Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-02-27
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uieu on Saturday.
Almos Butteriield, Chicago COM
mission merchant, cut his throat in
that city Friday.
Ivan kovaley was hanged at Folsom,
Gal.,, on Friday, for the murder of II.
Ii. L. Webber and his wife.
Five men were seriously injured by
the exposion Of a boiler at the Worlds
Fair grounds, Chicago, Thursday,
Peter Angle and wife, an aged couple,
near Beverly, o., were burned to death
ana their house consumed Saturday.
Hon. George Davis, who was attor-
ney general Of the Confederate States,
died at his home in Wilmington, N. O.,
on Sunday.
1t is said that the British govern
ment has entered into negotiations
with France upon tho ubiect of the
evacuation of Egypt.
The Governor of Mississippi on Sat
urday appointed his brother, W. X.
McLaurin OF Viclaburg, Judge of the
Ninth circuit district
Lieutenant General Luigi Pelloux,
formerly Minister of War, has been
appointed to the chief command of the
Italian forces in Africa.
Louisa Rose and her sisters Hannah
and Mary, were fatally burned by the
explosion of lamp at their home in
Canton, Baltimore, Monday. ssao.
still at the Whiting. Ind, oil re-
iinery exploded on Saturday night, in
juring score OF workmen and doing
great damage to surrounding property.
Engineer Buck was killed and his
fireman badly injured by tho engine
overturning, while pushing snow pillow
near Brockport N. y, on Saturday
night.
In Chicago on Saturday, John Carr
and John Smith were found guilty of
holding up North Shore trolley car
and robbing and maltreating the pas
sengers.
The 10th anniversary of the founding
OF tho national Republican party was
celebrated by the Union Republican
Club in Washington, d. o., on Sat
urday evening.
En- United States District Clerk Ed.
Il. Campbell WAS shot and killed by
his son, Robert Campbell, mash
vile, Tenn, on Friday morning. The
young man is demented.
Charles G. Heming of Gainesville,
Tex, has presented to the State OF
Florida n monument to its Confederate
dead. 1t is to be erected in Jackson
vile. and will cost $40. QUO.
An indianapolis dispatch says that
Harrity and II. w. Clay of Philadel-
phia, have secured a controlling interest
in the indianapolis street railway lines.
The revolutionary committee in
Havana threaten to blow up the city
with dynamite unless the reported mur-
ders of Cuban sympathi2ers imprisoned
in tho Cabanas and Moro Castle are
stopped.
At Weldon, N. c., on Saturday,
Matthew Dodd, tho engineer on the
Seaboard Air line vestibuled train,
was shot through the heart by negro
tramp whom ho had ordered out OF the
engine cab
John Priest, u farmer, returned home
from Houston, Tex. on Saturday night
and found his mother and wife diving
from gunshot wounds Some one had
fired two charges of buckshot through
the window.
Auditor General Mylin, after hearing
tho charges of neglect and mismanage-
ment made against ex-Mercantie APP
praiscr j, L. Harlan and the explains
tions Of the old board, exonerated
Harlan Friday.
AT Detroit, on Friday, DR.. Dennis j.
Seaman, who was found guilty of
having caused the death of Emily Hall
by criminal MALPRACTICE, was sentenced
to serve term of 10 years in the State
prison at jackson.
Elk Congressman Michael B. Harter
was found dead in bed in his room in
hotel in Fostoria, o., on Saturday,
he having committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head
with a revolver. He had been suffering
from insomnia for some time.
Fredricktown, Mo-, Post, No. ia,
Grand Army of the Republic, has been
suspended by the State Council of Adj
mlnlstration for issuing Il circular let
ter recommending the nomination of X.
X. Cahoon for Governor subject to
the action of tho Republican party.
Col. William II. Morrison in Spring
iield, ILL.,, on Saturday, said. in answer
to question as 10 whether he was
seeking the Democratic nomination for
President; If the nomination comes
to me easily and naturally am can
didate, but in the sense of an office
chaser and beggar | am moi"
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Hamlin made an address before tho
Minnesota Democratic Association, in
st. Paul, on Saturday night. At a
meeting Of tho Association in the after
noon resolution commendatory of
Senator Blackburn of kentucky, oc.
casioned a spirited debate and was
finally withdrawn.
The British steamer Nearlech Castle
from Port Natal, arrived at Plymouth
Sunday .and landed 305 troopers who
took part in DIR. Jameson's raid into
tho Transvaal. They were supplied
with clothing and railroad tickets by
the government and Immediately sent
to their homes. The transport Victoria,
with the officers of the expedition on
board, ia anchored in the sound. RE
porters were not allowed to communi.
cato with those on board.
According to the testimony of a
score of jurors in the common pleas
court, gwen before Judge Breezy Fri
day, they were approached by men,
totally unknown to them, who piled
the Jurors with questions concerning
their religion, their politics, the news
papers they read and various other
matters. The Judge told the jurors an
investigation would be made, and that
it might DO necessary to place the in
formation in the hands Of the police
bureau.
At a conference at the Salvation
Army headquarters in New York Mon.
day the most prominent staff officers
in America were present. After the
commissioners from abroad had stated