Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-07-02

Proceedings are to be instituted against
Evans & Co., in Boston, on the charge
of importing stonecutters during the re-
cent strike.
The army worm is destroying the
wheat in Mason county, Iowa. As the
wheat ripens the worms leave it and
attack the corn.
The freshman class at Princeton Uni
versity for next year will number 270.
The increase of students over last year
is about l2 per cent.
The Grand Hotel, in Cincinnati, was
sold Thursday at sheriff's sale for
$26S,000. 1t was bid in by the second
mortgage bondholders.
The Rev. Mr. Dickman, pastor of the
Protestant Episcopal Church at Schagh-
ticoke, n. ", has mysteriously disap-
peared. lie is So years old and unmar-
ried.
The police have been asked to search
for Alfred Mackay Of Grand George, N.
Y, who went to New York City to get
married on June 18th and mysteriously
disappeared from hotel up town.
The strike of the carpenters in Pitts
burg is a failure and the men are going
back to work by twos and threes. The
men gave up their eight-ho demand
for Saturday half holiday instead, but
even this was absolutely rejected by the
bosses. The eight-hour strike Of the
carpenters of McKeesport was declared
ended on Wednesday.
At WilSesbarre, Pa, Thursday, Ed
ward Mcmillan was convicted Of muir
der in the first degree. He was charged
with having murdered his wife by burn
ing her about certain portions of the
body with red-hot irons, aftcrward
pouring live Goals into the wounds thus
made. The crime was committed while
both husband and wife were drunk.
During colored picnic at Maxwell,
Indiana, Thursday, a fight occurred and
pistols were used, Councilman Henry
Sweetland, colored, of Indianapolis, was
shot through the body, but will recover.
John Banks was shot in five places and
will die. Edward Harvey is in Jail at
Greenfield with three wounds, one in
his stomach, which is causing alarming
symptoms.
James M. Mitchell and Oscar
Plunkett quarreled while going home
to dinner at Silver Point, Tennessee, on
June Gath. Plunkett shot Mitchell,
and the latter, getting hold Of the pistol,
shot Plunkett. NJ. T. Syfert, at this
juncture, ran up and shot Plunkett
again. Either shot would have proved
fatal. Mitchell and Plunkett both died.
On the same day Andrew Carr and
George Prentiss, near the same place,
had quarrel, which resulted in Prem
tiss being stabbed, perhaps fatally, by
Carr.
In Lexington, Virginia, at 5. o'clock
Thursday morning, the body of General
T, j. (StonewalD Jackson was taken
from the grave in the City cemetery
and placed in the vault over which the
monument is now building, which will
be unveiled the 21st OF July. The vault
was sealed up permanently. 1t was
Mrs. Jackson's request in a letter that
The body be removed in the night, and
that no one should know Of it but the
committee in charge. This request was
complied with. The collins of her little
child and his daughter, Mrs. Christian,
were also removed to the vault.
Chairman Finley Of the Western Pas
senger Association, gave out ruling at
Chicago Thursday, which declares sub
stantially that the Alton, by its past
conduct, has forfeited all right to pro.
lection under the agreement. The Alton
accepts Finley's decision as final, and
will proceed TO act Independently Of the
Western Passenger Association. Legal
notice will be given To-day of its inten-
ton to reduce the rate between Chicago
and Denver from S30.65 to $25, between
Chicago and st. Louis from $3.50 to &c.
Quite sensation was caused by the an
nouneement of the Chicago, Burlington
g. Quincy road that it will Immediately
resume the payment of passenger com
missions in eastern territory. The reason
given is that ii has not received the pro-
lection that was guaranteed it by the
board of rulings. The disruption Of the
Western Passenger Association is be-
lieved to be at hand.