Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-07-09

S. ]. wainwright, senior member of a
brewing firm in Pittsburg, died there on
Sunday, aged g. years.
The press mill of the Moosic powder
works, at Jermyn, Pa, blew up Tuesday
morning, killing two men.
Minister Douglass called at the State De-
partment Tuesday. He said nothing
about resigning his post as minister to
Hayti.
President Harrison Tuesday emphati-
cally denied that Secretary Blaine had re-
signed rumor to that effect having
reached him at Cape May Point.
Private Secretary nalford will go to
Cape May on Friday or Saturday and es-
tablish an office, in which all executive
business will be transacted for the next
five weeks.
A picnic party of 10 persons were poi
soned near Fort Smith, Arkansas, on Sum
day, and four of them, DR.. B. Cochran, NJ.
Il ziegler, Miss Lippert and Miss Mitchell,
were believed to be dying.
Advices from the Straits of Belle Isle to
June Both show that they are full of heavy
ice. The grip is working havoc among
the people Of that locality, and many are
reported starving, dead and dying.
The East Birmingham dummy line at
Birmingham, Ala, was foreclosed by the
bondholders and sold at public auction
Tuesday. Tho line is six miles long
connecting Birmingham with Gate City.
The bonded debt was $4,000 and the
property was knocked down for s3s,5ol.
Mrs. Mary Nimmock, while suffering
from "a fit of religious Mysteries" in
Pittsburg, on Sunday afternoon, decided
to sacrifice her youngest child. She
chopped its head in u horrible manner
with a hatchet. when it was rescued by
the neighbors, but it is not expected to
survive.
Flint & Co. of New York, have received
a cableeram from their Rio Janeiro house,
stating that the BRAZILIAN cabinet has been
reorganized, with Lucena as minister of
the treasury The appointment of Lucena,
who was minister of agriculture, to the
portfolio of the treasury, is received with
universal satisfaction.
Moses Brothers Bank in Montgomery,
| Ala suspended payment Tuesday. The
| liabilities are said to be about S500,0O0.
| They did savings bank business, and
have many scores of depositors among
| the poorer people. Each member of the
| firm included his home, real estate and all
personal property in the schedule of as
| signment.
Acting Secretary Nettleton has ordered
| the payment to 8. c. Osborn of New York
Of Is per cent. $3.50 of the judgment of
| 81, 600 recovered from Henry Metz of Palo,
H., for violation of the Alien Contract
/ Labor law. Osborn was the informer in
| this case and is the first person to receive
compensation for furnishing information
| to tile government under the law in qucs-
| ton.
The body of Mrs, Julia Jackson-Chris-
| tian, daughter of Stonewall Jackson, was
on Friday night secretly removed from its
resting place in the city cemetery, in Lex-
| ington, Va, and placed in the crypt in the
| vault beside her distinguished father,
| whose remains will be placed under tho
Jackson statue. Her husband, on Friday,
gave his permission for the removal of the
body.
No orders have yet been given by the
government rs to the disposition of the
| Gillian transport Itata at San Diego, Cali
fornia, but she will probably be turned
over by the naval authorities to the officers
Of the San Diego court. from whose
custody she escaped, and the case will be
settled in the legal tribunals, free from
| further intervention by the executive
branch of The government.
Mrs. Jennie G. Crockett, aged SO years, q
| professional aeronaut, under the name of
| Nellie Wheeler, made an ascension in Bos-
ton on Saturday last, and when !, 200 feet
in the air grasped a parachute and de-
scended. When about 80 feet from the
ground she became frightened at the pros.
pect of landing in greenhouse, and, let.
ting so of the handle. fell on her back
breaking her spine. She cannot survive.
The superintendent of the census bu-
reau will soon issue bulletin upon the
membership of the Roman Catholic
Church in the United States by state:
and counties. The bulletin will show
that the membership now numbers
6250,000 communicates over Is years Of
age. This minimum limit of age to II
years will be adhered to in the statistics
of other churches, which are in course Of
preparation.
A telegram from Albany says tha
Charles II. Burton, secretary Of the Burton
& Carny Cider and Vinegar Manufactur
ing Company, left that city for New Yorl
week ago. On Friday the officers of tn,
company received a letter from Burton
dated in Philadelphia, in which he con
fessed that "he had been borrowing largely
and Systematically from friends, tht
amounts ranging from few dollars t
several thousands. His biggest victim il
his father, aged 50 years. whom h.
wheedled out of $4,000. He confesses I,
having secured in all $4,000, but tn,
amount NAV reach S50000.n