Delaware gazette and state journal., 1897-07-08
IN GEN ERAL.

member of the French Academy, dled
in Paris Tuesday. lie was born in 1882.
Henry Lemon probably fatally stabbed
hIs brother Charles, at MedfOrd, N. j.,
on Monday, in Il quarrel over woman.
James Coke, 30 years old, Of Prince
ton, N. D., was instantly killed Tuesday
night by train at Princeton Junction.
News has reached Tacoma that the
volcano on Douglass Island, opposite
Juneau. A laska, is in state OF eruption.
Tho body OF Stanley Bsrkhouse of
Louisville. KY, who was drowned on |
Monday at Longport, n. D.. was ro'
covered Tuesday.
Expert A Accountant Dell presented his |
report to Woodbury. City Council Tues
day night, finding ex Treasurer Reading |
short about 81, 500.
Proprietors of this 26 breweries in
Detroit are it is said. planning TO sell
out to syndicate composed chiefly of
English capitalists.
At Lockport, N. u, Tuesday after
noon, several negro prisoners at the
county stone pile overpowered their
guards and escaped.
Suit ia to be instituted against ex
Secretary of State kelsey of New Jer
sey. for fees amounting TO S25, 600,
claimed by the state.
runaway street car in Pittsburg
Tuesday night crashed into another car
at the foot of Soho Hill. Several per
sons were fatally injured.
The National Tin Plato Go. Of Ander-
son. and the American Tin Plate Co of
Elwood, Ind, Tuesday started their
plants under the new wage scale.
Baron Ernest Won Thielmann, German
Ambassador to the United States, has
beon recalled TO Germany TO become
Minister of the Treasury i'll the new
government now forming.
The bodies of two children who
wandered from their homes in lia2le
Brook, Pa, in April last were found
un the mountains near there Tuesday.
They hud died from oxposure.
Joseph Stophany. an Italian fruit
dealer OF Lancaster, Tuesday shot and
fatally wounded the woman with whom
he has been living as his wife. They
had quarrelled over u trivial matter.
1t is reported from Wheeling, w.
| Va, that the new tin plato wago scale
has been signed ut tho La Belle and at
the .Laughln, in Martins Ferry, and
both mills will resume operations
within few days.
W. Malone and John Il. Nolan were
drowned in Springfield, Mass, on Mon.
day evening. They wers on flout
attending TO fireworks when Malone
fell overheard. Nolan was drowned in
trying to save his companion.
During a severe thunderstorm which
passed over Belle River, Ont, on Mon
day night. Paul Menard was struck by
lightning and instantly killed. His
father, Peter Menard, was also struck
and is in a critical condition.
A Providence dispatch says that the
Rev. DIR. Greer of New York, has de-
clined the position of Bishop Coadiuto
of Rhode Island. Unexpected opno-
sition to him among the clergy OF the
diocese is probable reason"
Hon. George Van Ness Lothrop,
United States Minister to Russia dur
ing a part of PRESIDENT Cleyeland's
fret administration, and prominent
lawyer and politician, ia critically ill at
his residence IN Detroit, Mich.
The southbound Louisville & Nash
VILE passenger train which left Gin
cinnati at o'clock Monday night WIS
wrecked by washout near Richmond,
Ky., at midnight. The engineer and
fireman were seriously injured.
A cabiegram from Calcutta says it is
rumoreu that all the mill hands up the
Hoogly have struck work, and that they
are preparing TO march 5000 strong tt
reinforce the rioters. The government
has ordered the military to intercept
them.
Glassworkers began conference il
Cleveland, o., Tuesday, to agre9 on ;
demand for increased wages. Two yeuri
, ago the workers accepted cut, owing
to tha reduction in the tariff. 1t is ex
pected that the demand will be madt
10 conform to the contemplated tariff
, increase.
Harry Peters was committed to th,
! Camden county jail Tuesday withou
. bail on charge of shooting Jame
: Carter. His compauionB-FrankG Glenn
aud Freeman Bradley-were also com
mitted to the county jail on charg
,, of attempting to kill Policemen Sayr
and Butts, and also being implicated
in tho Rhootin of Carter.
Ii. Ii. Hanna, chairman OF the eSecutiv
; committee of the Indianapolis "Souut
: Money Convention, had Gonsulta
= tion with Secretary Gage in Washing
! ton. Tuesday. Later, it is understood
Secretary Gage had talk with JhI
President. The Presidents decision
: as to whether he will send a spccia
message TO Congress recommending
Ourroncy Commission Is expected thi
week.
In an interview in London Tuesda
+, John w, Foster, the United States Sea
! Commiseioner, in speaking Of Hawaii
+ said: We luarned the sentiments G
!. kussia and France during our visit t
5 st. Petersburg aud Paris. They won
d object to annexation, and regard it a
$ natural and inevitable. do not be
u lieve Great Britain will object. Th
European governments may not like il
q but they are reconciled to it.
n Lord Salisbury stated ON Tuesda
a in the House of Lords that th
d delay in tho settlement of the psac
i terms between Turkey and Greco
was entirely the fault of the formt
Power. Having alluded TO the situatio
10 1878, pointing out that then RuI
:, sian army was at the gates of Cor
y stantinople, Lord Salisbury remarke
= that, as proportioned 10 the uircun
: stances, the year 1897 became annlHgou
10 of the year 1878, 80 his hopes of sal
isfactory result increase.
The strike order of the NationI
Executive Board of the United Mil
Workers OF America was obsyed Tues
day by from 10000 to l5,000 of th
81, 600 miners in the Pittshurg district
d An important step was taken in Ohit
!, Judge Taft, at Cincinnati, granting d
d order, upon petition of the receivers {
n the Wheeling a. Lake Erie Railway Co
and of the Wheeling, Lake Eric