Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-05-08
IN GENERAL.

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Now York aied iii Baltimore FRIDAY
night.
Tho cost of entertaining Prince
| Henry at Chicago for 20 hours was
s!2,5J0.
Theodore II. Dibble, aged go years,
n veteran of the Civil War, died in
Camden, n. j., Monday.
John Fitzpatrick of Trenton com
mitted suicide Thursday because of
Disagreement by smallpox.
NJ W. Mann of Hamilton Square,
n. j., was probably fatally injured at
Trenton Monday by 4 trolley car.
Speaker Henderson was renominated
Thursday by the Republicans of tho
Third iowa Congressional district
Congressman Sydney T.. Mudd has
been nominated for re election by the
Republicans of tho Fifth Maryland dis
trict.
The Most Rev. Michael Augustine
Cnrrigan, archbishop of New York,
died in that city Monday night of pneu-
lnonia.
Frederick Kruger, former tax col
lecuor Of Chesilhurst, n. j., was ac-
quilted Monday of charge of en-
be2zlement.
The main building of the Soldiers
Orphans School, at Chester Springs,
Pa, an historic structure, was burned
Sunday night
Tie body of the man found drowned
in Big Timber Creek, N. j., on Sun
| day was identified as that of William
IL. Brooks of Philadelphia.
Edward Egan, aged % years, of
Camden, N. j., was killed at the New
York Ship Building Co s plant Mon
| day by being crushed under falling iron.
Hugh McGlory was sentenced Thurs
day to 10 years Imprisonment for the
fatal stabblng of Jonn A. Smith in the
Barley Sheaf Hotel, on November 25th
1901.
A monument to Continental soldiers
who died from wounds received in the
battle of Brandywine and were inferred
at Ephrata was Thursday unveiled at
that place.
The result of the votes of ministers
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
upon tho adoption of the proposed new
Constitution resulted in S,42l for and
,, go against.
A. f. Haas, live stock compassion
man, and one of the most wealthy
stockmen in the West, was struck and
killed by % Union Pacific train at
South Omaha Thursday.
Three Sciotoville, O., boys ate a
quantity of wild parsnips Sunday, mis-
taking them for sweet anise. Charles
Moore, aged II, is dead, and the other
two are in a serious condition.
A broken drawhead caused the wreck
Of an oil train on the Erie railroad at
Sparrow Bush, west of Port Jervis,
N. ", Thursday. Fourteen cars were
consumed, causing loss of $40 600.
DIR. Cyrus S. Hottonstein, who for
more than 20 years was physician to the
Working Home for the Blind, and who
was also long connected with the
medical service of the Pennsylvania
railroad, is dead.
The truck Transfers strike, which
threatened to embrace the 6,000 union
teamsters in Chicago, was settled
Thursday, when tho j. G. Pennoyer
Teaming Go. granted the strikers %
cents an hour overtime.
Councilman James S. Hanson, Jr. /,
and Justice of the Peace James M.
Finley Of Camden, N. j.. were sentenced
to three and four months, respectively,
Friday on charges of attempting to
compound Il misdemeanor.
ii. G. Squers, secretary of the
United States Legation ut Pekin, has
been selected by the President to he
minister To Cuba, and Gen. f. s..
Bragg of Wisconsin has been selected
as consul general at Havana.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close of business
/ April Both, 1902, the debt, less cash in
, the treasury, amounted to $685. ll5, 976,
, which is Il decrease, as compared with
April LIST, 1902 of 81, GIG, 356.
Ossian Bedell, who was appointed in.
spector of customs for Buffalo in 1861
/ by President Lincoln, died Monday
at his home, near that city. aged Il
, years. lie was consul at Fort Eric,
Ontario, at the time OF his death.
| A New York Central fast mail, west
bound, crashed into an eastbounc
! freight train at Clyde, N, u, Fri
, day afternoon. The engineer and fire
man of the mail were killed and |:
mail clerks and trainmen were injured
all seriously.
Pennsylvania has purchased $1,000
S acres in Huntingdon, Union, Centre
! MiIflin and Pike counties for forestr,
!; reserve. DIR. Henry G. Yeagley, aget
/ rs, president of the Pennsylvania Stat,
Eclectic Medical Examining Board
died Friday in Lancaster.
When an effort was made at Lo
! Angeles to serve reouisition on DIR. f.
= W. Aldrich of Chicago, he opened fir,
!. !. on the officers, badly wounding De
. tective Bradish. The latter sho
" Aldrich in the abdomen, and th,
!, wounded man then shot himself in til,
4 head, dying instantly.
+ The statement of the government
d receipts and expenditures shows tina
during April, 1902, the receipts wer
Sl5, 2l1, 800, decrease, as compare
with April, 1901, OF 81, 552, O0O Th
Il expenditures for the month aggregate
0 $40, 79a, 263 which leaves u surplus 70
\ the month Of Si,3l6, 600 The surplu
!, Tor the year to date is s65, 593, 27Q.
~ Cleveland Grover. aged II years, Of Glou
!, ccster City, n. j., was drowned on Satul
day in the Delaware River.
senator McTaurin has issued an addres
a 10 the people Of South Carolina, in which Ii
" nrraigns fillman's dictatorship, and az
ID nouncps his intention to ignore the Demo
s cratic primary in his candidacy. claimin
r. that that system had been prostituted an
N perverted from its proper uses into INF
chine to carry out the wishes of thu dictator