city executive committee.
Andrew jackson, negro convict in
the Maryland Penitentiary, was sho'
and almost instantly killed Saturday by
John ii. Wollering, deputy warden Of
the institution. jackson had attacked
the warden with hammer and sho,
knife.
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