Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-06-11

William Mcdonald was drowned in Chi
cago on Wednesday night by his horse
going through the open draw of the bridge
at Halstead street.
Samuel Wright, farmer near Walton,
KY, shot and killed Albert Seurvin on
Wednesday night. Wright was abusing a
negro and Scurvin interfered.
Great restitution is reported in the Con-
nellsyille region, among the miners who
have been refused employment, and the
labor leaders have appealed for immediate
aid
Robert Schilling, secretary of the new
Peoples party, Thursday issued call for
a convention of the party, to be held in st.
Louis June 18th, to arrange a plan of
action for the coming campaign.
The case of John Francis Hawlett, who
is charged with coming to this country
under contract to work as coachlnan for
G. W. Eustis Of Washington, has been re-
ferred to the treasury department.
Captain William Clark superintendent
of the life saving station at Erie, Pa, was
drowned in the surf early Thursday morn
ing while going to the assistance OF the
propeller Badger State, which had been
driven ON the beach.
Argument in the Oellers- Wright case,
involving hetreaslrership of Philadelphia,
was heard Thursday, by the supreme court,
at Harrisburg The opinion, ii is said,
will be handed down IN Philadelphia a
week or ten days hence.
deal was consummated in Chicago
Thursday by which the whisky trust
has acquired the only remaining antitrust
cage distlleries owned by II, Schfeldt &
Co, and the Calumet Distilling Company.
Twenty-three einigrants were Thursday
sent back to Europe blythe Federal author
tiles at New York They were all penniless
and liable to become public charges. One
of the men returned made affidavit that he
had been assisted to come to America by
government agents in Ireland
For several weeks past it has been sus-
peeted that some one was stealing money
Enclosures from the dead letter bureau III
Washington. Yesterday Arthur U. Sayles
was arrested with eight letters in his pos
session, two of them test letters. used for
detection, and ne confessed his guilt.
Complete stagnation is reported among
the lumber firms at Bangor, Maine lowing
to the boycott in the lumber trade in New
York, A number of vessels are lying idle
in the harbor awaiting cargocs. Nearly all
the SAW mills have suspended operations
and no lumber whatever is being shipped.
John Hoh, q years of age, an inmate of
the County Hospital, in Reading, Pa, died
of starvation Thursday. lie partooll Of no
food for y DAYS. Noappeals could induce
him to take food, and why he entered
upon his course Of starvation he refused to
explain. His body was reduced in weight
from ll5 10 IS pounds.
Governor Hill Thursday commuted the
sentence i'll the case of the boy Frederick
Eaton. who entered farm house in Wyo-
min county, i'll september, 1885, and stole
Sl.02, and was sentencedto Auburn prison
for 26 years by the late Judge Corlett Of
Buffalo. Under the communication the sem
tence will expire to-day. The boy had
never been arrested or convict of any
crime before.
Acting Secretary spaulding Thursday
tclegraphed Instructions TO the commander
of the revenue steamer Corwin, at san
Francisco, to prepare that vessel for trip
to Hehring Sea. This is in anticipation of
an agreement by all the countries interested
for Il closed season in the seal fisheries, and
to guard against any possibility of delay
in the departure of the Corwin when agree
ment is concluded
In the Pittsburg license court Friday
Johnnie Staley, well-known sporting
character, applied fo. q transfer Of liquor
and hotel license, the court objecting be
cause he was given somewhat togambling
Staley's attorney remarked: II desire 10
cal! your Honors attention tothe fact that
the Prince of Wales CANDLES a little.n
well, don't consider him of good char |
acter. He could not get license in this
court, /" replied the judge.
During thunder storm in Huntingdon,
Pa, Thursday, number of railroad
laborers took shelter under freight tram /
4 number Of than sitting on the rails I'M
der the cars. They had scarcely gained
their position before ii of them We're
by lightning, which passed along
he rail. Oliver and Alexander Moore and
Patrick Ross were severely injured The
others soon revived.
II is reported from Paris, Tex, that the
Wichita Indians, with whom a commits
ion is now treating, have decided that
hey will not accept the proposition to take
60 acres each in allotment and sell the
est of the land at 50 cents per acre. They
Will make counter proposition to sell all
heir lands at $50 per acre and endeavor
'ither to establish their claim upon the
ands now occupied by the Cheyennes and
Arapahoes, or, Failing in that, to purchase
ZONES among the Choctaws and Ghicka-
avs, where they think they will be more
rec from interruption.
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