Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-12-18
IN GENERAL.

The locomotive engineers and firemen
on the st. Paul road have asked for an in
crease of wages.
II is said that the petrified body of a man
has been found near Fresno, California
The body measures nearly seven feet in
length.
Marion Irwin, carpenter in Kirkville
Iowa, has been arrested on suspicion of
killing his wife, who has been missing
since Thursday last.
Hannah w. Dillon, % years of age, was
held for trial III Woburn, Mass, Monday
charged with assault upon with intent to
kill James A. Callahan.
Mrs, Matilda Dodge, sister of Secretary
of the Navy Tracy, died suddenly in
Brooklyn, n. ", Sunday, of rheumatism
of the heart. She was Y years of age.
In Boston Monday Miss Gertrude Neil
recovered verdict ofS9, 000trom the Boston
Gas Light Company for injuries received
by falling through trap door left open by
the company's employees.
The Lorllard Brick Works Company of
New York and New Jersey has been placed
in the hands of receiver. The liabilities
are reported at 81 0O0,000; assets, 81, 100000.
The business will be continued by the re-
ceiver.
The daughter of Mrs. Sarah Cochran of
Cherry Bend, Ohio, was shot by Sherman
McMalon on Sunday night. Mcmahon then
committed suicide. He was Jealous of
other young men. The girl, it is thought,
will recover
Howard Holl, aged II years, died in
Reading, Pa, Monday, from theseffects of
a pistol shot wound in the head received at
the hands of John f. Fair, aged is years.
Fair, who is in custody, claims that the
shooting was accidental.
The cotton duck mills of the Druid Mills
Manufacturing Company of Baltimore,
which got into financial trouble last week,
were in full operation on Monday. Cards
were posted saying that the mills would be
run as usual under the supervision of the
old officers.
The strike on the Canal Division of the
New York & New Haven railroad has been
settled, A number of new brakemen were
engaged and many of the old men, except
the leaders, have been taken back. 1t is
understood that the company will pay for
all time over IL hours.
Sarah Hunter, IS years of age committed
suicide in Hamilton, Ontario, on Monday,
by taking rat poison, because she had been
taken to task by her employer, w. II.
Smith, for allowing the fires to go out. She
made an unsuccessful attempt to poison
her employers family.
Fears are entertained in Southport,
Conn, that the steam barge City of Utica
of New York, bound for Westport, with
coal has gone to the bottom of the sound
with all on board. Life preservers and
other wreckage bearing the name City Of
Utica have been washed ashore.
Ernest Howard president of the Virginia
stock exchange, in Stanton, Virginia, was
arrested Monday on warrant charging
of the exchange also on second warrant
charging him with the larceny of $50. He
gave bail for a hearing on Saturday.
Emil Seinson, son of wealthy merchant
of Denmark, is insane in a cell in the De
tention Hospital in Chicago. On Monday
he attempted suicide by cutting an artery
of his wrist. lie came to this country to
escape arrest for theft. As he raves in his
cell lie imagines Danish officers are pur-
suing him.
A suit against Stevenson Archer, ex-state
treasurer of Maryland, and his bondsmen
at the instance of the state, for the amount
of his Clefalcation, Sl37 900, is set down for
trial in Annapolis on Thursday. Archer
is now serving a iiye-years' term of I'M
prisonment upon his plea OF guilty of en-
bezzlement
The zelggraa, of Colon, under date of
the 9th inst, says the United States
del Toro, with United States consul Sims
on board. She was dispatched there, ac-
cording to the Telegram, on important
business, which that paper was mot at
liberty to state"
A freight wreck occurred on the Balti-
more Il Ohio railroad, near Pittsburg, on |
Monday morning. Conductor Hughes had |
q leg crushed so that amputation was neces-
sary. He cannot recover. Engineer Hunts
feet were mashed and he may die. Fire
man Hunt brother of the engineer, was
badly cut and bruised. Brakeman Mock
was severely bruised.
Joseph H. Hough, secretary of the New
Jersey Grand Lodge of Masons, died sud
lenly at his home in Trenton Monday,
lged 20 years. He had been grand secretary
or As years. He was the owner of num-
Der Of valuable jewels given him by Ma
ionic friends and lodges and the grand
odge Preparations were being made to
celebrate the semi-centennial Of his term
If office in 1902.
Daniel Salisbury celebrated his 10Sd
birthday at his home in Lac qui Parle
on Sunday. His wife will be
0l years old Christmas day January 18th
hey will have been married 50 years.
Until quite recently they lived alone in a
omfortable log house on Yellow Bank
liver, Mrs. Salisbury doing the cooking
nd general housework while Mr.. Sails
Jury chopped the wood and attended to
he chores about the bouse.
Al a meeting OF wealthy Arab citizens IN
lew York Modday it was decided to form
silk growing and fruit raising syndicate
4 this country, which will give employ
rent to all Arab immigrants. A lawyer
AIMED Scudder was instructed to person.
lily inspect certain tracts of land in Penn
flvania and Arizona, with power to nego-
ate for the purchase of such tract as he
lay decide to be most feasible. Many
alive Syrians are urging their country |
ZEN to pmigrate to the United Stateg and
lter the syndicate.
The promotion of Ensign James H,
to lieutenant. Junior grade.