Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-06-27

for eunstroke. IT relieves the prostration
and nervous arrangement.
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The directors of the proposed Reading
& Lebanon railroad met In Reading on FRI
day and decided to abandon the project
and have the charter annulled.
The convention Of the Amalgamated
Association OF Iron and Steel Workers,
which had been In session for the past
three weeks at Pittsburg, adjourned Friday
evening. William Weihe was elected prest-
dent.
The treasury department has denied
request for the discontinuanoe Of the prac-
tice OF requiring imported cigars to be
stamped with custom stamps, on the
ground that such stamping Is an express
requirement OF law.
The stitchers, cutters and lasters ct the
Sampson shoe factory at North Adams.
Mass, have struck for new wage sched-
ule and the shop has shut down. IL Ii
feared the strike will extend to all the
shops In North Adams.
A strike or lockout-out, involving about
5000 meI, is said to be Imminent at the
Homestead Steel Works OF Carnegie a 90.
No agreement sto wages has been reached
and the men will quit on the 80th. The nrm
say new men will be secured.
An agreement was on Friday approved
by the President extending the maximum
OF size and weight for packages OF msr-
etepdise samples between the United States
and Italy. Tho limit OF weight will here
after be IL ounces, and the limit Of size 9
inches long, inches wide and tuahss
high.
The navy department has invited pre-
posals for building and furnishing four
tug-bcats OF Iron or steel, the cost not to
exceed fS6 600 each. One 10 intended for
the navy-yard at Washington, one for Mare
Island, California, and two for League
Island, Philadelphia.
The Rev. William e. Howard, convicted
OF grand larceny, in connection with the
Electric Sugar Refinery Company frauds,
in New York, was on Friday sentenced b.
Recorder smyth to nine years and eight
months In Sing Sing at hard labor. A mos
ton for new trial was denied.
Judge Fighter, in the civil district couxs
at New Orleans, on Friday decided the Cdt@
ton OIL Trust case In favor OF the state, and
made The ipiunclions against the American
Cotton OIL Trust perpetual. This excludes
the corporation from exercising any rights
or franchises in the state Of Louisiana.
Attorney Gener | Miller has given an
opinion that an act passed by the Arizona
legislature. in the absence OF an enabling
act OF Congress and approved by the gov.
ernor, ITO provide for the holding OF q con-
vention for the purpose OF framing q state
constitution to be submitted TO the people
for their approval or rejection" 10 valid.
Andy Caldwell. an insane negro, at
tempted felonious assault on woman at
Ridgewater, South Carolina, on Friday,
and shot young girl who came to hor
mothers rescue. Caldwell was subsa-
quently arrested by the sheriff, who had
previously been looking for him TO take
him to an asylum. At Rockton mob took
Caldwell from the guard and shot him to
death.
Cardinal Gibbons on Friday ordained a
number OF students OF St. Mary's and st.
Joseph's Seminarles In Baltimore. OF these
6 were ordained priests, 8 deacons and Is
sub. deaoons, while rs received the lower
orders and II took the inittatory steps
towards confirmation, receiving the tom
sure. Among the latter was Charles Ram
dolph Uncles, colored, who II he receives
holy orders will be the first colored priSHk
to be ordained In America.
The National British-American Associa-
tion held its first session in Boston on FRI
day. A resolution protesting against the
appointment and confirmation OF Patrick
Egan as minister to Chill was adopted.
These officers were elected: President,
George =. aooch Chicago Past Prssident ~
W. Bradbury OF Massachusetts; Yioe-presf-
dent, James Wemyss, Jr. of Massachusetts,;
Secretary. ]. q. Williams OF Philadelphia;
Treasurer, Ernest Rowden OF New York.
A litigation involving 100000 has been
begun In the United State circuit court Rt
Omaha between John Fitzgerald, president
Of the Irish National League, and the Fitx4
gerald Maloney Construction Company, Of
which the plaintiff was general manager.
Fitzgerald claims that, when the corpora
tion represented itself as financially era-
barrHssed and compelled to borrow money
to complete contracts, the directors voted
to declare themselves dividend.
The fireworks establishment Of Heyer
Bros, Boston, was burned Friday evening.
The flames spread so rapidly that the es-
cape OF persons 10 the building was cut OF
and several were forced to jump from ths
third and fourth floors. Thomas Paine,
Samuel Cord, and boy not yet identified
are known TO have been killed. and IL Is
feared others are In the ruins. Charles
Albert Gage, Charles F. Callahan and VII.
liam Brenenstahl were injured, It is thought
fatally. The firm carried stock valued at
about $4,000, but which was not totally
destroyed.
In the case OF Robert p. Mills, captain of
the pungy Ohicora, who Yves convicted at
the December term, 1888, of the United
States district court for the district OF
maryland, OF maltreating seamen, and SEM
fenced January i7th, 1883. to one year's
to pay fipe OF $500, the President has re-
turned the application for pardon to the
attorney general with the following en-.
dorsement; Upon the recommendation Of
the district judge who tried and sentenced
tnts man, and of the jury. I do, With some
reluctance, commute the term of HIS Inn
prisonment to six months. The fine I'm.
posed and any judgment for costs will
stand"
A meeting OF Hungarians was held In
New York city Friday night and resolutions
were adopted protesting against the pub
lished reports OF outrages committed by
Hungarians In the Conemaugh Valley fol-
lowing the terrible food. Dispatches were
read from Brigadier.g general John A. WILEY
and General Hastings, going to show tha
these reports were without foundation
According to the burgess of Johnstoun, E,
E. ONeili, there were no lynehings Of Hum
Rarlans or occasion therefor. The resolu-
tfons close with demanding retractlon Of
the stories by the papers, and warning
them to be more cautious about huyti93
base and foul charges upon the Huna