Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-04-15
NE WARR.

Special Correspondence Of Gazette and journal.
NEWARK, April ga few days q conf
mittee of the Knights of Labor, repre-
senting the employees of the Dean Wooden
Company, held conference with the Off
GERS of the company relative to an advance
of wages. The committee consisted of
actual employees of the factory and was
given o respectful hearing by the COM
pany. The committee set forth COM
parison of the wages paid in this and
other mills, and insisted on general in
crease in wages through the entire
this mill has not been very
profitable to its owners for some time
past. The reply of the company was
that, under the existing circumstances,
compliance with the request was impossi-
BILE. There followed, it is said, discus
| sion of the management of the mill,
which the workingmen commended was
\ faulty, and to this attributed the present
necessity for low wages. The committee
was not given an absolute refusal but the
matter is before the owners for consider
alton.
NEWARK, April 12.-Mrs. Raymond died at
the residence of j. @. Shiveler, at the
Newark station on Friday, after short i'll
ness of pneumonia. Her remains will be
taken to New York, her former homo, on
Wednesday.
S. NJ, Curtis and wife, who have been
touring In the south for two months, re-
turned on Saturday evening. They have
been in Florida and other southern states,
and latterly at Old Point Comfort.
NEWARK, April 14.-The annual cleo.
, ton, for town commissioners to serve
, for the ensuing year was held here yester
day afternoon at the office Of Squire
McKeowan from to o'clock.
: The election was an unusually quie
and insignificant one, only rs votes being
, polled this year. The old ticket was no
7 reelected, as your correspondent errone
, ously predicted last week, for new tickle
with "black horses" was trotted out OIL
Monday, which materially injured thei
q calculation, on the subject.
:. The old board consists of G. W
n Williams, William H. Shippers, A. J.Lilly
N. M. Motherall and s. M. Donnell. Thi
# ticket was acceptable to most people an
! particularly the citizens of the easter
n half of the town, of whom there wer
"a three out of total of five, and ma orit
a in the board of down towners," in COL
!. tradistinction to "up-towners" is quit
10 desideratum, since it insures for ii
eastern portion of the town, more sati
n factory administration, in its affairs, tina
Nv that given them by an opposite faction
,e for there is quite a singular and laugl
at able rivalry between the two ends of Il
al town.
IN The following ticket was elected: {
d. W. Williams, "a; William H. Shipper
81; Samuel j. Wright, Il; Maths
il, Motherall, IA; John Rambo, AZ.
nd This successful ticket contains thr
re- ''down towners," (the first. named three
lat and that side carried the day. The boar
politically speaking, is Democratic
one, but the question Of politics h
nothing to do with the case, sin
lie politics is relocated in the 'sacr
,s- cause of good government, and in t
earnest endeavor to serve honestly a
ito efficiently in the capacity OF toy
@. commissioner, an Office absolute
NO without emoluments yet aboundi
20. in fault finding and grumbli
of and it is verify thankless duty. II is
lot, be hoped that this new board will int
In duce several needed reforms and
rer provements in the town.
He Mrs. Jarley's wax works, which was
sed have been presented here by Whining
was talent, on Thursday evening in Casl
his Hall, has been indefinitely postponed.