Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-04-02
~ GENERAL.

There have been 100 deaths from the
grip in New York since its last appearance
up TO date.
A furnace full of molten iron burst in
Terre Haute. Indiana, Monday, and tive
men lost their lives.
Fricke, the noted Anarchist of Pittsburg
was Monday taken to a hospital in that
city in starving condition
The Card Coal Company Monday dis
missed 200 miners from its mines at Wads
worth. Ohio, because it was understood
they were about to strike.
The Rev. DIR. Mendenshall of Cleveland
Ohio in Il talk before the Methodist Min.
isters' Association in that city, announced
that he was the author of THE Bread
winners
Robert Bartlett, town marshal of Priest
vile, Kentucky, being infatuated with the
young wife of DIR. Contri, shot and fatally
wounded her on Sunday night because she
would not elope with him.
Adam Barley, aged "a; his wife, aged 40
a sister, 6s and daughter, years of age,
have died within the past week, after q
few days illness of la grippe followed by
pneumonia. They lived near Stephens
City, Virginia.
The President on Monday appointed
Thomas II. Carter of Montana, commits.
sioncr of the general land office, vice
Lewis A. Croft, resigned James Compton
of Fergus Falls was appointed surveyor
general of Minnesota.
While William Pritchard was standing
in front of his home on Montgomery street
in Paterson, y. j., on Sunday night. an
unknown Italian stole up unseen and
stabbed him in the head, neck and Shout
ders. The would-be assassin escaped.
Pritchard can assign no reason for the
deed, except that few nights ago an in
innate friend of his insulted two strange
Italians.
The iourneymen carpenters and ioiners
in st. Louis are preparing to demand 40
cents an hour beginning May lst Two
years ago they held out for 30 days and
won the strike for IS cents an hour and
eight hours as days work with only a
handful of union men. Now they claim
to have ii local unions, with member
ship of 2,400, and say they will strike if
their demands are not granted.
Thomas Clark aged III years, who car
ried the mail from Oil City to Rougy,
Wyoming, has not been heard of for more
than week, and is supposed to have per-
ished in the snow, which is five feet deep
on level over part of his route. His
father, A. w. Clark, started in search of
him last Friday, during another snow
storm, and has also disappeared. His
horse was found on Sunday, dead in the
snow.
The Democratic party in Springfield, ILL.,,
held its primary elections under the new
primary election law of the state in 1850,
The election commissioners refused to pay
the judges and clerks at that primary cleo
ton for their services, on the ground that
such payment was not provided for under
the law. Test cases were brought against
the city and Cook county, and were carried
to the supreme court That court has
handed down decision, in which it up
holds the view of the election commits
sioners. The use of the machinery of the
law in primary elections, the court says
is not compulsory, and its acceptance is
not intended to be tax on the body polite
Many burglaries have been committed
in Logansport, Ind, during tho last six
months, the robbers eluding the police
Last Saturday four boys were arrested in
Terre Haute charged with vagrancy and in
their possession We're found letters and
articles of value, indicating that their
home was in Logansport. Monday they
We're taken to Logansport, and it developed
these boys had committed many of the
burglaries. They are sons of well-known
citizens. One of them is Edwin Over
halter, son of doctor of that name, who
two years ago ran for Congress in this dis
trict on the Prohibition ticket. The others
are, George Hall, John Roof and Frank
the action of the grand jury.
Treasury officials are considering the
best methods of settling the Direct Tax
claims of individuals in those states where
the tax was collected directly by United
States officers. The act provides that in
such cases the money in settlement of
direct tax claims shall be paid to the gov
ernors of the states in trust for the claim
ants. 1t SO happens, however, that the
records of these collections are in the
custody of the government and that the |
governors have no record or information
on the subject. Application was filed at
the treasury department, yesterday, for |
New Jerseys share of the Direct Tax re
fund amounting to S3S2,614 A warrant |
for S92, 245 was issued in favor of the gov
prnor of Minnesota, in payment of that
states share.