Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-01-28


IN GEN ERIL.
Gen. Henry G. Thomas died in Guth.
rio, o. t., on Saturday.
The Sandusky. o., Electric hallway
Co. has been put in tho hands of re-
ceiver.
Samuel Kirby and wife of French
Lick, Ind, were killed by burglars on
Saturday.
The Rev. John N. Kenney, pastor OF
the Catholic Church at Junction, N.
j., died Sunday.
Gen. John d. Stevenson, who eerved
with distinction in the Mexican ana
civil wars, 10 dead.
Isaac Slack, conductor on the
Pennsylvania railroad, was crushed to
death at Trenton, N. j., on Saturday.
George p. Peiton. for many years
president of the Poughkeepsie & East.
ern railroad, died suddenly On Satur
day.
A negro held in Enfield. N. c., jail
for shooting man, set fire to the build
ing on Friday night. destroying himself
and the Jail.
The miners in the Wilmington. ILL.,,
coal field struck on Saturday against an
attempt to enforce the use OF the two.
inch screen.
Joseph Daissy of Gloucester City, N.
j., quarrelled with his sweetheart Cd
Saturday night and committed suicide
by shooting.
The London Chronicle says it believes
that powerful influences will secure
the Vatican's approval of the Manitoba
school settlement.
George Washington Dean. for many
years member of the United States
Coast Survey, died at Fall River,
Mass, on Saturday.
Vineyard Hall, one OF the dormitories
| OF the Northern Indiana Normal School
at Valparaiso, was burned on Satur-
day. Loss, Sis, 600.
A dispatch from New York says it is
understood that the Merritt Wrecking
Co. and the Chapman Wrecking Co
are about to consolidate.
A Halifax dispatch says that tho
Gloucester SCHOONER Yosemite has been
wrecked at Rams Island, and that two
OF her crew wera drowned.
Advices reached San Francisco on
Saturday of a terrible panic in tenn.
ple at kwong Tow, China. in which
300 mon, women and children persisted,
Pierson Taylor, negro, charged with
an attempt to assault Miss Emma
Apthorpe at Tallahassee, Fla, was
taken from the Jail at that place Sun
day ana lynuhed.
Almost an entire block of business
houses on Water street, the principal
business tboroughfare of Sandusky, O.,
was destroyed by fire Saturday morn.
ing loss, $3.50, 600
A passenger train on the Pittsburg &
Western railroad, in Butler county,
Pa, plunged over bridge SO feet high
and three persons were killed and
several others injured.
Judge Woods of the United States
circuit court, at Indianapolis, on Sat.
urday, ordered the entire Monon rail
way system sold unless the overdue
bonds and interest are paid within Ii
days. t.lr..s
Col. F. S. Ranking, attorney for the
Illinois Central railroad, committed
suicide IN Milan, Tenn, Sunday, BY
shooting himself through tina head.
Financial troubles are supposed to be
the cause.
The GreenleN Brothers & Go. g wood
working machinery plant and thu
Northwestern Stove Repair Co. q fac
tory IN Chicago were destroyed by fri
Sunday night. The loss is estimated a
$500, 600.
The man arrested by the New Yorl
police on Friday on suspicion of beinl
Arthur Palmer, the murderer Of hi
mother ana brother, was dischargIet
| nm Gntu-1uy hia ;flapfitv NiphnI,
L. Nelson being established.
Emperor William will support thu
Sultan In his project of a council
of finance composed OF Turks ant
Europeans appointed by the Sultai
himself, and not 40 desired by Lore
Salisbury, under European control.
A runaway trolley car in Soutl
Scranton, Pa. on Saturday was strucl
by a shifting epgine and rolled to tn
edge Of high precipice, where it va
saved from fall by lodging against
trolley pole. -Four passengers were in
jurUa.
Waiter Gray, son of the captain O
the schooner Norman, at Carrabeile
, Fla, Sunday. from Barbadoes wa
killed by the fall OF spar ON Januar
18th. Tire mate, j. j. Leighton
thought he was responHlhle Tor the &C
cident and tried to kill himself, bu
was restrained.
The brigantine Little Minnie. fror
/ Trapani for st. johns, with salt, wa
driven ashore at Ranews Island, A
miles south of the latter port, by ir
coming ice. on Friday night, andSbc
came total wreck. The crew escape
/ by scrambiing over the broken ice. bu
i Cant. Jago remained aboard and wa
lost.