Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-07-29
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Prof. Charles Henry Marcy. a must
cian and composer, died suuueniy 10
Brooklyn Tuesday.
South jersey farmers are organizing
10 protect Themselves against the
Iavages of produce thieves.
The United States cruiser Raleigh
returned 10 Tangiur, Tuesday, from
her cruise along the coast OF Morocco.
Mlsa Genevieve DAILY Of New York
was carried out by the undertow and
drowned while bathing ut York Beach,
Mass. Tuesday.
A Caps Town dispatch says that the
whole of GRzaIand ia seething with re
bellion. and the Portuguese forces are
few and incapable.
The Avery pillow factory, at Louis
vile, Ky, has resumed operations after
tnree years idleness, giving employ
ment to 1000 hands.
The date for tina sailing of tine North
Atlantic Squadron from New York on
the summer cruise of marmuVres has
been set for August 3D.
Among the recess appointments by
the President announced Tuesday WIS
that OF Robert j.. Tracswell, TO be
Comptroller of tho Treasury.
The Young MEMS business Associn-
tion of Richmond, Va, has decided to
invite the Grand Army of the Republic
to hold its encampment of 1899 In
that city.
Backrach IL Co., proprietors Of u large
department store in Toronto, have as
signed for the benefit of creditors. The
| liabilities amount to about STD, OUO,
with assets of S35, 00O.
William Cookson Carpenter, tho oldest
praeticing lawyer in Now York, died
Tuesday. He was "a years old, and
had followed his profession in New
York for nearly 10 years.
The Canadian Cabinet has decided
not to attempt to enforce the alien law
iu the Klondyke district. The subject
OF royalty on the gold output was dis
cussen. hut no decision reached.
The torpadohoat Foots was Tuesday
delivered 10 the government ut tho Nor
folk Navy Yard hy the builders, the
| Columbian Iron Works, Of Baltimore.
She will he put in commission imme'
diately.
Nathan James. farmer near Ann
Arhor. Mich, so years old, Tuesday
shot and fatally wounded Martha Miner.
domestic, ami then killed himself.
lovers quarrel is supposed TO have
been the cause.
News of the lynching OF one horse
thief. and the probably fatal shooting
of another by a moh Doar the Scott
and Yell county line, GO miles from Q
telegraph office, reached Little Rock,
Ark, Tuesday.
Az a result of the initiative of Ger
many, backed by Austria and Italy, {
clause has been drafted for enibndimen
in tho Turco Grecian peace treaty
whereby Europsan financial control viii
be established ut Athens.
In boilor explosion at Horton
Brothers' thresher, near Argyle, Tex
on Monday, an engineer was killed ant
nine others injured, two of whom will
probably die. The boiler was an oh
ono aud had no safety valve.
Chester iron, steel and textile indus
tries report very much improved pros
pecta, with q number OF new order
coming in The Roach Bhipyarls closet
J largo ferry boat contract Tueeda,
for tho brooklyn d New York Ferr.
} Go.
Major Noses p. Handy of Chicago
formerly Chief sof the Department q
Publicity Of the Columbian Exposition
has been appointed by President Nc
kiuley special commissioner for til
United States to tho Paris Exposition
Of 1900.
Fire at Yonkers N. T., Tuostia
destroyed two large factory building
occupied by William Reed & Co. an
, Rowland Bros, hat manufacturers
Pass Bros. silk, and tho fonkera Sill
+ CO. This losses are from Si00, 600 {
, $500, 600.
, Theodore ii. Sahntz, tho Chirag
lawyer and roal estate dealer who re
Gently failed TO the extent, it ia said
T of nearly 81, 600, 600, has been arroste
| on tho charge of alleged fraud in sci
. ing trust decd for 5000 He wa
reeased on hail.
0 Tho newly arrived Bolivian Minister
I Senior Luis PaS, presented ha credor
Q tials to President Mckinley Tuesdn
i and tho usual formal speeches were ok
] ci,angud. The Minister 10 the thir
+, representative Of bolivia who has bee
r sent to Washington,
A Seattle dispatch says that II,
ccivor John ii. Bryant has sold I'll
seattle Coal and Iron Co. to Murph,
Grant & Co. of New York and fol
= = others for Si30. 900. Tho purchasers al
y the five creditors whose claims IL
!, court decided we're prior.
! A dinnor was given Tuesday by Il
:. Boston business men 10 Secretary
tho Treasury Cage. The latter made
/, lengthy address. In the course Of whiC
# he said that if the people desired tinal
4 ciA reforms they must Impress the fa
"a upon Congress in way that dare NJ
a he disregarded.
/. Orders were issued Tuesday by tt
. Secretary Of War for company OF ii
l. fantry, to he commanded by Capt. ri
OF the Eighth Infantry, to proceed
St MiGhael's, Algaka, ling on A ugu
9TH. and thence to travel TO Circle Cit
!, whore garrison 10 TO DO establishe
(, Tho Marquis Of Ito, former prin
al Minister Of Japan, in Paris, Tuesda
utterly repuiiated tho Figaro's inte
view, in which he was represented
talking OF war with the United Stat
oil over tho Hawaiian matter. Tho Ma
quia says no conflict ia possible betwe
no the two nations over the annexation
II, tho islands,
~ Stockholders Of the North Americ
and the Liberty Rubber Companies
st Setauket, l., l., mat in Jersey Git
.. Tuesday and consolidated tho II
"a. companies rhe now company will
OO incorporated under tho laws Of N,
iii Jersey as the Empire state Ruth
CO., capital $500, 600, and will
M operated by the Rubber Trust.
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