Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-02-20
IN G EsERAl.

Congressman e. d. Cooke has been
renominated by the Republicans of the
Sixth Illinois district.
Isaac Dahlman, New York horse
dealer has assigned. His liabilities
are estimated at $20o, 600.
Senator Quay has consented TO per
NIT his name to go before the national
Republican convention at ST. Louis
George Il. MacLean was on Friday
formally inaugurated as Chancellor of
the Nebraska State University at Lin
coin.
-, George W. Roderick, at Albany, last
Thursday, filed with Gov. Morton an ap-
plication for the pardon of John Y. Nc.
Kane.
In Dallas, Tex, on Friday morning,
n burglar stabbed Jefferson Smith
fatally and cracked the skull Of Mrs.
Smith.
A fire started by burglars in Kennett,
NO., Thursday morning, destroyed a
number of business houses; loss,
$40, coo.
Allen Dodworth, for many years con
ductor of the celebrated Dodworth Band
OF New York. died in Pasadena, CAL, 4,
He was 70 years old.
A telegram from Cairo states that,
with individual exceptions, people of
an natlonalities desire the retention Of
the British troops in Egypt.
kopperl Il Co., doing a general bank.
ing and agency business in Chicago,
chiefly among Poles and Bohemians,
made an assignment Friday.
The Maryland House of Delegates
on Friday, by party vote, uuseated
the two Democrats from Calvert county
and admitted the Republican contest
ants.
Will and Jesse Stewart, brothers, got
into dispute near Winston. N. g.,
Thursday, over a game Of cards. Jesse
stabbed his brother TO death with a
knife
A boiler explosion occurred at j, r.
Plummer's saw mill, 10 miles south.
west of Ashboro, N. G. Three work.
men were killed and three fatally
wounded.
Gov. Morton has signed the bill ced-
ing to the United States jurisdiction
over the Palisades of the Hudson for
their occupation as a Military and Ma
tional Park.
William Fowlds, Achie Warner and
Alvin Rowley were killed near Milan,
o.. Wednesday, by tho caving in of the
wall of an artesian well which they
were boring
Mrs. Sophia Written, trapeze per.
former. professionally known AS Lola
Sylvester, died in Boston from injury
received by fall from the dome of
keith's Theatre.
Grant Atterbury, who was charged
with a criminal assault upon his sister.
ln-law, was taken from the Jail at Sui
Ivan, ILL.,. Wednesday by masked mob
and hanged to IA tree.
The contract for building the new
revenue cutter, to be stationed on the
Paciillc coast, has been AWARDED the
Tramp " Sons Co., of Philadelphia, at
their bid Of sl9S, 600.
Henry lohnson's shoe shop, in San
Antonio, Tex, was wrecked with dyna-
mite IN an attempt to kill johnson.
windows Of adjoining buildings were
proken,a the entire city was shaken.
Mrs G. NJ. Powell has been arrested
IN Delaware, o., at the instance of II.
,. Maloney charged with fatally poi-
sonlng his two children and Prof. Van
Sickle and nearly causing the death OF
Mrs, Maloney.
"A passenger train on the berkshire
division uf the Consolidated road ran
through an open switch, at Pittstield,
Mass, on Friday. -Four locomotives.
Valued at $40, 800 each, were wrecked,
Ihree trainmen were injured.
A dispatch from Cornwall. Ont, saws
that Etlenne Chatelaine, l09 years old,
dled near Curran. lie leaves widow
over w years of age. The coupe had
been married over 10 years ana ii is said
that there are fully 30 descendants.
About 1000 unemployed Poles gath.
cred at the sub-otiice of the Street De.
partment in Buffalo, n. Y, Friday
morning, and demanded work, threat
enlng trouble il it was not given them.
Ihe police were sent for and the crowd
dispersed
Charles L. Williams, Nj. D.. AGED 81
years, was sentenced to two years' i'm
prisonmcnt in Baltimore Thursday for
obtaining money under false pretenses.
HIS operations are said to have OK.
tended over many of the large cities Of
the country.
A stock train and freight train on the
New York Central collided four miles
east OF falrnort, N. V, owing TO an
open switch. Frederick llorsford and
Gharies Wood, lremen, and Thomas
Welch, engineer, were killed, and three
other tfalnmen were badly injured.
Robert Charleson. ex- United States
Commissioner at Attala, Ala, who is
under indictment on six different
counts for presenting fraudulent claims
against the government and thereby
swindling the government out of nearly
Tex. -''''o'''o'
John kochler was arrested in Chi
cago charged with conspiring To tnur.
der his wife and her three children by
a former marriage. 1t is alleged thai
ne wanted TO get possession Of Mrs.
hochler's money. The couple were
married four months ago, and separated
three weeks later
The Chicago gas companies who are
involved in the proceedings instituted
ny the Illinois attorney general have
accepted his suggestion to 90 before
the state supreme court at the March
Term TO test by mandamus proceedings
against tho Secretary of State the legal
rlght OF tho companies to consolidate |
Otto Schultz, a Chicago baker and an |
Anarchist, was arrested In that citv |
with pouring kerosene on his |
wlfe and two children, while thew were |
m their beds, wit the intention Of |
burning them to death. Later he tried |
To commit suicide in cell at the |
police station by butting his head
against the walls.
a 81, Louis dispatch says that Judge |
= alexander Davis. the noted jurist, who
nsured IN many of the frontier |
T0mances Of early days. is dead. He |