Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-06-26

7. ]. Henderson has been renomiDated for
congress by the Republicans Of the Seventh
district Of Illinois.
W. L. Mason was renominAted for con.
gress by the Republicans OF the Third
Illinois district on Saturday.
| A fire at Adams Il Gregory's lumber mill,
In Carleton, New Brunswick, on Saturday,
caused damage estimated at $2s, 900.
The trial OF John L. Sullivan, Muldoon,
Cleary and Donovan, for aiding and abet-
| ting the Sullivan-Kilrain fight at Rlcaburg,
Is fixed for tomorrow In Purvis, Miss.
William W. Nlvison, who stole 1850
from the United States express while acting
as the company's agent az Youngstown,
Ohio, In 1884, was on Saturday found guilty.
Worth Dickerson was on Saturday elected
representative In congress from the Sixth
Kentucky district, 10 succeed John G.
Carlisle, by about the usual Democratic
majority.
+. Il. Weston, the trial justice In Column
bia, 8. o., who was engaged In pistol fight
on the streets on Thursday last, has sent
his resignation to the governor and 1t has
been accepted.
The value OF exports from this country
| for the IL months ended May 3lst, 1890 was
| $3.50 950,5l4 IN 1889 the figures were
1888, 76n,54, The value OF imports In 1890
was s7i5.0s5, 299. In 1889 the figures were
s746. s42. 7O7.
| Hewitt Van Marter, aged 20 years. clerk
at the Mercsr Pottery, In Trenton, N. j.,
who disappeared on Wednesday, last, was
found drowned Yesterday. He had COM
mitted suicide. Il is thought tha act was
committed on account of love affair.
The marine hosp raj bureau is advised
that yellow fever ship from Rio de Jeneiro
| Is detained at the Delaware Break water
quarantine for fumigating. &c. Three
deaths occurred on the vessel on her last
voyage, but there are no cases on her at
| present.
At Reading, Pa, on Saturday, Judge
Eniie REUSED the application OF Charles
| All Song, Chinaman, for naturalization
papers. The judge holds that 'the trainers
OF our laws never contemplated that a
Mongolian should be made voter In this
country"
| John Anderson and George Smith, whlle
returning to Wiikesharre, Pa. from Ha,-
vey's Lake. last niRht, were stopped by three
masked highwaym a. heir horse became
frightened and ran, and they thus escaped.
An armed party started out from Wilkes
barre TO capture the criminals.
John Flynn quarreled with bis con-
umptive wife, Fannie, In New York, late
on Saturday night, and threw her down
stairs. She is now IN dying condition in
II hospital. Flynn was severely thra he'd
| sent to the tombs TO await the result of his
wife's injuries.
The ofiitel report OF the secretary OF
state OF Mexico for the fiscal year iust
ended shows that the total exports from
Mexico were valued at over $50 900 900.
o. this amount ov $40, 900 900 went to
the United States, sl2 900, 600 to England,
France.
Charles Cato. white, shot and killed his
mistress, LIZZIE Mitchell, colored, in
Birmingham, Alabama, Sunday morning,
and then blew out his own brains. -Four
hours later William Tatum shot ard
wounded Mary Barnett, his mistress, and
blew out his own brains. Jealousy caused
both, The latter saw the fret tragedy, and
followed suit.
The time for Governor Albeit OF New
Jersey, to take action on legislative bills
expt ed on Saturday night. Among those
he refuse to sign IL a bill permitting POOL
selling at horse races IS days each year.
Among the other bills defeated by the In
action OF the governor Is tho repeater Of the
West jersey Game Associations charter.
Right Rev. Wulangb, q. IS. r., Bishop OF
Dutch Guiana, is In Baltimore. He says tnat
leprosy exists to an alarming extent in
Surinam. Three OF the redemptorist
fathers nave been attacked by the disease,
and one OF them is dying OF 1t. The Rev.
Charles Ourrier of Boston, who has also
been among the lepers, accompanies Bishop
Wulfngh.
Judge Henry W. Thomas died at Fairfax
Court House. Va, on Sunday, In the 18th
year of his age. He was q member of the
commission that visited President Lincoln
In 1861 with q view to avertIng hostilities.
During the war he was second auditor Of
the state. After the war he was O member
OF the court Of Cancellation, later judge OF
the SSurts of The Alexandria circuit, and
still later lieutenant governor. For half
century he was one OF the leading lawyers
OF Northern Virginia.