Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-01-07
IN GEN ZEAL.

Philadelphia, died at Red Bank, N. j.,
on Wednesday.
Col. Mark Hoyt widely known
leather merchant, died in New York
City on Wednesday.
Levin Brothers, grocers, of San Fran
cisco and Oakland, CAL, have failed
Liabilities, $50, 200.
An unknown man was struck and
killed Wednesday night by trolley car
on the Mount Holly, N. j., road.
Eli Chew, an aged farmer of Glouces.
ter county, N. j.. was killed by West
Jersey train on Wednesday night.
A movement is on foot among Cam
den, N. j., ministers to defeat pro-
posed bill for taxing church property.
The keg and barrel factory of the W.
S. Robinson Co. at New Haven, Conn.,,
was burned Wednesday; loss. $50, 600.
Henry M. Weed, an insurance broker,
committed suicide in New York Wednes-
day by leaping from window of his
residence.
Maj. Truman N. Burrill, at one time
chief of the Bureau Of Engraving and
Printing at Washington, ID. G.. died
Wednesday.
Lieutenant. Commander j. T.. Pills
bury has beun detached from the War
College and ordered to the command of
the Vesuvius.
DR.. Rial, said to have been the
promoter of the revolt against Spanish
authority in the Philippine Islands,
has been shot.
Isaac Prayer q Sons, dry goods dealers,
of Parkersburg, W. Va, have assigned,
the liabilities and assets being esti-
mated at 800. 900.
Anthony Parradine, an inspector OF
the Camden, N. j., Lighting and
Heating Co., was killed Thursday while
adjusting an arc light
The Phoenix Wooden Co. Of East
Greenwich, r. l., has failed. The
liabilities are about $500, 600, and the
assets may reach $3.50, 000
A proclamation was issued Thursday
by President Cleveland promulgating
the action OF Congress providing regu-
lations for preventing collisions at sea-
Edward Casper was killed and three
others were injured by an explosion OF
gas in the Monitor coal mine, six miles
from West Bay City, Mich, Thursday.
Gen. q. W. G. Lee has resigned the
presidency of the Washington and Lee
University, on account of ill health,
and has been elected emeritus presi-
dent.
Gov. Morton Thursday removed from
Office Inspector General Frederick @.
McLewee of New York City. and ap-
pointed Capt. Hoffman Of Elmira in
his place.
Thomas Flanagan of Decatur, Ga,
Thursday, shot aud killed G. W. Allen
and his wife and Miss Ruth S!aak. He
was drunk and the shooting was en-
tirely unprovoked.
Fire destroyed the plant of the Nell
sonville sewer pipe works at Nelson
Vile, O., "Wednesday. The loss is esti.
mated at sos, 900. One hundred men are
thrown out of employment.
The will of Alfred Nobel, Swedish
engineer and chemist, devotes the bulk
of his fortune to an international fund
for the advancement of science. There
will be prizes for competition open to
the world.
Miss Nellie Porter OF Baltimore, who
has been in Asheville, N. O., for
strychnia, while laboring under melan-
cholia on Wednesday night, and died
two hours later.
William Lichenberg and brother Jacob
were found dead and their father and
mother unconscious, at their home in
New York City, Wednesday morning.
They are supposed to have been as
phyxiated by coal gas.
A City of Mexico dispatch says that
two Americans, named Hurley and
Castle, who had established hundreds
of watch clubs throughout the re-
public, have defrauded 1000 sub
scribers to the extent of $500. 600.
The Gamewell Fire Alarm Telegraph
Co. of New York, Thursday, enjoined
the city of Columbus. o.. from using
the apparatus OF the United States Fire
Alarm Telegraph Co., claiming that
it is an infringement on their patents.
George B. Wilkins vice. president
and cashier OF the Commercial Bank of
Selma, Ala. which failed Cor $500. 600
Wednesday, committed suicide Thurs
day by shooting himself through the
head in the Episcopal Church at that
place.
Fellman & Grumhach, retail dry
goods dealers of Galveston, Tex, have
filed a deed OF trust for the benefit of
their creditors. Preferences are given
to the amount OF SI93. 336. OF. 1t is
said that the liabilities will reach
81. 600. 000.
"a freight train on the Seahoard Air
west of Raleigh, N. G. The fireman.
Line was wrecked Wednesday two miles
Lewis OVERLY, colored, was killed, and
the engineer, John Robinson, was in
jured. Ii is believed that the train
was wrecked by tramps.
The naval board appointed to examine
a number of defective structural steel
plates delivered by the Carnegie Co.
for the battlsships Kentucky and
Kearsarge has made report to Secre-
tary Herbert recommending certain
changes in the specifications.
Mrs. Elias Becker and her step
daughter, Mrs William Seidel, we're
killed by an explosion recently in their
house at Tuckerton, Pa. Mr.. Becker
is wealthy farmer and quarryman, and
had placed four sticks Of dynamite in
the kitchen stove to thaw.
When called upon to surrender the
county books and funds in his possess
sion ON Tuesday weed, Henry f.
Strass, county clerk Of Langdale county,
Wis, committed suicide by taking
poison. He left letter stating that he
was a defaulter to the amount Of So, 700.
He was 70 years old.
Harry Ridgeley and John @. Griffith,