Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-02-27
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bill making Gen. Robert Lees birth
day legal holiday passed the Virginia
house Of representatives Monday.
During g fit Of dependency, caused by
i'll health, Henry Pope. an old citizen Of
Ashland, Pa, cut his throat Sunday.
Richard Barrett, who murdered Ed
ward Z. Williams in London, England.
January 10Th, 1889, was arrested in New
York on Saturday.
yzNearIy 200 Poles and Huns left Ply
mouth and Nantiooke Monday for the
Punxsutawney coke fields ia charge Of
labor oontrac ors.
Deaths in Philadelphia last week num-
berea $40, 10 less than the previous week
and 80 more than during the correspond
ing period last year.
The dwelling of Hunt Bead, in Augue-
tn, Ga, was burned on Sunday afternoon.
and his three children, aged 6, 4 and 2
years, persisted in the flames.
Henry Lebo, the wife murderer, who,
when captured a few DAYS ago sent o
bullet into his own bead, died in the Jail
at Reading, Pa, on Saturday night.
A dispatch from Wilmington, N. O.,
says that the schooner Mary l.. Allen of
Baltimore, was wrecked westward of
Ocracoke Inlet. The crew were landed
safely.
Speaker Reed of the House of Repre-
aentstives has accepted an invitation to
attend the 10Th annual banquet OF the
young Republicans OF Philadelphia on
April 9th.
Mr.. Charles Emory Smith of Philadel-
phia, the new minister TO Russia, on Sat
urday took the oath Of Office before Col.
Samuel Bell, Jr., clerk of the United
States circuit court.
About so members Of the Massachusetts
Club gathered in hotel in Boston on
Saturday evening and listened to an ad-
dress by George w. Gable on The
Southern Question"
number OF tramps taken to Hacken-
sack, N. j., on Friday night, had in their
possession coins and papers stolen from
the cornerstone of the new Catholic
church In Ridgeaeld Park.
The schooner Lsburnam, which left
Halifax, Nova Scotia, for the East Indies
on January 9Th, has bsen given up for
lost. She was loaded with fish and lum-
Der. She had crew of i've men.
During runaway accident, near New
ark, N. 81, on Saturday, Miss Mary Z.
Tyler was killed and Lottis Tyler, her
sister, was injured internally. Two other
women who were in the carriage were
slightly injured.
The official count of votes cast or
Tuesday was continued on Saturday. The
vote cast for Congressman Kelley's sue
cessor in the Fourth district was Rey'
burn, as, 152; Ayres, 1858; Tumbleston,
235. Thirteen wards remain to be
counted. M .v
Nearly complete returns Of the election
for mobiles and representatives in the
Hawaiian Islands on February 9Th indi
cate that the Reform party will have Q
small neutrality-suspicious. thsee-ia the
house OF mobiles and tibet the house OF
representatives will be tie.
The Rev. Frank Kahler, aged 40 years
formerly pastor of Congregational
church in Southington, Conn, and lat.
terly living at Millersburg, Pa, com.
mitted suicide on Sunday, near Allen
town. The cause of the suicide is I'M.
known.
at the meeting OF Methodist ministers
in Baltimore, Monday, a resolution wa
adopted requesting the legislature to pas
the bill granting each precinct in Balti
moro the right to decide by ballo
whether or net liquor saloons shall be
licensed within its limits.
During heavy gale en- Saturday the
revenue cutter Dallas took on board ihI
life saving crew and boat ct Cranberry
Island, Maine, went with them to th,
wreck OF the British schooner Glen oE
Little Duck Island and took off her crew
also one man who went over to her from
Bass Harbor on Thursday night witt
four others in dory. These four left
. Duck Island on Friday fearing the!
would be frozen 10 death if they re
manned. II is supposed they were los
. in the heavy sea.
A telegram from Pittsburg says tn
Pennsylvania railroad, with the Pennsyl
: vanis company, will heat its paasenge
t cars next season with steam. The cost i
! estimated at about $3.50, 900, but the re
suit will be saving of money, as q
present thousands of tons of cCal ar,
0 burned annually Experiments s to aafet,
: show that violent conclusion will breal
9 the connection with the engine boilers
r and there will be no danger OF scsldinI
l or of fire.
!. The schooner Harry Prescott, at New
York, reports that on February 9Th, il
: latitude "a, longitude as, hove to nea
. the wreck OF three-masted schooner
: iiemasted and water-logged, with he
boats and forward house gone, and TIL
Q sea making clean breach over her. Fou
9 men were clinging to the after house
9 Owing to the dangerous sea, Captain
: Turner says, he was unable to rende
T them any assistance, and when last seei
y the wreck was drifting toward Hstters
9 shoals.
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