Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-12-31

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The Ohio coal operators have raised
the price OF mining coal from 45 to 0l
cents Fer ton. $..,.
John Ryan, an insane reddler, muir
dered his sister in Chicago ON Tuesday
evening week. ,t.
giuseppe Farral was struck by a
train at Camden, N. D., Friday night
and instantly killed.
Mrs. Frances Ryan was burned to
death by fire at her home in New
York City Friday evening.
Mrs. f. A. Parmalee, 70 years old,
was killed by cable car train in Chi
cage Wednesday afternoon.
Garrett A. Putnam Of Syracuse. N.
", committed suicide on Tuesday
evening week by hanging himself
The Southern Pine Co. q mill at
Nichols, Ga, was burned Wednesday ;
loss between S75, 600 and 500, 600.
The stockholders of the Holliston,
MASS. National Bank have decided
to wind up the affairs of the bank.
Francis W. Holbrook, president OF
the Union Drop Forge Co. OF Chicago,
dropped dead in the street Wednesday.
At Farmers, KY, on Thursday night,
Rod Padgetr drunken prisoner. set
fire to the city prison and was burned
to death.
Conrad Sommers. saloon keeper vt
Highlandtown, a suburb Of Baltimore,
was shetland instantly killed Friday
By Nicholas White.
Mrs. William II. Leayitt OF Trenton
was decoyed from home yesterday week
while the house was robbed OF jewelry
and clothing valued at over $500.
Judge Ross, iu the United States
circuit court at Los Angeles, CAL. has
issued decree of foreclosure and sale
of the Atlantic & Pacific railroad.
j. Van Seyoc and Earl Campbell
were drowned at Valley. Neb., Fri
day by the breaking of the ice ON
pond on which they were skating.
st. Stephens Episcopal Church,
Friday and the Westmoreland Club
house, adjoining, was burned out.
During dance in saloon Id De-
troit Friday quarrel occurred, as a
result Of which Philomena Fandrekia
was shot and killed by Frank Jandancil.
President Cleveland Wednesday for
mally recognized the new greater re-
public OF Central America, composed
Of Salvador, Nicaragua and Honduras.
Fire Friday destroyed 10 tenement
houses in Atlantic City, in the district
known as Matters alley. About 100
people, all colored, were made home
less.
John kilcannon in Omaha, ON Thurs
day evening, met his wife on the street
and shot and wounded her slightly.
He then sent bullet through his
brain.
A passenger train on the New jersey,
central railroad at East A llentown, Pa,
Friday, crashed into a trolley car
and killed the motorman, Lawrence j.
Wehr.
An Ashland, Wis, dispatch says
that the Weyhausen lumber syndicate
has purchased nearly 5000 acres of
pine lands in Northern Wisconsin for
500, 900.
+. Bateman and +. M. Leonard,
wealthy farmers of Newport. Ark. !.
were held up by three armed men OH
Wednesday night. Bateman resisted
and was killed.
An order has been entered by Judge
Fouke, in the Saneamon circuit court
for the sale Of the st. Louis. Chicago
& st. Paul railroad. commonly known
as the bluff Line.
The Rev. George f. SAKE. retired
Methodist Episcopal preacher aud Q
member Of New York firm of piano and
organ dealers, died suddenly in that
city on Tuesday week.
Private James d. Allen, convicted of
the killing Of Daniel M. Call last March
at Fort Sheridan, was Wednesday denied
a new trial and was sentenced to 10
years. imprisonment.
The tugboat George L. Meade was
run into and sunk by the tugboat
| Hercules in the East river, at New
York, Wednesday. Both tugs belonged
to the Standard Oil Co.
Mrs. Frank Watson was shot and
killed in Memphis, Tenn. on Thurs.
day night and her baby was found
beside her probably fatally frozen. The
woman's husband is charged with the
murder.
The Parsons & Pelliter Co., large
dry goods firm of Sioux City, Ia, sus
pended Wednesday under chattel mort
cages aggregating SOL, 500 The assets
are estimated at from $3.50, 600 to
| Sl40, 600.
Andrew Rider Of Maplewood, N. j.,
was Wednesday committed to prison In
default of Sc, 900 bail, charged with en-
bezzlement and fraudulently obtaining
possession of property valued at
$3.50, 600.
Mrs. Henry Bon and Miss Catherine
Tyrrell of WOODBURY., Pa. were struck
by Reading railroad train near Yard.
ley Wednesday,, the former being in
stantl. killed and the latter sustaining
probably fatal injuries,
Nelson Morris, millionaire packer,
and j. q. Bohart, live stock commits.
sion man at the Union Stock Yards,
Chicago, were gored by a steer while
passing through cattle pom at the
yards Wednesday morning. VI
At Madelia, Mimi, on Monday
night, John Motto shot and killed
Dennis j. Joblinski and his, son and
daughter and then himself. Mottle
was infatuated with Joblinski's daugh.
ter and the father objected.
The Right Rev. William David
Walker, who was recently translated
from the missionary Jurisdiction OF
North Dakota to the diocese Of Western
New York. was Wednesday entnroned In
st. Paui's Cathedral, Buffalo, N. Y.
| At Acworth, Ga. on Thursday
night, Alonzo Hansworth, colored,
was killed and three others were in
| inred, two prObably fatally nv thu