Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-02-20
Pears Is the purest aud best Soap ever mad
IN gENHRAL.

The Connt OF Paris and the Duke OF
Chartrss arrived at Havana, Cuba, on
Saturday.
The Bethlehem Iron Company, at Beth
iehem. Pa, has advanced the wages OF
lis employees is per cent.
The rolling mill of the Minnesota Oar
Company, at West Duluth, MINI, was
burned on Saturday evening.
Robert Lapsiey Pyle, ex-aommon coua-
Gilman of Philadelphia, died on Sunday
at his residence in West Chester, in the
18th year of his age.
The flour mill of the Terra Haute Mill
| ing Company, in Terre Haute, lad. was
burned on Saturday might. Loss, $780,
600; insurance, $40, 900.
A yard engine mud hand car collided
\ In the auburas of Staunton, Va, on Sat-
urday evening. EdwArd Slater and
| Thomas Kidd were killed and SIX others
were injured,
Two Cincinnati southern freight trims
collided at Melville, Tennessee, on Satur-
day evening. FL. Grow, engineer, and
William Gray brakeman, were killed.
The collinion Yves caused by the negli-
gence of fagmsn.
The SEVENTEEN anniversary OF the
| DlrL1Qay OF IhlSd Dubhu d. hutuuhy Wh5
celebrated in Washington, d. O., on Sat-
uriay evening by banquet There
were over $50 guests from different parts
of the United States, Canada and Eng
land.
A stock train and freight train on the
Baltimore & Olio railroad collided at
Bairdstown o.. on Friday night. Both en-
gines were demolished and the cars piled
| ~, n haor Hnnrna Elliann and 0hnrlAR
Reynolds, brakemen, and Bruce Raven
sox q boy of 16, who was riding on the
engine, were killed.
Judge Powers, leader and organizer of
, the successful Liberal campaign in Salt
Lake City, was given banquet on Sat-
usday night. Governor Thomas, Ohiet
Justice Zane and other officials, as we'll
as leading business men, were present.
Judge Powers wss presented by the bust
, ness men with a certified check for
$4,000, in appreciation of his services.
A general election was held In Hawaiian
, Islands on the 9th inst. Partial retu rms
i indicate that the party now in power was
, defeated, and that majority of the
National Reform party had been elected.
/ On the island of Oahu, on which Homo
lulu is situated, this party elected all the
! nine mobiles for the legislature and seven
OF the eight representatives.
r Tho grippe has boon unusually severe
/. and fatal among the Indians on the Mile
v Lacs reservation, in Minnesota. In some
! encampnents s'thare have not been
q enough we'll Indians to feed the sioG,
o even il they had sufficient food. Tho
I head chiefs were expecting aid fron the
r government in response to kilograms sent
' to Washington, out none had come" An
a estimate plaoes the deaths at 40 to 50.
II is said by leaders of the building
trades in Pttsbur9 that there will be nc
!, strikes in Stat city on May LIST for eight
:. hours az days work. tIhe employees
{ will be paid for tho work done at SO
Q much PSF hour. There will be 30 nd
vance over the price paid ct The present
l., time, but eight hours will constitute q
a Days work" There ara about s, GOO men
: employed in tho building trads in that
:. diatriot.
s Mrs. L. w Bradley, wife Of wealthy
J. citizen OF Dubuque, Iowa, died suddenly
II on Saturday evening uEder peculiar cir,
}. cumstauceg. 10 ths morning she fell and
70 broke her arm. A surgeon WAS senS for
and betora proceeding to set the arm q I
= ministered chloroiorm. While at worh
10 upon the arm he discovered that she WA
" sinking rapidly, and she soon died with
l. out recovering consciousness. II Is stRtec
by the physician that IN artificial tooth
J. OF which he was unaware, fell down he
10 throat and s'ranglod her.
j. The White Gaps are again committing
10 outEages in West Virginia. At hocEport
0. Wood county, few days ago, OAarieI
Is Smith and hia wife were both taken from
70 their home and numerically beaten OIL
r the back with hickory switches, ent
II compelled to leave this county and tn
il Etate. The family passed through Park
ersburg on Saturday, and told horribl
story OF their suffering and treatment
10 The wife says that after whipping hel
10 husband, the mob caught her while SIN
ca was try ng TO escape from the houss with
a their children and tied her to tree. Sh
10 was beaten until the blood came. She say
IA ''the whole cause for the outrage was he
re- resistance OF the improper solicitation o
Ia a citizen of her neighborhood." At Ola.
le Court House woman was also driver
10 away by mob who visited her house
., firing guns and reyolyers, and tied not
" Of warning to hor door.
d. The 85th anniversary OF the Economit
70 Society was celebrated ct Economy, Pa.
40 on Saturday, and l6 new members yer
ut taken into the society. As in the case Q
or the other members the converts too
vows of ceiibacy and from thia time tn
husbands and Hives shall negermore bea
that relationship TO ono another. III
a society numbers now, including the az
l's cessions Saturday about so peraons, IN
~ majority of them have reached fou
NO score years. They owl nothing as ind
Ia viduals, bus their wealth as society
,Ie variOusly estimated at from 1925, 000, 90
IS to $35, 600, 600 1t is said that q number @
Is, law suits will grow cut OF the Admissio
at of married folks 10 the sooietv. A
IN p,ayn hsra ~ tba anot are oomnalied 4
al I-s.s 80 81 .u.ar,;,i,,n - a.,
ds tieus.os .ne'l Woi.iiy " "
persons threaten to bring suit against tn
a Economic Association for dsprivin
p. them of their legal right to fortune
or which would otherwise fall to them o
the deaths Of their relatives.