Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-04-30

The strike Of the laborers on the Worlds
Fair site, in Jackson Park, Chicago, is at
an end.
Disastrous floods are reported in the
Brazos and Nayasota rivers in Texas.
Many cattle have been drowned.
The court house in Sandusky. Ohio,
was struck by lightning on Wednesday
week. The main tower was destroyed.
Loss, $4,000.
Wilton w. Wood, aged II years, was
stabbed and killed by Louis L: Miller,
aged Ii years, in Baltimore, Thursday.
The boys quarrelled about baseball
George GRADER Thursday shot ahd killed
his wife and then committed suicide, in
Cincinnati. They had been separated for
some time, owing to his dissolute habits.
Warrants for the repayment of the
direct tax fund were issued from the
treasury department yesterday in favor of
three massachusetts, 1886. l01; Cali
fornia, sos, 246, and Arkansas, Sl56,272.
Anton SCHNEIDER threw himself over the
iron railing of the gallery of the jail in
Utica, N. Y, to the floor below Thursday.
His neck was broken. He had been ar
rested last weekfor fatally wounding his
wife with a Ratchet.
An explosion of gasoline in the house of
Theodore Karnbrandt in Chicago Thursday
destroyed that and several adjoining dwell
Il
Karnbrandt was badly and Mrs. Mary
Burnson fatally burned.
"Dick" Liddell, once member of the
James gang, and now wealthy owner OF
| horses on eastern tracks, was arrested at
Richmond, Missouri, Wednesday pweek,
charged with the murder, in 1882 of Wood
| Hite, cousin of Jesse James.
| A dispatch from Ashland, Pa, says that
the Reading colleries in that region, which
have been working but four days week,
| have received orders to work every day
until further notice. This order gives
great satisfaction to 5000 workmen.
An alleged gang Of White Caps has
| threatened to murder Il. q. X. Dayton, a
prominent farmer near Riyerhead, Long
Island sending him the usual skull and
| cross-bones missives. The matter has been
placed in the hands of the authorities,
Laborers ut the lumber yard of Gilbert
Hodge & Co., in Burlington, Iowa, drank
freely of water from an old well in the
| vicinity Wednesday week. The water had
| been poisoned by sewage. Five of the
men died, and others are not expected to
| live.
Three thousand one hundred and
seventy-seven immigrants arrived at New
York Thursday Among the passengers
| were so Mormons, under charge of two
elders, destined for Utah. This is the
first arrival of Mormons under the new
immigration law, which excludes polyga-
mists.
A number Of Italian stonemasons struck
| Thursday morning in The Morrisania dis
triet of New York. The strikers tried to
| induce number of other masons to quit
| work, and stones were thrown and pistols
drawn. Finally the police quelled the
trouble and arrested a number of the ring
| leaders.
The Manufacturers Record says that over
| 81, 900 900 has been invested in Florida in
| phosphate lands within two years, and
| that the companies now have daily ca
| pacity of 1000 tons of phosphate rock. In
South Carolina there are % phosphate
mining companies with an aggregate cap
| ital of S4,510,000, and the production last
| year was $751; 1i9 tons.
Bids were opened at the treasury depart
ment Thursday for the construction of
| two new lighthouse tenders, which will be
| known as the Lilac and the Columbine.
| The dimensions of the vessels are to be as
follows; Length over all, 1856 feet, and
beam, moulded, 20 feet 8 inches. There
were IA bidders, the lowest being the Globe
iron works. Cleveland, Ohio, their figures
| being ST., $50 for each vessel.
The miners in the Upper Monongahela
| river region have decided not to strike for
| the eight-hour day on May list, when the
| general move is to be made by miners.
| The river miners, numbering 1900. have
! lust gone back to work. and are enjoying
a prosperous run after disastrous strike
| Of several months In addition to this
| they deny they are in one of the COM
petitive districts ordered to strike.
| A German named Nicholas Bader tried
| to pass the examination at the lmmigra-
ton Landing Bureau, New York, Thurs
| day 1t was ascertained that he not only
had no money or friends, but that he had
been convicted of numbering girl in Ger
many and afterwards had been confined
"a years i'll all insane asylum. Bader is 50
years old and halls from Shamrock, Ger
many. He admitted he was released from
the asylum little over a year ago and
asked to be sent to America. He made an
affidavit to the effect that the German au-
thorities paid his expenses to this country.
The affidavit will be sent to the Treasury
Department, with the suggestion that the
German authorities be called upon to ex-
plain their action. Bader will be returned
at once.
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