Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-09-03

the United States, but do not know theii
addresses.
Mrs. Julia Fillmore Harris, last sur.
yiyor Of family of eight brothers and
sisters, one of whom was Willard Fill
more, the 18th president of the United
States, died on Sunday at the residence
OF her son, Charles Harris. in San Fran
cisco. She was born in 1912, and went
to California in 1872 from Minnesota.
A dispatch from Austin, Texas, says
that the board of education has granted
certificates to 81 Sisters of Charity to
teach in the free public schools of Texas.
This is new feature, and is in accord
ance with late ruling of the attorney
general that they are entitled to certifi-
Gates as long as they do not teach the
doctrines of their church in the schools.
United States Marshal Walker and his
deputies, who followed the notorious
Bob Sims and his gang of Illicit distillers
and desperadoes from Alabama into
Mississippi, on Sunday captured six of
the men near De Soto, and two more
beyond Sims house, but Sims himself
has not yet been captured. The prison
ers will be taken TO Mobile.
A town meeting in Hanover, New
Hampshire, on Saturday ratified the
action of the selectmen in offering a re-
ward of s 800 tor the capture of Frank
Almy, the murderer. A letter was read
from Mrs. Warden, authorizing the divi-
sion among those who endangered their
lives on the day of Almy's capture of
any portion of the reward that may
legally belong to her.
During fire in the Kirby House at
Denver, COL, Monday afternoon, a
quantity of gasolene exploded, tearing a
hole in the front of the building. u. f.
Rowley, who was on the sidewalk in
front OF the house, was blown into the
middle Of the street and was fatally in
1ured. Several others were injured by
flying bricks.
A mixed train on the Louisville and
Evansville railroad was wrecked Mon
day morning, on trestle, near Troy,
Indiana, by the breaking of tlange.
The engine and passenger coach
plunged down an embanlment, and
the passengers were scalded by escap-
ing steam. 1t is reported that four per-
sons were killed and 81 injured, 10 Sc
riously.
Mine Inspector John NJ. Lewis, at
Hazleton, Pa, has just issued his annual
report. The total number of fatal acct
dents was So, making "a widows and SO
orphans. The number of non-fatal ac-
cidents was 1874, being an increase of six
fatal and eightnon-fatal accidents. There
were mined during the year 5,T77 500
tons of coal, the largest amount ever
mined in the district.
A dispatch from Arkansas City, Kan,
says that secret order of boomers has
been organized all along the border of
Southern Kansas. Already over 5000
members have been sworn in. "They
propose to arm themselves early in
October and make a raid on the Chero-
kee strip. They will burn the grass, kill
the cattle and make determined stand
to hold the strip for homes"
The current was turned in the West
Bridge street, Grand Rapids, Michigan,
electric railway, for the first time. on
Saturday, and within an hour man
and his horse were killed. George Z.
Heydorn's horse became frightened,
and, running against a telegraph pole,
caused small wire to fall across the
trolley wire and on the man and horse.
The current killed both instantly.
The census agent sent to Alaska has
returned to San Francisco and reports
the population of the territory to be
$1,000, of whom 900 are Aleuts, 5000
Indians, $4,000 Esquimaux, 1890 Chi
nose and 1880 whites. These figures
indicate decrease in the native popu-
lation of 5000, the agent saying that
they ''have learned the use of liquor
from the whalers, and it is killing them
off rapidly"
Judge Glenni w. Schofield died on
Sunday morning in Warren, Pa, at the
age of Ga years. He served two terms in
the state legislature, was q member of
the sSth, 39th, 10th, 41st, 42d and Add
Congresses; was register of the treasury
under President Hayes, and was APP
pointed judge Of the court of claims by
President Garfield, which position he
filled until July last. He was born in
Dewittville, New York.
The Missouri Alliance Convention on
Saturday rejected the sub-treasury and
loan schemes by vote of to a. "The
demands adopted by the convention are
the Ocala platform, with the exception
of the land loan and sub-treasury
clauses, which were remanded to the
sub-unions to decide upon. The State
organizations would have split if the
convention had adopted the Ocala de-
mand in full. While the subtreasury
and loan faction elected all the officers,
the convention could not swallow those
two clauses"
The coroner's jury in the case of the
North Carolina railway wreck returned
a verdict Monday, finding that the
accident was due 10 the removal of
rail on the bridge, and the railroad com
pany was censured for gross careless
ness in leaving the tools with which the
deed was done in an open shed accessi-
BILE to everybody. The jury also found
that several crosstics near where the
wreck occurred were unsound and that
the superstructure of the track was in
part defective. The high rate of speed
in going over the bridge was
also censured.
1t is stated from Washington that the
rejection by the government of
Venezuela of the reciprocity treaty with
The United States was incorrect. The
treaty was not rejected, but the govern
ment of Venezuela sent it back and
asked that certain notifications be made,
for the reason that the concessions con
.emplated would decrease the national
revenues Mt least SO per cent This is
more than the government can afford. |
The Venezuelan government is willing |
o concede about one-half the reduction |
lsked, and the negotiations will be re-
lewed.
Charles Ross, 40 years of age, a
butcher on Second avenue, New York,
net a horrible death Monday after
loon. He was washing the meat racks
md was standing on a ladder, when lis
DOT slipped. He fell on one of the big
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