Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-09-24
IN GEN EnAL.


stump for Mckinley this week.
Terrific storms OF wind, hail and
snow ragged over Lake Superior Satur-
day.
Lieut.. Charles F.. Norton, u. s. N,
retired, died in Chicago Saturday,
aged 40 years.
BY the premature explosion of dyna-
mite at Clinton. Mass, Saturday. four
workmen were killed
Major McKinley's visitors last week
numbered about 100, 900, with 60, 600 of
whom he shook hands.
Howard Shannon killed his divorced
wife as she was boarding a train 10
Rockford, ILL.,, Friday.
A. B. & E. L. Shaw, Boston furni-
ture dealers, made an assignment Sat
urday; liabilities, 800, 600.
The Rt. Rev. Martin Marty, D. D.,
o. S. B.. bishop of the Catholic lio.
cese of st. Cloud, MINI, died sud
denly Saturday.
S. j. Keller, a ranchman from Iowa,
found his runaway wife 10 st. Joseph,
Mo-, Friday. He shot her dead and
then killed himself.
Louis Wood, aged years, of Stock
ton, N. j., was Crushed by the cave-in
OF bank of clay Saturday and died Of
his injuries Sunday.
Henry D. Lloyd has declined to
accept the nomination for Lieutenant
Governor of Illinois by the middle OF
the Road" PopulisIs.
A dispatch from Redding, CAL, says
that William jackson. treasurer of
1 uota Il, CHI Aha.
Sl2, 900 in his accounts.
Grand Master Workman Sovereign
of the Knights of Labor arrived in
Chicago Friday. He will take part
in. the campaign for Bryan.
1t is said that IL the Democrats carry
the Legislature in Illinois Gov. .Altgeld
will, no doubt, be the choice OF the
party for United States Senator.
Ex-President Harrison has notified a
member of the Republican National
Executive Committee that he will
make some campaign speeches in
October.
The Edgar Thomson Steel Works at
Braddock, Pa, resumed operations in
all departments Sunday night. The plant
gives employment to 5000 men, who
have been idle two weeks.
A Columbus dispatch says that the
coal mine operators Of Ohio will de-
mand that the wages for coal mining be
reduced to as cents per ton, as the result
of the cut in Pennsylvania,
John Burt, negro, who attempted
to assault 2-years-old girl in st. Louis
Thursday. fell into the hands of mob
and would have been. lynched but fol-
the interference Of the police.
Stultz Carlisle, aged 27 years, oil
Leesburg, N. j., was shot and killed
Saturday night by Simon B. Shaw,
aged IS years. The murder is thought
to have resulted from jealousy.
Walter Brown, a young negro, was
| shot to death and his body burned by
q mob at Slayden's Crossing, Miss.
| Saturday. He had committed muir.
derous assault upon an old woman.
The Populists and Democrats in In.
diana have failed to accomplish fusion
and two members OF the Populist com
mittee say they were approached and
offered large sums OF money to prevent
fusion.
At the annual convention of the
National Baptist Association, held in
St. Louis on Friday, petition cIrcu
lated among the delegates to visit
Major Mckinley received over zoe
signatures.
A receiver has been appointed fol
the Atlanta, Ga, Cotton Mills Co.
The receivership is attributed to the
recent failure OF Coffin, A ltemus & Co.,
of Philadelphia, the selling agents. Of
the Atlanta mills.
Albert @. Whitehead, the Irish
political prisoner who was Liberated
from Portland prison in advance of DIR.
| Gallagher aud James DAILY, landed In
New York Friday night. He is broker
down mentally and physically.
Bank Examiner Escott, in charge oil
the Union National Bank, New Orleans,
reported to the comptroller of the cur.
rency, Saturday night, the arrest oil
Louis Gailat, an outside party, charged
with aiding in the embezzement oil
$500, 600 from the bank
The peace negotiations between the
two factions of the Republican party
in South Carolina, at Columbia
Thursday, were without result The
Melton or "Lilywhite' wing nomi-
mated Sampson Pope for Governor and
the Regulars selected R. NJ. Wallace.
Fully 10, 900 voters called upon Major
Mckinley Saturday, the delegations
including steel workers and farmers
from Pennsylvania, railroad men and
telegraphers from Chicago, commercial
travellers from Cincinnati and Pitts,
burg and Hungarian A mericans from
| Cleveland.
A dispatch from the City of Mexico
says that a mob attacked the Presby
terian church at Aguas Calien ties. The
windows and doors we're broken with
stones. A crowd attacked the Morelos
Protestant College in the same city,
breaking every window in it. Several
arrests have been made.
John Boyd Thatcher has written a
letter to the chairman OF the New York
Democratic State Committee, in refer
ence to his domination for Governor by
the Buffalo convention, stating that he
is not in accord with the financial
| declarations of the Chicago National
Convention. but that be intends to vote
for Bryan and Sewall.
Senator Hill has made the following
statement concerning the report that
he will support the, Chicago ticket
:" have no desire to either affirm or
deny newspaper stories and rumors re-
| garding my position on the National
ticket and other political questions.
When have anything to say I will
state it over my own signature. p
Secretary Herbert on Friday cabled
Acting Secretary McAd doc to go ahead