Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-02-25
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cago Friday for tho murder OF his
wife,
Torpedo boat No. was put into
commission at Newport, II. l., on
| Saturday.
The Kosciusco county infirmary at
| Warsaw. Ind, was burned on Satur-
day night.
Mrs. Eva Roseland, wife Of Brook.
| lyn artist, committed suicide in that
city on Friday night.
Ex-Cuunty Judge and ex-Mayor @. S.
Fuller OF Prairie du CHEN, Wis, COLE
mitted suicide on Thursday.
I q. Schotte's window shade factory,
in Chicago, was damaged by fire on
Saturday to the extent of $40, 600.
| Campbol's ice house at Hamilton,
o., having capacity of 10000 TONS,
was burned on Friday loss, $50, oCo.
| A fire in Lees lumber yard, at
Binghsmpton, N. y, on Saturday
night, caused loss of about Sl00, 600.
A fire in tho Syndicate Block, in
Grand Forks, n. D., on Sunday.
destroyed four business houses. Loss,
1925, 600.
The body OF Mrs. Rolin Hewitt, who
has been miasing for several days, was
found in Magnolia lake, at Ocean View,
N. j., Sunday.
An agreement has been made by
which the Third National Bank Of ST..
| Louis is to absorb the Chemical Ma
tional Bank Of the same city.
The Mahoning county infirmary,
near Cornfield. o., was burned Sun
| pay aud William Hartzell. an insane
patient, was burned to death.
| At Anaconda. Mont, on Thursday,
Mrs Frank Dressler and Sherman
Ransom we're shot and killed by Frank
Dressler, the woman's husband.
A freight wreck occurred on the
Illinois Central road, near KIM undy,
ILL.,, on Thursday. The engineer, fire.
man and one brakeman were killed.
The A american correspondent Of the
London Times asserts that the post of
Ambassador to Great Britain has been
offered to and accepted by Col. John
Hay.
According to Huntington, ". Va,
dispatch, George A. Holding of that
city is to be minister and consul
general to Greece, Rouamnia and
Seryia.
The postoffice, printing department
and quarters for married enlisted men,
at Jefferson Barracks, Mo-, were
damaged to The extent of 90, 600 by fire
Friday.
Paddock. Hodge & Co. e grain eleva-
tor. a Toledo, o., was burned on
Saturday morning, together with
several Lake Shore railroad cars. Loss,
S275, 600.
An attempt was made on Thursday
night to wreck Big -Four train, near
Berea, O., on a bridge 10 feet high.
The distractions were discovered by a
track walker
The Webster Block in Gloucester,
Mass, comprising four stories, the
Opera House and number of Offices
was burned cd Friday. The loss will
be from $50, 900 to $4,000
1t is stated fthat Germany will CO.
operate in the calling Of an interna.
tional monetary conference il England
ausents to such a meeting. The coL.
sent of France has been obtained.
A number of business houses in vii.
mington, n. c., were burned on Satur
day; loss, $50, 600 to S25, GOO. The
charred remains Of George Cox, q
tenant of one of the buildings, was
found in the ruins.
President Martin of the Stevens In
stitute of Technology has given the
trustees of the institution !, 100 shares
of Texas Pacific railroad stock toward
fund for the proposed alumni build
ing.
The bye. election in st. Buniface,
Manitoba. in which the issue was the
school question, was won on Saturday
by the Roman Catholic party-the ad
vocates of separate schools-by ma
jority of 1872.
At Lockport, N. Y, Friday morn
ing Richard Hutchinson, a colored
workman employed on the canal, strucl
his pick into an unexplo1ed blast,
causing an explosion bY which five
men were seriously injured.
| Fritz Sheer of Camden, N. j.. wa.
picked up in the ptreets Of that city
, Friday, anil after being refused ad.
mission to the Cooper Hospital, wal
taken to the city pi ison, whore he dice
of yalvular disease of the heart.
Silas A. Barton of Boston. an OK
!, director of tine General Electric Co.,
, has made an assignment. Tho failure
of the Interior Decorating Co. of Chi
cago. in which Mr.. Barton was the
heaviest stockholder, was the immediate
cause.
Gov. Bushnell rof Ohio announced
Sundayevenipg that when Senator Sher
man resigns to enter the cabinet q
President Mckinley he will appoint tc
} succeed him Hon. Marcus A. Hanna,
J to serve until his successor ia chosen by
the Legislature.
james A. Gary of Baltimore ha!
vetoed the proposition to get up {
public meeting OF business mon of thai
city under the auspices of the Nor
chants and Manufacturers Association
To endorse Mr.. Gary for position il
Mr.. Mcliinley's cabinet.
President Cleveland will not make
nominations TO ill vacancies in thu
government service which may bt
caused by designations occurring
!, between now and the 9TH of Marcel
next, but will leave such places open Il
be filed by President Mckinley.
Six members of the Spicor family
the Row. Thomas Spicer, Mrs. SpicPr,
Mrs. william Taldron, Mrs. william
Rouse and twin babies of the latter
were found murdered in their house,
near Winona, N. D., on Thursday. II
J is supposed they were killed by indians.
A Houghton, Mich, dispatch says
that the Bigclow- lewiston syndicate
has secured an option on the so acres
of land Immediately east of the Centen
nial Mines This nrnoarty is sollth nj