Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-07-24
IN amEERAb.


Alliance in st. Paul. minnesota, yssLsr-
day week, it was decided to place state
ticket in the 6sld.
Thomas Truxton, o 13.yesrs-o'd son OF
the iate Commodore W. Il. Truxson, was
drowned yesterday week while bath
ing at Fort Norfolk, Va.
Chairman Cooley of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, has returned to
Washington apparently completely re-
sso ed to health and hos resumed his OIL
oial duties.
The Democratic state committee OF
Pennsylvania met yesterday week in Har-
risburR md elected Congressman James
Kerr cl OleaYhald, Chairman, by aeela-
matiup, to suooaed w. T. Hsrrity, re-
signed.
The right hand and pars OF woman's
arm was found in some 6rHtwood at S.
LouiH Sunday week. YaetNrjay week Ike
left member was founG mites Down the
river. It is Thought thal a murder bus
bsen committed, but there IL no cIne.
Tho Gepublioan stats convention OF
Ohio was held in Cleveland yesterday
week Ex-Gov. Foraker was temporary
chairman. Daujel j. Ryan vss nomt-
mated for seSFetAry OF state aud Juago
Thaddeus A. Minshsll for surserg judge.
Sup't Porter last night week re.
csivsd message from ths c3n91s super
visor of Chicago, tayiag that his co1at
makes the poplinlion of thae city ,lOl,-
2G3. This puts Onicago in sscond place.
| The count ia not official, but little vAria-
tion is probable.
The President last week nominated A.
r. Nettleton of Minnesota, to be m as
sistsnt secretary of the treasury; Jamei
| Russell Soley uf MsAaachusetts, aasistan
secretary of the navy, and Lieutenant
colonel Michael Il, Morgan, assistant
oommissary-general.
A statement prepared at the Pension
bureau showed that oIt Of the l, 15i
clerks now employed at the bureau 23,
ere now drawing pensions. Applications
! for pensions from 81 others are nov
pending, 2s under the old laws and "a
| under the raoent act.
A dispatch from LeRvsnworth, Kansas
says that the drought in that locality wa
ended by a soaking rain on Tuesday.
VRa the first that had fallen there in q
days, during all OF which time the tern
perature had not been below 900. o.
Monday week il reached 110o.
Passengers arriving in New York ol
the steamer Osbisonia, from Havana
state that yellow fever OF violent typ'
is raging in that city. They say that 81
cases G day are reported, and foreigner
are leaving as fest as they can get away
Tho weather is very hot.
The Central Trust Company and tn
Mercantile Trust Company OF Nsw York
and th st. Louis, Arkansas 4 Texas rail
road, appeared in the United States cour
10 Little Rock, Tuesday " land deere
for the snle of the road, which run
through Missouri aud the western part c
Arkansas, WAS made.
A dispatch from Paris, Texas, says tha
the proprietora of the Choctaw Orpha
Asylum Lottery Company have not abar
ionel the sch5me yet. They deelar
that the Uuitei States government haa n
right to interfere, and that they intend /
proceed TO hold drawing and test the
rightg
Barnnr's yIoel, in Baltimore, has bas
purchnssd bv syndiaae. Q. The ol
buildlng hos bsan torn down, and in il
place " II ariso q structure fron nina {
! IL stories hiFl, aud fireproot. All Ia
flaors above The rat will bo arranged
tfficcg Tas Gis floor will bo fitted &c
ban ing ho1sa tnA such lgo purpose
The InrHaHJ Gepubiioau Associate
, ri iupetius M Washington Tuesday niRl
! wsck passed resolutions demandiug te'
4 all * coufaderatas in tho govsrn.ael
dspsrtmant4, 6ppointed dnring Clsv,
! lnud'e Standardization, he dismissed fro
/ httt.fN al. f,n MllaH =
tx Union soldiers who are Republican
8 NO Drmaorp.il state cotamittss
Ma!,isn9 met IN BAl.imors last weel
Iha aext D-no1ratio stste nanventio
was ordered 10 be held in 1891. con
= mitte0 wa4 appointed to prepare an n
; drAss 10 lite voters OF Maryland dat,
i were axed for JpnRrass nominating col
: veniions, aad tine committee meeting vi
= adj iurned.
|. The interstate commerce comm'ssiC
. has decided that it will issue an ord
3 making a reduction in grain rates fro
o Iowa, Nebraska, Kaoaas and Missouri
+ st. Louis and the Mississippi river and
d Chicago. Food product rates east of II
a Misrissippi snd not involved in otht
3 quits before the commission aro not foun
o to be excessive.
Ip Lancaster, Pa, last evoning week
crowded car on the electric railway x
beyond control while ascending a.ef
Il hill near the city and dashed down t.
l. hill at friHhtful speed. Some ot Ii
% pansangsEs jumped from the window
"a and many women tainted. Tho Car W
/, stopped It sse bottom Of tho hill withoi
g aRy peFson being fatally injured, ,slthcuG