Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-03-11

1t is rumored in New York that Mrs.
Langtry was married to Fred Gerhard
last Tuesday.
Postmaster General Wannamaker
passed Sunday in Philadelphia. Chair
man Huston, of Indiana, is likely to be
his first assistant.
Governor Beaver has signed the bill
prescribing the manner of holding the
election June Is.
George f. Reese, the foreman who was
seriously burned in the explosion of the
Powell squib factory at Plymouth, Pa, is
dead
Camden, N. j., tomorrow will elect a
mayor. receiver of taxes, city assessor,
city recorder and representatives to
council and board of education. There
is every indication that the Republicans
will have a walkover.
Frank Forsyth. a masculine mon
strosity without legs, eloped from Lee
tonia, o., with 17-year-old girl named
Lowe.
Pauline Hall, the we'll known actress,
has been granted limited divorce from
her husband, Edmund r. White.
In New York Mary Molony, aged 80,
while on her way to pawn shop with
bundle Of clothes, was seized with a fit
and died in the street.
G.. r. Barrett, died at the age of 10, at
his home in Clarified, Pa, of paralysis.
He was appointed by President Pierce to
codify the revenue laws, and served as
Judge of the Twenty-fifth judicial district
for eighteen years.
A freight train on the Sunbury and
Lewiston division of the Pennsylvania
railroad broke in two and the rear por-
ton was struck by two engines following.
The locomotive and several cars were
wrecked. Fireman Williams was killed
and Engineers Rarick and Hopple were
badly hurt.
Mrs. Clara NJ. Nye, only two years a
bride. pert, pretty and vivacious, was
sent to jail in Pennington, Me, for steal
ing a horse and wagon.
The Delaware Iron works, at New
Castle. shut down for week owing to
lack Of orders.
The funeral of the late Isaiah V. Will
| hanson took place from the residence OF
his niece. Mrs. Paul C. Dencla, 2032 De
lancey street. Philadelphia. The time Of
the funeral had not been publicly an
nounced. and all details for the burial
were arranged with the suictest secrecy,
AT Washington, Nd, Mrs. Martin
Charnes, while i'll and enfeebled, was
assaulted hv her brOther-in-law. JOSEPH
Charnes. The fellow was caught at Vim
cennes and brought back. Feeling
against the accused runs high and lynch
ing is feared.
There is no clew in the Weshrung muir
der in New York. The imprisoned boy
still denies his guilt.
A banquet is rendered to Mr.. Cleve
land by New York business men.
Billy McGlory's license for a Jewisl
theatre in New York has been revoked
because he still ran a dance hall.
One million dollars Of the estate Of tn
late millionaire Williamson, of Philadel
phia. was left by his will to various char
tiles in that city.
A German laborer named Heybeck
died in the Jail in Allentown, Pa, tn
victim of a practical joke by pretendeI
! White Caps. who visited him some tim
! ago and frightened him out Of his wits.
Mr. Ritter, retired New York mer
chant, died in a Broadway street car
His sister dropped dead at the sight o
his corpse.
At the Academy of Music, Pittsburg
, the singing of the German national song
{ THE Watch on the Rhine was vigoI
ously objected TO by a number of tn
audience ON account of the Samoan Incl
5 dent, and before order could be restores
4 the police had to arrest w. p. Johnsto
and DR.. Englis.
Professor" Edwin Farnham, Of Cam
> den. n. j.. claims that he is the invenio
of the Monitor which knocked ont fh
Merrimac, and declares that Capt. Johi
/, Ericsson, who died in New York las
/, Friday, and who enjoyed the distinction
of having planned and built the famou
warship, is not entitle to the homer at all