Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-02-11

Peoples Gaslight and Coke 10. OF
Chicago, died on Sunday.
Lieut.. Col. George Porter Houston,
a retired officer OF tho United States
Marine Corps. died in Baltimore on
Sunday.
An analysis of the water supply Of
Lebanon, Pa. by direction OF the State
Board OF Health, shows that 1T is unfit
for use.
Tho Union Fire Insurance Co. Of In
dianapolis, is now in the handssef re.
ceiver, who reports S14 assets, with
liabilities OF Sl3; 900.
Henry W.. Johnston, prominent
citizen of Washington, N. j., COM
mitted suicide Monday by cutting his
throat while temporarily insane.
IT js reported that au English ship
building firm is about to sell Spain two
war-sbips. They were ordered by
Chill and are nearly completed.
Ex-Goy. John D. Long Of Massa-
chusetts has formally accepted the ap-
pointmsnt Of Secretary Of the Navy IN
President-elect McKinley's Cabinet.
fire at New Castle. N. B., Monday
destroyed 10 buildings, among them
tho town lookup and the office of the
Fra Publishing Co. loss, about $40, 0o0
The extensive shops of the Louisville,
Evansville & ST. Louis Railway Co., in
Princeton, Ind, were destroyed by fire
on Monday morning; loss, $40, 900 to
500, 000.
The Centre County, Pa, Court
House was set ON fire by an incendiary
Monday morning, but the flames were
discovered in time and the fire extin-
guished.
The Memphis steamer Buckeye State
was caught 10 an ice gorge at the
mouth OF Wolf creek, on the Ohio,
bslow Louisville, on Sunday and was
wrecked.
Wilbur freeman, aged about 40
years, who resided In Philadelphia,
died suddenly. Monday, in the Office
of DR.. II. Il, Palm. in Camden, N. j.,
of apoplexy.
John Hardisty. a rancher. and Miss
Cora Akers Of Fresno, were overtaken
by locomotive ON Sunday afternoon
on trestle. near Caliente, CAL, and
crushed to death.
The Southern Mutual Building and
Loan Association of Atlanta, Ca, has
been placed in the hands of receiver.
600 loaned on real estate.
Engineer Sydney Kirkland and Fire.
man j. S. Weller were killed ia head
end collision Of freight trains on the
Louisville IL Nashville railroad, near
Montgomery, Ala, on Sunday.
Patrick Brennan was found dead in
his homo, In Lower Mnkefield. Pa,
and his feeble. minded wife watching
by his body. He had been dead week,
and there was no food or fire in the
house.
Secretary Herbert has ordered the
cruiser Montgomery to Mobile for a
woek, beginning March LIST, during the
Mardi Gras festivities. The Texas will
probably go to New Orleans at the
sans time.
Admiral Bunce'a squadron arrived off
Charleston bar Monday, after being
butfeted and battered by storm. Four
lives were lost and eight men were seri-
ously injured. A il the vessels sustained
minor damage.
A Biddeford, Me-, dispatch says that
there will DO a reduction of 400, 600
pounds in the product of the Pepperell
and DaConia cotton mills between now
and May. Fifty thousand spindles
will be run ono third time.
Bourke Cochran said Monday in
answer to question: II am not can
didase for any place under the next ad.
ministration. | will not accept a place
il it is offered, and do not expect that
any place viii be offerod.''
Il. Loewenstein. q horse dealer, who
| arrived from Chicago, with stock, on
| Friday night. was found dead Mon=
| day in room in a New York hotel.
He had been suIfocated by gas. His
death is believed to have been acct
| dental.
| The Cape May express train, on the
West Jersey g. Seashoro railroad, struck
delivery wagon at tho Ferry avenue
crossing, Camden, N. j., Monday,
and tho horse was killed, aud the
driver, Raymond Dott, was seriously
| injured.
The United States will he represented
at the international conference to be
| held at Venice to consider means OF
preventing the spread of the bubonic
| plague to Europe and America by W.
s. Jones, United States Consul General
| at Rome.
Tho President Monday sent to the
Senate the following nominations
Lieutenant. Colonel Edward Moale,
Third Infantry, to be Colonel; Major
Francis z. Lacey, Seventeenth In.
fantry, TO be LieutenaYS- Colonel; Capt.
Augustus W. Corliss. Eighth Infantry,
to be Major.
Another massacre IS expected in Con-
stantinople. Treasonnblo placards arc
posted about the city. 1t il believed
| that the Sultan originated the placaros
hopius to cause disturbances and so
break up tbs continued conferences OF
the diplomats
At a dinner given by the Prussian
Minister of Finance Emperor William
is said to have urged the union OF Con.
servative and National Liberals in the
Imperial Legislative body as the only
means by which great national under
takings could no achieved.
A Tacoma dispatch says that the
cargo mills of the Northwest, including
Washington and British Columbia, are
| ~ be brought under the control of a
new lumber combine. which is being
formed for tho purpose of controlling
and extending the foreign lumber trade
and the maintenance OF uniform price
lists and grades.
Gov. GrigGs of New Jersey Monday
sent the following nominations to the
Senate: Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court. Bennett Van Syckel !;
judge of the Camden county court, Il.