Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-03-26


United States senator by the California
legislature on the first ballot.
The l4ochel Iron Works at Harrisburg,
have shut down indeiinitelyit is supposed,
because of a difference on the wages ques-
ton.
Henry Aheling, an actor, committed sui
eide at the iturtevant House in New York,
some time during Wednesday week, by
taking poison.
The United States steamship Mononga-
hela was put into commission al the Ports
mouth navy-yard Thursday. She will go
to Newport and take aboard a number of
naval apprentices for an extended cruise.
An unknown schooner ran into the re-
ceiving ship Vermont lying at the Brook
lyn navy yard, Thursday morning, and
punched hole i'll her side large enough
for man to walk through. The schooner
disappeared in the fog.
1t is understood that the responsibility
for the loss of the Galena and Nina is
placed upon the officers of the tug who
failed to respond to the orders of the Ga
lena in the matter of directing the course
when breakers were seen.
The oleomargarine factory of the Provi-
dence Dairy Company, i'll Providence,
Rhode Island, was seized by government
officers Thursday. 1t is charged that for
many years unstamped packages have
been sent away from the factory.
a train on the Cumberland Valley rail
road struck team near Oakville, Pa,
| Thursday, killing three horses and de-
molishing the wagon. Several cars were
| broken. One of the passengers, named
Snntag, of Philadelphia, was injured.
The verdict in the case of the Rev.
! Howard Mactlueary of Cleveland Ohio,
| for heresy, was made public Thursday.
Mr., NacSIueary is suspended for SIX
months, and If he does not "retrautn dur
| inc that time lis suspension becomes ex-
| pulsion.
The American clipper ship S. Paul,
| Capt. Ford, arrived at New York yesterday
| from Liverpool, having made the passage
\ from queenstown in II days, She logged
/ 800 miles day for three days. Her trip
/ is said 10 De the quickest made by IA sailing
| vessel from Queenstown since the old eli :
| erdays. She had a cargo Of salt.
lii Utica, New YORK, Thursday Edward
! +. SchGnrman was sentenced to five years
imprisonment and John Kelly to four
| years imprisonment. They We're con
/ victed Of stealing letters from letter boxes.
| They had made imitation keys, took let
| tiers containing checks and drafts, forged
names On the backs and received money
/ ON them.
s@ssliarnes, the alleged Tascott, in custody in
/ Aherdecn south Dakota, was Thursday
| confronted by Clark, the Chicago witness,
| who said the resemblance was remarkable,
/ hui that barnes was too old for lasGutt
i his face too long and his moustache I'M
4 ike. He was positive that Barnes was not
! Easeott, and thcreupon Barnes was dis
charged
Eaty-tive men in ITackensack, n. T.,
| paid 5000 cnCh to Il man who called him
self Frank Hartman, to he made members
4 Of nc order IF juno. They were each 10
f.rf4 tY,Z O..
~ nbo1t 500. No local lodge was organ
lied. George Harper of Cleveland, o., the
4 supreme president of the order, claims not
to KNOW ilartman, who has disappeared.
4 life convict in the Wisconsin pcniten
tiary has written to the secretary Of the
4 Navy suggesting that, i'll view of the def
cheney i'll tine number of enlisted mon in
the navy, the department might find a
largo amount of material for its needs in
the penitentiarics of the country, where
thcrc arc many Young mon who would be
pleased 10 serve their country on Shin
board instead Of remaining in prison.
Organized labor has MADE its formal de.
mand upon the Worlds Fair Directory Ii
has been granted an eight-hour day and
Observation-Disclosures of system Of arbitra
tom, II n0W asks hat in lieu of all I'll hei
concessions asked for, the Directory estab
lish minimum rate Of wage, the rate tt
he that Of Union labor as fixed for the
various trades, III return for this organ
lze,i Ahaf sill promise HAT no effort shall
be made t. raise sicil wages.
The sS-st9ry dpublctenements, 2lj Fast
twenty street, Sew York, was dam
aged by fire Thursday, and two lives were
lost and - families made homeless. Tht
dead are tctcr tryan, aged 80, and his
sister Mary ryan, aged l1. The fire was
kept from the floors below the fourth
where it hroEcout When the ruins were
charred body Of Mary Cryan, aud almost
at her lcei the body Of her brother, Peter