Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-03-11
Nv GEN EEL.

The Cumberland Presby Church
of Coal Centre, Pa, wac burned Sun
Sunday.
A severe shock Of earthquake oc-
CURED in the vicinity OF Niagara FANS
on Friday night.
Nelson Miller. under sentence. OF
death in the Willsssbarre Jail, died on
Sunday of consumption.
Four members of the Palmer family
of Toluca, ILL.,, have died OF measles
within the past 10 days.
Laurence Hutton has presented his
collection of death masks to the library
of Princeton Uni, ersity
Thomas Wilson and Andy Hill OF
| Topeka, Kan, fought duel with axes
on Saturday. Hill was killed.
Bertha Reed. years old. was burned
| to death in fire which destroyed her
father's house at Port Norris. N. j.
Justice Of the Peace Baldwin. of
Camden, N. j., WAS held IN $500 bail
on Saturday on the charge OF extortion.
| An Ishpeming, Mich, dispatch says
that 200 families of the striking miners
at Norway are on the verge of starva.
tion.
ssThe Duhme Co., jewellers, OF Cincin-
natl, assignedson Friday. The assets
are given at 500, 900; liabilities are
not estimated.
James Broughton,a riyeter, fell from
| the new stanipipe in Camden, Thurs
day, sustaining injuries from which he
died two hours later.
Hugh Smith, rs years old. has been
arrested in Perry county, Pa, charged
with the murder OF Malnda Snyder
who disappeared % years ago.
An indianapolis dispatch says that
as result OF last week 3 rain in Central
Ohio and Southern Indiana ll3 bridges
| and trestles were washed away.
Hanson & Co. of Ontario, CAL, con-
| Quoting nursery stock and real estate
business, have filed papers Of insol-
vency. Assets, Sl65,000; liabilities,
Sl5S,000.
Hannah Pine, daughter Of John Pine
of Gloucester City, N. j., died at the
Cooper Hospital, Camden. on Sunday,
from burns received by her clothing
taking fire.
1t is asserted that Turkey, within a
week, could throw 5000 well armed
men over the Greek frontier, including
81 batteries of artillery and 10 squad
rons of cavalry.
Alonzo J.. Whitman, a former State
Senator of Minnesota, was arrested in
New York on Saturday, accused of
swindling the Columbia Bank of that
city out of $3.50.
The President issued proclamation
on Saturday calling an extra session of
Congress on March 18th, to receive
such communications as may be made
by the executive.
Hugh G. Jordan, 6agman, was
killed, and two tramps wore fatally
injured in a freight wreck on the
Georgia Southern railroad, near Cor
dale, yesterday week.
At meeting in Hyde Park, London,
Sunday, which was attended by fully
20, eco persons, resolutions were adopted
protesting against the coercion OF
Greece by the Powers.
Poor Directors Dietrich and Ahrens.
field of Schuylkill county, Pa, have
been charged by the grand jury with
accepting money from persons whom
they appointed to Office.
A Great Northern passenger train
, was wrecRed by q snoWbaEE at Mallory,
N. d. on Saturday morning, Fironas
:
Gowenlock fatally injured. =.
| Negotiation al Cleveland for the set.
( Element OF the Globe Shiryard strike
J have failed. The company agreed tc
J grant the increase In wages, but re-
fused to recognize the union.
A warrant has been sworn out against
! George il. Taylor, OK cashier of the
defunct Argentine (Kansas) Bank,
charging him with receiving deposits
, when he knew the bank was failing.
The Council of the American Geo
: graphical Society at New York has ap
proved the project of polar exploration
laid before it by Civil Engineer Il. E.
Peary, U. S. N, and will subscrib,
toward the expense.
The reply OF the Porte to the col
! lective note OF the Powers Iegardin,
! the granting of autonomy to Crete ha
been received by the diplomats in Con
= stantinople. The Porte assents to til,
= terms of the Powers.
During the services in the Greel
j. Church in New York City Sunday. tn,
y priest read the message from the Greel
= Minister of Foreign Affairs calling Il
their standards the reserves belongin.
n to the classes running from 1866 t,
" 1873
D A number of prominent Spanish resi-
4 dents OF Pueblo, Mexico. have joined
9 In filing legal proceedings against thu
a Cuban Club there, with view of secur
o ing disarmament of that organization
i. on the ground that it is a menace tt
9 good order.
9 Two hundred feet OF the west end o
8 the big Eighth street viaduct, in Gin
& cinnati, gave way yesterday weel
o and fell into Mill creek. Tho founda
II tions had been weakened by the flood
# Two street cars narrowly escaped fallin,
into the chasm.
o j. ID. stockton was indicted by tn
I, grand jury at Des Moines, Ia, Oh
q Saturday, on charge of coercion o
70 employees He is manager of the Clifton
g Coal Co., and the charge is that b
u compelled the employees to buy at tn
70 colrpany's store.
. Baltimore & Ohio work trail
jumped the track three miles fron
Evansville. o., at noon Thursday an
j. rolled down 81 foot embankment
1t Three men were killed and two fatal
n injured. Six or seven othera wer
ia seriously injured.
]. Col. Vassos, the commander of tn
is Greek army of occupation. has receives
IS instructions from King George to hol
r. all the positions in Crete now occupie
m by the Greek troops, ana to prepare t
is resist to the bitter end any attemrt o
ID the part of anybody TO dislodge him.
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