Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-02-19
IN GENERAL.

The schooner Sunlight, reported lost,
is safe al the Delaware Breakwater.
The total number of dead from the
factory boiler explosion at Quebec is
now stated at 20.
President Mayer says that no one has
secured or is trying to secure any option
on the Baltimore II Ohio.
Peter MIcManus, IL years of age, broke
through the ice at Wilkesbarre, Pa, sun
day, and was drowned.
The Nebraska house Of representa-,
tives has passed a bill providing for the
election of three railroad commissioners
All the weavcrs at the Connell's mills
in Fall River, Massachusetts,, quilted
work Friday afternoon, and 500 looms
are idle.
The strike Of wcavers at the Cornell
Mill, in Fall River, Massachusetts,, has
been settled The weavers demands
We're granted
Four drunken negroes were drowned
while attempting TO cross the Oconce
river in Putnam county, Georgia, in Il
small boat, last Friday.
Edward McMullen, aged 50 years, has
been arrested IN the charge Of killing
his wife at their house, near West Pitts
ton Pa, on Saturday night
William b. Smith has withdrawn as
a candidate for Mayor of Philadelphia,
and asks the support of his friends for
Edwin S. Stuart, the Republican candle
date.
The new iron steamship Concho, built
for the Mallory Line, was launched
from Roach's shipyard, at Chester, Pa,
on Saturday. She will ply between
New York and Galveston.
The body Of il colored man, supposed
TO be John Roland, was found in u
chicken coop, in Lancaster, Pa, on
Saturday morning. The mans throat
Ind been cut, and ii is thought that he
was murdered.
The body Of the Rev. Bailey Hill, a
colored preacher, who had been missing
for several days, was found III a mill
pond near Atlanta, Ga, sunday He
had been murdered and white men are
suspected of the crime.
The two farmers organizations in
Arkansas have rcorganizcd under one
head. The order will be known as the
! Farmers Alliance and International
/ IlA0H' W 'HlSNVa W. uSiiiS1 ,'9 suo ~,
stantially taose Of the National ALI
ance.
Notices have been posted in the mills
4 of the Nashua Manufacturing Com
pany and the jackson Company, at
Nashua, New Hampshire, that the per
cent deducted from the wages OF the
employees in December, 1889, was re-
stored Monday.
The last spikes in the track which
untes the state Of Washington and Brit
ish Columbia were driven on Saturday
at'Blaine. The Fair Haven q Southern
road forms the American link and the
New Westminster southern the BRUSH
Columbia link,
A three-story building in Warren,
4 Minnesota, occupied by A. T.. Zneyolds
as drug store, was burned Saturday
morning. His 7-ycar-old daughter was
burned to death. Mrs. Inevods and
the hired girl were badly burned in
making their escape The fire started
from an oyerheatcd stove.
Members Of the Texas legislature have
been interviewed on eX-President Cleve-
lands silver letter and their choice fol-
President. "'l'he letter has demoralized
and scattered Cleyeland,s supporters
and with one accord they agreed thai
the ex- President had committed politi.
cal harikari, They are now for Hill OF
Il western man"
A fire occurred in The nost office buiId.
Ing in New York, on SATURDAY night
and hundreds Of bags Of newspaper.
were burned and thousands Of letter.
will be DELAYED in reaching their desti
nation. Two newsboys we're taken from
tic elevators. They were badly burned
Giuseppe Michaeh fatally. The loss vii
amount to SET, 900.
rbo coroner,s iurv n Tho case If m,
Mammoth Mine sSnIosion N MI Pleas
mn pn returned n verdict III saturday
rhev fonnd tbat M coronory had ~,