Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-02-18

committed suicide Thursday by shoot
ing.
Kung Bros furniture warerooms, in
Buffalo, N. Y. were burned yesterday
week. Loss, 80, 600.
The Parliament buildings in Otta wa,
Ont, were damaged by fire Thursday
to the extent of Sl00, GOO.
Torpedo boat No. 6. at her official
speed trial at Newport yesterday week,
made an average of 2S. 70 knots.
The Orthodox branch of the Society
of Friends has decided to erect a meet
ing house at Moorestown, N. j.
Edwin Aler. musician of Balti-
more, committed suicide in that city on
Thursday night by taking laudanum.
The King a. Ubl block, in Cleveland.
O., comprising five business houses,
was burned last night week. Loss,
500, 600.
The Spanish government has accepted
M iss Clara Barton's offer OF the SER
vices Of the he'd Cross for relief work
in Cuba.
The foundry building of the Link
Belt Machinery Co., in Chicago. was
damaged to the extent OF $50, GOO by lire
yesterday week.
Charles Henry Lee, colored, who lived
with white family at Port Norris, N.
j., was severely logged by d white
Caps" last night week.
Canton dispatch says that it seems
to have been practically decided that
Chauncey NJ. Depew is to be appointed
Ambassador to England.
On lonely farm near North Branch.
MINI, yesterday week Mr.. and Mrs. John
Bonniman and two grown sons were
killed by fire damp in a potato pit.
James b. Denworth, prominent
lawyer of WilliamBport, Pa, was SEN
fenced at Pittsburg, Friday, to three
months in Jail for retaining an illegal
pension fee.
kentucky distilers met in Louisville
on Thursday to form whisky trust of
all Kentucky distilleries Their object
ia to control the output and price of
Kentucky whisky.
Can't. Gen. Weyler has donated
2,000,0 900 france out Of his private
funds toward meeting the expenses OF
the Government in prosecuting the
campaign in Cuba.
Charles Jones, said to be of Phiia-
delphia, Il sailor of the American brig
M. G. Haskell. was murdered in dis.
reputable portion of Wilmington, N.
c., last night night.
Calhoun Wyriclr and John Lewis
were killed and six other seriously in
jured by the bursting OF boiler in the
, sawmill of Wyrick Bros, at Magnolia,
Ark, last night week.
An incendiary fire at Plano, Tex,
Thursday. burned nearly 80 buildings,
including the business part OF the city.
The loss is upwards of S100, 00O, with
practically no insurance.
A Chicago paper makes the state.
ment that between SIS, 600, 600 and
$40, 900, 600 of Cuban Republic bonds
have been secretly issued and sold in
the United States and Europe.
] The battleships Texas and Maine
have been selected to represent the
. navy at New Orleans during the Mardi
. | Gras week, and Admiral Bunce has
. ordered them there before March 1st.
8 Dr. Gaspara Betancourt has been ex-
, pelled from Cuba by ORDER of the
, government. DIR. Betancourt, who is
an American citizen, was acquitted a
4 few days ago of charge OF aiding the
!, rebels.
. John Conrad Schilling was beaten
into insensibility, bound and gagged
and robbed of over $1,000 by two
masked men, at his house, in the sub
urbs of Cumberland, Nd, on Tuesday
: night week.
e As the railroad companies of Penn.
= sylyania are unable to furnish free
4 TRANSPORTATION to the National GUARD
this year. the Pennsylvania militia will
r not parade az the Inauguration OF Presi
4 dent Mckinley.
k Thu Bankera' EXCHANGE Bank ol
II Minneapolis closed its doors yesterday
y week. lts last statement is date Decsm
i, Dor 2ith, 1896. and shows deposits d
n Sol, 900; capital $50, 600; loans and dis
k counts, S6S. 600.
G Tho Illinois Central Railway Co.,
y taking advantage of tina recent breal
/. in the priCa Of steel rails, has, it il
t said, placed orders with different mills
for SO, coo tons of rails for delivery dur
ing the year 1897
The directors OF the Chester County
Guarantee, Trust and Safe Deposit Co
= yesterday refused TO accept the resi- gna
: ton OF Smedley Darlington as presi
:, dent, and decided to oppose the appli
: cation for a receiver.
,s The building OF W. r. Schaeffer
i. Sons, gunsmiths. in Boston, was burned
"a last night week. There wore tvs
ia | explosions oi pUWler auti an iucossdH
y discharge of cartridges for nearly II
"a minutes Loss. $40. 600.
Is The Lancaster, o., Medical Institute
a was burned ON Friday. DIR. Juliul
;. Simon of jackson, W. Va, patient
Inst his life in the flames, and DR.. j
Fl. Bellerman, the proprietor, wa
1t buddy, though not fatally, wounded.
;, Fire in Chicago Friday caused
d loss of 500, 600 in the building Nos
e 172 and lii Madison street. Th
IS heaviest loosers arc W. II. Schimpfer
/, man 6 Co., Wholesale liquor dealers
o. and q. L. Foster, Sons & Co., manu-
facturars OF uniforms.
Postmaster General Wilson stated las
\. Thursday that tho President has neve
10 considered the subject of extending thu
- civil services system to embrace fourth
N class postmasrers. There are over 60, 00
i postmasters of this class who will h
. subject to appointment after March 4tl
ir next.
Andrew Wilson, Preston Hall ant
Henry Brown were drowned yesterda.
week in the Big Sandy river in Pix
Y. Go. Ky. The men had been on spree TO
10 several days, and started on thei
m horses to cross tine river on the ice
80 When they were about half way acros
the ice broke.
The Heath & Milling Co. has entered