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

Of Atlanta, Tex, we're burned on Mon
day night; loss, SIS, 600.
The New York Common Council has
passed an ordinance prohibiting the
carrying OF children on bicycles.
The plant OF the Strsetsr, ILL.,, Street
Railway Co. has been closed, owing to
the foreclosure of mortgage Tor $780,
900.
The formal vote for United States
Senator was taken Tuesday In tho
Alabama Legislature and Pettus was
elected.
The Davies County Savings Asso-
citation Of Gallatin, Mo-, assigned on
Tuesday. Liabilities, s109, 600; assets
about $3.50, 600.
Whiting Fang has been appointed
Chinese Minister to the United States
in place OF Yang Yu, who has been
transferred to st. Petersburg.
The body OF the young woman found
at Trenton on Sunday with a bullet
wound in her head was Tuesday
identified as Minnie Hasselbaok OF
New York.
Five men boarded a State street car
in Chicago Tuesday and held up and
robbed two OF the passengers. Though
two policemen were on the car the rob-
bera escaped.
There is no sign of an adjustment OF
the dock laborer's strike at Hamburg.
The strikers now numbers COCO. Tho
men at Bremen have also made
demands.
Charles R. Crisp was Tuesday nomi-
mated for Congress- to fill the unexpired
rtf hto futh hi, ~Ia Ia
Crisp. recently deceased, for the Third
Georgia district.
This Norwegian fruit steamer Sauna,
which sailed from Philadelphia on
November 18th for Port Antonio in bal
last, is ashore on a reef outside Of st.
AIMS bay, Jamaica.
When asked Tuesday in regard to
his choice for Senator, to succeed Mr..
Cameron, Senator Quay said: II am
not for Wanamaker. Beyond that !
have nothing to say"
The pressmen and feeders employed
by the Chicago Evening journal went
on strike Tuesday afternoon because
the management of the paper refused
to recognize the union.
Nettie Hinkle and Jennie Mcdowell,
who reside in the Quakake valley, Col
unbia county, Pa, had an exciting
encounter with an American eagle,
which was finally killed with hat
pin.
Ex-Secretary John w. Foster. who
arrived in San Francisco Tuesday from
Honolulu says that the effort to bring
about the annexation of Hawaii TO the
United States will be renewed upon the
incoIaing of Major McKinley's admins
tration.
Mrs. j. u. r. Green was criminalIy
assaulted by negro at her home, in
Mayfield, n.y., on Monday night, during
the absence of her husband. Jim Stone
was arrested on suspicion and removed
to Paducah to prevent his being
lynched.
Herman Walters, a teamstei, com
mitted suicide in Jefferson City, Mo. /,
Tuesday by jumping from the Capitol
bluff, a distance Of about rs feet. He
had just been granted a decree of
divorce, and his wife was given
| possession of the children.
The dead bodies of Herman Myers
and Nora A. Richardson were found
lying in the street in Indianapolis on
Tuesday morning. The man had killed
| on Myers showed that he had betrayed
the girl and refused to marry her.
A Concord. N. H., dispatch gives a
| list of % savings banks of New Hamp-
shire which have failed in the last is
months, with deposits of over ST., 600,
00o, and says that Of this amount 81,
800, 600 will be lost to depositors. The
money. 1t is claimed, was lost in Western
land investments.
Cairo, ILL.,, dispatch says that q
gasoline explosion occurred on the
Pilot, pleasure boat from Chicago.
bound South on hunting and fishing
excursion, on Monday afternoon, fatally
injuring Capt j. M. Mitchell and his
nephew. I. @. Bryan, and completely
demolishing the craft.
| The President OF Nicaragua has
granted amnesty to over 500 persons
implicated in the revolution of last
February and the conspiracy of Sep.
TENDER 8th last. The members OF the
rebel government and the principal
general of the defeated forces are not
inclnded in the pardon.
The Roanoke & Southern railway was
| sold at auction under mortgage fore
closure in Winston, N. O., Tuesday.
1t was sold to a syndicate who propose
to organize what will be known as the
Norfolk, Roanoke & Southern Railroad
Co. The property is then to be leased
to the Norfolk Il Western Co.
In an interview, on Tuesday. Gen.
| Weyler said he had returned to Havana
owing to the necessity of settling the
question OF the new Issue Of notes by
the Spanish Bank and other urgent
matters. After these are settled no will
be ready to return to the field. He
says he will crush the rebellion in
Pinar del Rio Province before dealing
with the insurgents elsewhere
A Houghton, Mich, dispatch says
that it is practically assured that the
deal consolidating the Portage, Huron,
Isle Royal and Sheldon and the
Columbian copper mines, in that city
will be closed this week. These mines
have been closed down for from & to %
years. A million dollars of Eastern and
European capital will be put into them
and between 100 and 1000 men given
employment.