Delaware gazette and state journal., 1896-02-06
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new ram Katahdin.
The Milwaukee street railway was
sold recently TO William Nelson Crom-
well Of New York for 50, 600, 600.
Tho Rev. Dr. Henry Swift Deforest,
| president of the Talladega College,
Ala, died Wednesday, aged 63 years.
james Belts Metcalf. member Of
| tho Board OF Governors Of the New
York Stock Exchange, died on Satur-
day.
Thomas Dwyer, millionaire, Of
Brenham, Tex, was murdered in his
office and his body thrown into cistern.
Robbery was the motive.
The Little May mine, adjoining the
great Victor property, on Bull Hill,
sold to a Boston and New York City
syndicate.
Mrs. Sophia Grant was murdered by
some unknown person at her home, in
the Charlestown district, Boston, Sat
urday night
Prof. Flavel S. Luther Of Trinity Col
lego, Hartford, has declined the presi-
dency OF Kenyon College, Gambler, o.,
to which he was recently elected
The command Of tho revenue cutter
Bear, vice Capt. Healy, under court
martial in San Francisco, has been as
signed 10 Capt, Francis Tutle of Port
| Townsend.
Mrs. Augusta Schwarz, aged As,
widow Of Anton Schwarz, wealthy
brooklyn brewer, who died in Decem-
ber last, committed suicide Sunday
by shooting.
aThe Heine Monument central com
mittee, in New York, Sunday decided
To recommend TO the general committee
that the fountain bo presented 10 the
city Of Baltimore.
A dispatch from Managua, Nicaragua,
says Jose MadriZ, formerly Minister of
Foreign Relations and Commissioner OF
Mosquitia. will soon be sent as Minister
to tho United States
Charles II. Ault of Cleveland, o.,
has been appointed Commissioner of
| Fine Arts for the United States at the
British Empire Exposition, in Mon
treal, which opens next May.
At Tavares, hFla., Wednesday, Irwin
Jenkins, Marion Clinton and William
McRae were acquitted of what are
known as 1.-The Packwood murders, -
at New Smyrna, in December, 1891.
The anthracite coal sales agents, in
New York, Friday, fixed the output
for February at $500, 600 tons and
scale OF prices which shows advances
Of % TO 30 cents over the present rates.
The Governor Of New York has
| granted Bat Shea, who is under sen
tence Of death for tho murder OF
| Robert Ross during an election row in
| Troy, a further respite to February lltn.
\ movement has been started in the
South Carolina Legislature for the
erection OF a statue of George Peabody
Of Massachusetts, in the National CAPT
! tol as recognition of his benevolence
for the Southern States.
Judge Ferguson, in New Orleans.
on Thursday, quashed the indictment
against Judge Noise charging him with
oppression in office. lle had sent Dis
trict Attorney Butler to prison for "a
hours for contempt of court.
A Nashville dispatch says that Con.
| gresham Benton Mcmillan announces
| that he will not make the race for the
| Democratic Gubernatnrial nomination,
but will stand for recollection az Repre-
sentative from the Fourth Tennessee
| district.
A diepatch from Darien, Ga. says
that the body Of Capt. Larsen. of the
Norwegian bark George B. Duane, who
was missed at sea January 10th, and
was supposed TO have jumped overheard,
was found Thursday suspended 10 Il
beam in tho lower hold.
| In view of the complications in the
I Transyaal, arising out of the arrest Of
| American citizens there, the President
will soon appoint a Consul at Cape
| Town TO fill the vacancy there which
has existed since the death Of G. III.
Benedict, some months ago.
The grand jury at Columbus, o., on
Saturday reformed indictments charg.
ing bribery against ex-State Senators
| John q. Adams of McConnellavills ;
| George lden Of Newark, and W. G.
Gear Of Upper Sanduslly. This is the
second indictment against Gear.
The siX-round bout between cham
| pion foatherweight George Dixon and
"Peddler" Palmer, the English ban
tam, at New York, Thursday night, was
declared draw, although Dixon had
| sllghty tho best of it, tho Englishman
boing slightly distressed at the finish.
The President Wednesday sent to tho
| Senate the following nOminations j.
Kearney kice, Of New Jersey to be at
torney Of the United States for the Dis
trict of New Jersey, Lieutenant Com
manders W. F. Swinburne and w. II.
| Emery 10 bo commanders in tho navy.
The attorney general Of Illinois has
begun suit at Chicago, the object of
| which is to restrain the FarmerB' Loan
and Trust Go. Of New York from doing
| business in Illinois and to determine
| the rights of foreign corporations
which have not complied with State
| laws
Harry NJ. Fowle, an employe Of the
Sheppard & Morse Lumbar Co., of
| Boston, confessed Wednesday that since
| October, 1893, he had embezzled SAT,
| 6l3 from the company by means Of
checks, to which he forged the sigma
| ture ii. B. Sheppard, the treasurer of
the company.
Col. A. b. Colt who was In command
of the militia company which fired
npon mob of lynchers at Washington
Court IlouHe, in October, 1891, and
who was indicted for tho murder" of the
persons killed, was acquitted at Column
bus, o., on Saturday. There are other
cases TO be tried
Everton II. Chapman, tho New York
broker, convicted of refusing to answer
questions asked by the Senate sugar
investigating committee, was sentenced
in Washington on Saturday to 80 days
imprisonment, and to pay fine of
sl00. An appeal was taken, and the
defendant was released on bail.
A dispatch from PbpniX, Ariz. saws
that A. g. Baker, Chief Justice of
the supreme court of Arizona, has been
charged by x-Clerk Louis g. Jordan
| with malfeasapce in Office and Condl3rt