Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-08-14
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of the York Match Company. at York
Pa, were destroyed by fire on Saturday
night. Loss, $4,000.
The census returns show the popula.
tion of Colorado TO be 40, 800. This /.
a gain OF PIG, 482 over 1880, and will give
the state an additional congressman.
The Triennial Cantonment of the Pa.
triarohs Militant, 1. 0. o. f., at Chicago,
was brought to a close on Saturday night
by ths award of pdzes TO the cantous.
The United states Fish Commission
have received reports ind eating the en-
tire success OF their experiment in propa.
eating Goldfish on the Massachusetts, coast.
The new temple, the Casino, erected
by Mr.. Brad ey at ABbnry Park, was
dedicated on Sunday, the sermon being
delivered by the Rev. DR.. Talmage, of
Brooklyn.
Harry II. Byram, editor-in-chief OF the
Pittsburg Chronicle. Telegraph, and for q
number OF years a director OF the Abso-
ciatad Press, died on Saturday at his
home in Pitttburg.
The Exoelsior knitting mills at Bethle.
hem, Pa, shut down on Saturday for an
indefinite period, throwing 400 men out
OF work. The concern was recently sold
at an ps'ignee's sale.
Sheriff Wright reached Kokomo, In
diana, on Saturday night. from Fort
Worth, Texan, having in custody Freemsn
Cooper, . lawyer, whb absconded after
realizing $l7,15o on forged notes.
The strike of tine axle workers at
Wilkssbarre, Pa, which has extended
over tho past i've months, has been set.
tied. Mutual concessions were made and
the old employees will be reinstated.
A shortage Of $4,000 has been found
IN the accounts of the late G. Austin,
treasurer Of San Joss comfy, Colorado.
The shortage is Baid to be dla to careless.
ness, and viii be made good by Austin's
bondauan.
William Jenkins arrived AZ OolvilIe,
Washington, on Sunday, from his rauch
Gu miles away, aud SURE udered to the
authorities, saying that he had killed two
men in self-aefencs, William DAILY aud
b nj amin shaw, in dispute ovsr horse
trane.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has is-
sued q circular changing the hour OF
which bids for the sale of silver will be
received at the treasury department after
tn ian inst, from IL o'clocs, az fxed
in tue circular OF the LIST inst, to 1
o'clock, p. m.
A Qnebac dispatch says it ia rumorsd
that me French Canadian Liberals have,
with the concurrence of the Ontario Re.
formers, offered the leadership of the
party to Erastus Wimln, and that suoh
was ths object of MIR. Pacaud's recent
visit to New York.
The collector al San Francisco has
been authorized by the treasury depart
meut to have sent back to Ohina az
Cinnamon, who ware turned ever to him
By ,hs court commissioners for Southern
California, who found them Illegally in
the United States.
George Davis, the partner OF John
smYthe, the fanmaker, who wss found
dead with his skull fractured near 90
lumbia Pa, was arrested al Friday even
ing, pending tue coroner nvsstigation.
The men we're together d.. lag the eyen-
ing Smythe met his d7sth.
dispatch received in chicago IN Sat.
utday stated that the tsmpstllure at Mia.
nedasa had fallen 30o the previous night
aud that a general frost pss probably ex.
perienoed throughout N aitoha. 1t is
feared that the wheat is ruined, the har.
fSHt 49, hoNAdb you boShh
Representative O'Neiil On Saturday |
presented in the House resolution Of |
the George G. Meade Post. No. /, G. A.
X, urging the passage Of the Plumb reso-
lution for the removal of the remains OF
General Grant from Riverside to the
Matt nal Cemetery at Arlington.
Mrs, Schmidt, her daughter and four
boarders, of PittLburg, were made seri-
ously i'll on Saturday by drinking coffee
IN which poiaon had been placed. A
Mrs. Levi, business rival, who was seen
crawling from window of the Schmidrs
house on Friday evening, has been ar
rested.
John Brady, an ex-conyict of San
Diego, Cal, on Thursday night made
third attempt TO rob the Coronado ferry
ticket seller as he was returning TO tho
office of the company with the days re.
ceipts, but WAS shot and killed by watch
men, who had been appraised Of Brady's
intention.
A riot occurred on Monday in front of
the headquarters of the coatmakers In
New York. The tenant OF the lower Dor
tion OF the building objected to the coat
makers congrePating on the sidewalk,
and q general fight ensued. One man
was severely beaten and Is OF the rioters
were arrested.
A beer party was held Monday in the
carbon Iron Works, at PittsbuvR, at
Mhlch The IN IN are out on strike. Ricnard /,
aefndman, negro wGtchmap, became
'iahtened, Imagining the strihers were
.alilng the place, and seized his revolver,
Az rsault, Daniel Sullivan, an inoffen- :
i've youth, was shot through the heart.
Two masked robbers boarded horse
Jar in Kansas City, Oh Saturday night,
ana covering the driver, II. Moberly, !
with their pistols, took from him what
money he had about him. They then
whipped up the mules into gallon and
umped off, warning Moberly that II he
ttempted to give an alarm they would 8
boot him.
The Bakers Union of New York, Penn I
ylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Q
Connecticut, held special convention In Il
Jew York buaday to consider the ques. e
ION Of boycotting Fleischmann yeast. It
7aH agreed that none of the members
epresented would use the yeast until the
rm has settled with the New York union, ii
The Indian agent at Muscogee, Indian g
'erritofy, has notified the Secretary of I
ne interior that there Is great danger If a
a outbreak among the Ohickasaw In- p
lans on the 18th inst, on the occasion
the election, the trouble arising on ac.
cunt of the Acknowledgement of sdusw.
len. Troops at Fort Gibson have been d
rdered to be in readiness in case OF seri- a
US riot. n
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