Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-12-24

Vincente Martinez Ybor, prominent
merchant OF Tampa, Fla, is dead,


William M. X. Olcott as district at
torney of New York.
jamestown, more popularly called
"Jimtown." CAL, was nearly wiped
out by fire Thursday.
Ernidio Chiaradia has been selected
to represent Italy at the Postal Con-
gress to be held in Washington.
One of tho Superior, Wis.,. fire sta
tions was burned to the ground on
Tuesday week. Loss, SIT, 600.
Part of coal shed IN Boston col
lapsed Thursday. killing one man and
probably fatally injuring two others.
The consolidation of the Georgia &
Alabama and the Columbus & Southern
was effected at Americas, Ca, Wednes-
day.
Louis +. Schultz, a widely known
violiDist and founder ana manager of
the Dhtroit Philharmonic Club, is
dead.
Herbert Hayes of East Milestone, N.
j.. was shot and killed by companion
while playing war on Wednesday after
noon.
II is asserted that the rebels in the
Philippine Islands have received aid
from Japan. and that Japanese officers
are in command.
AT Wentworth, N. S., on Wednesday,
Frederick Cochran's house was des-
troyed by frs, and his TWO children
were burned to death.
N. X. Duty, one of the most promi-
nent lawyers in West Virginia, was
murdered in, his Office in Pennsboro
Thursday by Col. Collins.
1t is understood that the Spanish
government will take no notice of that
part Of PresiGont Olevelapd's message
which refers TO Spain and Cuba.
In the supreme court in Camden, N.
j., Wednesday, Elizabath Scnsfelder
secured verdict of $1,000 against
Ezra Stokes and others in action of
deceit.
Charles r. Crisp was Wednesday
elected to Congress from the Third
Georgia district. to fill the unexpired
term Of his father. the late ex Speaker
Crisp.
Il. A. Hart, an insane patient. who
was being taken from Northeast, Pa.
to Buffalo, jumped from passenger
train Tuesday week and was instantly
killed.
Lieblier & Mass, photographers and
printers. OF New York City, as.
signed Thursday. Liabilities, $50, 600;
nominal assets, 1925, 900; actual assets,
$40, 600.
Frank +. Phister, a clerk in the
Indian Bureau and son of the late Con-
gresham Phister of Kentucky, CON-
mitted suicide in Washington, d. c.,
Wednesday.
The body Of the young man who was
killed on Tuesday week by train near
Beideman's Station, N. j., was idepti-
fed Wednesday as Harold Cremer OF
Mount Holly.
Mrs. McGill, a wealthy widow of
Ladoga. Ind, and her daughter were
killed by train on trestle on We'd
nesday night The mother died in an
effort TO save her daughter.
A masked man entered the Missouri
Pacific railroad station at Mindon, Mo-,
on Wednesday evening, shot and
severely wounded the agent, robbed the
money drawer and escaped.
Charles W. Prescott was stabbed and
killed in Somerville. Mass, on Wednes-
day by Carlos Mangno, an Italian,
whom he and two other young men
had ducked in snowbank.
Mark Hanna says that more than
5000 citizens of Ohio have fled appli-
cations for appointments to Federal
office under the Mckinley administra.
tion. 1t is thought the number will
reach u, 600. ..-...
At Newport, KY, Tuesday week. Will
liam Traste and John Seward, con-
vinta1 af fuica ripu in tho pnurl
Bryan murder case, were sentenced to
one and two years respectively in the
Kentucky penitentiary.
A jury in Brooklyn Thursday gave a
verdict of six cents against tine Eagle
newspaper in favor of the Rev. Mr.
Macdonald, suspended priest, who
asked for $50, 900 for an alleged libel
published in the Eagle.
The United States consul at Erzeroum
reports t. the State Department that
the number of Armenian children
under II years of ago made orphans
by the massacres of 1895 ia estimated
by the missionaries at 30, coo
The three masted schooner Ulrica,
from, Hilsboro, ". b., for Hoboken,
with plaster. went ashore on Nantasket
Beach, Mass, Wednesday morning, and
is a total loss. The second mate was
swept overheard during Tuesday night
and drowned.
John j. Thornton, assistant editor
of the Clay County Advance, of Ash
land, Ga, was assassnated at his
home few days ago, an unknown per-
son firing load of buckshot through
the window into the room where Thorn
ton was seated with his family.
The warden of tbs United States
prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan, has
discovered that gang of five convicts.
four Of them sent in for Gounterfeiting,
were at work making spurious So
bills. The leader of the gang was j.
G. McKibben, the prison photographer.
Mary Falk, servant in the employ
of Edward Basil Stravensky, near Gal
weston, Tex, was shot and killed on
Friday by james Louis Sheppard, an
1l-years-od son of Mrs Stravensky by
a former husband. The boys explana-
ton was that the girl leased him.
Wednesdays storm on the New Eng
land coast is said to have been the
worst for many years. or the fleet
anchored at Vineyard Haven seven
vessels were blown ashore. Plymouth
reports the wreck of two schooners and
two were blown ashore on the Nova
Scotia coast.
A disgraceful row occurrels7in the |
Italian Chamber Of Deputies Friday |
over the allowance to be voted for tho |
use of the Prince of Naples, Crown
Prince of Italy. Deputies used their
fists and number wore seyerely |