Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-07-17
IN GEM RAL.

for Congress.
Anthony J. Drsxel arrived from Europe
on Friday on the steamship Columbia,
from Hamburg.
The President Thursday afternoon
signed the act for tho admission OF wy
oming as 3 state.
The census of Macon, Ga, shows q
population of 22,426, including the
suburbs. The population In 1880 was
1880.
Owen Scott, editor of the Bloomington
Bulletin, has been nominated for Con-
Illinois district.
1t is estimated that about 80, 900 appli-
cations for pensions under the Disability
Pension act have thus far been received
Rt the pension office.
Foreign bankers ON Friday ordered
81, 600 900 mere gold for shipment 10
Europe, making $4,000, 600 in gold bars
to 20 to Liverpool by Saturdays steamer.
The House COMMITTEES on labor Thurs
day reported favorably, with some minor
amendments, the bill making eight hours
o days work for all laborers employed
by the Government.
Clinton shueok, farm hand employed
by William Brunat, at Swamp, Mont
gomery county, Pa, Sunday shot and
killed his employers IA ysars-old daughter
Louisa, and then shot himself in the head,
inflicting q fatal wound.
The Oolored Catholic Convention, In
session in Cincinnati, on Thursday ap-
pointed committee on the founding of
| an industrial school for colored Catholics
at Washington. The convention then
adjourned to meet In Philadelphia in
1899.
William ]. Morehesd, formerly Of the
firm Il Jay Cooke 4 Co., and q wealthy
resident OF West Philadelphia, Is reported
to have become insane at hbbury Park,
| Thursday, and to have disappeared. Hs
had been acting strangely for two or
three days.
The deadlock In the Democratic con-
vention of the Sixteenth Congressional
district of Ohio was broken Friday night
by the nomination Of x-Lieutenant-gov-
ernor John q. Warwick OF Massillon. He
will be the antagonist of Congressman
Mckinley.
The Senate on Friday confirmed Adam
Z. King, of Maryland, to be consul gene
raj at Paris; Charles Heath, of Masssohu-
/
assistant treasurer ut Philadelphia and
Denis f. Burke, assistant appraiser of
merchandise at New York.
The Bogostoff volcano, In the Aleutian
Islands, ia in active eruption, after hay-
ing been quits,ent since 1896. II is less
than thousand feet hi.l but the flames
rise 2, 900 feet above lis summit. Mount
sheldon, 5000 feet high, on another of
| ha tala la 80 az. a.,l
A director Of the Maryland penitentiary
is quoted as saying, on Friday, that ex-
State Treasurer Archer, who is under q
Ave years sentence for endorsement sis
not only very sick man, but his mind Ia
becoming affected, and he will be insane,
or perhaps dead, inside of three months"
Edward Holt, while insane, at his home
In West Wilton, New Hampshire, on Fri
day took his aged father, Wallace Holt,
from sick bed and pounded his head
upon the hearth. He then badly injured
his mother and aunt. Several of the
neighbors were also injured while trying
to restrain him.
The President on Friday nominated
Colonel Alexander Mcdowell McOook of
the Sixth Infantry, to be bFigadier-gsn-
erai; Major Augustus G.. Robinson, qusr-
termaster, to be deputy quartermsster-
general, with the rank of lieutenant COZ
onel, aud Captain Edwin b. Atwood, az.
sistant quartermAster, to be quarter
master, with the rank of major.
4 dispatch from Chicago says that j.
d. Tier. well-known western brewer, ID
preparing to establish large distillhng
industry in opposition to the whisky
trust. He is now in Chicago to select
machinery for distilling plant to cost
nearly &3,000,000. The plant is to be
O. ehtishrd on the Miss uri river, at some
loi-., "a the heart Of the corn belt.
Acting under instructions from the
Republican senatorial caucus of Thurs
day night, Chairman Edmunds has ap.
pointed Messrs. Hoar, Spooner, Frye and
Moody, together with MessrS. Aldric y
Sherman and Ingalls, (the Republioal'
members of the committee on fulest
ito report as caucus committee upoI.
the question Of changing the rules OF thu
Senate so as to provide for closure OF
debate at the will of the majority, and to
ascertain and report how that result can
be attained II deemed necessary to the
conduct of business"
The last spike in the new Lehigh Val
ley railroad connection between the
Lehigh and Bohuylkill valleys was driven
on Saturday, at Renimunt, West Pens
township, Sohuylkill county, in the pres
ence Of number of prominent officials
OF the Lehigh Valley railroad and invited
guests. Two gold spikes were driven
amid the cheers of the spectators, one by
r. A. Wilder, who projected the road 40
years ago, and the other by II. H. Bayre
| second vice-president of the LehiRh Val.
, Icy Railroad Company.
! e. 3. Lennon, representing the barb cd
: wire manufacturing firm of WAshburn 4
. Moen OF Worcester, Mass, was in Obi.
> cago on Saturday, and said he had pur.
chased about 60 acres Of ground near the
! Calumet Iron and Steel Company works
between 10th and Hath streets, for o
site on which to put up branch factory
for the Washburn d Moen Company.
Preliminary work had begun and he wal
going east TO arrange the details of tn,
! , enterprise. The plant will cost OIL 900. 00(
and thousand men may be employed.
Advicea from Honolulu say that there
! have been wholesale assertions from tn.
! United States steamer Charleston. Ma
tiyes were hired to reoapture sailors, and
all but eight were retaken. The sailors
charged that the discipline was to severe.
They say they were kept below the decks
1 the entire time when not needed on deck
aud were not permitted the use of Thu
library presented to them by citizens Of
San Frsncisoo. The man who went witt
, the ship as electrician and was reduced
In rank to assistant maohinist seems h
!, have been the ringleader of the deaertera
a Ex-Alderman Michael Duffy of th
/. New York Doodle board Of 1884, VIII,
/ turned informer against his colleagues