Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-10-03
IN GENERAL.


Of the employees in the government print
ing office. They were from all depart
ments.
The Rev. Father DAWN, the Catholic
priest who Was so noted for assisting the
sufferers by the Johnstown food, died on
Thursday In Denver, Colorado.
Congressman Nutting OF New York denies
that he intended to resign because of Ill
health. One OF his attending physicians
thinks he will ultimately recover.
Judge Groff OF Nebraska, recently ap-
pointed commissioner OF the general land
office, took the oath OF office on Thursday,
duties.
Joseph Hillman was last week convicted
OF the murder OF the peddler, Ssldemann,
at the Woodbury., N. j., court, and was
sentenced by Judge Garrison to be hanged
on November 18th.
Secretary Windom's mall on Thursday
included 800 United States note In an
envelope postmarked Syracuse, n. w."
but containing no other evidence OF fits
source. II vas deposited to the credit OF
"eonscience."
A fire at Madrid, St. Lawrence county, N.
Y, on Thursday, destroyed the Baptist
church, the Congregational church Thomas
Fishers house and barn, DR.. L. W. Rey.
noids house and some other property.
Total loss about $4,000; partially insured.
Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor of tine New
York World, has offered TO be one Of %
men to subscribe 100000 each for an i'm
mediate guarantee fund OF 52,500,000 tor
the worlds fair.
The Latin Il Rand powder works at Beck
Vile, near Creasonu, ,sthulyHill county, Pa,
blew up Thursday morning, killing three
men. and ipiuring several others, two OF
threa dangerously.
John G. anook, wealthy farmer OF
Sussex county, New Jersey, was sentenced
at Belvldere, on Wednesday, to one years
imprisonment for beating his wife. They
have been 30 years married and have
large family.
The governor Of Michigan has surren-
dered to the United States the unearned
lands grauted the State of Mieaigan by act
of Congress In 1856 for certain railroads in
the upper peninsula. The lands amount
20 about "a, 900 acrss,aud many homesteads
have been taken up on them.
DIR. Samuel L. Caldwell, sx-president of
vassar College, died Thursday in Provi-
dsuce, after u short illness, aged 60 years.
lie was a native of Newburyport, Mass. !;
was for more than 10 years pastor of the
First Baptist Church Of Providence, and
was for seven years president OF Vassar
College.
Jacob NJ. Henefer and wife have brought
suit against the Peoples Passenger Railway
Company of Philadelphia to recover dam
ages for the loss OF their child, Mary
Heneter, years old, who was run over and
killed by car. The parents allegs that
the accident was due to negligence Of en-
ployes OF ths company.
The State Farmers Alliance Of Florida,
met In Jacksonville last week. The prin-
ciphl objaets of the meeting are to make
Jacksonville q wholesale market for
Florida-reised cotton, the building of a
cotton warehouse there and the starting of
fruit and vegetable canning factories. In
cldental to these is the building OF cotton
factory by Jacksonville capital, company
being already organized with 500, 600 SUBJ
seribed.
The State Convention OF County Commits
sioners at Allentown last week agreed to
urge the Legislature to pass laws providing
for the revision of the present road law
that corporations be taxed on an equality
with real estate; that district attorneys be
paid salary based on population, and that
such portions of the act OF 1887, providing
for the regulation OF the National Guard, az
conflict with other laws, be repealed.
Ten miners, the full number allowed by
law, were on the cage on the bottom oi
Lelsenring shaft No. $, at Uniontown, Pa,
on Tuesday, ready to come out of the mine
| when Just as they started upward another
man came running through the passage
way and jumped on the moving cage. His
| momentum jostled the others, and himself
AMI another man were caught between the
cage and the cribbing Of tae shaft, and
both were literally torn to pieces. They
were Hungarians, and their names are un.
known,
William Watkins, chief OF police of Par.
SONS, Pa, was killed at the Central rail
| road depot, in Wilkesbarre, q few weeks
ago, by freight train. He was drunk q,
the time. Yesterday week his widow
filed claim for $4,000 damages against
John Schumacher, u wealthy saloon keeper
OF that place, for selling liquor to deceased
while he was visibly affected by intoxicaats
contrary 20 an act of assembly. This 1s the
first case OF the kind to be fled in the
courts of Lu1erne county, and test VIII
be made OF 1t.
The naval commission appointed TO select
q site for navy yard on the Pacific cnsst,
north OF the 42d parallel, last week formally
reported to the Secretary OF the Navy that,
In its judgment, Puget Sound is this best 10,
caltty In the entire region, and that Port
Orchard possesses advantages ovar all
other divisions, and that the particular sire
should be sought behind Bliabridge Island.
The appraised value OF the site reoom-
mended Is sSS, ,120.
Mrs. Emma A. Wood, wife CT George NJ.
Wood, clerk In the geological survey
office, In Washington, was burned to death
Thursday. She dropped match upon a
pills of kindling wood, which had acci-
dentally become saturated with coal oil
and the flames flashed up In her face, rem
dering her unconscious and preventing an
outcry. Mr.. Wood, noticing the smell OF
smoke, went down stairs to make an OK.
animation, and found his wife lying dead
on the floor, with the upper portion OF her
body burned to crisp.
Suit has been brought against the
Kaighn's Point & Philadelphia Ferry Com
pany and the Philadelphia Il Reading Rail-
road Company, owners or lessees OF the
ferryboat General j. s. Schultze, by Anna
Qulmby, Lydia Johnson and Mary Brinnis.
holtz to recover damages for injuries re-
ceived on May 18th, when the General
Scnuli2s, on which tney were passengers,
coll!ded with the ferryhoat Peerless.
William II. Qalmby, husband OF the fret
named plaintiff, also sued to recover ex-
perses TO which he was put by the illness
of his wife; also for the loss OF her services.
While Captain W. Il. Jones, supsrin.
tendent OF the Edgar Thomson stesl works,
at Braddock, Pa, was examining Il furnace
which he'd not worked properly during the
day, the base broke and six tons OF molten
liquid metal poured out. Captain Jones
and six other men were terribly burned,
aud Jones recovery is doubtful. Michael
Quinn, aged 25 years, was fatally burned,
and Of the others injured, three-Patrick
Hughes, hlicnael Connor and John Eeeden
are not expected to recover. Hun
garlan, named King, cannot be found, and
1t 10 feared he WAS buried IN the molten
mass. Captain Jones and all except two Of
the injured are expected to recover.
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