Delaware gazette and state journal., 1897-07-01
IN q EN- EEtL.

his neck Tuesday by falling from a
cherry tree.
Capt job Chamberlain, aged 67 years,
of Camdon, N. j., died Monday at |
Atlantic City.
Col. William ]. Lyster of the Ninth |
Infantry, U. 5. A., was retired Mon
day on account OF age.
Alexander Watson, the Henke murder |
suspect at Burlington. was discharged |
from custody Tuesday.
Edward Doubert of Camden, N. j.,
was instantly killed Monday by a |
large log falling on him.
Justice OF the Peace William A.
Turner Of Camden, N. j., disd on Mon
day night, aged 61 years.
Two colored workmen we're killed in
Atlanta, Ca, Monday, by the fall of
a derrick ON the ninth story OF new
building.
The volcano Mayon, in the Philip
pines, has been 10 stnte OF violent
eruption. There has been considerable
loss OF life.
e BY the explosion Of threshing ma
chine boiler at Adairsville, Ca, Tues
day, three men were killed and five in
iured, four fatally.
James M. b. Dwight. brother OF
President Dwight OF Yale University,
died at his home In New Haven, On
Monday, aged ~ years.
Miss Lillian Rlais, aged 81, of Rose
bud, ILL.,, was shot ami fatally injured
by burglar. whom she discovered in
tho house. on Sunday night.
william Troutman, farmer near
la DE- Iii 10 a, horaa
and killed. The animals hoof struck
him ON the breast over the heart.
About 200 Detroit Socialists met in
that city on Sunday and denounced
Eugene V. Debs' movement for an in
dependent community in Washington.
Lightning struck convict camp near
| Dakota, Ga, On Sunday night. killing
four of the convicts ami iniuriug 10
others. During the excitement 20 es-
capped.
Prof. W. +. Powell Of Camden, N. j.,
tho recently appointed Minister of
| Hayti, took tine oath of Office Monday
before United States Commissioner
| Morgan.
kioslems in Teheran, Persia, have
attacked the jewish quarters OF the
city, and threaten to ezterminate the
Jews unless they embrace Mohamme.
danism.
A receiver has been appointed for the
Hudson Iron Co., whose plant at Hud-
sou, N. ", has been closed for three
years. The assets are $25, 600 in excess
OF liabilities.
By decision Of the court Of errors
and appeals the estate of the late
County Clerk Burrough Of Camden, N.
j., will have TO pay the county 81, 2lS. So
for fees collected.
Tho amalgamated scale of wages of
the Illinois Steel Co. g Works in Joliet,
ILL.,, was signed Tuesday. 1t is the
same US last year. The men and their
employers are both satisfied.
Two of the leading anthracite coal
companies. the Reading and the Della
ware & Hudson Canal, Tuesday issued
schedules OF new prices, showing au ad-
vance of % cents ton, beginning
July let
The Golden Cross mines, near San
Diego, Cal, have been sold 10 syndi-
cate of California, Nevada and Arizona
capitalists for 81. 500, 900, The bullion
output of the mines is at present about
$1,000 per day.
The Clinton Lithographing Co. oi
Chicago, une of the most extensive con
Germs of the kind in that city, assigned
on Tuesday. Liabilities, Sl0l, 4l2 il
is said that the actual assets will be
less than that sum.
The posse in pursuit of the Belle
Fourche, S. d., bank robbers sue
} ceeded in surrounding them on Monday
night on the "Three v" ranch, IL
miles west. After exchanging many
shots the bandits surrendered.
Louis Belislc, secretary of the Pilots
Association OF the River st. Lawrence,
announces that tho strike is at an end,
and that the striking pilots are Tres t
60 to work again. Many OF them vii
not be employed again, however.
DIR. Richard l.. Metcalfe, a venera
BILE and wealthy physician of st. Louis
was Monday indicted for assault witt
| intent to kill Willie Smith, boy wh'
was shot and wounded in the shoulder
while trespassing on the DOCTORS prop
, erty.
Burglars entered the departmen
stores OF Haskell Il Trip, at New Bed
! ford, Mass, on Sunday right, and OBJ
tanned about 81, 900 by prying open thu
/ door of one of the sales with tools the,
had taken from the hardware depart
ment
A wind and rain storm struck Cor
dele, Ga, Mocday, blowing down I
. Methodist church aud the steeple of
. another church ana prostrating tole
graph wires, trees and fences. Their
was also much damage to crops in th,
path of the storm.
Henry Allmendinger jumped over
board Monday at noon at the Federa
a street ferry, Camden, N. j., and wa
Y supposed to have been drowned. Tha
night at 8 o'clock he was rescued from
{ under the ferry house, where he hat
: been for nine hours.
Tho brass foundry and machine wors
at Fort Wayne. Ind, was on Saturday
, placed in the hands of receivers. Tn,
embarrassment is said to be only tenn
: porYry. This action was thought bes
to tide over crisis and keep the S0'
; hands employed by the firm at work.
: The Milwaukea a. Wauwatosa Moto
/ line was sold at public auction in Ill
waukee on Saturday to 9. +. R1sen
; krantz for si3, 500 In the building anC
equipment OF the line S306, GOO was ex
pended, and 1t is said that the right o
way is worth more than $3.50, 600 alone
The members of the Sailors UnioI
of the Pacific will not take part in th
Z Fourth of July parade. In San Fran
cisco, because Of the bitter feeling owe
!, tho recent decision Of the United State
! Supreme Court that contracts for ser
!. vice signed by sailors can be enforced
to the extent Of imprisuning those VIII
! break such contracts.
Franklin Rossford, a marine designe
and Yachting editor of Outing, com