Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-05-16


North Carolina, vice Nathan Banner
whose commission expired.
The Rev. Augustus Seward, d. D.,
nephew OF Secretary Seward and prom.
inent Presbyterian minister, died yestor
day week In Vineland, N. j., at an ad
vanoed age.
Lewis Leland, who has been promI.
nently identified with the Leland hotels.
from the Atlantic TO the Pacific, for al
years, last week retired from the hotel
business.
Henry A. Foster died at his home In
Rome, N. T., en- Saturday, in his Goth
year. He was the senior OK. United States
senator, having been appointed in 1914,
one year before Simon Cameron.
Genera; William 8. Harney, U. 8. A.,
retired, died Thuraday OF Orlando, Fla.
he was famous rs fighter in the indian
and Mexican wars. His age, according
to the Army Register, was % years.
Captain Thomas o. Ring, treasurer OF
the Newberg Savings Bank, In 1868 died
In Newberg, N. Y, last week, eyed IS
years. He participated in the reception
TO Lafayette on the latter's visit TO this
country.
The pallium was conferred upon Arch.
bishop Jansen Of New Orleans yesterday
week by Cardinal Gibbons. Bishop Durrier
presohed In French and Bishop Keane In
English. The cardinal celebrated the
pontitical mass.
The Secretary Of the Navy has extended
for four months and four days the time
allowed the Union Iron Works of San
Francisco In which to complete the
a.
the large 1000 ton cruisers.
News was received In Reading, Pa, on
Saturday that DR.. J. M. Browse, aged SS
years, OF shartlesville, Berks county, who
left for Oklahoma three weeks ago, had
been murdered in that territory. His
body was found rifled OF 81, 900 In money
and valuables.
The United States steamer Yantio has
been ordered to put to sen from New
York with supply OF torpedoes, for the
purpose OF searching for and destroying
dereliots and distractions to navigation
of the Atlantic coast In the track Of ocean
steamers and coasting vessels.
Secretary Window yesterday week gavea
hearing to persons Interested In the aues-
tion Of the dutiable character Of CANA
dian-built cars used In the transportation
OF merchandise between Canadian and
United States points. All the persona
heard opposed the proposed imposition
Of duty.
In the Illinois house OF representatives
last week bill was passed making IL
obligatory upon all children between the
ages Of 7 and IA years to attend schools at
least IL weeks each year; also bill to
authorize proceedings supplementary to
an execution against property. The lat
ter is copy OF the New York law on
the subject.
The American tract society held Its an
nual meeting In New York last week. Tho
report OF the secretaries showed that tho
work Of the past year compared fsyorably
With its predecessors. The receipts were
$l20,072 and the expenditures $i2S, 1855.
The old officers were reelected, with tha
addition of Warner Van Orden Of New
York as q manaRer.
Col. Charles f. Fisher, president and
manager OF the Manhattan Cattle o.. died
in Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, on Fri
day night, OF pneumonia. He served
through the war as an officer OF artillery
/ wRs subsbquentiy IN we internal fNsen}
SCI roe In Sou'h carolina, pOvar4 sasn,
/ contract b. hEW.n- l.f s,H afte ..H
to the quartermastsr's department In
Washington.
Milton Richmond, y negro, started to
elope with Lidia Strong, the 16.years old
granddaughter OF Judge Strong Of Win.
chester, Ky., on Saturday. Strong with
party OF friends pursued and overlook
Richmond, who fred upon them, sending
bullet through 6trong's hand. The
party returned the fire and Richmond
was killed. Strong then made an unsuo-
cessful attempt to shoot the girl aud
himself.
George Lynn and his wife were ar.
rested nj Youngstown, o. yesterday week,
charged with inhumanly treating their
ll.years,old daughter, Lizzie. 1.-The
child's sides had been hayed until the
cuticle had disappeared, and her hands
had been held by the brutal parents in
boiling water until she Is crippled for
life. The mother had filed an egg shell
with cayenne pepper and mustard and
forced IL down tho child's throat"
A trial Of the "DrigRs-Schroeder rapid
fire siI-pounder gun" took place on Sat-
urday at the naval ordnance proving
grounds, near Annapolis. The gun fires
the same ammunition as the Hotchkis'
six FOUNDER, and the inventor claims
several points of superiority over that
gun. The test was for rapidity of airing.
non. heating qualities, security against
premature explosions and smoothness Of
machinery. The gun was fired 10 times
In minute and go times In minutes
and 70 seconds, everything working sat
tHfaotorily.
A shortage of 81 COO was recently dis
covered in Postmaster Moore's accounts,
in the office in Trenton, Now jersey.
| ha az al IL a 80 hxT
Moore's bondamen. Mr.. Moore explained
the shortage by stating that his prede-
cessor in office, Charles ii. Bkirm, WAS
short the amount when he vacated the
office, and that be Moore had to assume
it. MIR. Skirm denies this and has begun
proceedings against MIR. Moore to recover
| $40, 600 for Islander. The new postmAs-
ter, Alexander q. Yard, says he will take
possession OF the office as soon as bis
bond is approved.
Robert p. Porter, superintendent OF
the census, says that he does not intend
to mako any more appointments In the
clerical forces of the census Office until
the next fiscal year. Chiefs Of division,
he says, will be appointed gradually and
the office will be slowly organized, go as
to have everything In readiness to begin
taking the census on the first Monday OF
June, 1890. He adds: 'When begin
to make appointments, which will not be
until next year, propose TO be governed
by the following considerations First,
those who have had experience In the
last census will have the preference, and
second, those who have passed the civil
service examination. For others l pro-
pose to have an examination and mako
appointments based upon the results OF
such an examination"