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

William Gates, colored, 20 years of
age, was lynched near West Point,
Miss, on Sunday night, for assaulting
the 16 year old daughter of G. Goodell.
Jesse Cartwright, living in Baldwin
county, Alabama, last week killed his
wife and then killed his brother, John
w. Cartwright. Jealousy is said to
have been the cause.
Sunday was the hottest day in San
Francisco since 1877. The thermometer
in the signal office registered 90 degrees
little after MONDAY, which is said to
be equivalent to 107 in the streets.
M. t. Lowcry, for some years gem
eral agent of the New York Life lnsur-
ance Company, is under arrest in San
Antonio, Texas, on the charge of OBJ
tanning large sums of money under false
pretences.
Louis Dillinger, alias Paul May, who
escaped from the Jail at New England,
Mo-, in May, 1890, the day before he
was to have been hanged for the murder
of lis wife and two men, was captured
in Chicago on Sunday night.
Charles Bursell, William Bottles and
"Skip" Mccarthy, green goods men ar
rested at Gloucester City, New Jersey,
last February on Monday pleaded guilty
in Trenton, and were each sentenced to
years imprisonment and $500 fine.
Twenty EIGHT thousand copies of the
Detroit Commercial Advertiser and Home
Journal, issued June Goth, were held in
the post office in Detroit on Monday as
unavailable under the Lottery law. The
president, vice-president, secretary and
treasurer of the company were arrested,
and, upon pleading guilty, were fined
$500 and costs.
The Huntingdon Manufacturing Com
pany at Huntingdon, Pa, which is con-
trolled by the Iron Car Equipment
Company of New York, has indefinitely
suspended operations, throwing out of
employment $50 men. The suspension
is due to lack of orders for cars. 1t is
rumored that the plant will be removed
to Tennessee.
In response to the call issued by the
Worlds Fair labor committee, repre-
scntatives from 80 labor bodies met in
Chicago on Sunday and formed a
permanent organization "to take charge
of all labor matters in connection with
the construction of buildings for Expo
sition purposes. E. A. Meagher was
elected chairman, and the meeting adj
journed until next Sunday.
The Marble Cutters Union, of
Chicago, at meeting on Sunday,
adopted resolution declaring that the
strike declared April 2lst shall continue
in force until the non-union shops sign
an agreement granting eight hours as
days work, and raising the minimum
scale of pay; also declaring for the abo-
lition of convict labor and "the right to
maintain inviolate agreements already
signed"
The supreme court of Massachusetts
has rendered judgment for the defend
ant in the case of the Bank of North
America of New York, VS.. Frederick II.
Rindge, The defendant is resident OF
California, who owned so shares of the
stock of the Haddam State Bank of
Kansas. The plaintiff recovered judg-
ment in Kansas for $5,343 and costs
against the Haddam Bank, and as no
property could be found, the plaintiff,
finding Rindge in Massachusetts, brought
suit under the Kansas law TO hold him
personally in $4,000, the amount Of the
stock held by him.
The steamer Ozama, at New York
Monday morning from Haytian ports,
reports that Hippolyte had effectually
quelled the instruction of May 28th.
In all $50 persons were killed. A pas
senger on the steamer Adirondack,
which arrived at New York on Sunday
from West Indian ports, reports that it
was rumored that Legitime, Hippolyte's
rival for the Presidency of Hayti, left
San Domingo and landed on Turks Is
land on the 22d instant, with 20 follow
ers. 1t is supposed he intends to make
stirring up another rebellion.
Some time ago Royal Frisby, living
near Peoria, Illinois, received notice
signed "Society of Justice" and bearing
skull and crsss-bones, giving him
warning that he was to be killed. On
Sunday his dead body was found on his
farm, riddled with shot. The notice is
not believed to have been sent by White
Caps, but by friends of his divorced
wife. Frisby married Mrs. Carver Of
Marshall county. 1t is charged that he
dissipated her fortune. After she Sc
cured divorce he married her daughter.
This gave rise to bitter feeling, which Is
believed to have eliminated in his
death.
Alexander Fitzpatrick, 10 years of age,
is detained at the barge office in New
York. He arrived Monday, and tells
thrilling story Of having been kid
mapped from Pittsburg in proof that he
is an American citizen. He says a hotel
keeper named Lyon got him under the
influence of liquor, and while in that
condition he was shipped to the Straits
of Gibraltar. He said he was cruelty
treated on board the vessel. From there
he was taken to Holland. He made his
escape in Holland and worked his pas
sage over. The barge office authorities
are inclined to believe his story and will
investigate the matter.