Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-04-09
IN GBNERAL.

the first April snow there for over DO years.
The Steel Company in Joliet, Illinois,
has settled the wage question with its em-
ployes. A sliding scale has been adopted.
Andrew Nolan, l0-year-old boy, has
been arrested in Atlanta Georgia, for
stealing Sll 600 in bank checks from the
post-oiiice.
Ice formed quarter of an inch thick in
Kentucky and Indiana early on saturday
morning, and damage to the peach bios
SONS is feared.
About two miles above Parkersburg,
West Virginia, the site of n large pre-his-
toric village has been found, and many
relics unearthed.
Nicholas pigneil, a prominent stone CON
tractor in Albuquerque, n. NJ, committed
suicide Sunday because Miss Clara Music
refused to marry him.
The strike OF the union printers in the
book and job Offices at Washington has
ended, all but two of the firms having
granted the mems demands.
despatch from San Francisco says;
TON Fitch, the orator and politician, has
been buncoed of thousands Of dollars by
the old gold brick swindle."
The carriage and wagon makers in
littsburg have refused the demands of
their employees for higher wages, and have
closed their works until the men are willing
10 WDrk at lllt Dlu wages.
The tug Tempest, owned by the Cleve
land Saw Mill and Lumber Company, sank
on saturday. Howard Loomis, engineer;
William Hughes, fireman, and Harry
Hershey, raftsman, were drowned.
Thomas McAulifre and Albert Brady
were shot and severely wounded by John
Slobs II cab driver IN a saloon in Chicago
on saturday night. They attempted 10 de-
fend a dissolute woman whom Slobs was
beating.
The strike Of the electrotypers in Boston
is ended, and the men returned to work
Monday. The union maintains lis appren
lice laws, andthe employers have promised
to satisfy their employees iii regard to
wages.
Albert Bemis was arrested at Canton, o.,
week ago for shooting at Miss Carrie
Schneider, with intent to kill. On Satur-
day he was taken to a hotel to pay bill he
owed At the desk he swallowed dose of
poison and died soon afterward.
Daring the week ended at noon on Sat
urday there We're 100 deaths in New York
city against s15 for the preceding week.
There were 56 deaths from Ia grippe against
10 the week before. Of the police force
IA members were on the sick list.
fodder famine is reported III Prince
Edward Island. Hay is three times the
usual price and seed potatoes grain and
brush from the woods have been fed to
cattle in many cases. Two farmers have
killed their cattle because of the scarcity of
hay.
The II brick yards at Trenton, N. j.,
were to have opened for the season this
week, but will not de so, owing to u wage
dispute. The manufacturers wish to re-
duce wages = per cent, and the operatives
insist upon the present schedule.
The United States steamer tialena arrived
in Boston harbor Monday, IN TOW, a
lighter carrying her boats, guns and am
munition. She looks quite battered. but
il is still thought she can be repaired in
side the % per cent limit.
The u brick manufacturing firms in
Trenton, n. j., announce a reduction of
wages of from Is to 20 per cent. The reason
assigned is falling off in the demand for
bricks. There was All over supply last year
and it is said the prospects are not good for
this season.
lii Baltimore, on Sunday, Lizzie Uhl
threw the contents of Il large bottle of Wit
riol into the face of George Zaiser. The
whole right side Of his head was badly
burned, and the sight of the right eye
probably destroyed. She alleges that he
had betrayed her.
At the conclusion of performance in
Brooklyn \. u, on Saturday, Edwin
Booth was called before the curtain and
said: a hope this will not be the last time
| will be with you. But | intend to rest
for the next year and take good care of my
health. hope to appear again in the near
future"
John i. Gonsawls, woodward worker,
was Monday morning found dead near
West Liberty, Pa, with bullet hole in his
head and his pockets riied, He was ell
gagged TO Miss Maggie Smith, and left her
shortly before midnight. He had in his
possession 1850 with which to pay for n
little home he intended purchasing for his
intended bride.
A dispatch from Montreal says there is
an ice gorge at Victoria Bridge. This has
caused the water to back up and flood the
south shore district, which is under water
for miles. The village of La Prairie has
been deserted in consequence of the mum
dation There is no immediate danger Of
a Hood in Montreal, but the merchants are
preparing for the worst.
Colonel W. T. Smith, grand commander
of the Grand Camp of Confederate Neter-
ans Of Virginia. at the instance of Lee
Camp, has issued a circular calling upon
all Confederate camps throughout the
country to observe Sunday, April 26th, as
Memorial Day, in commelnoration of the
late General Joseph a, Johnston.
At Il meeting of the Central Labor
Federation in New York sunday, there
was Il warm debate over the killing of the
strikers at Nlorewoad, Ia, and commit
tee was appointed to arrange monster
demonstration for next week to protest
generally against what is termed .'the
hostility of State and civic authorities
against organized labor
Joseph A. Thomas, well-known lawyer
in Baltimore, WAS arrested Monday on
bench warrant on the charge Of forging a
set of books. The arrest grew out of the
case of Joseph a. Thomas against the !
Smith Railroad Axle Grease Company.
Thomas, who had been secretary of the
company. had filed bill for a receiver,
claiming that the company was insolvent. |
Ten Russian immigrants, who arrived at !
the New York barge office Monday on |
the steamer Damia, from Hamburg, were |
barred from entering tins country. They /
set up a terrible cutlery when appraised of |
their detention, and tried to force their |
way through the gates. They were not
allowed to land because Of general poor
health, disease and liability TO become
public charges
Edward Hollinger, known as "Big lTol-
linger,n a colored pugiist, murdered his
wife sunday morning, i'll Jersey City, by
striking her in the head and face with Il
laster's Ratchet. He then tried to commit
suicide by cutting his throat with IL table I
knife but only made a slight cash llol-
lingcr was arrested several weeks ago for
assauting the woman, but was released on
promising TO live apart from her.
A dispatch from Wabash, Indiana SAYS
that the current belief that the Cincinnati,
Wabash & Michigan railrond is part of the
Big Four system iinds confirmation in the
call for meeting Of stockholders, to be
held at the general office in EliShart, May
nh, to consider the making and executing
Of an operating agreement between the
Wabash x Michigan and the
Big -Four, and for the making and eNecut-
ing Of a mortgage for Sl,0O0,000 conformity
with the Big -Four company.
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