Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-07-24

John w. Mackay, an American mhlion-
aire, died in London Sunday night.
Lyons, small town in Tatnall county.
Ga, was almost totally destroyed by FIRE
Thursday night.
Richard Chadwick, aged 1s years, of
Trenton, was drowned in the Delaware
River yesterday week
Mrs. Thomas NJ. Patterson, wife of the
United States Senator from Colorado, died
in Denver last night week.
Leon Falkenburg, aged 10 years, was
killed Tuesday night waek by falling from a
wagon at Burlington, n. j.
The Democratic convention for the Eighth
Congressional district, Texas, renominated
Thomas II. Ball for fourth term.
The announcement Is made of an i'm
portant discovery Of India rubber and gutta
percha trees in German New Guinea.
Horace Tarr, planter, son of Capt. Tarr
Of Philadelphis, L dead OF yellow fever at
W. r. Frost, freight brakeman of Cam
den, n. j., was killed Friday by being
knocked from car at an Iarchway at Col
umbus,
George 7. johnson, clerk IN a Washing
! ton, D. c., hardware store, who had been
| married but two weeks, committed suicide
/ Friday.
At the opening Of circus at Madison,
| Wis, Saturday night, the great tent was
| blown down, and in the panic many persons
| were injured.
| p. w. Clement Of Rutland vas nominated
| for governor of Vermont By the Local
| Option League Convention at Burlington
/ yesterday week.
Jacob Shoemaker, who was chief of police
of Pottsyile. Pa. during the reign Of terror
OF the Molly Magnires, died there Friday
| night, aged Y years.
| The transport sheridan arrived at San
| Francisco on Saturday from Manila with
6l2 men of the Thirteenth Infantry, 1ib of
the Third Cavalry, 554 caslals and rs sick.
Joseph Galloway, member Of the
Quantrell band during the Civil War, is
dead at Lexington, Mo-, from knife wounds
inflicted by Doc johnson ia quarrel
Tuesday.
Although but one new license was granted
the output Of local brewers for the year is
estimated to be 10000 barrels in excess of
the total quantity for the preceding IL
months.
The customs revenues In the Philippine
Archipelago for the first four months Of
1872 were g, s94, 975; for the same period in
1899, 81, 215 so; for 1900, 81, sS9, "a, and Tor
1901, 81, al, 3ff3.
Gen. Charles Fl. Smith, q. S. A., retired,
died at Washington Thursday night, aged
IS years, after a long Illness. caused by a
stroke of apoplexy two years ago. Gen.
Smith was a native of Maine.
|
$4,000, in the show business, James
Thomas Harper. one-Iegged acrobat, well
known among circus people throughout the
country, is dead at Warsaw. Ind.
A Tacoma dispatch says that after 40 day:
Of continual pursuit By men and blood
hounds, all organized effort to capture Harry
Tracy, the escaped Oregon convict, has
ended. The pursuit thus far has cost $1,000
result of the charges made by 81 stock
holders of the Metallic Condense Co. against
the corporation and acme OF its officers wa.
the appointment last week by Judge Fin
letter of Charles F. Clement as receiver Of
the concern.
DR.. Washington Fighter, widely-k know
! wholesale humber merchant. died suddenl!
in Atlantic City. last week. He was borr
in Lancaster in le45, and was graduated
from jefferson Medical College in 1856, bu
never practieed medicine.
Several hundred soldiers surrounded re
sort in Leavenworth on Saturday night an,
demolished thu doors, windows and furni
: ture. in revenge for the fatal stabbing o
Eli Loucks. member of Co. F, Sixth Cav
Q airy, by colored man in the resort.
The employees of the American Tinplat
Co. in the Indiana gas belt have rejected tn
proposition Of the company for reduction
Of % per cent, so that the rate OF the tin
plate works in Wales could be met on tn
orders of the Standard Oil Co. The frs
order from the Standard for 10000 til
: boxes, il is said, cannot now be accepted.
/ The London Stock Exchange will b
j. closed on Saturday, August %.
Minister Buck. at Toxic, report
that cholera has broken out there.
) George ID. Moore, widely know
Is evangelist, died at Bridgeton, N. j..
Monday.
Major Charles Fl. Fasnaeht, Media
of Honor Legion member, died a
It Lancaster Monday, aged 60 years.
Q W. X. Wells was hanged at Atlanta
= Ga, Monday, for the murder {
2 Frederick Pierce, blind man, on th
= LIST Of February last.
Gen. William II. L. Barnes, one Q
- the leading lawyers Of the Pacific cosst
is dead, at San Frsncisco,of hemorrhag
of the lungs He was 66 years of age
4 collision occurred at Sea Girt, n
-. j., Monday, between a passenger an
= freight train. Lloyd Clark, the eng
" neer of the passenger train, was killed
ID James J. Kelley, an old-t time mir
lg strel, who, during his professions
" career, appeared in nearly every pal
E, of tho country, died at his home
NC Boston on Sunday. He wss69 years ok