Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-11-28


The Standard on Company Thursday
subscribed 800, 900 to the New York
worlds fair fund.
Henry Perkins, wife and children we're
found il thsir beds 10 Frederic, Mary
land, Thursday morning in an uncon-
snious condition from inhsling coal gas.
}. II. Rathbone of Washington. founder
Of the Order OF the Knights OF Pythins,
In suffering from q Carbuncle, in o hotel
in Lima, Ohio, and not expected to re-
cover.
Attorney-genera Miller has given an
adverse opinion on the claim Of General
Casey, chief OF engineers, for SIG 900, as
q commission Oh funds disbursed by him
Tor the construction of the state, war and
navy departments building.
A tower erected by Professor Z. N.
Horsford on the supposed sits of the
Waltham, Massachusetts,, wan dedicated
Thursday. It is at the Junction of Stoney
brook and tbs Charles river.
Surveys have been made for Reading
railroad tunnel through Broad Mountain,
peGr Linersvilie and Gordon, in Sohuyl-
kill county, Pa. The proposed tunnel
will be four miles long, and cost about
G6 .O00, 900 II will save haul OF So miles.
The Secretary Of the Interior has re.
questeh AID received the resignation Of
II A. PhiiiipH, chief Ct the middle di-
vision in the pension Office. Mr.. Phillips
is one of the rerated pensioners whose
cases were recently overruled by the SEQ
Rotary.
A dispatch from Washington says that
the report Of Mr.. Whiting, the engineer
to whom was referred the dispute be.
tween Maryland and Virginia as to the
boundary line Rt Hog Island, Potomac
river, has been filed. 1t is altogether in
favor OF tue claim of Maryland.
Benjamin g. Lovejoy died in Washing
ton, d. O., Thursday. He was writer
for the Baltimore Sun, and was also en-
gsged in a compilation of the laws of the
District of Columbia. Ho was the author
OF Life Of Bacon which attracted con
siderable attention in England.
A terrific wind storm from the south
west struck Newhern, North Carolina, OF
] O'Clock Thursday afternoon, levelling
the plate and pulp factory OF y, II. Gray.
There were GU persons in the building.
One Of them was killed and nine III jured,
one mortaily. Houses were unroosed,
and trees, fences and ohimneys blown
down.
Charles Montgomery, owner of the
American Exchange Hotel, in San Fran.
cisco, has made an assignment. Liabili.
ties, about S22O 600; assets, 1918 900. Mr..
Montgomery state8 that he was sWindIed
out OF $50 COO by Z Glencross Grant. a
young man with whom he formed q part
netship in the agricultural Implement
business.
The executive council of Maine Thurs.
day voted TO commute the life sentence
Of Charles Fl. KEENAN, of Portland, to 30
years imprisonment. This is practically
o pardon, as he entered the prison in
1861, and with his allowance for good
behavior, the communication seta him free.
Keenan, killed man nemed johnson in a
quarrel about woman.
Tho general assembly of the Kniehts
OF labor closed 1t session in Atlanta yes
terusy wsek. The treasurer said that even
1.-THE order remained in status gao i.s re.
cf'pIs will exceed the expenses by
Sl5 700 each year II was recommended
that some nc ION ba taken By which il
/ viii 10 as easy for the people TO borrow
money from tho government as it il fol
the national banks to borrow.
The New Vol, GdthoG; Ne,sS hes re.
oeiyea q cahlegram from Rome, dated
! November goth saTing 1.-THE pope has
| ordered that The per Unnl and real prop.
| erty Of all Cardinals who die and leave
| no surviving relatives be hequeathed ia
the propaganda lhuSe leaving ralatiyat
must make E generous provision in theii
will Tor the same institution, These and
all other fundB devoted to the uso Of the
propaganda U!ii be Invested in foreign
countv!as This last regulation is to pre-
vent teizurs IL the papai revenues by tho
Itsiap government"
llrs. Nathan 5ttarg iillea two tumblers
WITH solution OF Paris eroen At be,
home IN Moseryiiie, Mich, or last nigh
weak during the atEcnoa of her Euiband
and handing one to her daugAter, Z
handsome gltl Of IL, and tasiug this othel
herself, ene drank hcr own anqo and
forced lie girl at the aiuz2,e Of revolver
to swallow The fatal drauuht. On hei
hrsbHud'A fsturn she old l1n whnt she
hat done. a doctor wa, anumunsi, but
his efforts were of no avail hlYe. Stranc
died as midnight in horsible agony, anc
Maud an noe. later. The in a,lty which
led 10 this GcT has been clearly marked
1 Tor about two weeks.
Az the @essiln Of tia General Gynnd
Chapter or Royal Arch Mt4ogs in at.
lante, Georgia, ThuiHiay neao officers
we're elected; David f. DAY. Bntfalo,
New York, General Grand aigh Priest;
Joseph p. Horner, New Orleans Deputy
General Grand Bigh Priest; George Il
icCsh n, Baltimore, GenGrR; Crane
tinRi Bsnjsm +. Halter, Memphis,
Tennessee, Gei,eTsl Grand scribe; Renter
q. Lemmon, Toledo, Ohio. General Crane
rreasureri Christopher e. Ferry, Buffalo
Grand Secretary; Sylvester s. Bean
GreRton, lows, General Grand Captain
Of the HoT; James W. Taylor Luthers
VIII Gnnrnla Ennarnl Grnnd n....i..u j