Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-05-21
IN GENERdL.

During the burning of a dwelling in
Chicago Monday, Mrs. Margaret Shay
was suffocated.
Stevens Prossit shot and killed Sherman
Craig and his son at Zurich, Kansas, Mon
day. They quarreled about the ownership
of land.
The trustees of the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, in New York, decided Monday to
open the museum in Central Park on Sun
day afternoons.
Nat Whittum a rancher on Blue River,
40 miles north of Clifton, Arizona. was
found murdered in his cabin on Saturday.
His horses and valuables had been stolen.
Alice Martin, dissolute woman, was
found murdered iii Chicago Monday
morning. She had been dubbed to death.
j. II. Painter, who lived with her, has been
arrested.
Two thousand men engaged in sewer
work at Superior, Wis, struck Monday
| for 50 per day, an advance OF % cents.
| Trouble is feared when the contractors
bring in outside men.
Joseph Haloghan and James Sullivan
had a light in Chicago on Sunday night
and both were fatally hurt. Halloghan's
skull was fractured by a brick, but he sue
ceeded in stabbing sullivan in the abdo-
men six times.
The city finance commissioners of Baltl-
more adopted a resolution Monday. de
claring, in reference TO the Western Mary
| land railroad, that it was not expedient to
take action looking to the sale OF the city S
interest at this time.
Alfred Mcdowell. well-known come
dian, died Monday in Baltimore, at the
age of 80 wears. He had performed the
character Of Asa Buck in Mugs Land
ing more than 1000 times. His last en-
gagement was in the Kindergarten" as
the professor.
Dir. Graves was arrested in Denver, Col,
Modnay 1t is said on good authority
that Miss Sallie Hanley has also been
indicted. The theory is that DIR. Graves
wrote the label on the bottle sent to Mrs.
Barnahy, while Miss Hanley carried it to
Boston and mailed it.
The cruiser Charleston sailed southward
from Acapulco, Mexico, Sunday night,
leaving the Esmeralda in port. Nothing
is known of the ltata but it is supposed
that she was supplied with coal by the
Esmeralda, which would account for the
strait the warship is now in respecting
further supply of fuel.
Colonel j. d. Bachelor, the government
historian Of the battle of Gettysburg, has
selected the clump Of trees in Bloody
Angle as the site for the large granite
tablet that will designate the place on this
battlefield commonly known as the high
water mark Of the rebellion
The interstate commerce commission
Monday, in an opinion by Chairman
Cooley. announced its decision of the case
of Beaver & CO., manufacturers of soap at
Dayton, Ohio, against the Pittsburg, Gin
cinnati ( st. Louis Railway Company and
16 other railroad companies, in favor OF
the complainant.
A collision occurred on the Louisville &
Nashville road Monday, near Phelan sta
ton, Ala, between two freight trains.
Engineer Edmunds and Fireman Lester
Brown were scalded to death and Brake
man j. NJ. Costello killed and burned.
The cars were loaded with oil and mer-
chandise and were burned.
A dispatch from Scottdale, Pa, says that
the operators are making most deter
mined effort to force the men at the
miners convention Tuesday to vote aban-
don the strike, while labor leaders on the
other hand have been among them and
say they are practically unanimous in
their desire to continue out.
A tremendous hail storm occurred about
four miles west of Salina, Kansas on Sat
urday evening. The hail stones were as
large as hens eggs, and the storm covered
an area two miles wide and more than
eight long. The wheat was almost com
pletely destroyed. One farmer lost $50
acres and another 200. The total loss is es>
timated at $4,000.
The Norfolk & Western railroad has re-
vised its passenger tariff, and will put a
new schedule into effect on June list,
First-class fare is reduced from 81 to 8
cents per mile second-class fare from 3 to
40 cents, reduction of IA per cent in
first-class fare and 10 per cent in second
class fare. The reduction is made on ac-
count of an increase in passenger traffic.
That the Italian government is endeav-
oring to check the tide of immigration to
the United States is shown by the issuance
of a circular by the Italian minister of the
interior to the projects of the kingdom for
the restriction of such immigration, so far
as minors are concerned. A copy of this
circular received at the treasury depart
ment shows that minors will not be al
lowed to leave the kingdom when not ac-
companied by relatives or guardian, except
on production of proper shipping articles,
and such documents will be required also
in case the minor is accompanied by rel
alive or guardian who can neither read or
write. Minors Is years of age will not be
allowed to immigrate except on specific
authority by the minister of war.
According to the provisions of the en-