Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-04-01
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Plague has broken OUT among tne
British troops at Ca'aha.
Jairus G. Mears died at La Gengra,
| Ill. Tuesday, aged 100 years.
Vice Admiral yon Holman OF Ger
many has been granted "a prolonged
sick leave"
This three rubber companies Of Akron,
o., have 2,400 hands employed making
bicycle tires. f
Fifteen hundred tanners IN Chicago
struck Tuesday TO enforce their de-
mand for an S-hour day.
1t is understood that the admirals
| have cabled to their respective govern
ments for more warships as well as more
troops
4 Abraham Perkins, ST., father OF ex-l
! Senator Perkins and of the Rev.
4 Charlea M. Perkins Of Salem, N. j.,
died Tuesday.
/ The Sultan has not yet shown any
disposition to submit to the demand
for the withdrawal of the Turkish
troops from Crete.
J fire in frame dwelling in Brook
Ign Tuesday morning resulted in the
death of Patrick Keenan, and q 4-years-
old boy named Stewart.
Notices BAYS been posted of 10 per
cent reduction in wages OF the 800 en-
\ ployes at the tube plant Of the River
side works, at Benwnod. WA, to go
into effect on April 9th.
a The tract of land known as the Hes
sian Camp, at the foot of Mt. Penn,
Reading, Pa, has been purchased by
the city for park purposes.
Reasons for granting new trial to
Charles o. Kaisar, ,Jr., convicted OF
wife murder, were filed in court at
Norristown, Pa, Tuesday.
Ex- President and Mrs Cleveland
were given reception and dinner last
evening by President Patton OF Prince
ton University and Mrs. Patton. ~
Charles f. Hbugh tom principal owner
of tho Coming New York; Glass Co.,
shot and killed himself Tuesday. He
is supposed to have been insane.
Seven ballots for United Statos Sena.
tor we're taken Tuesday in tine Ken
lucky Legislature without result. Hun
ter lacked three votes of election.
A sloop owned by John Constantine
squall few miles off Pensacola, Fla, on
: Monday, and eight lives were lost
Antde Boyer, a Socialist member of
q | IDO TftHEl SuhnbbI VI DoDhliCrt was
arrested Tuesday on charges connects
ing him with tho Panama scandals.
The President Tuesday nominated
Frank W. Palmer OF Illinois to be pub
a lie printer, and Alexander M. Thackera
' of Pennsylvania to be consul at Havre,
!, France.
3. a dinner was given in Washington
r Tuesday night to Chairman Babcurk Of
..
. tee, as recognition of his services in
q the last campaign.
' The Senate Tuesday confirmed the
Q nominations of Edgar Thomson Scott
k of Pennsylvania, second secretary oil
: the embassy at Paris, and Commodore
i Joseph N. Miller to be rear admiral in
the navy. "A
A fire occurred Tuesday afternoon
q in an apartment bouse on West 105th
q street, in New York, and Mrs. Eliza
beth French, her 6 months-od babe
and Miss Ellen Morrissey of Albany
. were sulfocated.
I, Jertram Farwell, the 17.yearH old sor
of William I. Farwell, real estate dealer
:. OF Chicago and New York, committee
y suicide in st. Paul, MINI, on Monday,
y by shooting himself through the heart.
! The boy was despondent and in Ill
= health.
:. The dead body of Archibald Camp
II bell Of Brooklyn, jockey, aged ~, wat
Il found Monday in the bottom of a skif
Z drifting in the Upper New York bay.
Il near Robbins Reef He had committed
suicide. M
It The schooner Era. which founderet
II off Port Recalling, N j.. last Wednes
l. day, was raised and taken to Peril
Amboy dry dock Tuesday. The bod.
If of Paul Urata, the sailor who wen
~ down with the vessel, was found in thi
10 cabin.
IS Miss Anna Dickinson was on th,
], Witness stand Tuesday at Scranton
IN Pa, in her suit for $50, 600 damages
!. against the parsons at whose INSTANCE
"a she was placed 10 an insane asylum
IN and her testimony was given in drama
" tic style. ..
q it is understood that the ndmirals il
}; command of the foreign fleets in Cretal
;, waters are of the uninion that, nov
+, that Greece has virtually completed he
Q, war preparations on the frontier O
g. Thessaly, blockade of the principa
q Greek ports would be useless.
= John Bloor, Secretary of State o
+. Montana, was Tuesday indicted 10
= classifying the public records Hi
- alleged offence ia the losing Of bill
q the night the last legislative session
, expired. Martin Buckley, an ex-Stat
10 Representative. was also indicted 10
~ accepting a bribe.
~ The Oneida, ILL.,, State Bank was en-
-. tered on Monday night, the safe wrecke
n with nitro glycerina and between So. 90
I'd and $1,000 were taken. The roAhei
~ escaped ON hand car. Besides til
Oneida affair the hank at Briggsviil
was robbed OF S400. Banks ut Kewane
nit and Altoona we're also visited, but y
an money was obtained. Galeshurg officia
he have arrested four men, presumabl
er from Chicago, on suspicion of havin
committed the robberies.
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