Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-07-11
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IN GENERAL.


Secretary Window has given up the
practice of holding public rect ptions ind
will hereafter receive visitors by card
only.
The Mexican press is said TO be fiercely
attacking the scheme to settle colored
emigrsnts from the Unite d States in Mex.
100, and asking the government to 'pe
patriotic and not countenance it."
Charles Ide, Assistant Superintendent
of the Minneapolis Gaslight Company,
an 4 Miss Lspgdon were dro rned on
Sunday afternoon at Lake Harriet, near
Minneapolis, by the upsetting of boat.
They were to have been married in
snort time.
The Superintendent OF the census has
decided to appoint John Z. Kendrick of
Pnilad-lphis, editor OF the Philadelphia
Carpet Irdde, special agent of the
piiing statistics of the carpet and uphol-
stery industries.
In Wiliismsport, Pa, on Saturday
evening, City Controller George fled in
his office 800 food claims, amounting to
81 ASS 500, which he says does not rep
resent 40 per cent of the actual losses.
Few of the business men have made re-
turns Of their losses.
Fl. d miller, cashier of the Malta Ma.
tional Bank OF Malta, Ohio, is a defanlter
to the amount OF 32,0I0, and probably
$50, 900. His bondsmen, E NJ. Stauberry
aud john Muller, his father, have paid
800, 600, the amount of his bond, and the
bank will lose the balance.
Millie Jones and Nettie Davidson, aged
respectively IA and 16 years, were
drowned in the 5Rcandaga river at Oonk-
lingville, New York, Saturday night.
They were boating with party of friends,
when the boat was overturned. The
others, five in number, were rescued in
an unconscious condition.
Henry Dixon, the young Missiasippian
recently appointed to West Point Cadet.
ship by the President, failed to pass the
physical examination required of cadets.
He was appointed on the statement of his
grandmother that her husband and her
son (the boys father had both been as
sassinsted because Of their politics.
The bones representing the remains of
what, it is supposed, were IA or 16 per-
sons who persisted in the wreck on the
Norfolk & Western railroad, near Thax-
toms station, in Virginia. last week,
have been buried in two collins in the
City Cemetery at RuaDoke. The bodies
of O. W. Steed of Cleveland, Tennessee,
and little Psttie Darlington Of Rich
mond, Virginia, were identified and sent
to their friends for interment. Mr.
Steed's body YVES the only one not mutt
lated or burned.
On usnday afternoon q soaked letter
with an illegihle address was found on the
shore OF Third Sister Island by Charles
B. smith, of Niagara Falls. 1t is now in
the hands of Superintendent T. V. Welsh.S
Il purports to have been written by
man premeditatinS suicide to his brother,
and is dated hisy Goth, and signed Ed"
The writer tells how he helped at Chicago
to get rid OF O. d. X, "that devilish
traitor and spy" aud how long he has
waited for ''the Trunk" and nov, over
come by fear that the plot has misosrried,
and by remorss at his crime he will seek
death in the rapids. What lends color to
authenticity of the letter is the finding on
June 9th OF decomposed body of q
| man which was buried without identifica-
! ton at DrummondsYille.
The board Of inquiry which has Just
completed registration of all the prop
erty losses in the Oonemsugh valley has
made report dividing the sufferers into
six GLASSES. To each individual in the
irst class, comprising 205 cases, they re-
commend the payment Of $1,000 each.
To the individuals in the Glasses from
two to five they recommend payments
from 5000 down to 5000 The recon-
mepdations provide for the immediate
disbursement o. SI,1S6, 900 to ESQ DIFF
ferent families, or on average of 1922 to
each family. Glass six includes the
heaviest losses, but the losers are not in
immediate want, and their csses will be
considered later. The ooroner's Jury at
Johnstown, on Saturday, found the own
ers OF the dam responsible for the loss Of
life and property resulting from the
breaking Of that structure. $50