Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-07-04
EARLY MORNING news.

Gen. Daniel Butterfield is critically
i'll at his home, in Cold, Spring, New
York.
Horatio N. Jobes, city marshal Of.
Bordentown, N. j., for the past 10.
years, died Sunday.
The Camden police Sunday raided
two saloons doing business, and the
proprietors were looked up.
Mrs. Eliza Rogers Potter, wife of
Bishop Henry O. Potter. died in New
York Sunday Of heart disease.
Matthew Gill. a resident Of Paulsporo,
N. j., and postmaster at that place,
died on Saturday, aged n years..
The Rev. On. Byron Sunderland of
Washington, q. g., died Sunday at
Catskiii, Nav .YoEk, aged SO years.
1t is asserted at 81 Petersburg that
M. de Witta the Hpssisn Fiansuoe
Minister, wffisleave for Manchuria dur
ing July. ms
Frank r. Thomas. vell-knowr OF one
time in rsilroeds citcles, died az his
home at haddoniield, N D., Sunday,
aged 49yehrs.
The United States training ship
Hartford arrived at Copslhagen Sun
day. The Crown Prinue Regent will
entertain the officers.
Ex- Coy. Robert Il. Pattisep made the
principal address Of the Observance oil
Philadelphia Day at the Pan American
Exposition, Saturday.
John Miller. aged 80 years, Of st.
David's, near PHILADELPHIA, committed
tuicide Sunday at Long Branch BY
saking oarboli6 acid.
E.ra Das.an uubn raasla1 n.ax n,.r
lington, N. j., and was engaged in the
brokerage business in Philadelphia,
died suddenly on Saturday night
DIR. John q. /. Whitehead, Homoe-
opathio physician OF Burlington county,
New Jersey, die6 suddenly on Saturday
at his residence, near Orosswicks, aged
70 years.
There IL no intention on the cart Of
the War Department, according to q
Washington dispatch, to reduce the
military force in Cuba at the present
time OF In the Immediate future.
George R. Sheldon, broker, jumped
from the High Bridge into the Harlan
River at New York, on Saturday. Hel
was taken from the water unconscious
and died two hours later.
The Comptroller of the Currency on
Saturday appointed temporary re-
ceiver for the City National Bank of
Buffalo, N. Y. The failure OF the bank
is due to iniudicious loans.
The conference of coal miners and
operators of Distriot No. 90. which in
cludes Leavenworth county, Kansas,
and nearly ell OF Missouri, has adj
iourned without having agreed on .
wage scale.
The Anchor Line steamer Armenia,
on her way to st. John from New York,
went ashore in fog on Saturday morn
ing on Niger Head. about seven miles
from 81. John, New Brunswick, and
will probably be a total lose.
The dedioatory ceremonies of the
monument erected In Japan TO COM
| memorate the landing of Commodore
Perry will be held at Kurihama, on
July i4th, d'will be participated in
Ply an American squadron of warships.
Prinuo Chuan, brother Of the Chinese
Emperor, is at Tien Tsin, on his way
to Germauy ON a speoial mission, and
on his return he will visit America, 1t
| the imperial family of China going be.
You'd the limits of the Empire.
The excursion steamer Mohawk struck
| rock and sank, near Glen Island, on
Long Island Sound, on Saturday ereYf
| ing. The 700 passengers were all taken
off by another excursion boat. During
the panic on the Mohawk several of the
passengers were trampled upon and in
| jured.
| Atlantic City for the first time in
many years was dry Sunday, due
| to an order received by Mayor Stoy
from Supreme Court Justice Hendricls-
son. The city was very orderly and but
one arrest for drunkenness was made.
The saloons at South Atlantic City
were reported as doing business.
I Marquis Tseng has received, says q
cablegram from Shanghai, dispatch
from Sian Flu stating that the Empress
Dowagsr. fearing trap to capture her,
declines to return to Pekin, and has
notified the Grand Council that the
future capital will be Kai Feng Flu, in
| the Province of Ho Nan.