Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-03-12
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Nv GEN ERIL.

| rfilay reduced the wages OF HeaNy grade
ribbon weavers 10 per cent.
The Boss plasterers' Association of Chi
cago has decided to refuse the demands of
the journeymen for an increase Of wages.
The dwelling of George White IN New
| Limerick, Maine, was burned on Thurs
day. and his two children, aged | and 5
years persisted in the flames.
a lywhee in the Wcldy powder mills,
near Tamaqua. Pa. burst Friday, de
| stroying the engine house and fatally in-
iuring John Kepler and jeremiah Long.
a dispatch from Pierre says that the
South Dakota legislature killed the
! Worlds Fair bill for econnmy'S sake. The
amount asked for was $4,000; a twu-thirds
| vote could not be obtained.
The gross earnings of the New York
/ Central q Hudson River Railroad Com
pany and its leased lines for February
We're 81, $4,000 For the corresponding
month last year the figures were -, 100000.
At Sharkey's Crossing, near Lima, Ohio,
on Friday, Lyman Hyde and his daugh-
ter, Judith, were killed, and his other
daughter, Emeline, was fatally injured
( by their wagon being struck by passing
train
The city of Montgomery, Alabama, has
| disposed Of its bonds issued for paving pur-
poses, and the work Of putting down bel
| gian blocks on the principal streets will
soon begin.
Leonard Kuhn, cashier of the dcfunct
| Dansville Bank, in Geneseo, n. 81, was
Friday sentenced to a years imprison-
ment. He WAS convicted Of receiving a
deposit, knowing the bank to be insolyent
At the Amoskcag foundry, in Machcs-
ter, New Hampshire, on Friday, the bot
| tom Of lade containing one thousand
| pounds Of molten iron dropped ont.
| Thirty wurkmen received more or less in
| Jury.
Some Of the locked-out sanitary ware
| pressers in Trenton, n. j., have returned
| to work at the wages offered by the manu-
| facturers Nonsunion men have been Al
work at the Crescent, Enterprise and Mad
docks potteres.
Utica Wahpalna, 4 young Russian
woman, committed suicide in the ladies'
toilet room at the Union station in Pitts
burg on Friday by hanging herself. She
tied one end Of towel about her neck and
the other end 10 gas bracket.
In Bethlehem, Pa, on Friday, the 3
years old child Of Mrs. Ludwig Sabul fell
ont Of bed into w,lshtub and was
drowned. A year ago the woman lost u
child under similar circumstances, and the
police have begun an investigation
Joshua Hill, ex-United States senator
from Georgia, died on Friday, at Madison,
N that state. He twice represented his
district in Congress- was United States
senator when the rebellion broke out and
was again elected United States senator in
1S6S
William Ferguson, afarmer near Mount
sterling, Kys and his son-in-law, 3. G.
Watts, died on Friday from poisoning, and
Miss Grace iioyd, the granddaughter of Mr.
Ferguson, is at the point Of death from
the same cause. Arsenic was found in the
coffee pot.
An explosion occurred on Friday after
noon in the Buck Ridge mine, at Mt
Carmel, Pa, severely injllring John
!1ewellyn, aud fatally initlring his son,
Frank aud his son-n-law William Smith
The explosion was caused by a door boy
changing the course Of the fan.
A dispatch from Mount Orch, Ohio says
that a revival has been in progress there
during the past six weeks The scenes en-
acted nightly are past description. People
stay in frances for days. Two or three are
said to have become insane. All children
are excluded from the services at night to
prevent unpleasant effects on them. The
population of the village is 500. Over 200
have protested conversion.
Coroner Levy of New York on Friday
issued warrants for the arrest Of the OIL
GERS and directors of the New York, New
Haven ~ Hartford railroad, were held re-
Sponsibe by the curoner's Jury for the
deaths IF the victims Of the Harlem rail
road tunnel disaster. The majority of the
officials live outside the state of New
York. Chauncey NJ Depew, George n.
Miller, w. G. Hunt and j. Park sur
rendered to the coroner yesterday after
noon, and were Immediately released ON
$250U0 bail.
Jocob Seheele, the condemned murderer
of Constable Drucker, in Bridgeport, Con-
necticut, who said he would never eat
again, and who had tasted for twelve days, |
has changed his mind, A bottle of beer
was left in his cell. Some OF the beer lad |
previously been placed on the abstanerS |
lips, and when the attendants retired he
could not resist the temptation to drink |
the contents Of the bottle. After drinking |
marked change came over the faster, |
and announced his readiness to partake |
of food, which was then furnished,
The troop-ship Oroutas with the First |
battalion of the l.eicestershire Regiment, |
arrived at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Thurs
day, from Bermuda Shortly after leaving |
England for Bermuda the steamer was 1
boarded byan immensctidal wave. Every
thing movable was sweep from the decks, I
and it locked at one time as il the shin I
would founder A number Of seamen I
were badly injured, and some 25 soldiers
were more or less hurt. Some had their
arms broken. others We're badly bruised
and in some instances legs were broken.
The strike Of the coal miners Of the
MonOngahela Valley has ended in vic
tory for the men. The operators yester-
day conceded the demands of the strikers
for an advance in the mining rate Of one
half cent per bushel. Work will be re-
stunned on Monday. The strike began ten
weeks ago. Besides the miners, the strike
affected a great army of day laborers, boat,
yard and mill men, storekGepers, and even
farmers, who disposed of their produce to
the working people of the valley. The re-
sumption of work will mean prosperity
and happiness to upwards of $4,000 people.
In committee of the whole the Mime
sofa senate has recommended that the fol-
lowing bill be passed: "Fhat any female
person who shall, upon the stage or plat
form of any theatre or opera house, con
cert hall, OF any public place whatever,
where other persons are present, expose
her neither limbs dressed in tights, So
called, or in any manner whatever so that
the shape and form of her neither limb or
limbs are plainly visible to such other per-
sons present shall be guilty of open and
gross lewdness and lascivious behavior,
and guilty of a 1nisdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof shall be punished by
fine of not less than IS nor more than 500
or imprisonment in the county jail not less
than five days nor more than BOZ