Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-02-25

and Columbia counties, N. x.
Rufus de Hart farmer OF Bloom
burg, N. j., committed suicide Mon
day by hanging. ,ys. Slii
John Mccormick, promi nent Demo-
cratic politician of Camden county, N.
d., died Monday.
A cotton mill company, to be
operated entirely by colored labor, has
been organizsd at Concord, N. G.
West Chester Borough Council has
purchased property along Chester creek
as site for its new water plant.
The Sixty eighth street water tunnel,
at Chicago. caved in Monday, and 80
workmen barely escaped with their
lives.
Thesafe in the office of the Albany
railway, in Albany, N. ". was broken
open by burglars Tuesday and about
81, 500 was taken.
The National Association of internal
Revenue Officers was organized in.
Cincinnati on Saturday with L. j.
Frazee of Louisville as president.
The President Monday issued IL
exeuctiye orders, establishing as many
additional forest reservations, cuptan.
ing an aggregate area OF 81, 379, $40
acres. tt. tfis9,
State Treasurer Haywood estimates
the expenditures Of the State Of Penn
sylrania at the present rate to be over
81, 600. 600 per year in excess of the re.
ceipts.
BY the burning Of dwelling in
Mahanoy township, near Shamokin,
Pa, on Monday, $4,000 in each, be-
longing to Edward Wolfgong, was de-
stroyed. sSs
The Navy Department has approved
the finding of the court of inquiry in
the case OF the cruiser Brooklyn, which
completely exonerates all the officers
concerned.
A Fresno, CAL, dispatch says that
William Null and Wallace Lidgerwood,,
who resided at Sequoia, in the Sierras,
were frozen to death in tho recent
Hnowatorm.
The gunboat Helena, constructed al
Newport News, Va, made trial trip
Tuesday and developed speed of rs
knots, exceeding the requirement~Fby
two knots. =
Barney O'NeiI, assailant OF the Davis
family, at Atlantic City, was Tuesday
taken to the SHtte prison, the supreme
court having affirmed the sentence Of
the lower court.
William johnson was arrested at
Ransomville, N. Y, on Saturday,
charged with stealing from the mails
while employed as letter-carrier in
Brooklyn five years ago.
The litigation over the affairs of the
East Tennessee Land Co. was settled
in the United States appellate court at
Chattanooga on Saturday by decree
in favor OF the receivers.
1t is reported that five of the leading
independent oil producing companies
of Pennsylvania have consolidated
under the name of the Pure Oil Co. to
fight the Standard Oil Co.
Division No. / of the Missouri
supreme court on Saturday gave de-
cision, the effect of which-is to open
to women nearly all the elective county
and State offices in Missouri.
Charles Francis Scott, an American
citizen, who was arrested in Cuba on
February 9th, was released Tuesday
as the result of representations made
by the United States Consul General.
Bishop Turner of the African Method.
ist Church has complained to the
Georgia State Railroad Commission
that the railroads of the State do not
furnish eating accommodations for
negroes.
NJ. NJ. Marks, his two young sons
and William Reed, ledger, were
burned to death at Hannibal, Mo-, on
Monday, ia a fire which destroyed
Marks dry goods store. over which
they lived.
NJ. Nicholson, convicted of the muir.
der Of j.. Dural, q liveryman of Maai-
son, Fla. and sentenced to be hanged
at Tallahassee ON March 18th, COM
mitted suicide no Monday night by
laudanuin poisoning.
Spain's Prime Minister is reported
as saying that be has official informa-
tion that Major Mckinley. when he
the insurgents in Cuba or to OBJECT the
Independence Of thu island.
A Guthrie, o. t., dispatch reports
Coombs by opponents of the school.
AS result pitched battle took place
in the postoffice, in the course of which
Postmaster Baker was killed.
Judge Lurton OF the United States
circuit court in Louisville. on Satur-
day, awarded the United States Trust
Go. Of New York judgment against the
receiver of the Chesapeake, Ohio Il
Southwestern railroad for $500, 914.
Lord Aberdeen, the Governor General
of Canada, accompanied by his aide,
Capt. Wilberforce, called on Secretary
0lDey in Washington Tuesday and
were taken by that official TO the White
House and presented to the President.
Over 100 hands employed in the
biudery OF the Munzy Publishing
House, at Nav London, Conn, were
discharged ON Saturday ON account of
the strike OF the other hands. Mr..
Munzy says that no will move his plant
to New York.
Comptroller Bowler of the Treasury
Department has notified the chief Of
engineers of the army that he will not
allow accounts for repairing damages,
such as wharves. &C.. damaged by the
government during river aud harbor
improvements.
Judge Swayne, in the United States
District court at Dallas, Tex, Mon
day, gave an opinion in the case Of the
Standard Oil combine against the
Texas Antitrust law. He decided
against the State and declared the law
unconstitutional.
Judge William T. Thompson, ex-
treasurer of West Virginia. died at
Huntingdon ON Sunday night. One
year ago Judge Thompson had costly