Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-03-27
IN GENERAL.

GeoTga W. Peck was nominated for
MAJOR Of Milwaukee Monday By the Dem
ocrats.
Gale & Kuett, silk manufacturers In Pater-
son. N. j., made nm assignment Monday.
Liabilities about SS50OO.
Robert Remedy, 81 years old, fell Into
water tRnk which he was painting, a.
HearS's shoddy mill, on Monday, and was
drowned.
Theodore sehwer.ner's shoe store, Ger
mantown, was burned cut Monday. Menu
hers OF his family escaped with difficulty |
from the burning bu.lding.
Tie rivers ut Pittsburg ware reeeding |
Mondsy and fears of flood Ware over. |
The tracks OF the PitteDurg u Western rail |
road We're sill partially submerged.
There Is no further apprehension OF a
food ut Cincinnati. Word was received |
Monday night of a stationary or falling OF
the Oalo AID all its tributarie0, from Ports
mouth up.
The carpenters at work on the players
club grounds, In Boston, were ordered to
quit work on Monday by the Carpenters
Union. The employment of non.un1on men
caused the trouble.
| The susqushanna Coal Company posted
notice at their c0lierias at Nanticoke,
Pa, Monday, that on ard after April lat
| the miaes OF the company would work full
time during the whole season.
| The Midway Hotel at K amay, Nebraska,
was burned on Monday morning, and the
loss Is estimated at 100000. Henry
DemtIg, a theatrical man, was killed by
jumping from IN upper window.
?. @. McCcuk"y, proprietor of the Wind
sOr Hotel, in Radlands, California, and
| Charles Gresham, Il newspaper employe,
killed each other on Monday. Jealousy Il
supposed to have been the cause.
the deputy sherifrs and ex-Rarden
Eaa'ing Of Lud oy Street Jail, IN New
York, indIcted by the grand jury for mall
faaeance IN office, were in the court of
general sessions Monday and each entered
u plea OF rot guilty.
A Telegram from Norfolk, Va, says that
Philadelphia syndicate has purchased 200
icIes OF land and three q lies of water front
Immediately south OF the navy yard, on the
Portsmouth side of the river for S20O, 900,
to lay of and build town.
A dispatch from st.. Loals says that Mrs.
Nat o. Goodwin, In fl OF jealousy, at
tempted TO commit suicide on Sunday
night by taking carbolic acid. The acid
was diluted, and little difficulty was ex-
perienced III removing Its effects.
A violent storm swept over portions OF
South Carolina on Saturday afternoon.
Many telegraph wires are still down, and
satisfactory reports uave not yet been re.
csiyed. So far as known this loss OF life
was small, but number OF buildings were
damaged.
statement prepared ut the pension
office shows that 1850 pension certificates
were issued during the week ending March
22d, 1900. Tina issues for the four weeks
ended on that dare Aggregate l5,6i5 Jas
against S,0l2 for tho corresponding -four
weeks In 1889.
Tho rope OF coal plane at the In Han
Ridge colliery, at Shenandoah, Pa, broke
Monday, and car thus liberated d lshed
from ths tor 10 the bottom OF the plane
and Killed Michael Murticsn, a laborsr. A
young man n4med Robert Tempest was
badly injNred.
The colft OF appenls Of Maryland having
decided that pnoi selling IL not Violation
ot the gambling law, puhllc msetlcg was
held IN Baltimore n.lutsdly 10 urge npo1
t1c Legislature the passage Of 4 Dill pro
hibiting pool selling. lhs meeting was
nrdOr the auspices OF ths Socisty Tor the
Suppression Of V.c3.
PRESIDENT Harrisongon Monday issued q
proclamation warning al persons against
euterlng the waters of Bshring Sea, wthin
, the dominion of the Uriied states, for tho
purpose of violating thu provisions OF Sec
, tinn / ,p5G OF the Revised Statutes, which
, relates to tho killing OF otter, inink martan,
sable or fur seal or other iur beariug
animals within the limits of Alaska Terrl
tory or on waters thereof.
At Sweeiasr. Indiana, on Sunday alter
noon, Roy Pritchett and William Speeca
found can o. nitro glycerlne In the
; woods, and trlod to explode Il by heaping
leaves over 1t and setting thom on Are,
The can not exploding Prltchett b4gan to
punch 1t with Il burning stiek. suddenly
the explosion occurred, Blowing out both
: his eyes Hnd tearing Ch both bic arms,
, causing death In q few minutes. Clarence
Money. boy WAC WAS passing, WAS
: eeverely Injured by iiTiG5 stone. Pit
! Ghett leaves wife ana several children.
A bill hes been introduced IN the House
to incorporate tho NatiOlai American
WcUan 81 ffraGs Association, and creattas
Elizabeth Cady Stsltou, Susan b. Anthony,
3 Lucy Stone, Rachael Foster Avery, Alice
stone Black we'll AMI Jane ,SnC II irt, a DO ~
4 crrpor.ie and polite with p0%er Of success.
, siou 10 mold ara dispose ul property, elect
. officers End sdopG and g1iorcG Ey-laws.
I ''pAe o. IG1t OF fhiS ass05iatluu shull no to
Q secure protection iu their right 70 vote to
. tho woman elt!2sns oil tho Uhitei 3t2tus ny
0 appropriate nsdyla; AID State legislation"
: Jha Hausa mmttee on penaleaa on
: Monday ordered e favorable report on I so
! geueral peusion hills. Ihu litst 1T those
: IL the Richardson b II, granting pea ons to
!; the survivors OF the III iisn Turs aud TO the
. surviving widows OF those men who vera
. married prior TO their discharge, ari VINO
/; have not remarked, ut tie rate OF - per
month. the estimates OF tha peGslon
: bureau nre mat to pay tEero mon viii re.
e qrire an appropriation tho FIRST year Of
> 1888 l76. and On aggregate appropriation
. TO pay the pensions OF This c.ass OF rem,
y sioners for life of 80 257 $50. the second
!. bill is the Morton bill, to amend mo MeNl
! can act 80 gs 10 Inc uie tue soldiers wac
o se, y5d 60 days in tho Mexican war OF were
a engaged Ia battle, aud those personally
8 named by Congress tor specific service N
9 that war and the widows of such soldiers
!. The berefriatie'. according 20 depart
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