Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-01-23
~ GENERAA.


FIX. Congressman Frank Lawler died
suddenly in Chicago Thursday.
The State Department was informed
last week Of the death of Charles Jonas,
OF Wisconsin, Consul at Crefeld, Ger
many.
Senator Allison was last week nomi-
mated by acclamation to succeed him
self, by the Republican caucus of the
Iowa Legislature.
Blain w. Taylor of West Virginia has
been appointed chief clerk of tho POST
Office Department, vice Frank Ii.
Thomas, resigned.
News reached Nashville, Tenn, on
Friday, from Films Lick, jackson
county, Of the murder of Joseph Day
and his wife by five masked robbers.
Brevet Brigadier- General L. B.
Fowler, VINO commanded the 14th New
| York Regiment during the war, died
IN Brooklyn, Thursday, aged 60 years.
The general elections in Manitoba
yesterday week resulted in the return. OF
| the Greenway party by an increased ma
| lnrity The issue was the school ques-
| ton.
Ex-President Harrison authorizes the
announcement that he and Mrs. Dim
mick are engaged Ia be married. The
marriage will not take place until after
Lent.
Siegfried l.. Schwsbach, junior mem
Der of the firm of Chardon d Co., New
York stock brokers, committed suicide
in his office on FRIDAY by shooting
| himself.
George $. Porter, aged 43 years, who
was in jail in Brooklyn, charged with
passing worthless check, committed
suicide in his cell Thursday by means
Of illuminating gas.
W. T.. de Katzbue, the new Russian
Minister, and Senior Don Luis Felipe
Carlo, tho new minister from Ecuador,
| were formally presented to the presi-
dent yesterday week.
Capt. Gayton and crew of tho
schooner William Wilson, before re.
ported sunk Off Monomoy life-saving
station, were landed at Bostcn Fri-
day by the tug Nottingham.
The 10th annual meeting of the
American Protective Tariff League was
| held in New York City Thursday,
Cornelius N. Bliss was elected presi-
dent and Wilbur +. Wakeman secre-
tary.
Chancellor Sneed, at Memphis, Tenn,
last week, ruled that telegraphic mes
sages were privileged communication,
and that their production could not be
compelled in criminal proceeding
which was pending,
The Governor Of Wisconsin has issued
a call for special session OF the Legis-
laturc, to convene February 18th, to
consider bill reRpportioning the State
into Senatorial and Legislative dis
tricts, according TO the new census.
A passenger train on tho Pittsburg,
Cincinnati, Chicago n ST. Louis rail-
way ran into n derailed freight train at
Collins Station, o., Thursday. Albert
Rodgers, brakeman, was killed, and
james Conboy, engineer, was injured
The total value of the exports Of
merchandise from tho United States in
1880 was ss2i, 500, 522, as compared with
SS25, l02, 2iG in 1894, During last year
tho excess Of exports over imports was
S23 269, SSi, and in 1894 the EXCESS was
| SllS, 7Sa, 307.
Tho Chief OF the Bureau OF Statistics
reports that during the IL months
ended December 3lst, 1895, tho ar
rivals OF immigrants in the United
States numbered 32l, ,5l2, aud during
tho corresponding period OF the preced-
ing year 2lS 0S1.
The sugar and coffee importing and
exporting house of Perkins g. Welsh of
New York City made an assignment
Thursday to Benjamin Perkins, with
preferences for Sl25, $50. The entire
amount of the failure will probably be
half million dollars.
In Williamson, W. Va, Thursday,
Malinda jackson, co!ored, entered
rnGtunrant h.r II IL
white, and, without word of warn
ing, plunged knife into his body sew
eral times before she was overpowered.
She claims that Swanson insulted her
few days ago. His wounds are fatal.
The Secretary of tho Treasury Tues
day sent 10 the court Of claims, for the
purpose of testing the constitutionality
OF the sugar bounty, the Oxnard Beet
Sugar Co. g claim, which claim was
held'up by Comptroller Bowler on the
ground that the law authorizing the
payment of bountes was unconstitu-
tional.
The Rev. John Watson (Ian Mac.
Larenl, of Liverpool, England, and
Dodd, Mead & Co. Of New York have
begun suit in the Federal court in
Baltimore against the Wharton & Bar
ron Publishing Co., alleging an in
| irlnBement oil the plalntltfs' copyright
in the book Beside tho Bonnie Briar
| Bush. -
According to an Annapolis dispatch
Gov. Lowndes has decided to appoint
Col. George M. Russum of Caroline
county as Chief Judge of the Second
circuit, in place of the late Judge
Robinson. He will also designate
Judge James McSherry Of Frederick
county to be Chief Judge OF the Mary
| land court Of appeals.