Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-06-18
IN EN- ER46.

John Adams. aged 10 years, and Miss
Jessie Orr, aged 1s were drowned in Lake
Champlain, on Sunday night, while dis
embarking from a pleasure boat at Chubbs
Landing.
The strike of architectural metal work,
ers, in Chicago for the eight-hour day and
an increase in pay to 30 cents per hour,
was begun on Monday. About 200 men
are out
An elevator at the foundry of Coulter Il
Mex emile, in Bridgeport, Conn, fell on
Monday John Cones. George Andrisi,
George Raltn and John Moore were in
iured, the first three named badly.
The Rev. Frank d. Lee, residing in the
vicinity of the Theological Seminary, in
Fairfax county, Virginia, during a tit OF
temporary insanity, on Sunday, killed his
only son, aged 9 years, and then committed
a dispatch from Huntingdon, Pa, says
that, after a five months period of idle
ness, the Everett and Riddlesburg fur
naces, with capacity per day OF ITO tons
and IS tons respectively, will go into blast
| in two weeks.
At the meeting Of the Methodist min
listers in Baltimore, on Monday speeches
were made denouncing the running of
| railroad trains on Sunday and the sale of
| sunday papers. The Rev. Il, i. Watson
regarded Sunday papers as the most
demoralzing institution the devil ever in
vented"
The board of return judges of the Repub-
lican primary election in Lancaster, Pa,
met Monday and adopted the majority
report of the investigating committee,
which elected II. G. Brubaker judge, and
defeated Judge Livingston. The Livingston
members Withdrew and will meet next
Monday, when they will probably place
| Judge Livingston on the ticket
II 1f n n
| ton of the Masons, have decided to erect q
great temple in that city at the corner OF
| Van Buren, street and Fifth avenue The
building is to cost S1,090,o00 and be IL
stories in height. 1t will have frontage
of 100 feet on Fifth avenue and l25 feet on
| Van Buren, street. Work will commence
as soon as plans are finished, The site will
cost between $3.50, 900 and Sa00,000.
An alarming increase of the grip is re-
| ported along the Nova Scotia and New
| foundland coasts. In many instances
whole families are down with the disease,
and whole crews of fishing vessels have
been Frustrated, The people are not able
to make enough. for their present needs,
not to speak of the supplies for next
winter. The Dominion government is
considering project of relief.
A shooting ARRAY occurred in Cincinnati
Monday between Charles w. White and
| j. p. Slough, his son-in-law. Slough and
his wife have separated and she has
| brought suit for divorce. Slough has
made charges against her which her father
resents and so when they met they both
drew revolyers. Ten shots were fired.
| White is badly, possibly fatally injured.
Slough has only wound in his right
| hand
| The general election of the Cherokee
nation will take place the first Monday in
August. There are three candidates in the
~ "A ph ffnnrfrp Bnnpf
represents the National party. j.. B. Mayes,
| the Downing party, and d. w. Bushyhead
the Liberals or Peoples party. This cam
paign bids fair to be the hottest that has
ever taken place in the Cherokee nation.
as the questions to be discussed are Of vital
interest to the people. The principal issues
are the sales of the strip and allotment oil
of the home tract.
A dispatch from Wheeling, West Va,
| says that sensation has been caused in
| legal circles of the state by the discovery
that over four-fifths of the juries drawn
since the session of the Legislature were
drawn illegally At its last session the
Legislature modified the jury laws, and,
owing to Misunderstanding, the changes
| were generally disregarded. Dozens of
important trials will be rendered void and
thousands of dollars lost. In some circuits
the judges have refused to hold court until
| the new law is tested.
An agreement for a modus vivendi be
| tween the United States and Great Britain
in relation to the Alaska seal fisheries was
concluded Monday. Seal killing is pro
hibited until May next. The Navy De.
partment has been advised of the necessi-
| ties of the case, and orders are in
preparation for the immediate despatch OF
| probably two naval vessels from San
| Francisco to Alaska, where they will
assist the three revenue cutters in driving
off the poaching sealing vessels. The
agreement authorizes the United States tn
seize offending British vessels, which,
however, are to be turned over to the
British authorities for trial.