Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-08-06
IN aEsEEAL.

Congressman Paul j. Sorg Of Ohio
has declined to be candidate for re-
election.
Z, p. Loomis of New York has been
elected president of the National Apple
Shippers Association.
'.Cyclone'' Davis has been nominated
for Congress- by the Populists of the
Fourth Texas district.
Eugene f. Loud has been nominated
for Congress by tine Republicans of the
Fifth California district.
'S.W. Clark, a grocer OF Dallas, Tex,
was shot In the head by burglar Sat
urday night and fatally injured.
The Emerson. Fisher Carriage Co. of
Cincinnati made an assignment Satur-
day. Assets, $3.50, 900; liabilities,
1868, O0O
Two longahoremen who were fight
ing Oh. tho river front at New York fell
into the North river Saturday night,
and were drowned. .
Kansas gold Democrats Saturday,
chose Samuel Kimble. the State leader
in the movement, to represent them at
the Indianapolis conference.
Hon. Bourke Cochran announced in
New York Sunday that he will do
everything ir his power to defeat the
Chicago ticket and platform.
Samuel McCullis, desperate char
acter, who WAS arrested ut Millen, Ca,
for an attempt at assassination, was
taken from the custody of the officers
BY mob Friday night and shot TO
death.
Two negroes, who had been arrested,
charged with attempting to kill G. p.
Hunter Of Dallas county, Ala, were
taken from the constable by masked
men, near Selma, and hanged VT a
bridge.
The President has appointed Mac
Crane Coke of New York envoy extra
ordinary and minister plenipotentiary
of the United States TO Guatemala and
Honduras, to succeed P. NJ. b. Young,
deceased.
An organization was effected by
sound money Democrats in Pensacola,
Fla, Saturday. and a resolution was
adopted to- name 5three or more dele
gates to attend the Jacksonville con-
,rention.
A State convention of the sound
money -Democrats OF Illinois is to be
u6lu III oHiChgu n rug ubb Suln 10 uutul-
nate full State ticket and select dele
gates to the anti-Free Silver National
Convention.
William Mastic. prominent resi-
dent of Plattsburg, n. Y, was killed
and his wife and daughter we're fatally
injured Saturday evening by being
l'struck by'a train on tho Delaware &
Hudson railroad.
Frank Tierney, who murdered Frank
Helpman in box car near Sandusky,
o., May 25th, was found guilty Satur-
day evening of murder in the first de-
gree. Tierney vii! be the first man to
be executed by electricity in Ohio.
As result of the strife between the
Cuyendall and Hasbrouck factions in
the Republican party in Ulster county
Congressman Jacob LefeVre has with
drawn as a candidate for denomination
in the Eighteenth Now York district.
Samuel M. Gates, lumberman of
Bay City, Mich, has turned over all
his real and personal property to the
Union Trust Co. of Detroit for the
benefit of his creditors. The assets
amount to 1888, 600 and the liabilities
TO S66l, 900. . H l
The Columbus (OhIo) Buggy Go.
| has assigned. The assets are stated at
from $500. 600 TO 81, GOO, 600 and the liza
| bilities very large. Tho Peters Sheet
and Awning Go. of Columbus has also
failed, the owners of the two companies
being the same.
A collision of mail trains occurred
near. Birkheck. ILL.,, on the Gilman
branch of the Illinois Central railroad,
Saturday. Engineer Charles 6irchneck
of Clinton and Mali Agent William
Baker of Springfield were killed and
seven other persons were injured.
a conference .of gold Democrats was
held in Columbus, o., Saturday, and il
was declared TO be the sense of the
meeting that State convention be
held at an early date to select delegates
to the National Democratic Uonven.
tion. No State ticket will be nomi
mated.
Fred Whitney, alias Harry White,
committed suicide Saturday by leapine
from the third-story window of the
Maryland Penitentiary, in Baltimore.
He was serving an is years sentence
for highway robbery. On the day pre-
vious Whitney confessed that be was
guilty of a murder in Altoona in April,
1895.
The officials of the Tilden mine, al
Bessemer, Mich, have received in.
struations to close down the mine.
President Rand gave as the reason
that it was impossible to make sales or
account of the free silver scare among
Eastern capitalists. The Tiden mine
employs about 600 men. The Newpori
mine has reduced its force from 800 to
so men.
A bill to foreclose on the Kansas
Midland Co., feeder of the ST. Louis
& San Francisco, has been filed in the
United States Circuit court at Wichita,
KAN, together with an order from
Judge Caldwell appointing A. l.. Wolf
of. st. Louis receiver. The suit il
brought by the Mercantile Trust Co.
of New York, trustee or the first mort,
gage bond, amounting to 81, sos, 600.
The gold standard Democrats OF
Texas, Saturday, resolved not to nomi.
nate State ticket. They appointed a
committee to confer with the Popllists
and the Republicans looking to a
fusion, Republicans and gold standard
Democrats to vote for Populist State
and county tickets and the Popuiists ia
vote for the Mckinley electors The
conference appointed delegates to the
indianapolis convention. TN
Actors, vocalists, public speakers recon
and II tal-