Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-05-29
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.

Henry @. Mccormick, former at
torney- general of Pennsylvania, died
Monday in WilliamsI ort of Bright's
disease.
The storm which passed over Union,
S. c., Sunday, wrecked 80 houses and
killed eight persons, three of them
colored.
DIR. George A. Barton of Bryn Mawr
College will 60 to Palestine in June to
take charge of the School of Oriental
Research.
Capt. George Cowie of the United
States navy was killed by Pennsyl
vania train at Railway, N. D., Thurs
day night.
The Cuban Senate and the House
have passed bill granting President
Palma $500, 600 for current expenses in
connection with insular affairs.
The worst forest fires in the history
of tho mountains of the Continental
Divide arc raging in the Collegiate
range and the Sangre de Cristo, Col.
The plant of the American steel
foundry ut Granite City, ILL.,, was
closed Monday for an indefinite
period, owing to the strike of the
coremakers
Richard Hansen was killed and John
Krieger seriously injured Mt Hacken-
sack, n. j., Thursday, the result of
their horse taking fright at an auto
mobile.
Herbert L. Brice, half brother of
the late Senator Brice, and a promi-
nent attorney of Lima, o., committed
| suicide in Il sanitarium at Flint, Mich,
Friday.
N. w. Hamblin, manager Of the
Western Union Telegraph Co. in Mil
waulSte, has been appointed manager
Of that company's main Office in New
York City.
Five Thousand union men employed
| in bodybuilding trades in Denver went
ON strike Monday for the purpose OF
| aiding the wood workers in their efforts
to secure an oight.hour day
The official call for the six biennial
| Convention vi the Worlds Christian
| Temperance Union, which has just been
issued, designates Geneva as tho place
and June, 1903, as the time for the
| meetings
The Rev. DIR. j. l.. Mckee, pro
fessur emeritus of Centre College. Dan
Vile, KY. and one of the best know
Presbyterian preachers in the South
died Friday from the effects of ;
o.. ~buncle. He was Is years old.
Aired Hamilton was hanged Fri
day at Whatcom, Wash, for the murder
Of ID. M. Woodbury., September It'll
1889. When the murder was committed
Woodbury. was assisting an office
arrest Hamilton, who was intoxicated
Tho General Conference of til,
Methodist Episcopal Church Soutt
| Friday elected II. M. Dubose genera
secretary of the Epworth League ant
editor OF the Epworth Era. p. j.
Bingham of Georgia was elected senio
| book agent.
A boiler exploded Monday at tn
home of John II. Kirby at Houston
Tex, where a private theatre an,
natatorium were being built. Engince
Harry Woodland OF Memphis and hi
assistant, Charles Coughlan, We're in
stantly killed.
Employees of the Union Bag an,
Paper Co., at Ballston, N. y, went OIL
strike Monday for an increase il
wages from 81. % TIC Si.50 for Il 10-hou
day. About 300 men in six paper am
! pun lHliiS bIb diitCLcu
For entering into an agreement TO
making almshousc appointments Ed
ward Kester ana Henry Becker, forme
directors of the poor, were Monda
sentenced in Schuyll1ill county. Pa
to pay fines and costs aggrcgating 1927
In Philadelphia Monday John L
Semple, u lawyer of Camden, N. j.
was acquitted Of the charge of com
plicity with Arthur Taylor and Bald
win S. Bredell in making counterfeit
$40 notes in cell in Moyamensin
Prison.
In Kansas City Monday Fran
Robinson, aged 20, shot and killed hi
sweetheart, Gertie Rawlins, aged !
years; shot and fatally wounded hi
rival, Albert II. Ferguson, aged /
years, and shot and fatally injure
himself
L. ID. Weed, former United State
district attorney for Montana, wa
suspended Monday by the Montan
Supreme Court from practice in til
courts for period of two years. hay
ing been found guilty Of malpractice
and deceit.
IAN inspection Of the Coal Creek
Tenn, mine shows that the disastrou
explosion of last week was caused b
gus, and revealed three or four ba
leaks iii the old Knoxville Iron Co.
mine, from which gas flows into th
Fraterville mine.
Charles ID. Thompson, ex-suprenr
finance Keeper of the Supreme Ten
knights Of the Macabees, was arraigne
in Port Huron, Miuh., Monday, an
refused to plead to tho charge of en-
bezzling S57, 900 from the order. A pie
OF not guilty was entered by the cour
The President Monday nominate
Robert S. Mccormick of Illinois to |
Ambassador to Austria Hungary. Il
is at present minister The Presidel
also nominated Chandler Hale, Main,
secretary of the embassy at Viennf
George b. Riyes, New Jersey, secon
> secretary embassy at Vienna, an
{ Charles Richardson, Massachusetts
! third secretary embassy at Berlin.
: Ankle Injured.
: While at work at the plant of Il
! Lobdell Car Wheel Co. Monday afte
1 noon Henry Cox had one of his ankl