Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1902-05-01
IN GENERAL.


DR.. Joseph p. Turner died at Trenton
Sunday, aged 10 years.
A. ID. Harrison has bought Oak
Level, a farm near st, Michael's, for
50, $50.
Mrs. Mary f. Fowler of Elkton has
applied for divorce from John ii.
Fowler.
Several acres of valuable woodland
near Leeds were destroyed by fire
Thursday.
John Anthony, charged with attempt
ing to murder his sweetheart. COM
mitted suicide Thursday in the county
jail at Belvidere. N. J.
The body Of Joseph Seitz, aged 65
years, who disappeared from Port De-
posit month ago, was found in the
Susquehanna River Friday.
Ex-State Senator Robert Howard of
Fall River, for many years secretary of
the National Spinners Union, died in
Boston Sunday, aged 81 years. ..=
Prof. L. r. Hamberlin of Vanderbilt
University, Tenn. died in Richmond,
Va, Thursday. He was Al years old,
and was born in Clinton, Miss.
The Mount Arlington Hotel, on the
Boulevard Mt. Arlington, Lake Ho-
patcong, N. j., was destroyed by fire
Thursday. The loss was $50, 600.
BY the blowing up, Saturday, of the
mills of the Shenandoah Powder Co,
at krebs Station, Schuylkill county,
Pa. five employees were instantly killed.
Clement A. Griscom's barn, near
Merton Square, Pa, was burned Fri
day, with seven stock bulls and two
horses, the loss amounting to $40, 600.
The National City Bank of New
York will increase its capital stock
from $40, 900, 900 to S25, 600, 600. and its
surplus from 81, 800, 600 to SIS, 600, 600.
Kelly McAway Garlock and William
Kershner, both Of Hagerstown, Md,
were killed Thursday by train on
the Atlantic City railroad, in Camden,
N. ].
William Rogers, aged 10, killed his
granddaughter, Miss Mary Awfield,
aged 30, and killed himself on Roane
Creek, in johnson county, Tenn,
Friday.
An engine and II cars on a lumber
road ran away down II mountain near
Saginaw, Western North Carolina,
Wednesday, and William Burton, engi.
neer, was killed.
John Reinhardt, AZ years old, was
shot and killed in the rear of his home
in Detroit Friday by Frank Colling,
aged l6, during a dispute over the
formers children.
A fire at Glen's Falls, N. y, Sun
day destroyed the plant of the Joseph
Fowler Shirt and Collar Co. and other
property, the loss being estimated at
more than $500, COO i
An attempt to wreck the tunnel of
the Canadian Niagara Power Co., at
Niagara Falls, Ontario, was frustrated
on Friday night by the discovery of
dynamite and wires in the shaft.
The State Central Committees Of the
Democratic and Populist parties of
Nebraska have fixed the place and date
for their State conventions for Grand
Island, June oath, Fusion has been
practically agreed to.
Senator Allison was quoted as saving
in Chicago on Saturday that reel
procity in some form will be granted
to Cuba" at this session of Congress.
and that the Army Reorganization bill
will not be acted upon.
Thomas Burns, negro, was shot to
death in a shanty camp near Elkins,
W. Va, Thursday. John Green and
Henry Harrison, both colored, were
arrested, and Green, while trying to
escape from the guards, was shot dead.
dispatch from Missoula, Montana.
says that the spotted fever scourge in
tho Bitter Root Valley has broken out
with greater violence than at any time
known in the history of the disease.
Eight persons have died of the
malady within week.
Gen. Grant has returned from an OK
pedition into the interior of Samar,
bringing with him the insurgent leader
Gueverra and his entire command. Over
QUO men have surrendered in Samar and
nearly 200 in Negros. Tho whole Of tho !
southern end of the latter island is to |
be opened up in consequence.
Now i: a good time to begin taking Uood,s
strsapaIi,ia; the medicine that clcGnsgs lie |