Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-05-02
IN oENERAL.


on Thursday. He was wsll-known his
torical writer and poet.
Frank NJ. Smith Of Maryland has been
appointed superintendent Of mails at the
Baltimore post Office.
The total number OF immigrants who
arrived In the United States daring
March was 20, S05, against 5000 during
March, 1888.
It has been dsoided by the treasury de-
paitment that bicycles, forming part OF
q travellers personal effects, are entitled
TO entry FREQ OF duty.
Dol. Daniel Lamont was yesterday week
elected secretary of the New York Loan
and improvement Company, 10 succeed
William Il. Rockwell, resigned.
The, second annual banquet In COM
incarceration of thu birth OF Ulysses =.
Grant was held at Dslmonioo's in New
York on Saturday night. ohauucsy N.
Depew presided.
W. v. Heranoourt, special artist for
Harpe''s Weekly. dropped dead in front
of his tent at Guthrie, Oklahoma, on
Saturday evening, Of heart disease. He
was 80 yoars of ago.
Postmaster.g general WanamelSsr has or
defed that hereafter the post Office de-
par,ment ia to BIO closed on Sunday to
the clerks and all employees, except tho
required watchmen, engineers and fire.
men.
Philetus r. DorIou, the we'll known
caterer Of Fulton Market, New York,
died Tuesday night week &C his summer
hotel, at Dcrion Point, Connecticut. He
had been several times elected president
Of the Fat Mems Association.
II Ia announced that state aud navy de-
partment officials are considering what
can be.done to suitably reward King Ma
taafa for bis timely efforts to rescue the
American sailors and property wrecked
at Samoa,
Returns have now been received OF the
vote on the prohibitory amendment in
all the cities and towns in Massachusetts.
! Tho total vote for the amendment is
IS, 696; against, 1888 1876: majority against
the amendment, A 499.
A telegram from Panama says the topic
OF the DAY on the Isthmus is the distress
caused by the stoppags Of work on the
canal. Local business 10 at a standatill,
while through transit Ia small. At least
5000 Jamaicans have already left the
lNhmu8 Tor their homes.
1t is stated thai all the beer brewers Of
st Louis and East st. Louis, excepting
the Anheuser- Busch Company, and W. j.
Lemp, have practically formed consoli-
dation Of their properties, and that they
| will be run under one management.
There are l8 breweries concerned in the
movement, representing an investment Of
about 100000.
William Perkins, restaurAnteur of
Waterbury, Connecticut, died there on
Saturday night from congestion Of the
! lungs and heart failure, due to excessive
fat. BE was born In Pniladelphia and at
the age OF Ia years weighed $50 pounds.
! At one time he weighed 452 avoirdupois
Until he was 20 years of age he was ex-
hibited throughout the county % BILLY
Bates, the Philadelphia giant"
Judge English of the supreme court Of
West Virginia yesterday wet awarded to
the attorneys of A. B. Fleming writ OF
error to the Judgment OF the circuit
court remanding the matter OF the re-
| oount OF Kanawha's vote back to the
county court, and summoning the county
commissioners to appear before the su-
preme court On the first Monday in June
next, when the matter will be finally de-
cided.
A dispatch from Lima, o., says the
deal between the Standard and Trenton
Rock Oil Companies has been consum-
mated. The Standard WILL acquire 10, 900
acres OF territory by this move, 1000 Of
which have been developed. The Standard
company will conduct bu,iness under the
name of the Ohio Oil Company. There
! fa to- hal 10 h. D.
finery Company Of Philadelphia, the
wealthieat independent refiners in the
country, are going into that field and will
build refinery there.
On and after Wednesday next, May
LIST, the railway mail service will DO sub
ject to the civil service rules, and all sp.
pointments to positions, other than to
those excepted by law, will thereafter be
made only upon certiacation from the
Own Service Commission. An fort had
been made to induce the President to
| again extend the time at which the Law
bringing railway mail service under the
civil service law and rules would become
operative, but he decided against further
| pCstponement.
/ s, j. Richie was In Ottawa, Ont, on
Saturday, and had an interview with the
premier relative to the proposed visit to
| Oanada OF the Interstate Commerce Com.
mission, with the view to these gentle
men having o conference with the gov.
ernment. II il understood that May or
June will be convenient time for the
meeting to be held. In view OF the inter-
locking nature of the Canadian and
United States railway systems it is antici-
pated that great benefit to both countries
will rise from the visit of the commits
sioners.
First Assistant Postmaster. &c neral
Olarkson yesterday week appointed about
| It's fourth-ciass pOstmasters. About rs per
cent OF these appointments, II is said,
! we're made 10 fill vacancies caused by
death or designations. General Olai kson
snid yesterday that ''pracsicaliy no
changes are being made in fourth class
| offices except upon sustained charges
| against the postmasters, or to improve
the locstiOns tf the Offices, or where the
postmas,ers had held office about four
years, In thess cases." he said, changes
/ would continue to be made upon the
Recommendation OF members Of Congress
! or other competent persons in whose dis
tricts the offices are located"
A dispatch from st. Louis says that the
| New York, Philadelphia syndicate which
stole into St. Louis about three weeks
ago and paid SO, 500, 600 for the Llacleds
Gas Works, has just distinguished itself
by capturing the other gas company OF
nominal cost OF $500, 900, making
total Investment in Ut. Louis Of 80 600, 600
| in leHs than week. In accordance with
tire ueusl formula, the gas companies OF
the city will be consolidated, an immense
trust formed and $40, 600, 600 of bonds
! and So 500, 900 OF preferred stock issued;
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