Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-08-21
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The funeral OF tho late John Boyle
O'Hoiiiy took place in Boston, yesterday
wesk.
The Republican Congressional oonyen-
ton Of the Fifth Maryland distric. yes
terdsy wetk dominated sydney r. Mudd.
TIE Democratic state convention OF
Wsat Virginia met in Grafton yesterday
@sak &nd nominated Judge d. j. Lucas
for the supreme bench.
The western roads have decided to put
into effect without further protest the Is-
ducsd rates oa grain and honr as ordered
BY the Interstate Ccmmsrce Commission.
William Sloan, colored, of Lake Plan.
tation, near Yickfburg, Miss, on Tues
day snot hiB wife through tbs heart. she
had her intAnt in her arms and it was also
killed.
Arthur Hoyt Day Of Rochester, N. VI,
hap bosn p'acad in jsil at WeIland, Ga
tario, to await trial on the charge of muir
deIing Ills wife by pushing her over the
precipice a. the Whirlpool Rapids, Niagara
Falls,
The Photographers Association OF
America III session at Washington yester-
day week, nominated officers and named
a committee 10 investigate the cutting
of prices by photographers and stock
dealers.
Cotton exports from the United States
during July aggregated 80, 730, 1915, an in
crease of $4si ,566 over the same month
last year; and breadstuifs were exported
valued 81 $lU, 1888, $3.50, an increase Of
1926, 72t.
The first annual convention OF the
National Association OF Letter Carriers OF
the United states began in Boston YES.
terday week. { xty braachea, representing
every state and I'll the large cili9s Of the
country, sent delegates.
This official rough count of the census
returns gives the following populations
IN Illinois Cook county, l,lS9, 259 Getty
! of Dhiengo), Du Page county, q. 542 and
increase since 1850 OF 597,g4
Samuel ii. Beard, aged 60 years, an at
toEnoy Of Leesburg, Olio, threw himself
4 il front OF train near the depot on
( Tuesday, and was instantly hilled. Griat
/ over the death of son and financial diff
Guilty are supposed TO have unsettled his
! mind.
Tho total value of the exports of do.
neatio beef and hog products from the
United States during July was 50, $40, 1913
o decrease OF $50 03l from July, 1859
and during the nina months ending Jul ?
3lat, $e8 37S, 9S7, an Increase o. SID.
073 S63 over the corresp 1nding period OF
lsat year.
Humo Clay, young man, of Parig
KY, has disappeared, and it IL chnrgeS
that he forged thu name OF his grand
father, Matthew Hume, for many thon
sands Of dollars. Banks at Winchester
Paris and Lexington are the losers. III,
amount OF the f0rgeries is said TO exoeet
300, 600.
Senator Blair has reported favor
ably from the committee on education guc
labor, joint resolution proposing 81
amendment 20 the constitution 60 foreve
prohibit in The United States the manu-
faoture, importation, expectation, trans
portation aud sale OF til alcoholic liquor
used 81 beverages.
All bat II of the employing machinist
81 Flttsburg, the later number ineludin
the Westinghouse interests, have GRANTEE
tia demand OF the mon for niua hours
work without reduction Of wages. o
4,5OO men employed by the Westinghouse
company 1900 are cut, and the firm II
fuse to make any concession.
Dispatches from Cloquet, Michigan
indicate that serious trouble may gro
ont of the strike of the i5G mill hand
there. Tbs sheriff on Tuesday called o
the governor for the aid of state troop
and company from Duluth WAS zen;
i a number OF arrsstU were made yeBtel
/ day, and no further serious trouble wa
! feared.
! The Republican state convention o
California, a. Sacramento, yesterday wee
adopted q platform in which tho pFir
ciple of the Force bill is endorsed; 4;
' yoFing the most rigid exclusion of tn
: Ohiaese; endorsing the course Of Spsasn
I Reed; approves Garbor improvements an
8 appropriations for irrigation; commend
/. President Harrison's administration an
, the Silver bill Col. Henry S. MARKHAM
+ OF Pasadena was nominated for 90 yeruo
|. Senator Teller last week introduced
new silver bill! in tine shape OF ala ament
: msut TO the tiil to discontinue the coil
0 age of the So s gold pieces and thrt
t cent nickel piseqs. Ths bill differs fro
!, the present law principally in that it i
4 qnires tho continued monthly coinage
8 100000 ouRcea OF silver into atanda,
dollars, striking out the provision tai
this ,ste of coinage shall he until Ju,
let, 1891, Oily; does away with the di
i erection given tine Secretary of tho IRE
Il sury to redeem treasury noteg issued
4 payment of huiion, either in gold
i silver and provides for free coinage
i silver, when the market price
81 25-lQ0 grains reaches one dollar.