Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-06-05

Matthew Morgan, the popular and widely
known artist, died at his home In New
York Monday morning.
Four workmen were Injured, William
Fren fatally, by the fall Of & portion Of
new building In Danbury, Conn, Monday.
The decrease In the public debt for the
moath OF May amounted to Sc 65l 81.
Total amount OF cash in the Treasury,
1888, 1852, 175.
1t is announced that Francis Murphy, the
temperance orator, is about 10 wed
Reoecca Fisher, wealthy lady of Council
Bluffs, Iowa.
George Stevenson, colored, who had at
tempted to feloniously assault widow,
near Hat.les5urg, Mississippi, was lynched
by L mob last Friday night.
The indictment against Patrick Farley,
smother member OF the New York Doodle"
Aidermanlc Board OF 1884, has been dis.
missed for lack OF evidence.
The village OF Loveland, eight miles
below Missouri Valley, Iowa, was almost
entirely destroyed by water spout" on
sunday. Several persons are reported to
have persisted.
George Hayes, brakeman, was killed at
Wind or, Ontario, on Monday, by hsing
caught between cars. Hayes vas the prin-
cipal witness for the Dominion In the cele-
bIated Birchell- Benwell murder case.
Lewis ]. Haun, cashier of the National
Bank In Washington, N. j., on Monday
! fatally injured his wife. He choked her
and threw her down stairs, breaking her
| back. 4he cause of the assault is not
stated.
| The sales OF leaf tobacco IN Danville, Va,
| for May, were l,GSU, $50 pounds, falling of
Cf nearly a million pounds as compared
! With the corresponding period last year. The
average price paid In May was the largest
/ for any month in eight Years.
| The Baltimore board OF trade on Monday
adopted Il report reafflrming their reports
\ on March 9TH, 1883, aud December I'd, 1889,
! opposing any general subsidies to ship
/ piag as being uusound III principle and
likely TO be disastrous in result.
william Jackson on Monday shot and
killed Ida Dean, at Fort Smith, Arkansas.
| He lIed two bullets at her aud then shot
| himself IN the heart, but not fatally. They
| bad lived together, and the woman, after
4 leaving him, had refused to live with him
again.
A telegram from Lima, Peru, reports that
the severest earthquake kno wn there for
! many years occurred about l.50 O'Clock
\ Monday morning. II was followed by two
other sheeRs, which, though milder than
the first, we've OF more than the average
severity.
| President Bacon, Of the Baltimore h Ohio
Southwestern Railway Company, Monday
made an otiert buy at par the 32,5OD shares
| of the common stock of the Baltimore Il
Ohio RAILROAD Company held by the city of
Baltimore. The city finance commissioners
declined The cher.
Jacob Fisher, u lifelong resident OF Kutz-
4 town, Pa, died on Monday, within Jew
mouths of 100 years OF age. He voted foe
10 Democratic candidates FOL President, was
never Ill, and used tobacco and splrituous
liquors evIr since he was a young nan. Ee
was hotel keeper 90 years.
Mrs. Robert Morrow attempted to light a
fire. with kerosene az her home In Durango.
COL, on sunday. An explosion occurred
which SET lire to the clothes Of the woman,
her 4.years.cld son and her young oEby.
They ali three porished in the house, which
was burned, before any assistance could be
rendered.
The fuaarG, OF Bishop O'Connor took
place on Monday In Omaha, the requiem
services being par alpEted In by 100
prelates and priests, among them Arch
bishops Kenrlck of st. Louis, Ryan of Phil
atelphia and Ireland OF 81. Paul. a thou
sand peoql' followed the remains to the
crypt OF the cathedral.
Chung Lung. wealthy Chinese physl.
cian, 60 years OF age, was Monday mar.
risd, IN Kansas City, to An Gin, aged only
II, anu pretty, as Chinese girls 80. t.hung
luGg, a widower OF Is months duration,
sent TO San Francisco for his bride, paying
600 for her TO her deputy father or guar
dian, her parents being IN China. Mon
da;'s ceremony was according 10 Chinese
custom; Tuesday ga ceremony after the
American laws" took place.
Louis Marks, census enumerator in
New York, net with warm reception In a
liquor store at East Forty.fiih street.
Tuesday. He was unceremoniously hustled
out amid a volley OF beer glasses which
were thrown at him. Marks then returned
TO the place under police escort, but was
unable to obtsln the Information he desired
Ho reported the matter AZ the main oliira,
aud was told to write out his story, which
will be forwarded to Washington,
David Fink WAS arrested and Jailed IN
Harrisburg Monday on suspicion OF being
the murderer Of young woman, whose
body was found IL the river near Newark,
n. T., last Friday afternoon. There was IN
ner pocket letter addressed TO Fink. who
is alleged to be her husband. They had
trouble In Harrisburg snort time ago.
Fink was arrested at the home OF his
brother-in-lew. He had large revolver
and watch bearing the drowned woman5
initials.
The freight committee OF the Central
Traific Association met In Chicago on Mon
day aud decided to reduce the rate on
wheat, barley, rye and their produets ~ the
basis of 229 cents a hundred pounds. Chi
mayo to New York, taking effect June 9th.
The present rate on these articles is rs
cents, while that on oats and corn Is 20
cents. The Lake shore road took the in
itlstve In this movement, and also gave
notice OF an Intention to reduce the rate on
dressed beef from As to 40 cents hundred
pounds, to Boston aud Nav England points.
About 50 silk ribbon weavers, employed
by Pegram h Meyer, large manufacturers
In Paterson, N. j., went on strike Monday
against reduction in wages from is to 20
per cent. The weavers OF the Helvetla silk
mill and over 100 employed by johnson
Cowdia Co. are also eut resisting similar
reductions. A 10 per cent reduction has
gone into effect at the mill OF William
Strange Il Co., and wages have been low.
eted l24 per cent at Dooerty & Wadsworth's
establishment. The general depression In
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